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The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
HI NEWS IN BRIEF

Ten inches of snow fell at Pecos,
Tex.
Fire at Florence, s. c., caused q loss
of &i50,0OO.
Sharp earthquake shocks were ex,
perienced in parts Of Germany.
The steamship Southworth, sailing
from New York, will take out 449, 00t
eunees Of silver.
Senator Mason claims to have re,
ceived hundreds Of kilograms indoors
ing his pro-Boer resolutions.
Senator Hanaa win distribute 81, 0oC
in Christmas presents to his street
railway employees.
The transport Thomas, which sailed
with the Forty-seventh regiment OF
board from New York November 2
for Manila, has arrived at Singapore.
The Isthmian canal commission a
Washington has been informed tina
Assistant Engineer Charles ii. Stock
ton died at Greyton. December IL, o
typhoid fever.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
IVA ~SeEantIni.

Giovanni Segantini, the celebrated
landscape painter, whose death was re-
Gently announced, was engaged on a
panorama of the Alps, a colossal
work, for the Paris exhibition. His
early life was singularly romantic. He
was born in 1858 at Arco, In the Tyrol,
on a slope of the Alps overlooking
Italy. His mother died when Giovanni
was Ave years old, and his father hand
ed him over to the charge OF a sister
at Milan. He ran away when he vas
seven years OF age and SCI out on a
long tramp to Paris. One evening he
was found exhausted by fatigue and
hunger, and was taken compassion on
by some farm people, and set out to
look after the pigs. He delighted In
this pastoral life, and like Giotto he
began drawing his humble companions
on pieces OF stone and slate. This was
the beginning Of his career as al artist.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
Fatal Array In Ksntucky.

News has reached Knoxville, KY, of
n double murder in the coal section of
Kentucky, just north of Jcllico. Paul
kinlkaid, an aged man, his son and
several other men engaged in a card
game, when q quarrel arose. Tn ell
der kinkaid graspcd a shotgun and
fired both barrels. One discharge de-
capitated his son and the other in
stantly killed another man, whose
name is unknown. Kinkaid resided at
Newcomb, Tenn. He escaped and has
not yet been captured.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
THE OMAHA BANK CASE
It's Reversal Gives the State mother
Chance to Collect.

The reversal and demanding Of the
suit OF the state against the Omaha
National bank by the supreme court
gives the state another chance to re-
cover S?01 ,ss4. the amount which was
drawn from the bank on a warrant
that was intended to reimburse the
sinking fund of the state for a loss
that occurred when the Capital Nation
al bank of Lincoln closed. The war
rant was disposed of by State Treas
nrer BARLEY and was presented to the
Omaha bank by the Chemical National
bank of New York. The state con-
tends that the Omaha bank should not
have cashed the warrant and having
done SO must make good the loss to the
state. The Omaha bank was a state
depository at the time. In the district
court of Douglas county n jury decided
that the state did not have a cause of
action. The state took the case to the
supreme court.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
SOLDIERS REMAINS
Bodies Of Nebraska Dead to Be
Brought Home.
UNDERTAKES NOW IN PHILIPPINES
viii Locate. Disinter and ship to United
states All Soldiers Buried In Philip
pines-The Date OF Their Ar
Yival Is Not Now Knoys

Adjutant General Barry has received
the following reply from William s.
Patton, quartermaster Of the United
States army, in answer to a request for
information regarding the return of
the remains of Nebraska soldiers from
the Philippines and Honolulu:
"A corps of undertakers departed
from San Francisco, CAL, on October
25, 1899, for the purpose of locating,
disinterring and shipping to this coun-
try the remains of all soldiers buried
in the Philippine islands. and il is ex-
pectcd that those buried at Honolulu,
II. l.. will also be exhumed and sem to
San Francisco, Cal, when the corps of
undertakers reaches that point on the
return trip.
'If practicable, IL Is intended to
complete the work by the close of the
winter, but the exact date Of arrival
OF any bodies cannot, at this time, be
determined. Applicants for remains
will be notified by telegraph from San
Francisco when received there, and
shipment promptly made by express to
destination desired, at government ex-
pense. Unclaimed remains will be re-
inferred in the national cemetery at
the Preside of San Francisco.
The election of First Lieutenant X.
Il. Andrews to be captain of compa ny
A, Kearney, has been approved. First
Sergeant II. Hugh Sydenham was
elected first lieutenant.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
Pension FOR Mrs. I.awton.

Senator Fairbanks Thursday intro.
duced q bill granting a pension Of 81, OOo
a year to the widow Of General Lawton.
Representative Lands of Indiana in
troduced a similar bill in the house.
Mr.. Lands represents the district from
which Lawton's first regiment was re-
cruitcd.
Senator Fairbanks saw the president
today in regard to the return of Gen.
eral Lawton's body to the United States.
The senator suggested that the funeral
be given something Of q national affair.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
fNDOF BITl[RfN'
An incorporation Follows
Struggle at Monroe.
EDITOR {. A. GERARD IS DIFtATfD
Question OF Incorporation Before h
People of the village Two Months
News Gathered From Various
Towns In Nebraska, Etc.

The question of Incorporating the
village of Monroe has been settled in
favor of the party for Incorporation.
This question has been wagcd bitterly
for two months. The opposition was
led by Editor Il. A. Gerard and the re-
suit to him was the wrecking OF his
newspaper plant. The matter was
taken before the board Of supervisors
and was argued by attorneys for both
factions. The first trustees OF the viii
lage of Monroe have been named as
follows: q. l.. Humphrey, Il. q. Strath-
er, Garrett %lIulst, c. w. H~allinghcad
and w. +. Cole.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
CAUSES UNIVERSAL SORROW
Americans ut Manila Gricvs Over Gen.
LAwton's Death.

hmoriChnS NJ mhntih Sricvo over Gen.
Lawton's Death.
Major General Lawton's body was
brought to Manila Wednesday after
noon, his staff and a squadron Of cav
airy affording an escort. It was found
necessary to bridge the river. The
funeral will take place from his late
residence Mt Manila, u mansion former
ly occupied by a Spanish general. The
body has been temporarily placed in n
vault in III Paco cemetery, where many
Of the Americans have been Inferred.
and a guard of honor will be main
tanned.
When Mrs. Lawton and her four
children shall have completed their
arrangements for returning to the
United States the remains will be
taken on a transport with an escort of
officers for final i%nterment, as is
thought probable here, in Arlington
cemetery.
General Lawton's death has caused
universal sorrow in Manila. No
American officer had greater popn-
lnrity among all ranks, and in his
dealings with the natives he COM
handed their respect and confidence
to n remarkable degree. The mayors
whom he installed in the ncighboriug
towns are arranging TO attend the
funeral in a body.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
\ MILLION A DAY.
LARGE GAIN m IMPORTS FROM
NEW POSSESSIONS.
Total for Ten Months s2sO,G2s,s7i-
Trade Possibilities Awaiting Tropical
Territories Supplying Our Market
Send Little to Them.

The commercial possibilities which
await the tropical island territories
which have come into closer relation
ship with the United States during the
past year in supplying a permanent
and growing market in this country
are suggested by a compilation made
by the treasury bureau on statistics OF
the importation of tropical and sub
tropical products into the United
States during ten months OF the prcs-
ent year, compared with that of tho
corresponding months of the preced-
Ing year. This importation amounts
to the surprisingly large sum Of $780,
624,S71, during the 300 days in ques-
ton, or an average of over 81 900 900
for each business day of the year,
showing that for the full year the total
will reach more than $500, 600, 900. For
the same period in the preceding year
the total was $216, SSS, 455. The COM
pilation. includes raw silk, tea and rice,
and the small proportion OF our sugar
importations, which is manufactured
from beets; but even IL these be omit
ted, the total which would be clearly
entitled to be classed as tropical prod
ucts would exceed $3.50, 900, 900 annual
ly. Sugar, coffee, Indian rubber, fibers.
tropical fruits and nuts, cocoa, tobac-
co OF the finer grades, spices, gums,
indigo, dyewoods and cabinet woods
form the important features of this
large importation. and all of them
articles for which the United States
is absolutely dependent, with the pos
sible exception Of sugar, upon other
parts OF the world, and for the present
at least for the large proportion of our
sugar or our sugar importations in
the ten months Just ended, Cuba has
furnished $50, O00, 900 pounds, other
West Indies 5l4, OOO, 900 pounds, the
Hawaiian Islands 53i, 900, 900 pounds,
The Philippine islands 50, 200, goo
pounds. while the East Indies have in
the present year furnished q larger
share OF our sugar importations than
any other single part OF the world,
the total number OF pounds from the
East Indies alone being for the ten
months ending with October, 1,07S,-
9O7, 54S out of a total Of 3,767, 756.9Sl
pounds. Coffee, of which our impor-
tations are growing constantly and
rapidly, amounting to about $50, O00, 900
pounds annually, as against an aver
nge OF about $50, 900 900 pounds in the
earlier years of the decade, is success
fully grown in all of the islands in
question. and, at one time, was a very
important crop in Cuba, as well as at
present In Porto Rico. Hawaii and the
Philippines. Fiber, OF which the I'm
p%ortations in the present year will
amount to 500, 900 900 in value, can
readily be grown in all of the islands.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
OLD NEBRASKA FREIGHTERS
state Historical Society will Hear OF
the Prairie ~Schooners.

The annual meeting of the Nebraska
state historical society for 1900 will "
held at the chapel of the state univef,
sity on the evenings Of January . and
10 at 7:3O. 1t is desired that all inter
ested in old overland freighting will
attend, on Wednesday especially,
bringing all old maps Of freighting
routes with them. The program for
Tuesday evening, January 0, lis as fol-
lows:
Presidents annual address, j. Ster-
ling Morton, Nebraska City.
THE State Republican Convention
of 1870, and Incidents of that Cam
paign; II Character sketch of Governor
Butler DR.. J.. j. Abbott, South
Omaha.
Ex-senator Thomas W. Upton"
Robert w. Furnas. Brownyille.
Hon. Champion 5. Chase" Clement
G.. Chase. Omaha.
Our First Settlement of Nebraska"
David Anderson, South Omaha.
Pioneer Days in Boone County,"
John Turner, Indianola.
Wednesday evening, January 10. will
be old freighters' evening. Reminis-
ccnces will be given by Eugene Mum,
University Place; William Fulton, Kan
sas City; II. NJ. Rolfe, Nebraska City;
Thomas j. Majors, Peru. This will be
followed by ten minute talks by old
freighters present. A business meet
ing will close the session.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
Scarlet Fever Epidsnic.

The scarlet fever epidemic which
made its appearance in Columbus sew
eral weeks ago, is still prevalent and Is
the cause of considerable apprehension.
Mrs. William Newman, the wife Of q
farmer living three miles west Of town,
is seriously Ill with the disease and sew
eral children show symptoms of 1t.
This family lost a child last week and
the mother contracted the disease while
engaged in its care. Four children of
Thomas Noon are also down with 1t.
The afflicted families are being kept
under the strictest quarantine.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
Servo Notice Of CONTEXT.

A special from Frankfort, KY, says:
In accordance with the decree of the
democratic state central committee,
executive and campaign committees ut
their joint meeting last Thursday, no.
tice Of contests against Governor
Taylor and Lieutenant Governor Mar
shall were served Thursday By the
sheriff in behalf OF Gocbel and Beach
man. The grounds set forth are the
same as those advocated by the at
torneys for the democratic candidates
before the state board of elections.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29

The synod OF a southern church has
ecently asserted Its opposition to pub.
tic prayer, preaching or church Office
holding by women. IL did not pro-
nounce against their singing In Sun.
day school! Probably II had nevc:
heard OF a brave little woman In an
adjoining state who. in a rapidly set.
tied oil town, gathers, each Sunday,
representatives OF ten sects. builds the
fire In the schoolhouse. rings the bell
and prays and talks with the miners
and their families. One idiot boy
walked ten miles to get her to give
Christian burial to a baby he was fond
OF, and while he led the procession.
carrying a sheaf Of wild flowers over
his shoulder, she walked up and down
the steep hills. behind the rude cart
the mother drove, steadying the rough
little coffin. Truly Of such. lin public
or pr%ivate--is the kingdom of heaven.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29

BY means of the electrical discharge.
from steel wires attached to taillesi
kites Of the Eddy type William A
Eddy. the kite expert, believes he ha,
proved that a storms location can ID
determined, whether It be In the east
ern or western hemisphere. A recent
experiment made by Mr.. Eddy a,
Bayonne, N. j., showed the intensity
and direction OF a storm several hun
bred miles north of Chicago. Mr.
Eddy, as a result OF this investigation
believes that the moment storm,
gather, either In Manitoba or Siberia
the great storm lncubators. they can
be instantly detected in New York
John Milne, the earthquake expert
can tell the instant m earthquake oc.
ours, whether 1t is in Hawaii, Indis
or Mexico. Mr.. Eddy proposes to dc
the same with storm centers. Eddy,
discovery means not only that a mari
ner can determine the atmosphere,
condition of his course before leavlni
port, but that while en- route he car
detect and steer clear OF severe storms
1t also means the elimination Of sucl
losses OF life as recently depcpulatet
Porto Rico, because the inhabitant
could be warned long before such
storm's approach and could prepare I,
fight II.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
FACTORY READY TO START
Amss Beet Sugar Factory Begins Work
With the New Ycar.

The Standard Beet Sugar company
of Ames has lately been furnishing the
Norfolk factory with enough beets to
run on, but has now shut off all ship
ments and will work the balance of the
crop itself, the factory being now
about completed. Ecets will be run
through the factory in a few days to
test the machinery i nd about the day
after New Years the company will
start taking in beets. A great many,
bcets have been shipped out OF the dis
trict, as the company was anxious to
relieve those who feared the risk of
holding their product. The supply
will, however, run the Ames factory
about three months.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
College building Burus,

The main building of Buchtel college
at Akron, o., including all laboratories,
library, mems and women's dormitor-
les, was burned to the ground. The
fire stated in the mems dormitory
about 5 o'clock and spread to the other
portions Of the building rapidly. Much
of the personal property of the students
and a large number of valuable books
from the library were saved. The loss
is fully 500, 900, with S65, 900 insurance.
1t is probable that the college will be
rebuilt at once.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
Railroad to Make q Test.

Wireless telegraphy in railroad SER
vice is to be given II practical test by
the Ann Arbor line, says q Chicago
dispatch. A contract between the
railroad company and the Marconi
company has been closed and arrange
ments for installing the new system
will begin at once. The system will
be used in connection with Ann Arbor's
ferry line between Frankfort and Me-
nominee. The distance across Lake
Michigan between these points is about
eighty-three miles.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
LYNCH A NEGRO MURDERER
Mob Of Miners In Pennsylvania shoe
Him to Death.

"'h "" osNtus
Sanford White, superintendent of con.
.struction of the w. j. Rainey Coke
company Mt Dunbar, Pa, was shot and
killed by David Pierce, a colorcd err.
ployc. Pierce then fed to the noun.
tains. followed by an angry mob. lie
was discerncd in hiding and riddlcd
with bullets.
The trouble began with a quarrel
between Pierce and Richard Cunning
ham, superintendent of the Mount
Vernon works over a question of work.
White interfcred in behalf of Cunning
ham, when the negro drew n revolver
and fired, the ball penetrating Whites
abdomen, making a fatal wound.
Immediately after firing Pierce ran
for his life, with more than 900 persons
in hot pursuit. lie was chased for
more than two miles before his pur-
sucrs came within shooting distance.
but as soon a they did he was made
the target for n shower of bullets. He
fell with seven wounds through his
body and died in a short time.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
DR.. r. 9. George Bound Over.

DIR. =. S. George Of Lincoln, who was
arrested at Table Rock for practicing
medicine without the requisite diploma,
in his examination at Pawnec City, in
Judge Belongs court, was held to APP
pear at the next term Of the district
court Of Pawnee county, his bond being
fixed at $500. Ii. w. Hays and Henry
Keeper, of that vicinity becoming his
bondsmen.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29

Mrs. Jack" Gardner is demUnstrat-
ing anew her right to be considered the
leader Of Boston society. She Is now
importing an Italian palace stone by
stone to rebuild 1t In 1.-The Hub as a
home for the works Of art she has col
lected. Mrs. Gardner has for years
been so closely identified with Boston
social distinction as to be generally
regarded as society's queen-and the
queen. of course, can do no wrong.
People not close to the throne. how
ever. may be inclined to regard Mrs.
Gardeners action as snobbish, "
though Enthusiastically BostOnian.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29

A Chicago justice has thrown out OF
court the suit brought by a fortune.
teller who used her mystic arts to win
a wife for q bashful client and was
then unable to collect her usual fee.
The Justices decision may be de-
plored as calculated to cast ~obloquy
upon the ancient arts of prophecy and
magic. but will be honored and up
held by all persons who believe that
Cupid should do his work alone with
out the supernuous and e%xtraneous as.
%sistance OF outside parties.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
Tho Mission OF Language.

II is the mission Of language and
literature in education to bring young
individual life into accord with the
molds of historical life, says President
Benjamin Ide Wheeler in the Atlantic.
Mind Is expanded in the molds OF
mind; not in the lifeless geometric
cells of logic and reasoning, but in the
life cells shapen to contain the prod
ucts OF the sOul-the whole, the living
soul. The practically logical mind is
a healthy, well-nourishing mind
nothing more OF less. Such mind Is
produced by feeding 1t during the
years of development upon healthy
normal food. not upon the embalmed
food Of the logicians or the chemists.
The Chinese m~andarins trained upon
language and innocent Of pure logic
are said to be the keenest practical
lOgicians in the world. The forms of
reasoning, indeed, to which a child
Is stimulated in catching the meanings
of sentences OF the mother speech, or
which a boy uses in making out the
meaning of q sentence In his Caesar
from the imperfect data Of words and
syntax, are the forms of contingent
reasoning which are almost exclusive
ly employed in the decisions and judg-
ments of actual life. Men who pretend
to regulate their lives according to
well-constructed syllogisms-and IL
must be p%retensc or self-deception, for
there are no such syllogisms in life
are generally regarded as impossible
men. They are what are polite;y
Inown as cranks.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
HAS LIVED A FULL CENTURY
OctoeenarlA, OF lows who Is sim Hale
and Hearty.

Noah Brockwood Bacon, Of Des
Moines, Ia, last Tuesday celebrated
his conclusion OF a century of life. The
o~ctogenarian club of the city called on
him in a body, including several gen
tlemen from out of town. Mr.. Bacon
read an original poem by himself, com
posed for the occasion. lie is hale and
hearty, possessing all his faculties. II
he lives until January 1, Of which
there is no doubt, he will have lived in
three centuries, provided the new ce n
tury begins then-and the Octogcnari-
ans are planning a great reception for
him. in which all the pioneers and aged
people of the city will take part.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29

The state superintendent OF public
schools in Nebraska has decided that
Tho Bible may be read in the public
schools. The matter was laid before
him In a case from Gage county,
Nhere one family wanted the teacher
enjoined from using tho book, al
though all others favored 1t. In his de.
cision Mr.. Jackson said: There
seems to be nothing In the laws Of Ne
braska that would prevent the simple
reading OF the Bible In our public
schools. l am OF the opinion that In
this enlightened age and Christian
land the public school teacher ought
not to be deprived of reading the Bible
or OF repeating the Lords prayer"
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29

The government, says a London dis.
patch, has al last consented to mobil-
lie q force of ten thousand mounted
infantry, a force which General Butler
Is credited with having demanded all
along as essential to success in South
Africa.
The war Office has issued an order to
the effect that the government has de-
cided To raise for South Africa q
mounted infantry force, to be called
the Imperial yeomanry," andto be re-
crulted from ~yeomanry, volunteers anC
civilians. Enlistments will be for one
year, or during the continuance of the
wac.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
Must Justify the Advance.

Opposition on the part of shippers
everywhere to the abolition Of commod-
ity rates on January l and a change in
the classification, which will be equiv
alent to a general advance in rates of
from 10 to so per cent, says an Omaha
dispatch, has resulted in the interstate
commerce commission summoning the
traffic officials to appear in Washington
next Thursday and justify the contem.
plated advance.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29

II Senator W%elllngton's bill creating
the grade OF ~vice-admlral becomes a
law IL is said President Mckinley Will
settle the Sampson-Schley controversy
by appointing both to that rank. Per-
haps even then the contest will be re-
newed, as the president will neces-
sarily have to mention m Of the two
first. However, az this seems to be the
only way OF pouring oil on the naval
waters It is worth while to try the ex.
pertinent.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
Exposed 10 weather.

. William Costin of the Ware-Costin
Cattle company at Ogalalla, was thrown
from his horse while on his way home
from Paxton. He laid out in the cold
on the prairie all night. The next
morning he was found in an uncon-
scious condition and it is feared he can.
not ecover.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
Woman Badly Burned.

Mrs. Franz Marxmeyer, living near
West Point, was badly burned aTa
may die. Her clothing caught fS
Will, she was burning some smalr
feathers from some chickens. Her
husband was burned about the hands
and face in trying to rescue her.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
ExAsporatinr.

Chicago News: Quinn-~When wom-
IN imagine themselves wits they are a
nenace to the community. DeFonte-
You must have met some of late.
Quinn-Yes, my wife. sle asked me
II a sea horse WIS In any way related
70 q bay mare.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-12-29
Cubans are ID

Gen. Leonard Wood, the newly ap-
pointed governor general Of Cuba, ar
rived at Havana Thursday. Every
launch In the harbor, barges and row
boats were hired and decorated with
bunting. General Wood boarded a
'aunca supplied by the entertainment
committee while a salute of twenty
one rockets, each having American or
Cuban flags attached, was fired. Much
enthusiasm was manifested on every
side.