The Red Cloud chief., 1892-03-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

1HE Lohuoh chronicle says that Guy
de Maupassant, the distinguished
French writer, who became insane il
the early part of March last il SO mucl
improved in health that he writes TO,
about an hour daily.
GEN. ALGER has ammo unced himself
as a candidate for the republican
nomination for president
JOHN I. GARRISON. brother IF the
late Bishop Clarkson, and who hac
large interests in Omaha. died al
Chicago. He had been ill with pneu
monia several DAYS.
Hon. w. r MORRISON, interstate
commerce commissioner. has declared
himself as being opposed to the presi.
dental candidacy of Senator Palmeron
account of his advanced age and other
considerations.
The house of commons has refused
to complete Canadian Notifications
The king of Sweden has written a
letter intimating that he may visit the
worlds fair in person.
Col. LOUIS Question:, the largest
single holder of stock in the famous
Granite mountain silver mine, died in
st. Louis the other day. He ruptured
a blood vessel of the heart in stepping
from a street car.
Mr. HoLLEBENs. the new German
minister to this country. was presented
10 the president on the Sth by Assistant
Secretary Wharton.
Mrs. ANNIE SEMMEs. the widow of
the late Adm. Raphael Semmes, COM
mander of the confederate cruiser Ala
bama, died ut her home in Mobile, Ala,
in her 18th year.
AN executive session of the senate
was held on the 9Th to consider the
arbitration treaty and it vas referred
to the committee on foreign relations
THE North Dakota state convention
of the national prohibition party for
electing delegates to the presidential
convention to be held in St Louis June
% met at Grand Forks on the Sth. It
resulted in a split in the party, the
members of the Farmers Alliance
withdrawing.
The Texas republican convention
adopted resolutions indorsing President
Harrison and a strong Harrison delega-
ton to Minneapolis was elec5Ad-
BISHOP HORsTMANN formally assumed
control of the diocese of Cleveland at
St Johns cathedral on the otn.
THE president has sent to tie senate
the nomination of Judson G Clements,
of Georgia, to be Interstate commerce
commissioner. vice Walter L Bragg,
deceased, and William Lindsay, de-
clined.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has been c3pfned
to his bed with a cold. Al
THE pope sent a communicalion to
the papers defending archbishop IRE
land against the attacks of his enemies
CONGRESSMAN HARTER. of Ohio, has
written an open letter to Senotor Hill
calling upon him to define hispos lion
on the silver question.
THE Indiana state republics DON
vention instructed the delegated teSthe
national convention to vote fof Presi-
dent Harrison's denomination.
The commercial treaty between
Spain and the United States has bden
ratified. 49,
THE commercial treaty between tie
United States and France has besn
concluded
WILLIAM LINEDEK. the milliOnaitp
banker and miller of St Paul. MINI 4
died suddenly on the 10th of cancer OF.
the stomach. He was SO years of sge.
PRINCE JOHN SoBIEsK, grandson3ofs
the king of Poland, was arrested at 1T
Kisco, New York. recently with q hotse
and wagon which he had stolen. -
THE pope has communicated to The
newspaper Observator Romano a note
defending Most Rev. John Ireland, n
D., archbishop of St Paul, Mimi,
against the attacks made upon him b.
his enemies in the United States. "a
PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard college,
gave an address at the university at
Boulder, Col, on the 10th on elective
The chapel was crowded
and the discourse of President Eliot
was cheered to the echo. A reception
was held after the lecture. Mrs. Eliot
was also present
THE president and Mrs Harrison en-.
tertained at dinner on the evening of
the 10th DR.. Won Hollenben. the new
minister from Germany to the United
States