The Red Cloud chief., 1892-12-23

c. A. BENSON, the murderer of Mrs.
Mettman on the reservation at Fort
Leavenworth, cheated the gallows after
all. On the morning of the 18th he
murderously assaulted his keeper with
a butcher knife which he had concealed
In his shoe, stabbing himself afterward,
from the effect of which he died In the
evening.
REPRESENTATIVES, ANTHONY. Of Texas,
introduced I'm the house 10 bill repeating
the act of June IL, 1890, granting pen
sions to soldiers and to sailors and to
widows, minor children and dependent
parents of soldiers and sailors. The
bill also provides that all pensions
granted under the act be discontinued.
ROSE CoBE has renowned Judaism mt
Baltimore, Md, and become a Roman
Catholic to marry Nat Staplcton.
d. w. CHRIsTY, an American, has
been assassinatcd by unknown parties
ut Yerbaris, near Durango, Mexico.
Coz. DAvIDoFF was murdered by UNI
known assassins at Kieff, Russia.
GALEsBURe, Ill, has electric cars.
AN aerollte weighing 10000 pounds
fell recently near Jiminez, Chihuahua,
Mexico. II ripped open a rock as IL fell
and disclosed n rich vein of silver.
The supreme court of Ohio has rem.
dered n decision which makes the Queen
& Crescent system liable for half a mil
lion of fraudulent stock issued by its
secretary ten years ago.
The prevalence of Group has compelled
the Sacred Hears academy ut Helena,
Ark, to temporarily close.
THE junior class at Lombard univers-
ity, Galesburg, ILL.,, Is in revolt against
Prof. o. Lee, one of the faculty.
SHERIFF GEORGE HoTz is in trouble
at Alton, Ill, for advising jurics un.
der his charge.
AN earthquake was reported at
Athens, Greece.
The Phenixville pa iron company
has reduced wages ten per cent.
THE evil of civilian interference in
behalf of promotion of officers of the
army has become SO great rs to call for
Legislative enactment.
CAPT. II. ID. BoRvP, who was recalled
from France for spying on the military
establishment Of that government, will
be detailed for duty ut the worlds fair.
BESIDES the $685. 900 stolen in two
packages from Wells, Fargo & Co. in
transit from New York to Texas, other
amounts were also stolen. making an
aggregate of 1855, 0O0. There is US yet
no clew.
EUGENE CRAMPON, who murdered two
men, was guillotined recently at Paris.
He begged piteously for life.
CHARLES DE LEssEPs and others con-
cerned in the Panama scandals have
been arrested in France. Excitement
vas reported intense.
SECRETARY NOBLE that
there is plenty of money available to
pay I'LL pension demands.
THE Mexican government will soon
make pressing demands that the gov.
eminent Of the United States take de-
cisive steps to crush out the bands of
re~volutionists which infest the border.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended December 10 showed an average
increase OF 81 compared with the cor
responding week Of last year In New
York the increase was S.S. The large
shipments OF gold caused some appre-
hension in trade.
The missing banker Post, of Tacoma,
WASH. has been traced to a steamship
en- route TO Europe.
WILLIE CHEsTERFIELD, aged 12, wan
dered away from home at Pratt City,
Ala. A week after his body was found
In the woods several miles away. He
had apparently died from exhaustion.
ALFRED BAECKER, of Remscheid, In
Rhenish Prussia, an imperial bank di.
rector, has been sentenced to three
years hard labor for forgery and Gu.
bezzlement.