The Red Cloud chief., 1898-04-01
WORLDS BRIEF NEWS
A THOROUGH RESUME OF
WORLD DOINCS.
Items Of Moment Bound to Int crest tn
Intelligent neutrality-suspicious. and
Departmental Do,ngs shortened for the
benefit Of the busy.

been ordered to prepare for war.
Gladstone is very i'll at his home at
Hawarden. lie suffers intense pain.
1t is again limited that Lord Sails
bury is to retire on account of poor
health.
The pig iron trust Is now n fact.
Final steps were taken at Cleveland
recently.
Floods in the central states continue
to grow alarmingly worse. Much
damage is being done.
Tbs Cincinnati chamber of commerce
has arranged to sent a carload of corn
neal to suffering Cubans.
Captain Arson has an opinion on the
Chicago baseball club. 1t is said the
old man wants to be a "magnate."
At West Superior, Wis, Mrs. Louis
Barrett was burned to death. She
tried to build a fire with kerosene.
A dynamite magazine at Hillsville,
Pa, exploded. killing eight persons, a
man named WEIGH, his wife and six
children.
An explosion ut the works OF the U.
s. Smokcless Powder company near
San Rafael, Cal, caused the death Of
two men.
Tom Watson has emphatically re-
fused the populist nomination for
governor of Georgia. He declares he
is out of politics.
Perry Young, engineer, and Clark
Grant, were blown to antoms by the
explosion of u boiler in the flour mill
at Reed City, Mich.
In the house of commons nc London
the Irish local government bill passed
a second reading without u division
and amid loud cheers.
In the United States court Of APP
pcals ut st. Louis, Judge Phillips has
rendered u decision that a man cannot
be imprisoned for debt.
FL Nacional of Madrid publishes a
letter from Maxine Gomez to General
Blanco, refusing proposals that he
should make submission.
Governor Bradley has sent n num-
Der of militia tents to Middlesboro and
Richmond, KY, for the use of the
small pox patients and suspects.
The house Of representatives unseat-
Fourth district of Virginia, giving the
A deep feeling of uneasincss ~pcrvadcs
railroad circles in Omaha over the
possibility of n reduction in wages of
the employees on the Union Pacific.
After obtaining s1,7oo from the sale
of his farm, VIM. Schmalz, living near
Waukesha, Wis, has mysteriously dis
appeared. 1t is believed to be u case
of abduction or suicide.
At V%incennes. Ind, William Oster-
haag shot his wife and then committed
suicide. His wife had just returned
from visiting some friends when they
quarreled with the result stated.
A general strike of river coal miners
Mt Pittsburg, Pa, is to be inaugcrated
April 2 unless the conditions of the
Chicago agreement are complied with.
A strike will effect about 5000 men.
The Bank of Merriam Park, st.
Paul, Minnesota, has suspended owing
to complications arising from invest
ment in the Southall government time
checks, which have been shown to be
worthless.
An amendment to the sundry civil
bill is pending before the senate com
mittee on appropriations, appropriate
ing $3.50, 900 to furnish supplies to the
destitute peopleof Cuba. 1t will prob
ably be adopted.
Near Verdin, H., Will Kent was
,l-A ..l fnAal La ,.,,,lAl ISy hta 1pnth-
or, Noble Kent. The latter was dis
inherited in favor of the former by the
father, who recently died, and the
deed was lone for revenge.
Wesley C~ochrane, jr., a young man
of Atwood, Kan. shot and killed Mrs.
Gertie Woodward, daughter of the
editor of the Atwood Gazette. He
then cut his W throat. The cause is
unknown. The two were children
together.
The Steamer Santa Ro sa from San
Diego to San Francisco, reports having
sighted the Steamer Helen w. Almy,
bottom side up nine miles out from
Point Konitta, at the Golden Gate. 1t
Is believed the passengers and crew,
forty persons in all, persisted.
Judge Spencer OF the st. Louis cir
cult court rendered a decision on the
rights of newspapers to plead in justi-
fcation in libel suits that the articles
sued on were true. lie says: "If the
substance of the publication in its full
and fair meaning is alleged and proved
to be true, the justification is com
plete.'
DR.. Geo. +. Powell, "White Eagle
of La Crosse. Wis. has cabled to Baron
ell Cardo Of Madrid accepting the chal-
Ienge which the Baron sent to Senator
Billy Mason of Illinois. He concludes
his challenge Is follows: "And while
earnestly assuring you and all your
kind that thousands of men OF my
type stand ready to step In my tracks
and pick up my pistol II 1t should fall,
l sincerely thank the representative OF
u thousand years of barbarism for the
opportunity to fire q shot in revenge
for the Yankee sailors. who fed the
sharks in the bottom of Havana bay
A head-cnd collision between a pas
senUer and special engine on the Chi