The Red Cloud chief., 1893-08-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE MANY HAPPENINGS OF SEVEN
DAYS TeRssly TOLD.
Events Occurring in All Sections Re.
duced From Columns to Lines-Evcry-
thing but Facts Eliminated for Our
Readers Convenience.
Thursday. n 3.

p Thursday. Aug. 3.
Temperance day at the Rock River, Ills.
Chautauqua assembly brought out q large
crowd. Mrs. Hoffman spoke.
Prisoners were discovered saving their
way nj of the jail ut Peru, Ind, in time
to prevent q wholesale delivery.
Tho Chicago and Central Indiana Flee.
trio railroad began the work of construct.
ing tracks at Noblesville, Ind.
NJ. Moak has begun n $4,000 damage suit
against Fred Osterber9 at Galcsburg, Ills.
for alternating his wifc's affections.
The auditor Of Iowa has granted insur-
ance rights to the branch OF the A. .. u.
w. in that state which seeded from the
supreme lodge.
Judge Levy. Of a San Francisco court,
has decided that Christopher j. Ryer, an
alleged son Of the late DIR. Washington
Rycr, Is an interlopcr and entitled to none
Of the estate valued at si,o50,O0o.
The Illinois superintendent Of insurance
has refused to license the Independent
Order Of Foresters TO do an insurance
business In this state, claiming that the
order is barred unner the new law. a suit
will be begun.
President 7. G. Burlingame and Cashier
c. T.. Newman of the defunct Bank Of
Commerce of Springfield. Mo-, have been
indicted for participation in the wrecking
Of the concern.
Friday. Aug. 4.
Boys playing with matches caused a fire
In an Iron Mountain, Mich, tool house.
One of the boys was burned to death.
A census Of Carthage, Ill, shows a popu-
lation of 1,94s.
Patrolman Douglass Friedlander wa
arrested ut Bellville, ILL.,, on a charge Of
larceny.
Will johnson, a colored prisoner
charged with burglary, jumped from n
train at Mexico. Mo-. and was instantly
killed.
Lena Ecubert, 9 years old. of Massillon,
o., played with Matches set her clothes
Oh fire and was burned to a crisp.
A lone highwayman, operating In n
country road in Kansas, has held up and
robbed several persons. His victims were
nearly all farmers.
The Improved Order of Red Men OF east
ern Indiana elected officers at the ElwOod
meeting. Anderson was chosen rs the
next meeting place.
Porter Lanier, u convict in the Ohio
penitentiary, beat John Louders, a citizen
shop foreman. into insensibility with n
pair of tongs, innicting dangerous wounds.
The Tennessee pen~itentiary commission
has selected the property of the Brusby
Mountain Coal company at Hartman as
It's sight for the new state prison and coal
mines.
Leigh o. Knapp. n brother Of Charles
Knapp, president and general manager OF
the st. Louis Republic, died Of heart fail
ure. He was receiver Of public moneys al
Santa Fe, n. NJ, during Mr.. Cleveland''
former administration. and In 1891 was
business manager Of the Rocky Mountain
News.
Alfred Morrisette, the alleged forgcr ant
fugitive from the Dominion of Canada
was discharged by Judge Nelson of tn,
United States circuit court, in Boston. or
the ground that the testimony presented
could not be relied upon, and that n,
Judge in Quebec would convict Morrisett.
on such evidence.
Saturday, Ang. o.
William Horlander, Is years OF age
while bathing in the Ohio river, wa
drowned.
William Alsop escaped from the Indian,
prison sovth by deliberately walking
away
An artesian we'll struck at Chamber
lain, S. d., has a flow Of 5000 gallons o
water per minute.
The work Of obtaining a jury to tr.
Actor Curtis at San Francisco was re
sumed. But two jurors were acce pied.
David Simpson was overcome by ga
while repairing n well at Anderson, Ills
lie fell to the bottom and was killed.
The First Congregational church o
Waukegan. Wis, celebr ated its semi-cen
tennial with appropriate exercises.
Madge Fleming, aged 10, while playing
with matches Mt Eau Claire, Wis, set he
clothes on fire, aud was burned to deatL
The Midway Park Chautauqua encamr
ment, between bloomington, Ills, an
Normal. opened with a good attendance,
Aug. 25 has been set apart rs the da
for colored people at the Worlds fair.
Mrs. Vance Smith, a widow Of Sedalia
Mo-, put two burglars to flight with q r,
volver.
The Bank Of California has receive
$5,sOO,OOO Of fine gold from Californi
mines in the past three months.
w. A. Taylor, e. W. Baker and job
Forley are in the field for the Democrat
nomination for governor Of Ohio.
DIR. II. +. Young, superintendent OF I'll
insane state asylum Mt Nevada, Mo-, ha
resigned, and DIR. James Is. Gordon hs
been elected his successor.
The Baker ranch In Chase count!
Kansas, OH which Texas fever has a
pearcd. has been ~quarantincd by the Sta
Live Stock Sanitary commission.
A supposed mad dog took possession
the lawn of the governors mansion
Jefferson City, Mo. A policeman shot Il
animal.
The leading bankers of Brooklyn ha'
signed a petition to congress. asking Il
the repeal of the silver purchasing clau
Of the Sherman bill.
W. w. Blackmer has been elected pres
dent, and j. Z. Wallace secretary Of q
Railway Mail Clerks National associ
ton.
The Usage Indians in the territory ha'
declined to treat with the United Stat
commissioner for their surplus land
They are we'll fixed financially.
Mrs. Dora Weber, a pretty your
grass widow of Guthrie, .. H., was
rested for horse stealing. She had start