The Red Cloud chief., 1898-01-14

molished lots of property at Morgan
field, Ky.
George Hcavclcy. OF Tyron. Pa,
after a scrap with his family, blew his
brains out.
The Union Pacific reorganization
committee has made its final payment
of So, 500, 900 to the govcrnmet.
Mrs. Adelinc NJ. Fassett. an artist of
national prominence. dropped dead on
the streets in Washington, ID. G.
The towboat Percy Kelsey blew up
on the Ohio river near Glcnield. Pa,
n several of the crew were killed.
Violent weather prevails in the south
OF France n north of Spain. A cloud
burst near Toulon did much damage.
Mining stoock valued at $4,000 was
stolen from the residence of w. w.
Jacobs at IL Wavcrly Place, Chicago.
1t is said the New England cotton
operatives are taking steps par
tory to resisting the reductions in
wages.
The mule %spinncrs of Lowell and
New Bedford, Mass, have been given
permission to strike by the executive
committee.
BY n fall Of rock in the Penn state
quarry at Sluttington. Pa. two work.
men, Fred Shicber and John Bellows,
jr., were killed.
Marshal Chadwick, suspected Of
numbering a youth named Hayden
near Pennington. Wash, was taken
from Jail and lynched.
Miners in the Springfield district in
Illinois, those at T~aylorvillc, have
asked for the Springfield scale, failing
to get which they will strike.
Mrs. Paul Birch of Grass Valley,
Cal, while lighting a fire, accidentally
ignited her clothing and burned to
death before help could arrive.
The Seminole Indians guilty of as
Saulting and beating to death Mrs.
james simmons near Maud. Okl., were
captured by a mob and burned at the
stake.
The tobacco warehouse of Christian
Peppers at Twelfth and Market streets.
st. Louis, was destroyed by fire. 1t
was full of tobacco. Loss will reach
SiOO, 900.
General Pando. Blanco's lieutenant,
SO his intimate friends say. has admit
ted his impotcntcy to end the revolt in
eastern Cuba, even with the reinforce
ment from Spain.
Major Moses =. Handy. appointed by
President Mckinley as special commits
sioner to the Paris exposition of 1900,
died at Augusta, Ga, where he had
gone to seek health.
Two lives are supposed to have been
lost by an explosion in the Mt. Carmel
Coal company's mine near ~Chicopee,
Kan. Six men were entombed, but
four were rescued by other miners.
Ohio republicans held n mass meet
ing ut Columbus Monday and declared
that the instructions of the state con-
vention, which declared for NJ. A.
Ham for senator, should be carried
out.
BY the accidental explosion of n dy.
Mantle cartridge in n new sewer being
built at Central Park Boulevard, Chi
stantly killed, and two or three others
badly injured,
Seth Burrows, an FL Paso, Tex,
cowboy, got into II fight with Next
cans just across the river. burrows
was killed, but before he died he killed
a gambler, n policeman and fatally
wounded two other officers, all Next
cans.
Francis d. Newton, n prosperous
farmer of Brookield, Mass, his wife
Sarah, and their ten-ycar-old adopted
daughter Ethel, were found murdered
in their beds. 1t is believed the hired
man committed the crime. The three
had been killed with an axe.
Miss Julia Cling, twin sister of
Catherine Cling, the victim of Murderer
Harry Hayward, has lost her suit
against the Travellers Accident Insur-
ance company to recover the face of an
accident policy on her sisters life.
Judge Melee held that the murder
was not an accident.
Acknowledgement Boyle of Kansas
has scnt to all county clerks instruc-
tions to bring prosecutions against the
New York Life Insurance company,
basing his conclusions on information
he said he had that the company was
doing business in the various counties
without a Kansas permit.
DR.. s. A. Rogers, professor OF anato-
my at the Memphis, Tenn, college,
was shot by Mrs. Mary Sanbring, q
widow, and died later. The woman
then killed herself. The cause of the
tragedy is said to have been the doc.
tors refusal to marry her.
Congressman King of Utah has just
arrived from Cuba, where he has been
making a personal investigation of az
fairs on the island. In an interview
he says the condition of reconcentra-
dos is toe terrible to picture, they were
naked, emaciated and dying like sheep
in the towns. lie declares the people
have little faith in the wisdom of an
autonomous form of government, and
favors annexation.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg & Cult
Port Arthur express, which left the
companv'S 1eupt nt Kansas City at