The Red Cloud chief., 1898-01-14
NEWS OF THE WORLD
TELECRAPHIC DISPATCHES
BOILED DOWN..
Most Important Events OF the Past Six
Days Carefully Collected and Condensed
Foreign and Domestic Doings Chroni.
clcd for Eusy People to Read.

''''oCOre Dlrrant made no confess
tion. He kept his counsel to the end.
Mrs. Marion A. Peters. aged GO, of
New York, in a fit of insanity, COM
mittcd suicide.
Ms. Augusta Mack, Martin Thorn's
nccomplice. was sentenced to fifteen
years Imprisonment.
Hon. II. j. Money was unanimously
elected United States senator by the
Mississippi Legislature.
The lumber yard of the Saginaw.
Lumbercompany, near Saginaw, Mich,
had a $1,000 q loss by fire.
Safe blowers cracked the safe in the
office of the Standard Oil company in
st Louis and secured 100000.
One man ~tcrrorizcd about twenty
patrons of n Prescott, Ariz.. saloon.
and made his escape with about $500.
1t is said that Spain is considering n
formal request to the United States to
use its good Offices to stop the fighting
IN Cuba.
Representatives of street railway
companies from fo~rty-scvcn cities of
Illinois formed Il branch of the natl
onal association at Chicago recently.
Mrs. Julia Leard. a white woman
living east of Maud. Okl., was dubbed
to death by II Seminole Indian. and
then ravishcd. Excitement is intcse.
General Miles has written to the
headquarters of the department of
Colorado ut Denver for information re-
garding the needs of the miners in that
region.
James j. Corbett has offered to fight
Robt. Fitzsimmons Il finish fight for
$4,000, Fitz to take the whole of it If
Corbett doesn't knock him out in 10
rounds.
The American Express company's of
flee at New York was robbed of SlO.-
5s2. Clark Braden, ir.. "a trusted en-
ploye. is missing and detectives are on
his track.
Martial law, which was declared at
Prague Dec. =, as a result of the ~riotous
demonstrations which followed the
disturbances in the reichstag, has been
discontinued.
Messenger Hayden. of Kansas City.
says the robbers who held up the Kan
sas City, Pittsburg IL Gulf train in
Kansas City Tuesday night secured
nothing of value.
Walter Gait of Fort Scott. Kan. shot
his young wife twice and then sem IA
bullet into his WI brain. Mrs. Gait
was shot in the shoulder and will
probably cover His wound is fatal.
The trial by court martial of Count
Esterhazy, the retired officer of the
French army, charged with writing
letters rejecting on France and the
French army, is in progress in Paris.
During n fire at Hatrick's chemical
works in Glasgow, Scotland, there was
an explosion which killed four firemen
and injured Il number of other people.
The damage done is estimated ut $50
900.
Fred Jantgcs, charged with the IN
bezzlcment of IS, roo from the Moon
Bros. Carriage Co., st. Louis two years
ago, has been arrested. lie admitted
wine and women Were the aus of his
downfall.
The various Catholic bishops of Cana
da who met at Montreal to discuss the
pope's ~encyclical regarding the school
question decided TO let it go to the
congregations without any remarks ON
their part.
One hundred and fifty employers.
after three weeks unpaid rehcarsals
with Barnum & Bailey's circus, claim
to have been dismissed within a weeks
notice and are seeking satisfaction in
the courts ut London.
Because the interstate commerce
commission has not decided the case of
the Milwaukee chamber of COM
mercc, alleging discrimination, that
body threatens to petition congress
for an investigation Of the commission.
The Shoe and Leather bank of New
York, which lost its entire surplus and
sl04, 900 in addition by the defalcation
Of Bookkeeper Seeley in 1894, has an
nounced hat it will on April next be-
gin the payment of 4 per cent quarter
ly dividends.
Mrs. Katie Ammon of Vandalia town
ship, Cass county, Mich, and two
minor heirs over whom she has been
appointed guardian, have fallen heir to
n 81, 900, 900 estate by the death of her
aged uncle, Silas A. Trabos, a~Jackson,
Miss, planter.
Under the habitual criminal act .Tu-
Illus Tunte at Chicago received a sem
tence of eighty years in the penitent-
larry; twenty years for each of the four
counts to which he pleaded guilty. 1t
is the longest sentence but one ever
given in this country.
1t has been rumored that General
Fitzhugh Lee, the United States con
sul-general, will accompany Captain
General Blanco when the latter takes
the field. 1t is further reported that
Senior Estrada Palma, the delegate To
the United states of the Cuban insur
gents, will accompany Blanco and Gen
eral Lee To the field and that a confer
ence with General Maxine Gomez will
follow. The report $ have caused a
sensation. They are doubted in Off
cial circles, and no confirmation is oh
tainable.