The Red Cloud chief., 1897-12-17
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TELECRAPHIC DISPATCHES
BOILED DOWN..
Most Important Events of the Past Six
Days Carefully Collected and Condensed
Foreign and Domestic Doings Chroni-
clcd for Busy People to Read.
Insurgents threaten Havana.

Insurgents threaten Havana.
There were five cases of suicide in
New York City recently in one day,
Spain is partly pleased and partly
displeascd with the message.
A receiver has been appointed for
the GAINESVILLE, o., street railway.
The manufacturers of wire and wire
nails have decided to combine.
The suspended freshman of Beloit
college. Beloit, Wis, have been re-
instated.
G. W. Miller. of Chicago, won the six
day bicycle race at New York, making
lob miles.
Bob Knccbs. the famous ringer, was
reinstatcd by the American Trotting
association.
Gertrude Prince. n white girl of
Hayes. Wis. cloped with a negro and
married him.
Insurgents beseigcd the town of
Guayano. but were ~rcpulsed by the
Spanish garrison.
Two of the sultun's soldiers attemp-
ted to assassinatc him. They were
tortured to death.
Gov. Atkinson Of Georgia vetoed
the anti-foot ball bill recently passed
by the legislature.
Delegate Catron has introduced
in the house a bill providing state
hood for New Mexico.
Mind reader tombstone has about
completed arrangements for Il tour of
the world b~lindfolded.
DIR. j. +. Mason of Springfield while
in a fit of blues committed suicide
by taking strychnine.
George Vanderbilt has taken out
q life insurance policy for 81 200, 900,
the largest ever issued.
Mrs Fred Schneider of Chicago. who
was shot by her drunken husband,
died the following night.
Newell Paine. % Boston druggist was
assaulted and robbed of 81, 200 at the
close of business recently.
A stay of execution has been denied
by Gov. Stevens to VIM. Carr, the
Liberty, Mo-, child murderer.
England will not oppose German
occupation of China in return for Ger
a non-interference in Egypt.
The board of education of Minncap-
oils. Mimi. has decided to close the
schools March / for lack of funds.
The Madrid Imperchial is getting
spunky, and declares that President
Mckinley must not intervene in Cuba.
Millionaire Fleischman. of com
pressed yeast fame. was stricken
with paralysis which later caused
his death.
II is reported that China has coded
Kiao-Chau to Germany, and that Prince
Henry has been sent to hold the new
territory.
Judge Horace G. Buck, associate
justice of the Montana supreme court
committed suicide. Poor health was
what led To the act.
Secretaries Sherman Alger, Bliss.
Wilson, Gary, and Acknowledgement
McKenna attended the funeral of the
presidents mother.
Peace reigns in Samoa. The whole
family of Mataafa has made its sub
mission to the government and no
more trouble is expected.
The court of appeals of the district Of
Columbia has held the trading
bank check scheme to be II species Of
lottery, therefore illegal.
Walter Croot of Newcastle who was
the other day at London knocked out
by Jimmy Barry in a prize fight, died
from the effects of the blow.
The California supreme court sum
marily disposed of Theodore Durrant's
appeals. and there is now nothing be-
tween him and the hangman's moose.
General Rivera. the insurgent lead
er, has been released from Caban-
as fortress by decree of the queen re-
gent. lie will go to Cadiz, Spain, his
home.
Fall River, Mass, cotton manufac-
turers have decided to make a reduc-
ton OF about 10 per cent in wages.
The redu ,tion will affect $4,000 en-
ployes.
Passenger Agent Francis of the Ii. &
NJ, in a Denver interview says that
So 900 and possibly twice that many
people will try to go to klondike next
spring.
Minister IIoshi, the Japanese minister
says that his government is not fight
ing Hawaiian annexation, but that the
protest was to protect Japanese inter
ests in the islands.
Il. Estrada Palma, representative of
the Cuban government, says that 1T Is
now too late for autonomy, and thinks
the president should have gone further
in his message than he did.
Mrs. Nancy Mckinley, mother of the
president, died Sunday morning De-
cember II, at II few minutes past 2
o'clock. All her children were at her
bedside. She was born in 1909.
Senator Allen of Nebraska has ad-
dressed a letter TO the secretary of the
interior, suggesting the a~dvisability of
making an Indian exhibit at the coming
Omaha exposition. Secretary Bliss