The Red Cloud chief., 1897-12-24
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TELECRAPHIC DISPATCHES
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ball.
Germany Is sending troops and arms
90 China.
Italy has been shaken by strong
earthquakes.
Sweden and Norway are ut SWORDS
points and may clash.
Alphonse Daudet died at Paris while
dining with his family.
Theodore Durrant was re-scntenced
20 hang January 7 next.
Prince Henry has departed from Kicl
10 sail Ia Chinese waters.
The biscuit and cracker companies
have combined. The capital is $780,
600, 600.
Hon. J. W. Daniel vas unanimously
reelected senator by the Virginia as
scmbly.
After the first Of the year Dallas.
Tex, will be headquarters 10 the NJ. X.
at. X. X.
Senior Ismael has been intrusted
with the task Of forming anew cabinet
for Chile.
VIM. j. Bryan gave a dinner TO Mexi-
rams and a few Americans at the City
Of Mexico.
j. II. Martindale of Scranton, Kan,
was found frozen TO death In n pasture
near town.
Gertrude Prince, q white girl of
Hayes, Wis, eloped with a negro and
married him.
Minnesota and the Dakotas are hav-
ing billiards. big enough to seriously
impede business.
State Senator Ellsworth Of New York
will make another effort to get his
a~nti-cartoon bill passed.
The next annual convention of the
national republican league will be
held Mt Omaha, June l4-l6.
The Illinois Protective Building and
Loan association, with head offices at
Springfield, is hopelessly insolvent.
Fire destroyed the wholesale grocery
Of the Let's Fletcher Co. Marshalltown,
In. Loss $l32 900; insurance s95 900.
Alexander Hogeland was reelected
president of the boys and girls nation
nj home and employment association.
Theodore Durrant has stated that he
will never hang. II is suspected that
when all hope is gone he will commit
suicide.
At its meeting In Nashville, the
American Federation of Labor passed
n resolution opposing the annexation
Of Hawaii.
Ex-Secretary of state John w. Fos-
ter says England is ready to grab
Hawaii In case the annexation treaty
Is rejected.
The French government contem.
plates the suppression Of the ncwspa.
Pcrs which are alleged TO be systcmat,
icslly ~inventing Dreyfus stories.
The big auditorium and hotel n,
Kansas City, owned by Alexander
Frazier md valued at Sees. 900, was
destroyed by FIRE. No live were lost.
II liz expected that the big drainage
canal, which Is TO connect lake Michi,
gan with the Illinois river ut Joliet,
will be completed by the autumn OF
1900.
IL Is rumored II Italy seeks 70 col
loct indemnity for the murder Of an
italian subject, President Sam OF Hay,
u will be forced by the people to de
clare war.
William Terriss, a we'll known Eng
lish actor was stabbed to death Will,
entering the stage door Of the Adelph
Theatre at London. A super Is supposed
TO have done 1t.
The Hotel Dakotah, at Grand Forks
N, d., burned to the ground. 1t il
feared that c. c. Howe and wife, an,
passenger agent of Minneapolis
Mimi, persisted In the flames.
Vim. Carr was hanged December II
1t Liberty, Mo-, for the murder OF hi
three-year-old daughter whom h,
threw into the Missouri river, aftc,
w%cighting the body with stones.
Captain-General Blanco has write,
the Spanish legation Mt Washington
that exiled Cubans may return TO Tn,
Island II they will promise tn be good
The government offers to protect them
The schooner Susan Il. Thurlow
from New brunswick to New York
f~onndered on the rocks off Cushin,
Island, three miles from Portland, Me.
and all but one of the crew persisted
The funeral Of Mother Mckinley
held December IA, was attended b
many thousands OF people. Business
In Canton was practically suspendc,
and the city In mourning.
Governor Lecdy that n
will present a scheme To the Nebrask,
irrigation convention for n i,OOO-mil,
canal from Montana to Texas, the COS
of which would be $500, 900, 900.
John Straub OF Elk City. Kas.. /
dead, his two sons are dying and
Mr.. Reed and his daughter are serious
ly i'll, caused from drinking coffee int,
which rat poison had accidentally
dropped.
just at present the eyes OF tn,
world are centercd on China. Tn
powers are distrustful of each othe,
High officials believe there is no spc,
il Significance In German occupatio
OF kiao-Chau and Russian occupatio
OF Port Arthur, but the movements O
the powers are being watched with il
terest. II England follows the lead {
Germany and Russia, France wi
forthwith follow suit.
The Illinois State Grange and tn
American Federation of Labor hav
passed resolutions fayorino nostal On,