The Red Cloud chief., 1898-02-18
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TELECRAT tlIC DISPATCHES
BOILED DOWN..
host Important Events or the Past SiN
Days Carefully Collected and Condensed
Foreign aud Domestic Doings Chroni.
clcd for Busy People e Read.

Cich Tor BnsS icOlIe 10 iteau.
The English parliament opened
Tuesday.
The Nicaraguan revolution is get
ting interesting.
Civil strife and bloodshcd have fol-
lowed the assassination of President
Barrios of Guatemala.
The steamer Nevada of Seattle. has
been reported wrecked. IL is believed
those on board are lost.
II. Shcclcr. n Chicagoan. has offered
TO raise the Ohio state capitol and put
another story under it for $500, 900.
The convention of the league of
American Whcclmcn. recently voted
down IA Sunday racing proposition.
Tho assassin of President Barrios
was killed by the presidents staff be-
fore he had time to make his escape.
Boston is in mourning because the
famous society leader, Mrs. Jack
Gardner has broken one of her legs.
Mrs. james o. West of New York.
riSiting ut st. Louis, was robbed of
$1,000 worth of jewellery by sneak
thieves.
Watson Denny. Il wealthy farmer
near 81. Joseph, Mo-. murdered his
wife because she threatened to sue for
a divorce.
1t IL reported that the naval depart
mcnt has ordered Of the Carpenter
steel company 1000 steel p~rojectiles.
Secrecy is observed.
Mrs. Charlotte Sclby. wife of the pug
Hist kid Mccoy" otherwise Norman
u. Sclby, has applied for Il divorce on
the grounds of cruelty.
The Spanish cabincd has selected
Senior Louis Polo licinaba as successor
to Enrique Dupuy De Lone. rs minister
from Spain to the unitcd'Statcs.
Nicaragua and Costa Rica are expect
ed to o % engage in war unless the
latter comply with certain demands of
President Iclaya of the former country.
Fifteen hundred men stood all night
in front of the state house lat Boston.
Mass. to be on hand early the follow
ing morning when 800 jobs were to be
given ont.
The health department of Greater
New York has made an official estimate
The number of persons in all five
burroughs is fixed at 3,43s, 500.
Judge Lunt. in the district court nj
Colorado Springs. Col. has rendered Il
decision which practically nullifics the
eight-hour labor law passed by tn,
Colorado Legislature some time ago.
Salter ID. WordeE. convicted OF
wrecking "a mail train near Sacra
mcnto. Cal. in 1894. has confessed hi,
crime to Governor Hudd with u view
to receiving n communication of a death
sentence.
Two thousand persons surrounded
the Jail at Burlington. Ia. for the pur
pose of l~ynching storms. the sclf-con
fessed murderer of Mrs. Rathburn and
her daughter, but officers had remove
him from the Jail.
The United States circuit court o
appeals for the sixth circuit at Cincin
natl decided the east iron pipe rus
ease declaring the trust a combin,
clearly in restraint of trade. therefor,
illegal.
President Barrios of Guatemala wa.
aSsasSinated February q by insurgents
Vice President Manuel Cabrera ha,
succeeded to the presidency and calm
now prevails. Barrios' di~ctatoria
manner was the cause of his assassina
ton.
Baron Harden Hickey. better know
as the Prince of Trinidad, committee
suicide in his room at an ElPaso
Texas, hotel. Baron Hickey obtaine,
notoriety some time ago by selling tn
island of Trinidad and proclaiminl
himself dictator.
Elizabeth Flanders and Fanny Es
glehorm, the Indian girls who tried I,
burn the girls building ut the lndiai
school at Carlisle, Pa, pleaded guilt,
and were sentenced to one year an,
six months. They said they were home
sick and wanted Captain Pratt to sen
them home.
Minister De LONE has resigned Il
minister of Spain and goes home IL
disgrace. lie refused to deny tn,
authenticity of the Carnalcjas letter
The Spanish cabinet accepted has resig
nation. Spanish papers deplore tn
situation. but do not censure the dipl6
mat. Americans rs Il rule, are bite
against de LONE, and are more tina,
ever fayerably impressed with the just
ness of Cuba'S cause.
Fire destroyed the six-story col,
storage plant of the Chautauqua LAX
Ice company at Pittsburg. The build
ing covers an entire block. and tn
contents were valued ut 81 900, 900. A
explosion blew ont an alley wall. AN
ii is thought that twenty-five or thin
ty persons were crushed To death
Many tiremen, reporters and citizen
are among the injured.
The Chicago police are puzzled owe
the disappearance of Earl Conway.
talented youth, well known in musica
circles, and Miss Ollie Wilson. daugf
ter of Il wealthy Nebraska stockmau
Although the young woman is eleyel
years older than the lad. who is bu
fifteen years old, the two, according {
the story told the police by the lad
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