The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-22
IN GENERAL.

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Venezuelan situation as critical.
A bust OF ex-Speaker Reed is being
executed In bronze for the Maine legis-
lature.
The war department has chartered
the steamer Dublin. which will carry
$50 animals To Manila.
General Miles has accepted IN invi-
tation to act az marshal OF the Dewey
parade at Washington, ID. g.
In the past eighteen months Presi-
dent Mckinley has been the victim OF
Gamers fiends over three thousand
times.
An insane merchant of Berlin named
Herman Bordasch has been arrested
at a hotel In Leipsic for threatening
TO kill the king Of Saxony.
Mayor Buck Of Portland, Me-, "A gen.
tleman 10 years Of age, has Just COM
pleted the feat OF walking to the sum
NIT OF Mount Washington, N. H., and
back again.
The owner OF Stonehenge. the old
Druid monument IN Salisbury plain,
threatens to sell II to the highest bid.
der unless the British government VIII
give him s625, 600 for Il.
The directors of the Mergenthaler
Linotype company has declared the
regular quarterly dividend OF "a per
cent and an extra dividend Of 2M per
cent payable September 20.
Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens. son
Of the novelist, has been appointed a
rabbit inspector by the New South
Wales government. He was formerly
q member OF the colonial parliament.
Experiments are about to begin In
Louisiana for the manufacture Of paper
from refuse sugar cane. Paper made
from sugar cane should be In great re-
quest for the correspondence OF sweet
hearts.
The house In which General Sherman
died In New York, has been sold by the
heirs for about $35, 900. 1t IL situated
on West Seventy first street, and was
purchased by the general q year before
his death.
A platform car recently completed
at the Boston Il Maine railroad shops,
In Salem. Mass. has n carrying capaci-
ay OF 100000 pounds. 10000 pounds
more than any other q on the road.
II is thirty-two feet long.
The celebrations of Old Home week In
New Hampshire towns were 80 sue
cessful this year. the first Of Its OBJ
~servance, that they are likely to be
repeated annually hereafter, though
the date may be changed.
Smallpox spread In Altoona. Pa. and
the town board Of health ordered the
killing of all dogs and cats In infected
houses, that they might not distribute
the germs OF the disease. The bodies
of the animals were burned.
One Of Pension Commissioner Evans
critics recently accused that official OF
having a literary bureau" Mr.. Evans
replied emphatically: Yes. ! have,
and II consists of every reputable
newspaper in the United States."
The wooden belfry of famous Faneuil
hall, Boston, has been replaced by one
exactly similar Of iron, and II ~ hopeS
that the work of altering and strength
ening the historic building will ue
completed by the middle of september.
A hearing In the action wf the state
Of New York to recover 81, 500, 900 In
penalties from Armour q Co., OF h
cago, for violating the anti-oleomai-
game laws, was to have been held In
Albany yesterday. 1t was adjourned
until September 20.
Theodore Tilton, who spends his time
between Paris and London, has lost
none of his aptness for repartee. The
other day a friend asked him when II
Is a man begins TO feel old. He replied
at once: "Ill tell you when. II ID
when he is a sophomore In college"
T~wenty-eight head OF specially fed
Aberdeen-Angus cattle. 2-year-olds
raised In Indiana. near Terre Haute
by John McFall, sold In Chicago Sep
TENDER 6 at $685., the highest price
paid for cattle there since Christmas
1892, and the highest in September
since 1884.
The peculiar disease from which the
car is said to be suffering Ii known al
aphasia, and In plain English Is usint
one word when another Is meant. II
his majesty wants his hat and can't
remember the word that" he asks FOL
something else. and he In unable Il
recollect the meaning of words wher
he reads them.
The report reaching Texas from
York that Charles ID. Loving has made
his big cattle syndicate with $40. 900 .O0'
capital stock a success awakens much
interest In cattle circles, inasmuch al
there is some opposition to the pro
posed syndicate among cattle men
Those of Indian territory and Kansas
II is said, will join with the Texas cat
tie men In fighting Lovink's syndicate
making probable a temporary reduc
ton In the price OF meet on the hoof