The Red Cloud chief., 1897-03-05
NEWS BOiLED DOWN..

Santa Ana river will be turned from
It's course To provide electricity for
California cities.
DIR :. Gratz Moses, one of the oldest
and most prominent physicians in st.
Louis, died OF old age, in his s5th year.
John Jacob Astor's s., ZOO, 900 hotel, |
which is in course OF erection next to
the Waldorf, will be called the Astoria. !
DIR. Steinitz, the famous chess player,
Is dead. He had been suffering from a
mental disorder in u Moscow hospital.
John wilkins, n prominent farmer
Of Eureka Springs. Ark, fell from his
horse and was instantly killed, while
drunk.
Frank A. Vandcrlip, q Chicago news.
paper man, will be Lyman j. Cages
private secretary.
The German tank steamer Diamant,
Chaplain W~iscbausen, and thirty-hve
men, was lost with all hands $50 miles
southeast Of Halifax on February II.
Two masked man held No Il local
train at Watova. ]. r., and robbed the
conductor and brakeman of ~. so aud
. revolver.
Governor Stephens has appointed q.
w. Jones. business manager Of the
Post Dispatch, election commissioner
Of st. Louis.
The President has signed the act
authorizing the secretary Of the navy
TO arrange for the transportation Of
contributions to relieve the famine
sufferers In India.
Governor Renfrow Of Oklahoma has
promised to exert his In fiuence toward
making IN application Of the single
tax theory In the disposition Of school
lands in that territory.
The dead and severed body OF Jcnison
Mcclure, son of Ex-Governor Mcclure,
was found on the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railway track near Purcell,
Ind. Ter.
The White Star steamship line Is
having q new twin screw steamer built
for Liverpool and New York service.
II Is 70+ feet long, or rs feet longer
than the Great Eastern.
Mrs. Louisa Pitt Yokum, s%uperintcn-
ent Of schools, of Dolores county. Col,
has refused q teachers certificate TO
Prot. Victor G. McGirr, principal of
the Rico public schools because he
smokes.
soseph Murdoch OF Scott county,
Va, who vas supposed to have been
murdered twenty-five ysprs ago, and
for which crime Bud say served
twenty-onc years In, the Virginia pen
itentiary, has returned to his former
home. Lindsay died recently.
A battle took place between q posse
Of officers and members Of the Griss0n
gang on the Creek line. u few miles
from the town Ct Stroude, Oklahoma,
in which John Grisson was killed, sew
cral officers wounded and Solomon and
Garfield Grisson captured.
Governor Stephens has pardoned w.
T.. Van Wye Of st. Joseph from the
~penitentiary. Van Wye was sent NJ
: Tor two years for selling the Kansa,
City Sunday Sun and was pardoned II
order to testify against the proprietor
Of the paper.
In the district court at Fort Scot
John Judd, 8 years old, was givel
Judgment fol- n half interest in the es
tate of William Judd, a wealthy farm
er, who committed suicide before tn,
! child was born. and who was neve,
married TO the boys mother.
President Cleveland intends TO vet,
the sundry civil bill and the genep
: deficiency bill. The first messag re. car
{ ried over 8bl ,0oo, 900 as 1t pesS9lh'
: House, end when itSbTeturA>6fo n
the Senate will n (pr at leas
: 500, 900. The genS biency bill
. carries more than 20.
! One Of the most disastrous fire,
I in the history of Grand Forks N. d;
broke out in Beares' dry good.
L t,,n So thA thrao ctaru SpnAt,nt
building. The flames had "a goot
: start and the firemen worked in rs deg
: below zero weather. The loss is est
mated at S225, 900 and the insurance a
SllO, 600.
I Professor William l.. Tomlins, with
4 the aid OF thirty members of the Apollo
club, the famous musical organization
), of Chicago, has tried the effects o.
0 music upon the hundreds OF unfortun
: ates confined in the Kankakee insane
| asylum. Excellent results were
a achieved and II is the intention to con
q tinue the work.
$ BENJAMIN r. Bacon, at one time one
of the best known and wealthies'
e merchants OF Kansas City, shot him
! self in the head in a room at the
1 Midland hotel and died In two hours
] SuiSiue " oupP'Scu " Nv uoC "
: business reverses and domectic trou
= bles.
The week just passed has wit
messed the heaviest snow fall anC
the greatest number OF snow-slidei
In the mountainous portion Of Colo
RADIO since 1884, according to I'd
, vices from many points. There havs
been many fatalities, numberless mar
row escapes and several persons hav,
been reported missing.
william A He'll Of st. Louis, Mo
? special United States internal revenu,
! gauger, died at the Southern hotel II
, Trinidad, Col, of heart failure. Mr.
Bell had been connected with the rev
: enue department for twelve years
lie was q brother Of Nicholas NJ, T. p
and Thomas Bell, all we'll known bus
mess men and politicians Of st. Louis
The Missouri supreme court has de
clded that women are eligible to hole
; all state and county offices which ar,
, not barred against them by EXPRESS