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The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
Monday. November 60.

William Huff was taken from the
county Jail at. Bloomfield, No., and
hanged by a mob Of about 100 men.
Huff, who is charged with the murder
of Andrew Melton last week. showed
rem a-kable nerve, facing the mob and
asserting that he was not afraid.
So that she might go on with her
work Mrs. Ernst Hurnmel, Jr.. a teach
er in the Phil Sheridan school, Chicago.
stood before Judge Wheatley and gave
her baby, seven months old, to her sis
ter, Mrs. Bertha A. Phelps. The Civ
ing was an adoption, and il came about
by reason of the board of education
ruling that a mother with a child un-
der the age of two years could not
teach in the public schools, and the
board had just acknowledged it and
heard of this baby.
The steamer Concstoga Of the An
Choir line, sank at the mouth of the
Chicago harbor, after a race for life.
The steamboat. bound into Chicago
from Buffalo, in the dense fog that
hung over Lake Michigan. ran into the
halfway crib, a mile and a half out
from the harbor entrance, and u great
hole was stove in the bow. The boat
commenced to fill with water fast and
there was a dispoition to rush for the
boats, but the captain gave orders to
turn on all steam and make q quick
run for the harbor.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

A recent expose OF the brutal treat
ment OF privates in the army OF
France by their officers gives new en-
phasis to the danger OF arbitrary
power. It Is also reported that in
Austria the custom OF boxing the ears
Of soldiers and recruits has been so
common and SO violent that thousands
OF them have suffered such impairment
Of their hearing as partly to unit them
for service. The minister OF wal has
recently issued a prohibitory order.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
Thursday, November 10,

ID. W. Barnes Of Valparaiso has been
appointed a member of the state fish
commission to succeed j. p. Rouse of
Cass county, resigned.
Work has begun on the laying of
the three miles of track which will be
required to store the ears of the new
Armour Packing company at South
Omaha.
G. II. Edgerton Of Hastings has re-
ceived a letter from the war depart
ment stating that Christmas boxes for
the boys in the Philippines, IL sent to
the quartcrmaster at Omaha, will be
transported free.
The annual meeting of the Nebraska
improved live stock breeders associa-
ton will be held in Lincoln, beginning
December 10. An excellent program
of topics relating to the breeding, feed
ing and management of improved live
stock has been prepared, and a very
interesting and valuable meeting will
be held. The matter of holding a live
stock show and sale Of Nebraska stock
in the autumn Of 1900 will be consid-
cred.
A terrible and probably fatal acct
dent occurred at Fremont near the
Union Pacific depot. +. Hovey, q
printer, vas struck by the engine of
the fast mail and thrown to the plat
form, sustaining q fracture of the
skull. Hovey is totally deaf and was
walking to close to the track. He did
not know of the approaching train and
could not hear the warning whistles,
He was taken to the hospital and the
chances being that he will not live.
Hovey has a wife in California and a
grown daughter. He came from North
Platte.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

A newspaper correspondent at In
d~ianapolis telegraphs: Secretary Hurry
Of the state health board predicts that
Indiana will have an epidemic OF
smallpox. Il do not see how 1t can
be averted," said DIR. Hurry. "and II
will cost Indiana thousands OF dollars
as we'll as many deaths. There Is
smallpox In the state. and II will spread
from the small country towns. The
people do not know how to handle
suspected cases In these small places.
There should be no delay In handling
a suspicious case. and II It turns out
not to be smallpox no harm Is done.
This whole state could be vaccinated
for less than $4,000. and that would
save 1t from a scourge that Is other
wise sure to come"
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
CAB NO. Z rs WALES.
London's "Cabbies" Must Sec s,raisb,
ssd Rnow Short Routes.

London's "Cabbies'- Must Sec s,ra,,h,
ssd Know Short Routes.
This summer in Scotland Yard I at
tended an examination of men who de-
sired to be appointed bus and cab
drivers, and the affair was most anus
ing. They've a rickety old bus down
there. a perfect ark, and attached to
the fore OF II a brace Of one-time OAR
by winners, likely, that, after a meal
of ginger and pepper. do get up enough
animation to drag that ark at a spank
Ing gate the length OF the Enclosure.
The would-be driver mounts the box,
whips up the horses, and attempts to
drive between two stakes planted in
the ground SO close together that to 60
between them means to escape them
at the hubs, scarcely more than a quar-
ter OF an inch on either side. Some
times the driver manages IL. IL he re-
peats the feat two or three times with
success. and also manages TO get his
horses pulled up sharp when a finger
Is raised. he Is appointed, and given
the first opening. And thereafter for
years he Is privileged to amaze Ameri-
cans by his wonderful cleverness with
the reins In the crowded Strand or
Piccadilly circus. II is different with
the would-be cabbies. They, too. are
compelled to drive between stakes and
to pull up their nags, but more than
that Is asked OF them. IF you were TO
pick up a fare In the Addison road TO
drive to the Upper Bedford place, What
would be your route?" Such questions
as that are put to them. Now, there
are endless routes, but cabby Is Obliged
by Law to take the shortest, and II he
can not draw a line along the map OF
London, marking that shortest route,
he is told to go home and study for
another month. But where he fails
dozens Of others succeed. And a single
walk along a London street bears
proof OF the enormous number of men
who know their city like a book. How
many hansoms there are In London I
do not know, but / know this: The
cab l called one morning was No. s;
the cab I called that afternoon was
No. 6O,61S. l spent a week looking for
cab No. l and didn't find IL. / learned
then that No. l was the number of the
private hanson Of the prince OF Wales.
Detroit Free Press.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
AN ECCENTRIC T A
folaris' Movements Arc Affected by Stars
That Are Invisible.

That Are Invisible.
How the existence of an invisible
celestial body may be revealed through
the s~pectroscope is explained by Prof.
w. w. Campbell, OF the Lick Observa-
tory, In giving an account OF his recent
discovery that Polaris, or the North
Star, Is a triple system. The shifting
Of the lines Of the spectrum Of the star
enables us to Determine, he says,
whether the star is approaching or re-
ceding from us, and how rapidly. Re-
cent observations Of Polaris, made
with a sp~ectograph attached to the
thirty-six-inch telescope, show that its
velocity Is variable. 1t approaches the
solar system now with a velocity Of
FIVE miles per second. This will in
crease In two days to eight and three
quarters miles, and In the next two
days will decrease until II again be-
comes five miles. This rycle Of change
is repeated every four days. The only
explanation Of this movement Is that
the star is circling in an orbit which
is turned toward us more or less edge
"sSS' oAu ~ Soh eiiSiC thuS Ohiy pC-
cause II Is associated with some other
body, the two revolving about their
common center Of gravity. like the
balls OF a dumbbell tossed into the
air. The orbit is nearly circular and
Is comparable In size with the moons
orbit around the earth. The center Of
gravity, and, therefore. the binary sys-
TEN. is approaching the solar system at
present with a velocity Of seven and
one-ifth miles per second. In 1896 1t
was approaching at the rate of twelve
and one-half miles per second. A part
Of this change OF velocity since 1896
may be due to a change In the posi-
tons OF the orbits OF the binary sys-
tenn, but the most OF 1t must have been
produced by the attraction of a third
body on the two bodies composing the
four-day system. The period OF the
revolution OF the binary system around
the center Of gravity OF itself and the
third body Is not known, but is prob
ably many years. Both companions OF
Polaris are invisible, but their ex-
istence is proved by the disturbances
which their attractions produce In the
motion OF Polaris.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
Friday, November II.

Lincoln's new auditorium is about
half completed. 1t will be a strong
and substantial building, and conven.
lent for the purposes for which It is
intended.
In the suit of Mrs. w. o. Hambel OF
Fairbury against the Rock Island for
damages, the plaintiff was awarded
1900, the full amount of the petition.
Her husband was killed in the Rock
Island wreck south of Lincoln several
years ago. The case was appealed.
A fight over the question of incor-
poration is taking place in Monroe,
and the village is divided into two fac
tions for Or against the proposition.
Both sides have employed attorneys
and the indications are that the ques-
ton will not only be settled at the
polls but also in court.
The sale of the military. reserve at
Sidney brought $500, which cleans
up all that is left of the old fort, The
tract containing the officers quarters
was sold to Edgar NJ. Westerveldt of
Lincoln for 81, 1850. The balance went
TO the Union Pacific and to a resident
Of Sidney.
The proudest boy in Kearney last
week a little Frank Pulls, who had
received word of his appointment as
orderly" of the 10th U. S. volunteers
through the recommendation Of As
sistant Secretary Of VA Meiklejohn.
He left to join his regiment at San
Francisco. His brother Charles is first
lieutenant of Company A of the rcgi-
ment.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
To Maintain Martial Law.

A Madrid, November II telegram
says: At n cabinet council today Pre-
mier Silvela said the organized agita-
ton in the chamber of re-
garding financial projects was directed
not against the government. but
against the state, but the government
had decided to deal energetically with
them, and also with non-taxpaying
barcelona, where, he explained, the
situation was intolcrable. The gov
eminent intended to maintain martial
law until the normal conditions of cf-
fairs was csto blished.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

Ed Rooney, a packing house EN-
ployc from Cudahy's at South Omaha
while intoxicated fell down an area
way of the Oxford hotel and was taken
70 the police station in a badly used
up condition, with bloody face and in
jured back.
Supe; intendent Calvert Of the Bur
lington has devised a machine to assist
in loading ties on the tie carrier of the
Harris track laying machine, which IL
how In use on the Alliance extension.
The new device will prove of consider
chile value In the saving of the time
ordinarily required to do the work. IL
is being built in the shops at Lincoln
At Tekamah the Ease of the state of
Nebraska vs.. John Buoy and Martha
Ernest returned a verdict of not guilty.
Mr.. Buoy and Mrs. Ernest were in
dicted by the grand jury upon the
charge of fornifcation. Buoy is q
bachelor living on a farm near TIE.
kamah and Mrs. Ernest is his house.
keeper, and for some time gossip in
hat neighborhood has had IL that
they were living together as husband
and wife.
Several members of the state board
Of agriculture held a conference at
Lincoln with a committee from the
Commercial club regarding the fair,
which is to be held next year in Lin
coin. The last legislature located the
fair permanently at Lincoln. A thor
ough understanding was reached and
there is a strong probability that next
year the state fair and the street fair
will be merged. 1t will be what may
be termed a state-street fair, though
the name has not been determined
upon yet.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
Thursday, November Ia.

Anthony Joseph Dittmeyer, q ser.
geant In the marine corps, who served
on the cruiser Brooklyn when Cervera's
fieet was destroyed at Santiago, gave
himself up at st. Louis for murder
committed there in 1894.
Colonel Picquart has written a letter
to the French premier. NJ. waldcck-
Rousseau. asking for "a judicial inquiry
into the proceedings Of General Gonse
and NJ. Gribelin of the Archives bureau.
In connection with the Dreyfus case.
Judge Colt, in the United States
circuit court at Boston. decided that
an employe Of a railroad, injured while
riding on a pass given him by a cor
poration, even il it was q part compcn-
sation for his services, could not re-
cover damages.
a dispatch from New York states
that Mrs. Jane Stanford has sold all
OF her stock in the Southern Pacific TO
the Huntington-Spey syndicate. Her
holdings amounted to as5, 900 shares,
for which she received about $40 per
share, or sii 400, 900 for the whole,
Indirect news of the progress of the
Columbian revolution has been re-
ceived. November 10 General Anaza
met the rebels in Piajo and routed
them after several hours Of fighting.
The enemy left numerous dead and
wounded. Amaza's loss was three
killed and six wounded.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
Friday, November II,

The Brooklyn sailed from Alden, q,
The mouth of the Red sea, for Manila
General Lucas Meyer, the Free
state commander, has asserted in the
course OF AN interview that he is con,
WINGED THAI the battle of Elandslaagte
will be the first and last Beer defeat
Of the year.
Bank Commissioner Briedenthal OF
Kansas states that an organized gang
OF bank robbers is abroad in Kansas.
and warns the bankers to guard their
vaults. Six banks have been wrecked
recently and all of the robbers have
escaped. Mr.. Br,edenthal says a0I
armed men are securing the country
surrounding Parker, in Linn county
pursuing the thieves who blew opcn
the bank vault there.
! dispatch from L~ourenzo MARQUES
says:
a November Is, 3 q. IN. special saws.
The absence of news of any serious
movement against Ladysmith seems to
show that the Beers ere repeating the
strategy adopted by them az Dundee,
when they appeared in front and en-,
deayored To effect n surrounding move,
meat. This seems to have been their
object regarding Estcourt. and since /,
IS impossible that relief should reach
there fsr some days TO come it is no,
UNLIKELY that a further retiring move.
nsnt of Mooi river VIII be made.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
SANDoW ON EXERCISE.
lays Dumbbeii Practice, 10 Not Overdons,
IL the Proper Thing.

SIS
"Dumbbell practice gives strength to
every sinew, from the finger tips to the
elbow. from the top Of the head to the
sole OF the foot" Sandow, the strong
man. said In a recent interview. ''The
young can be kept In perfect health,
and older people are helped and i'm
proved even when suffering any all
ment which appears to them to be
quite hopeless. but. of course, great
a r must be taken not to overdo the
practising. and 1t rs wiser to increase
b number OF movements very grad
ually and not on any account to get
overtired at frst." he advised. But he
does state most emphatically that
dumbbell exercises, taken In modera-
ton, give grace and suppleness to the
figure and that perfect ease to the car
rage that m from having the mus
cles under control. He makes a strong
point OF an easy beginning. which does
not expect too much at FIRST. but gains
strength by degrees. Such exercise
sends the blood through the veins with
new life, which gives pleasure and 10Y
to every individual.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
Saturday. November rs.

A match between Jim Jeffries. the
champion heavyweight pugilist. and
Jim Corbett, ex-champion. has been
arranged between Corbett personally
and W. a. Brady for Jeffries. The ar
ticles will be signed next Tuesday.
Jeffries will have the fixing Of the date
Of the bout.
Maurice Meehan. who is an inmate
of the Morgan county. Missouri, poor
house. has fallen heir to $50, 900, which
vas b~equeathed him by his son. will
liam Meehap, who went to the Black
Hills in 1879 from Louisiana, Mo-.
where he was then living, and who
was very successful in prospecting.
A Victoria, Il. C.. November Il dis
patch says: According to advices from
the orient, brought by the steamship
Empress of China. the difficulty aris-
ing out Of the Masampo affair is evil
IDENTIFY far from adjusted. AS Masampo
lies in n commanding position between
Fusen and Tsushima, and as it is OF
immense Importance from a strategical
point of view, Russia is anxious to
keib pSH,ENoioh VI ~ W hNt ds a. nuNul
base connecting V~ladivostock and Port
Arthur.
Chicago, November is special says:
Carrying out a plot he had apparently
planned with d~eliberation. Cornelius
Corcoran shot four of his children.
killing two of them and ending his owp
life. The police are convinced the
man was insane. For some days he
had plotted for the death of his chill
dren and he nearly accomplished his
purpose Tuesday night. Hearing the
children cough he arose and in the
dark administered laudanum to five of
them. He failed in this, and his act
of today followed.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
Tuesday, November 2i.

r. Z. Cassell was burned to death in
a house nj Oquawka, ILL.,, which was
set on fire by the overturning Of a lamp
during a drunken row.
Work on the new Grand Island
foundry, to replace the Lykke foundry,
which burned some weeks ago, has be-
gun. 1t will be q brick structure.
The Nebraska Woman Suffrage As
ISOLATION will hold it's eighteenth an
nual meeting at Lincoln Tuesday and
Wednesday, November 2s and 90, in tho
senate chamber of the capitol building.
The beginning of the end of the trans.
Mississippi and Greater American Ex-
position buildings is on in earnest. On
Tuesday morning the Chicago Wreck
ing company put about 100 men to
work in addition to those started pre-
viously, and it will continue to put on
men until two or more gangs Of men
are engaged on every building.
The officers Of the York county ag-
ricultural society paid out their own
good money in expenses of this years
fair and the county board rejected
their claim. At Saturdays meeting
they reconsidered and allowed the
claim of $3.50. IS, and passed a rcsolu-
ton to not vote an appropriation for
1900, and i~nstructing the county attor-
ney to commence legal proceedings to-
wards a dissolution of the society.
Frank Kaura, a Bohemian farmer,
who resided three miles southwest of
M~arsland, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat with a razor. Kaura
recently purchased a farm about six
miles from his home and went there
alone with a razor and revolver for the
purpose of taking his life. Kaura was
quite w~ell-to-6o. He leaves u wife and
four children. Family trouble and
financial reverses are said TO be tho
cause of his rash act.
A Hastings telegram says: There Is
no longer any doubt that MI. +. @.
Larned win from the injuries
he received by jumping through a
coach window of a west-bound flyer
when it was going fifty miles an hour.
The first accident due TO football
playing in Fremont occurred Monday
afternoon. In the game between
school boys on the west school grounds
Fred kuehl got his right leg broken
above the knee. The leg was set and
the boy is doing fairly we'll at present.
All the boys in both teams seemed to
have piled on the injured lad at an un-
fortunate moment,
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
International arbitration is not SC

International arbitration Is not so
new an idea 70 some suppose. On
six different occasions between 1887
and 1858 congress has entertained pc
titions and memorials on the subject
from peace societies and bodies of citi-
gems In New England. New York and
Virginia. Even the cars proposal for
a congress Of nations in the interest
OF peace was anticipated by resolu-
,ions adopted by the Legislature OF
Massachusetts,, In 1874. and similar
action was taken by the legislature OF
Vermont in 1853. DIR. Franklin's ar
dent wish that the nations of the earth
might ind some more reasonable
method OF settling disputes than by
cutting each others throats" must
have been cherished by many friends
OF humanity long before his day.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

The Boston Globe says that Laureate
Alfred Austin is struggling hard to
earn his salary. 1t might DE added
that the public is struggling hard to
resign Itself to Mr.. Austin's method OF
struggling.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
Monday. Noyemher 20.

Governor Poynter has decided to re-
turn s2.660 constituting a surplus in
the fund created by subscription to
bring the First Nebraska boys home
on a special train. He will commence
at the bottom of the subscription list.
The postoffices at Newman Grove,
Peru and Oxford, Neb., will be ad-
vanced to the presidential class Janu-
airy ], with the salaries Of the post
masters at 81. 100, $1,000 and 81, 800 per
annum, respectively.
At Omaha. Neb.. November IS, after
a prolonged hearing before Judge Bax-
ter of the Douglas county court, DIR.
Matthew Donahue, osteopath. was set
free today on the charge of practictng
without a certificate
Saturday morning, November IS, at
0 o'clock. at Washington, ID. c., the
much-talked-of marriage Of Senator
John NJ. Thurston and Miss Lola Pur-
man was solemnized at the residence
of the brides parents, DIR. Frank NJ.
Bristol of the Methodist church oficiat.
ing. DIR. Bristol at one time occupied
the pulpit of the First Methodist
church Of Omaha, Neb., and is a warm
friend of Senator Thurston. The wed.
ding ceremony was attended only by
the immediate relatives Of the con
tracing parties and E. c. Snyder.
George Ludwig committed suicide by
hanging at his home at South Lincoln
Saturday morning at about o o'clock.
He was alone at the house at the time,
having sent a small boy who lived with
him to a store, and the evidence indi-
Gates that he went at the preparatory
work deliberately. The hanging was
in one of the rear rooms Of the house.
He had cut away the plastering and
lath from the ceiling and tied a three
quarter inch rope over the rafter. A.
ter tying his feet together with a strap
he tied the moose around his neck,
climed upon a table that he had
placed in the right position, made the
rope fast and stepped off the table.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

Tod" Sloan has now distinguished
himself by t%hrashing two French Jock
eys with his walking stick. AT M
rate this is reputable than
French pugilism.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

The average man would be satisfied
~ he could only get the earth. but
Alexander the Great wanted to get up
q collection.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24
a Pastors idea.

When asked What's a layman?" a
pastor replied: "one who lays things
upon his pastor which he himself
ought to do."-Riehmond Religious
Herald.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

An actress may be welded 10 her
art, but she usually acquires more
than n husband during her career.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

II is easy enough to be economical
when you have plenty with which to
economize.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

A married man would have more
money IL his pockets were as hard to
find Is are those OF his wife.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

Some people 20 through life looking
rs II they were sorry they had ever
started.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

It is considered a deadly Insult to
tell q Bostonian that he doesn't know
beans.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

Good fortune seldom travels around
la an automobile looking for you.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

A mans mind sometimes runs TO the
eontrary-a woman's always does.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

II sometimes happens that a mans
opportunity is his misfortune.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

Money talks, bu, It MYERS WITH
only the few.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

Clam chowder is often productive OF
Vie deepest melancholy.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-11-24

The sleeping infant should always b
placed on the retired list.