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The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
Monday, October "a.

At Omaha John L. Melchert, former.
ly of Lincoln, where he vas moro gem
orally known rs Johnnie Wohlenberg,
shot and instantly killed himself, af-
ter first having shot and fatally wound
ed a young woman named Lillian Nor
ris, with whom he had been keeping
company. The tragedy was awful in
It's details. Melchcrt and the Young
woman presented themselves ut +. A.
Rinehart's photograph gallery, 1920
Douglas street, whittier they vent to
have o picture Of the Young woman
taken. They were directed TO the
dressing room. Shortly after they en-
taredtby rnrre or iohf Others in close
succession. Rinehart and his assist.
ants rushed into the room and en-.
countered n CHASTITY spectacle. In one
corner of the small apartment lay the
young woman with her body upon the
floor and her head resting upon the
top of n small gas stove and against
the wooden partition wall. In the op-
posite corncr lay the lifeless body OF
John Melchert Miss Morris died at
the hospital, to which she was taken
Immediately after the occurrence. 1t
| appears that Mclchert fred three shots,
one Of which was into his own brain.
One of the other shots took effec,
in Miss Morris head, while the third
penetrated three wooden partitions ia
the studio. The weapon vas of IS
calibre.
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KILLED ON TRIAL TRIP.
Seven Biusiackcts Meet Death on . Nov
Torpedo Boat In Oregon.

Torpedo boat In Oregon.
ASTORIA, Ore, Oct. 22.-The torpedo
boat Davis, which started on its Of
fetal trial trip yesterday, was disabled
by the bursting Of a number of boiler
tubes. Eight Of the crew were badly
scalded and seven Of them died soon
after reaching here. The dead are:
c. McNeeley, p. Luithle, ii. Woods, w.
Woods, B. Ryan, A. johnson, A. Buell..
Luithle was a coal passer and Woods
superintendent Of the boiler room.
The others were firemen. The acct
dent occurred in the Columbia river
about twenty miles above this city.
The nature Of the explosion has not
yet been made known, as an examine
tion of the boilers will be required to
determine exactly what portion Of the
boilers burst.
The best theory obtainab!e Is that
som Of the tubes in the forward boiler
exploded owing to q arrangement of
the automatic water gauge, which per-
mittcd the water TO get too low. Ex-
cspting for the havoc naturally
wrought in the boiler ROOM, the boat
Is uninjured.
The Davis carried forty-one men all
told. She was one Of two torpedo
boats recently built by Wolf & zwick-
err at Portland, and was soon to have
gone into commission.
At the time Of the accident the boat
was In charge Of the official trial board.
Tho officers declined to make any state.
ment as to the cause Of the accident.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
Tuesday, October eS.

Why isn't the doctor who is ALWAYS
taking somebody off a funny fellow?
The Second Nebraska regiment was
mustered out at Omaha Monday. 1t
required nearly 500, 900 to pay tho
men.
Drucilla A. Stoddard has sued the
city of Lincoln for $40, 500 for a broken
arm sustained by reason of defective
sidewalks. The accident happened
June 20, 1898.
The university Of Nebraska cut n
notch in tho championship of the
Western intercollegiate football league
ut Columbus, Mo-, Monday. Her ath-
lctes scored forty-seveu points against
their Missouri rivals, and gave the de-
tenders Of the gold and black but a
single touchdown in return. For Just
ten minutes after play commenced
Missouri figured as u factor in tho
contest,
James ID. Gage, assistant adjutant.
general of the Nebraska a.. A. r., has
accepted the trust imposed in him and
will take up the work of organizing
committees at every homo station OF
companies In the First and Third Ne
braska regiments with a view TO for
warding a Christmas donation to each
soldier. General Gage said that he
would arrange to have packages trans
ported in time to reach the soldiers by
Christmas. He will begin the work at
once because the First regiment Is 80
far away that there Is no time to lose
II the regiment Is to be reached by
Christmas. For this reason the First
regiment will be looked after first.
Donations for the boys at Manila must
be ready for shipment by November 1.
Word was recently brought TO De-
Witt that William Claiborne, n high.
ly respected farmer living near there,
had hanged himself TO q tree near his
home. He had been suffering from a
complication Of diseases. He was six.
ty years old aud comfortably fixed.
Mrs. Nellie Gilman Bass Of south
Omaha has secured from Judge Scott
n temporary order restraining her hus-
band, Mark l.. Bass, from speaking to
her, following her or doing her per-
sonol injury pending termination OF
her divorce case. which he has been
endeaveripg to brighten hcr into with.
drawing.
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Il 2i.

o Signor Pcrugrini. IL Is said she
contcmplates marrying aChicago man.
Private Comodor Christy Of company
b, Second regiment, died in Emanuel
hospital ut Omaha Of typhoid fever.
Frank Becdy, a young man who has
been employed for several years by
Henry Neitman Mt Beatrice. is under
arrest charged with theft of money
and checks to the amount of about
$500. The boys mother is Frustrated by
the occurrence.
Governor Holcomb has honored n
requisition from Kansas for the ar
rest Of Mortimnr Becmcr who is want
ed In Kansas City for the larceny of
goods from the dwelling Of s. j. Her
rick. The value of the goods Is SAL.
Bcemer Is under arrest at Norfolk.
A Chicago Wholesale house telc-
grsphed Its attorney In Brown county
70 attach property of u merchant 10
the amount of q claim for $500. The
message was forwarded with the fig.
ures spelled ont rs usual, but the omis-
sion Of the letter IS" from tho word
seven" made II read ''even hundred
ninety dollars" The attorney at
tached property to the extent OF seven
hundred ninety dollars Other cred
itors Of the merchant also attached
property and when the error i'm the
message was discovered the ''even hun.
drcd and ninety dollar" lawyer was
left holding tho sack. All the proper
ty had been gobbled up and he was
unable TO get anything more in salts,
faction OF his claim, The supreme
eourt held the other day that the telc,
graph company was liable for errors
in transmission OF messages, notwith,
standing u printed agreement to the
contrary ON tho back Of it's printed
blanks, and tho telegraph company
was held liable for $500.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28

The Paris peace commissioners are
still far from IN agreement. The Gu
ban debt seems 70 be the log In the
way Of progress.
The Paris exposition managers have
acceeded TO Commissioner Peck's re-
quest for moro space. The United
States will have ao3,Oo0 square feet OF
space.
Eliza Burrill, wife Of q well-to-do
mechanic of Toronto, Canada, stran'
gled her three children to death. She
said she did not want them TO grow UP
wicked. She was evidently dcmented.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
ASKED TO BE CALM.
Trafalgar Day May Add Iue to the Fa-
shoda Excitement.

shoda Excitement.
LONDON, Oct 22.--The London norm
Ing papers have cooled down to an ex-
ceedingly cautious and conservative
tone In dealing with the Fashoda ques-
ton, apparently realizing that the
public on both sides of the channel IL
heated to the danger point. There is
q marked effort TO avoid an offensive
tone. The Tunes says:
"Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has gone
some way to persuade our neighbors
that we really mean what we say. The
time has come when IL Is absolutely
nee .ssary to dispel French dreams on
this subject, unless very dangerous
consequences are to result, but the
chancellor Of the exchequer might have
performed the operation more dex-
terously."
The Daily News, which voices the
general feeling says: THE country is
determined to maintain its rights, but
there Is no occasion to provoke our OPP
ponents or to add fuel to the contro-
vsrsy."
The Trafalgar celebration, falling
to-day, Is q particularly unfortunate
coincidence and may have Just the Of
feet Of adding the fuel which the Daily
News dcprccates.
Exceptional interest was taken in
the celebration. This is the ninety
third anniversary of the victory OF
Trafalgar. The Nelson column On
Trafalgar square was profusely decor
ated and entwined with q spiral chain
OF laurel leaves, while laurel fcstoons
hung from each corner OF tho capital
to the lions. The base was covered
with anchors, wreaths, flags and ever
green's, with a background Of crimson
cloth. There were floral shields In
each corner, inscribed with Nelson's
great victories, est. Vincent" Camp
erdown," 1.-THE Nile" and Trafalgar"
The morning was showery and
misty, but many hundreds OF people
were present to cheer the hosting OF
the Union Jack on the top Of tho ped
cstal ut 8 o'clock.
At Portsmouth the masts OF the old
time line of battle ship Victory, Mel
sons flagship ut Trafalgar, the vessel
on which he was killed, were hung
with garlands and laurels. The prin-
cipal towns celebrated the day by
hosting the Union Jack or all the
public buildings.
PARIS, Oct. 2i.-Major Marchand's
report, tclegrnphed from Cairo, was
received during the night. II does not
mention the arrival at Fashoda Of Gen.
eral Kitchener, and only gives an ac-
count of the incidents of the expedi-
ton, with an elaborate description OF
the route followed, the places occu-
pied. the manner Of occupation, the
raising Of the flag, the force left at
each point and the treaties of submits
sion concluded with the tribes, in addi-
ton to referring to an encounter with
the dervishes.
1t Is believed in certain quarters that
Captain Daratier 10 the bearer Of a
verbal report which the French III
thorities were not willing to trust
upon the British telegraph lines.
The report goes only as far as the
beginning Of September, and says that
August 20 tho supplies Of the party
were abundant. The reason for the
omission Of any mention Of tho arrival
of General Kitchener at Fashoda IL
said to be the fact that the report OF
Major Marchand was not ready when
Captain Baratier left Fashoda-
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
sunday, October e..

Arrangements are being made TO
permit all the poor people, whose
means would not allow them TO see the
exposition heretofore, to see IL on Oma-
ha day. The matter Is in the hands OF
the Douglas county charity authorities.
An old man named Martin Lair was
run over by the engine kept Mt Ger
mantown 20 help trains over h hill,
and so badly injured that he died an
hour later. He was picking up coal
nncr the Burlington depot, and being
hard OF hearing and having defective
cyesight, did not notice the engine
when II came along.
The body Of n man who has been
working on the railroad at Kearney
for some time past, and who gave his
name as Charles Foley, was found
terribly bruised and mangled on the
track near Buda, four miles east OF
here. Just how he came to his death
Is not yet definitely known, but II Is
reported that he is trying to steal a
| ride on a freight train and that he was
thrown off by q brakeman.
The ear approach OF the close Of
the exposition has developed n senti
ment in favor of its continuance a.
least for n short period Of three months
next summer. This sentiment Is not
new, although ~ is just finding expires
sion. There are many who believe
that the success achieved this year ant
the wide publicity attained would in
sure an unprecedented success mex
year, while the expense incurred woul'
be comparatively slight.
A farm house near Bee, occupied b.
a family named McMillen, togethe
with the contents, was burned. Their
was no one Mt homo except the tw
McMillcn women and their little chi
dren, who barely escared with thei
lives. They were sleeping up stairs
and one OF them escaped through
window, leaving her baby behind. TIL
other one ran down stairs with he
baby, and when she saw That the othe
one had left her baby up stairs sh
ran back and got II, but both wer
quite badly burned before she escape
from the building.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
NO EXPANSION FOR CARNEGIE
Opposed to America MIXING Up In Eu'
ropsan Rivalry.

Oppooo0 10 Amorboo Atxtnx Op IN Co-
ropsan Rivalry.
vEW TOnns OCT. 30 Car
Iegie, Just back from Europe, said in
an interview: "lf the United States
Is going to undertake the government
Of the Philippines and 60 in for cxpan
sion throughout the world, putting her
hand in the hornets nest Of European
rivalry, there car be no prosperous
business. We shall be subject to war
and wars alarms.
Business lie the child Of security
and peace. The entrance Of the United
States as \ new power in the far East
will set every one of the present
powers to a study Of the question from
B now standpoint. We shall be com.
PEELED to increase our navy. We must
pay q large standing army, and there
% neither rest nor security for
~. Before the American people comes
now the most serious issue since the
issues of independence and secession.
A false step now and the future of the
republic will, in my opinion, be scri.
ously impaired and its industrial ca
reer r~etardedP"
"You do not think that territorial
expansion will bring expansion in
trader"
"No. not by any means. The devel-
opCent Of n state in the Union in
peace and security will outweigh all
tho increase OF profit we can get from
foreign trade In any of the worthless
possessions which We can attempt
now to take. The Philippines
have q certain trade which cannot be
greatly increased. Tho wants of the
people are few; barbarians are not Gus
toners; civilized people are consumers
Of our products-o
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
Simple. Statement Of r.ets

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-The report
OF the Wainwright board, convened
for the purpose OF determining the pc.
sitions and courses Of the ships en-
gagged in tho action at Santiago July 8,
was made public yesterday. 1t simply
gives the positions of the various ships
engaged at frequent intervals. It does
o attempt to say to whom the credit
for the victory was due.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
SAINT. y. land ono. Abol,.b.d.

TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. .2-Johu T.
Frost, land commissioner of the Atch-
ison, Topeka 4 Santa Fe railway, has
resigned his Office. Tho Office will be
abolished and the company's land bus.
mess viii bs handled by a new COM.
pany, to DO organized ut once, inde'
pendent Of the railroad.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28

Women Nurses Entitled to Communication
WASHINGTON, Oct. 90 -The War de.
partmen. has issued orders to allow
women ea,rsss, when granted leave Of
absence, eanmmtation rations ut the
rate Of twenty-five cents Q day.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
Monday, October a..

The emperor Of China is suffering
from nm incurable kidney disease.
Peace jubilee week in Philadelphia
will cap the climax OF the presidential
tour. 1t begins this morning.
The Spanish peace commission has
proposed a compromise in the matter
OF the Cuban debt. The details are
not made public.
Cap Arson has been offered the
agement Of the Philadelphia baseball
will accept Or not.
France Is said to be determined to
stand her ground in the Fashoda mat
ter. Both England and France are
hurrying war preparations.
Seventeen Indians, armed with Win.
chester rifles, have gone out to bring
in the chief plotter in tho Leech lake
tragedy, Chief Bug-Ah-Ma-Ge-Shig.
A terrible race war is on in Missis-
sippi. 1t came about through an at
tempt Of white men to lynch a negro
named Bill Burke for assaulting a
white man. The scene Is near Harp
ersville. About fifty negros are with
Burke determined to prevent his ar
rest. The whites are gathering in
force. The first trouble arose when a
sherif's posse was ambushed and one
deputy was killed and three wounded.
Nine negros are reported TO have been
killed. Governor McLaurin has gone
to the Gene.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
GAGE CAN REJECT BONDS.
4 Court Decides Against Bidders Who's
O0ers Were Thrown Out

Onsrs wsre Thrown Out
WASHINGTON. Oct. 22.-Judge Cox,
In the district Supreme court to-day
decided the cases Of George ID. Wight
man and of William ii. Wharton
against Secretary Gage. in favor of
tho secretary Of the treasury. Ono
suit sought an injunction and the
other q mandamus. tho basis Of COM
plant In each being the rejection by
the secretary of tho treasury Of bids
submitted for tho recent war loan.
Secretary Gage rejected the bids, be.
lieving tho bidders really represented
certain institutions. Judge Cox held
that under the act Of Congress the Sec
rotary had discretion in the award Of
the bonds and that the intent of Con-
gress was that they should 90 to indi.
viduals to the exclusion of banks and
corporations
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28

May Eaton OF Lincoln took is cents
worth of morphine with suicidal In
tent but a physician yanked her back
10 earth by liberal doses Of antidote.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28

COLUMBIA, 4. c., Oct. 2~2.-Colonsi
Joseph r Austin, First South Carolina
volunteer infantry, died to day at
Yorkville. s. G., while awaiting orders
prior 70 mastering ont.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
rhawsd Dynsm,ts and Threo Are Dead.

DULUTH, MINI, Oct. 22.-Tbree men
were killed here to-day by an explos-
ION Of dynamite. They are Henry
Soherf Of Saulte Ste. Marie and John
Stevenson and Michael Vail Of Duluth.
They were working upon q scow upon
the government canal. Scherf, the
diver, was thawin5 dynamite over q
email engine.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28

The First National bank Of Lisbon
O., has failed.
Russia, IL Is said, will advise France
to yield to Great Britain.
Capt. A. NJ. Weatherill, U.S.A. hero
Of Santiago, Is dead at Washington.
The annual exhibition of the society
Of western artists has begun at De-
troit.
Eight new yellow fever cases are re-
ported from Jackson, Miss, but the
scare Is over.
King Winter has set In in the Klon-
dixie, according TO reports OF miners
arriving ut Vancouver.
At Oaklank, California, one OF the
houses Of the Judson Dynamite works
blew up, killing two men.
Advices from ~Cienfuegos and Pinar
del Rio indicate intense i'll feeling be-
tween Cubans and Spaniards.
General Miles Ia back at his desk In
army headquarters, and Is engaged In
| tho details of the plan for garrisoning
Cuba.
Yellow fever germs in the south are
rapidly disappearing, owing to the
iroSSo tuat huNS nppC"tou IL s"S -
fected districts.
John Sinclair Thomas, who went x
Chicago from Kansas City with n for
tune of $500, 900 a year ago, declares
himself o bankrupt with liabilities o
$780, 900.
The p~ostoficc department has or
dercd the establishment Of a military
postofic &C station at Cavite, near Manila
II will be known as military station
No. ., of the San Francisco p~ostoffice
At Des Moines, Ia, the big bricl
block of Perkins and Brinsmaid, foul
stories high. and filed with costly do
nestle and imported china and glass
ware, burned to the ground. The los
was about 500, 900.
The postofIice department ha
warned ~postofice employees not to pa.
assessments for campaign purposes
The department says the employs
are under no obligation to do 80, ant
their situations will not be lost +
them IL they refuse 10 pay assess
ments.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
FGENERALINTERES
FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.

Events Of More Than Passing Interest
which Have Tr.nspired Since the War
Ended-Peacs Progress ana Movements
Of Army. Navy, and Departments
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
Saturday, October IN.


The steamer Henry Chisholm went
on the rocks of Isle Royaic, Ont Tho
crew escaped.
Secretary Of the Navy Long has a ID
proved tho finding of the court mar
tial In the Chaplain Mcintyre case.
The new japanese minister 70 tho
United States Ia named M. Jutaro
Komura. MIR. Komurs studied law 1t
Harvard.
The United States will take posses
sion OF Porto Rico tomorrow. BY then
most OF the Spanish officials and troops
will have departed for Spain.
General Bacon, who Ia in command
of tho troops engaging the Indians In
Minnesota, says the Indians need n
good sound thrashing, and that they
WON'T bc p~eaccabie until they are
chastised.
Private Charles Kenn Of the Twenty
second Missouri volunteers, who shot
and killed Russell, the negro whom he
found with Mrs Kenn when he went
home on u ~furlough, was acquitted by
the coroner's jury after q ten minutes
dcliberation.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28
A%GUINALDO'S ARMY.
MERRITT REPORTS 1000
INSTEAD OF $1,000.
nais . Dozen Regiments to Dome Home
ssoa 70 Recupsrsts asd Their Places
70 Ne rnisd By Fresh Troops From the
west-Latess Advices From Manila

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 The latest
Advices from Manila have strengthened
the officials of the war department in
their decision not to withdraw any Of
the troops now in the Philippines. On
tho contrary 1t Is possible that addi-
tional regiments will be sent to Manila
from San Francisco on transports,
which have recently arrived there.
In time IL will be necessary TO
order homo possibly half q dozen
Of tho regiments now at Manila
in order to give the soldiers who
have been in a chance TO recupcrate.
Anticipating that this may be neces-
sary in the early winter, the authori-
ties arc preparing to have their places
filed by fresh troops from the West.
Tho authorities desire TO have Major
General Otis command SO strong and
we'll equipped that the mere display Of
force will have q deterrent effect on
any plans Of the insurgents to rebel
against American authority. Many in
iignities committed by the insur-
gents have been reported to the War
department. by General Otis and he
has been instructed to use every e
70 protect life and property and to end
all dcpredations.
For some time Aguinaldo has imag-
ined his forces strong enough to drive
the Spanish and Americans, should he
so decide, into the sea. The fact re-
mains that the rebels were not strong
enough to capture Manila, and would
have been aunihilated in attacking the
suburbs had not Dewey destroyed tho
Spanish feet. In the middle Of Sep
tember Aguinaldo said that he had
1000 insurgents armed with rifles and
could raise 100. 900 men II necessary.
This was undoubtedly pure bombast,
as General Merritt has lately reported
TO the war department that the total
number of rebels armed with rifles did
not exceed 10000.
At this time Aguanildo was Mt the
height Of his power. Since then he has
lost 80 much of his support that it may
be doubtful II he could induce many OF
his men to attack the Americans. Tho
congress- at Malalos saw the decline OF
the dictator, for the questions dis
cussed split tho delegation into many
factions. Aguinsldo attempted &c
force his ideas of independence on the
delegates. but they would not have 1t,
fully two-thirds being for annexation,
Q sentiment that has rapidly grown
since the meeting.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-28

Friday, October Ell

The foreign apple crop is short.
Advices from the Klondike say three
small pox cases exist at Dawson.
The fighting blood Of the Chippewa
Indians is not yet cooled and another
outbreak is feared.
A new tree disease has attacked tho
peach orchards Of Michigan and Is
fast destroying the trees.
The French court of cessation will
take up the Dreyfus case next week
and n revision will most likely be
granted.
A Paris evening paper announces
that Captain Dreyfus is already in
Paris, and Is confined in a fortress to
which he was secretly brought.
Joe OFT VA hanged at Granite Falls,
Mimi, for the murder Of his wife. He
made n statement from the gallows.
expressing sorrow for the crime.
An explosion occurred on the tor
pedo boat Davis on its trial trip ut AS
toria, Oregon, and sever men were
scalded so badly they died from the
effects. The Davis was not mate rial
ly injured.
Superintendent Lukcns Of the Chi
cago-V irden Coal company's mine at
Virden, ILL.,, was released from custody
and escorted to tho train by q heavy
guard. lilo went to Strcater, III.
1t is reported that q movement Is on
foot in Georgia to raise a regiment
from among the two Georgia regi-
ments soon to be mustered ont, tbs
new regiment TO take the place Of the
Third Nebraska, thus relieving Colo
mel Bryan. 1t is said the military au-
thorities receive the Suggestion with
favor.