The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-28

maica and Bermuda went over, but the
formal execution is expected to take
place within u few days.
Friday, July FL.
Secretary Alger has approved the
plans for q building for the refrigcr-
ator plant at Manila.
The Franco-American reciprocity
negotiations may not matcrialiZc. But
three more days remain TO complete
the negotiations.
General Otis thinks the worst Of the
floods in the Philippines are over. lie
says the barometer is rising, indicat-
ing improved weather conditions.
The president has heard the plans of
commissions General Peck relative to
the government exhibit at the Paris
exposition and has signifed his hearty
approval.
Brigadier-General Thomas NJ. An
derson, now in this country. thinks
the war could have been finished with
his WI division, had he been allowed
to push 70 rward.
A battle is reported at Bobong be-
tween $50 Babalones and seventy
Americans. The enemy's loss was lis
killed, many wounded and one cap
tured. The Americans lost one killed
and n wounded.
Senator Fairbanks has new ideas Of
the Alaskan boundary question and
extented conferences have been held
with Secretary Hay and the president,
and dispatches exchanged between the
British and Canadian authorities and
those at Washington.
The war department today made
public a telegram from the president
to General Otis, thanking the men in
the Philippines for their patriotism In
remaining in service after the ratihca-
ton OF the treaty OF peace. Tie mes
sage is dated July /.
An order has been issued in the Phil
ippines relating to practice before the
courts and substituting the American
for the Spanish system. Members Of
the bar must be citizens of the island.
Americans are eligible to practice at
the bar. Citizens OF foreign govern
ments are ineligible.
Saturday, July e2.
Troop !, Third U. s.. cavalry, now
stationed at TT. Sheridan, has been or
dered to the Philippines.
VIM. A. Bowman, John II. Eich and
Axel Wage, mail carriers at Omaha,
have been promoted from $500 to 81 900.
The United States transport Indiana
arrived at San Francisco from Manila
with 1856 sick and wounded soldiers on
board.
The deportation of eighteen Hun
garians, who recently landed in this
country and went Immediately to Rath-
bun, Ia, to work in the coal mines,
has been ordered.
Nebraska postmasters appointed to-
day: Coleridge, Cedar county, Owen
G. Richie, vice II. u. Wilson, removed;
Gering, SCOTS Bluff county, Asa b..
Wood, vice +. Wright, removed.
Sunday, July ga.
Assistant Secretary Meiklcjohn has
returned from IN inspection of engine
work on Fox river, Wis.
Hon. Elihu Root, who Is to succeed
Secretary Alger, will confer with the
president respecting the duties of his
new office.
Dewey gave n banquet an board the
Olympia to United States Minister to
Austria Addison G. Harris. Dewey Is
still Mt Trieste.
Italy is satisfied that the United
States will prosecute vigorously all
who were concerned in the lynching
of Italians at Tallula, La.
The president has rendered the war
portfolio to Elihu Root, o New York
lawyer. 1t is understood Root will
accept and that Meiklejohn will be re-
tanned as assistant.
The president has issued his procla-
nation declaring the ter ms of the
reciprocity treaty between the United
States and Spain. Under this conven-
ton Portugal secures reductions on
wines and spirits, while the United
States secures concessions in duties on
cereals, flour, lard, etc.
Tuesday, July eS.
Miss Mary Morgan, teacher at the
Fond du Lac Indian school, Wisconsin,
a been transferred to the Santee
school, Nebraska.
In answer to an appeal for more
nurses In the Philippines, nine trained
nurses will leave at once for the Phil
ippines.
General Anderson says he was mis-
quoted yesterday. He says no one
could tell how long predatory warfare
would last.
II Is well known that the treasury
officials at Washington favor the
Lloyd-Lonn site for the public building
at Hastings.
The committee in charge Of the re-
ception of Admiral Dewey is free to
proceed, having received a cablegram
from the admiral stating his approval
Of the reception.