Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-04-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mall.

lHE report lAtely sent ont from Ukla
homa that United States Marsha
Grimes, of that territory, had been in
: dictcd for perjury is without foundation
in fact. prominent citizen Of thai
territory, entirely worthy of credit. say,
there is not word of truth in the state
ment
II SENATOR CULIoM has Withdrawn from
the presidential race in favor OF Presi
dent Harrison.
EX-SENATOR BLAIR, of New Hamp
shire, has announced himself candi-
date for the republican presidential
nomination.
THE Kansas peoples party convention
win meet at Wichita June is.
DICTATOR PALAcIo, of Venezuela, has
issued a fiery proclamation.
Col. r. q. INeERsoLL delivered an ora
tion over the remains of Walt Whitman
on the S0th.
CYRUS W. FIELD is OF the opinion that
his son is insane.
The German reichstag on the 30th
passed the bill allowing the govern
ment to declare state of siege in
Alsace-Lorraine in the event Of war.
The house also passed a credit for the
construction OF a complete system Of
strategic railways.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN WILLIAMS, registrar
OF the land office at Watertown, s. D.,
died ON the 30th ult. He represented
the Racine, Wis, district in congress for
ten years and was brilliant orator in
his day
The Paris correspondent OF the Lon
don Times asserts that Prince Bismarck
told a friend recently that he had
warned Emperor William when he
quilted the Office of chancellor that the
artisans whom the emperor desired to
regenerate would prove more migrate
full than courteous; that he might see
even repetition of the scenes of ls4s,
when the Prussian sovereign was forced
10 flee from the rioters.
Hon. CHARLES ID. DRAKE, late chief
justice of the United States court OF
claims, was found dead in his bed at
Washington, u. G., on the morning OF
the lst, at the advanced age of eighty
one years. His death was wholly un-
expected and without warming
THE Delaware county, Pa, democratic
convention has indorsed Cleveland and
Gov. Pattison's administration.
THE democratic and peoples party
committeeman have decided upon coali
tion in the Second Kansas congressional
district.
Mrs. MARY RIoRDAS, mother OF Arch
bishop Riordan. of San Francisco, died
on the list of old age. She was 81 and
was one OF Chicago's oldest settlers
The bishop of Viviers having gone 10
Rome without first obtaining permis-
mission from the French government
has been deprived of his salary during
his absence.
EIeHTY free coinage men are said to
have formed filibustering combine in
the house.
A PETITION signed by 400, 900 Chinese
in this country TO the emperor of China
sets forth the disabilities under which
they labor in this country and asks for
retaliation on the part of the mother
country,
SECRETARY OF STATE BLAINE resumed
work at the state department on the
ID
REV. F. II. CANNON, the Methodist
minister OF Valparaiso, Ind, deposed
for wearing mustache will appeal 10
the general conference.
Ex-PREsIDENr CLEVELAND and ex-Gov.
Compbell addressed democratic meet
ing at Providence, Il. l., on the I'd.
THE Iroquois club of Chicago cele-
brated Jefferson's birthday on the I'd by
grand banquet Among those
present were Gov Boyd, of Nebraska;
Gov. Peck. of Wisconsin; ex-Postmaster
General Don NJ. Dickinson, Of Michigan;
Hon. Sherman Hoar, Of Massachusetts;
Gov. Winans, of Michigan; Hon. John
De Witt Warner, Of New York, and
Editor S. Z. Morss, of the indianapolis
Sentinel.
THE straight-out alliance men in CON
gress will start a newspaper in Wash |
ington. II will be the political organ
of the party.
Ex-PREsIDESr PERIoLA, of Peru, has
introduced a quantity of arms into |
lquiqui, Chilli and is hard at work Sc
curing recruits for revolution as he |
intends to try and regain the chief
magistracy of the country Govern !
ment troops have been sent from Tacna
to repel the rebels.
IN an interview on the I'd on the Behr-
ing sea question, NJ Jules Ferry said:
"If President Carnot is asked TO perform
a part in the treaty. he will doubtless
accept Tn. task. But it is complicated |
question and considerable time will be |
required TO solve it,"
Hon. WHIrELAw REID. United States
minister to France, returned from Paris
on the steamship La Champagne on the
Sd. Mr.. Reid had with him the re-
ciprocity and extradition treaties be-
tween the United States and France.