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The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
AFFAIRS OF STATE
EVENTS OF INTEREST TO
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Thnrsday, July 0.

Albert l.. Hall of Kearney. Neb., has
been granted a patent for a hame and
trace conncctor.
Between June 8 and July 9. liza men
were recruited at Chicago for service
in the Philippines.
j. w. +. Williams has been promoted
from 5000 to 81 900 in the treasury de-
p%artmcnt. lie is u Nebraskan.
The war department has received n
dispatch from Santiago stating that
Surgeon Clendcnnin died July 4 of
yellow fever.
The cruiser Newark. whose arrival
at Valparaiso, Chile, was noted yes.
terday, will proceed to Calloa, thence
northward to San Francisco.
j. II. Mcdowell. the representative
OF Supervising Architect Taylor, who
investigated the cites for the new pub.
lie buildings at Blair. Norfolk and
Hastings, Neb., has returned to Wash
inRton. Mr.. Mcdowell has all the in.
formation relative TO the various sites
in his possession, but he refuses TO
talk about his selections. lie saws he
Will begin on his report to the secre-
tary of the treasury and cannot give
ont any information in advance of
their presentation.
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Monday, July 10.

Secretary Alger has approved the
recommendations Of the board Of en-
gineers establishing harbor lines al
Seattle and Tacoma.
Minister jackson reports 10 the state
department that the North German
Gazette has made a semi-oficial denial
of the press report that the German
government intends to annex Bear
island near Spitzbcrgen.
A Manila dispatch conveys the infor-
nation that IL has been raining and
storming almost continuously for the
past several days and the country
along the American south and bay
lines Is literally flooded. The soldiers
are suffering great discomfort. The
Thirteenth infantry regiment at Pasay
Is in n bad position, being completely
surrounded by water. In many cases
the men are sleeping with three feet
of water beneath their hunks, which
are elevated on cracker boxes. The
company cooks, when preparing the
meals, stand knee deep in water. Ma
Mia bay is impossible of navigation
by either launches or canoes. The Y.
=. transport Centennial is ready to sail
for San Francisco with discharged sol
diers, but the latter have to sit around
the water front all day, drenched to
the skin, waiting for Il launch to take
them to n steamer.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
Wedr esday, July l..

The reciprocity treaty with Franco
is not yet completed.
The postofiice at Chadron, Ncb., is to
be removed to the postmaster's build
ing at AN annual rental of $500.
Daniel u. Hilbert has been appoint
ed industrial teacher and Erncs,inc T..
Hilbert matron ut the Santee Indian
school, Nebraska.
An order has been issued by the
president extending the privileges and
protection of the American tiag to the
shipping of Porto Rico and the Philip.
pines.
An order Of the war department per-
mits the Immediate family of a regu-
lar volunteer who is abroad to pur-
chase at cost prices fuel and subsis-
tence stores which are for the immc-
diate use OF the family.
BY direction of the president the
new military post neal Spokane, Wash,
has been named Fort Wright, in honor
of General George Wright, who vas
colonel of the Ninth infantry and u
brigadicr general of volunteers.
The war department announces that
the customs receipts at the port OF Ha-
vana for June were VI, 0la. 800. The
total receipts for six months of 1899
are, To he exact, S5,l46, $50. The month
ly average for six months is 1857, sos.
The secretary of agriculture has
been appealed to on behalf of the food
sufferers of Texas to send "A supply OF
corn for their use. lie has been com
PEELED to decline, as the department
has no appropriation for such a pur'
pose.
The secretary of the interior has Is.
sued formal directions to the commits
sioncr OF the general land Office to is
sue patents to the Union Pacific Rail
road company for all lands accruing tc
the old Union Pacific under it's grant,
This action is taken in accordance
with the foreclosure DEGREES of the
United States courts in Nebraska and
states further west and Is merely O
formal notification to the commission
err that the company is to have al
lands to which it is entitled under IL,
grants,
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Friday, July y.

Anna VI. Mcndcnhall. matron OF the
Santcc Indian school in Nebraska. has
been transferred to the Flandrcau
school of South Dakota as assistant,
matron.
The acting comptroller of the treas
ury has rendered IA decision that Rear
Admiral w. I. Sampson is not entitled
To the pay OF that grade from August
10, 1898, when lie was commissioned
by the president, to March 4 last.
The order for the enlistment OF vol.
unteers for the service in the philip-
pines was published yesterday. and
seven more colonies to command the
regiments were appointed. There are
As yet two colonies to be designated.
The war department has granted the
request OF the governor of Texas for
aid for food sufferers. Such govern.
ment boats as are available will be
placed at the disposition of the cover
nor and the rations asked for will be
issued at once
Ambassador Choatc and Lord Sails
bury are almost deadlocked over the
modus vivcndi fixing the Alaskan
boundary. Neither side will accent
The provisional line proposed by the
other. the Canadians demanding the
inclusion of their Porcupinc country
ana the americans the projection of
the boundary line northwesterly from
u pom, TWO miles above Kluekwah.
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Zig Copper Discovery.

TORONTO, Ont, July IL 1t is an
bounced that copper ore OF almost in
credible extent aud richness has been
found in the Parry sound district,
within about seven hours railway
distance OF Toronto. The discovery
was due practically to an American
mining expert named Forbes, who has
organized two companies, m COM
posed entirely Of St Paul capitalists
and the other composed of Canadian
aud st. Paul men. which have secured
all OF the claims In the nei2hborhood
and have commenced operations on an
extensive scale
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BRITAIN COUNTS THE Beers.
With 6-Ysar- Ola boys Thsrs Arc Not
10000 to Garry Arms.

LONDON, July 12.-Sir Henry Camp
bell Bannerman, Liberal member for
Sterling, asked Mr.. Balfour, tho lead
er of the House Of Commons, for the
latest information regarding the
progress OF negotiations in the Trans
vaal. He was referred to Mr.. Cham
berlain and the latter asked for time,
On the ground that the present situa-
ton is acute.
There are now 40, 900 troops in
South Africa. The official estimate
for the Boer males Of IS years and up
ward, adding u third Of those under
ld Is only 80, O3S. Thus there is an
English soldier for every Boer. man
and boy, able to carry a gun in tho
Transvaal.
st. James Gazette suggests the in
Perception of the steamer R~eichstag,
which left Naples last week with
Is, 600 rifles, 500 tons of war material
and 500 mules for the Transvaal
BRisBASE, Queensland, July IA
The government of Queensland has
eabled to the secretary OF state for
the colonies offering $50 mounted In
fantry. with a machine gun for serv-
ice in South Africa in case of HOSTILE
ties between Great Britain md the
TransvaaL
LoUHENzo MARQUEE, Delagoa Bay,
July l2.-The British second class
cruiser Doris and the first class gun
boat Wigeon, with Rear Admiral Sir
Robert ii. Harris, have arrived here.
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Kid Mccoy is billed TO fight Choynski
i'm Sppfetpher

Kid Mccoy is billed TO fight Choynski
in September.
Guatemala's president. Cabrera, Is
unpopular, and the country is on tAe
verge Of a revolution.
1t is stated that dissatisfied Ken
lucky democrats will put up n ticket
in opposition to the Goebel ticket.
The large steam bakery Of Henry
Wauklin at Roxborough. Pa. was des-
troyed by fire. Loss, $751; 900: insured.
Miss Henrietta Crapp, aged, 1G,
daughter of a wealthy lumberman of
Atlanta, Ga, has disappeared, end il
is believed she has been kidnapped.
Relief work in the Brazos district
has been systematized. Much Is being
afforded. SO far the estimated loss is
as follows: Cotton, s 1000, 900: houses.
fencing. stock and bridges. 81. 500. 900;
railroads, 81, ZOO, 900; total $500. 900.
At Allentown. Pa. Chas Knauss,
aged Is, infatuated with Mrs Edwin
Diffenderer, aged 20, shot and serious.
ly wounded her. She was trying to
break up the youths infatuation for
her and refused to elope with him. She
has a husband and two children.
Dick Williams, a negro. charged
with the murder Of Harry Il. Tandy at
Mcfarland, Wabaupsee county, Kansas,
was lvnched near Alma. Kan. The
crowd allowed the sheriff to cut him
down. believing him dead, but he re-
covered consciousness after being taken
back to Jail.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
Wednesday, July H..

A shortage of coal has forced the
Omaha smelter to close.
Mayor Jones of Toledo, o., will
probably secure the gas plant.
Manufacturers of seedcr and drill
implements have decided to raise the
prices Is per cent.
Cartcrville, H., authorities protest
against removal of troops, claiming
they are neeeed there.
Fire in n crowded New York tene-
ment resulted in injuries to five per-
sons. Eight Others were overcome by
smoke.
The ~salvagers have succeeded in
floating the liner Paris, but. the big
ship is still in danger, as she has a
distinct list to starboard,
Charles T.. Gibbs, formerly a Wash
ington, ID. c., hotel keeper, shot and
killed himself at the Ebbitt house.
Breeding over business reverses and
the loss of wife is the cause assigned.
1t Is said that President is energeti-
cally working upon a plan to submit
the question of independence or annex
alton to the people of Cuba. He feels
confident the Cubans will vote for
annexation.
The furnaces of the battleship Iowa
have almost wholly burned out and
will have to be repaired. The ships
run from New York to San Francisco
was responsible for the trouble. The
Iowa is in dry dock at Seattle, Wash,
Elias Hatfield, the noted Kentucky
desperate, yesterday surrendered in
person 10 Gov. Atkinson of West Vir
ginia. Hatfield shot Sheriff Ellis
week ago. He thinks he will be ac
quilted on the ground Of self defense
James Il. Falley of indianapolis, Ind.
receiver of the Order of the Iron Hall
filed his final report, and by order o.
the court the trust which has existed
since August 20, 1892, will be immedi
ately closed. Since the creation of thu
r~eceivership 81, s76,777 has been dis
tributed among $4,000 claimants ant
creditors, whose claims aggregated
IS, 100, 900. The cost Of the receiver
ship was z per cent of the whole
amount of money secured, and of thi
2 per cent went to the receiver.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
Tuesday, July II.

Troops have been withdrawn from
Carterville, III.
Forest fires are raging in the neigh
borhood of Anaconda. Mont.
Grand Duke George, brother to the
car, n heir apparent to the throne
of Russia, is dead
Five artillerymen were killed by the
explosion of a powder magazine in the
arsenal Mt Pretoria, Transvaal.
Eight thousand teachers are already
in ttcndanc at the national educa-
tlonal association at Los Angeles, Cal.
The prospects are not favorable for
the formation of a glove trust which It
was proposed to organize with a capital
of $4,000, 900.
DIR. Mary G. Edmonds. a well known
san Francisco physician, died from
fright caused by the accidental setting
off of q burglar alarm.
Miss Henrietta Crapp, the girl who
mysteriously disappeared at Atlanta,
Ca, and who was thought to have
been kidnapped, has been found at the
home OF u friend about two miles from
home.
Mrs. Ella Shattuck has been arrested
at Erie, Pa, charged with the murder
OF her husband. His body was found
on the tracks of the Erie motor line,
but he had been shot and killed pre-
viously.
Captain Watkins of the liner Paris
assumes all blame for the stranding OF
his ship. He says he made a miscalcu-
lation in time and the vessel was
eighteen miles ahead of the position he
had counted on.
At Newman, Stanislaus county. Cal.
n burlington special with teachers.
on the way to Los Angeles &c attend
the national educational association.
crashed into Il freight train. Two
women were killed and thirteen other
teachers injured.
At Dallas, Tex, during n protracted
meeting at the First Christian church,
John Il. Carlisle shot Prof. VIM. Lips.
comb md killed him. Carlisle is q
cousin of former secretary John G..
Carlisle. The murderer had been chief
janitor at the high school, but was no,
r~eappointed. He lay his defeat t.
Professor Lipscomb, the principal.
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I'LL FROM DEVILS ISLAND
Az n Result OF His Torture. Drcyfus IL on
InvnliI's Fare.

Invnl,I's Fare.
RENNEs, France, July ie.-Mme.
Dreyfus took her own physician to
see her husband in prison, yesterday.
When her brother was asked about
the health OF the prisoner he replied:
His health leaves very much to be-
desired"
The prison guardians find Dreyfus
eats very little. His stomach ~revolts
at food, as 1t has been injured by the
abuse OF q~uinino in the tropics. Or
ders have been given that he have In
valid's fare.
The brother-in-law OF Dreyfus, in
explaining his i'll health, has told
further details OF what the exile suf-
fercd. During the voyage to French
Guiana he was kept in the ships hold
with the thermometer at 100 degrees
After Colonel Picquart warned Gem
cral Billot that Dreyfus was innocent
he was kept boxed in the narrowest
OF quarters. The box was SO high
that it was impossible to see out.
In France everyone imagined Cap.
tain Dreyfus was allowed to walk and
view the sea. but the situation Of his
person was such that the horizon was
hidden from view. His %jailers re-
ceived instructions that tho prisoner
was unworthy of pity, and acted &C.
cordingly, and neither light nor air
penetrated the box-like Enclosure.
Dreyfus was seized with violent
attacks Of suffocation. Each time
this occurred his guardians would
says: This time 1 hops he is
dead" Finally, as the attacks con-
tinued, the military doctor ordered
air admitted, but to avoid giving
Dreyfus pleasure by lowering the
height of the sides OF the box the Jail.
ers merely raised it u foot from the
ground, saying the air could enter
and cool his feet. During the two
months while the court OF cessation
was considering his case the minister
Of colonies, NJ. Guillian, ordered the
prisoners fare rcducsI to bread aud
water in small quantities.
NJ. Deniel, the brutal director OF
the penitentiary on DEVILS island, has
been recalled to France in disgrace.
Lasoucas will replace him M. De-
erals, minister of colonies, Is Mortified
by tho facts and revolted at continue.
ing Deniel in office.
Dreyfus carefully avoids tender sub
jects. After the first question as to
the health of his babies, he has not
dared to inquire again. Mime. Drey-
fus told him they were we'll and hap
py. and she would tell him any par
ticular news concerning them. Since
then Drcyfus has not referred to them.
When Dreyfus takes his walk he has
two guards, one in front and one be-
hind, who are forbidden to answer
any questions he may ask.
1t is definitely decided that of the
800 seats at the court-martial 200 will
be reserved for the press. There will
be twenty-five seats with the foreign
press seats. The latter will be award.
cd by lot. All correspondents names
will be put in Il hat and the first
twenty-five drawn out will be given
places The rest may do the best they
Fan
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
MURDER IN A CHURCH.
Principal of Dallas. Texas, High School
Shot During Ssrvlce,.

Shot During Servlco,.
DALLAS, Texas, Ju!y 1a.-At 0:3O
o'clock last night M Of the most
startling tragedies Dallas has ever
known occurred in the First Christian
church. In the midst of a protracted
service, John 7. Carlisle arose from
his seat, walked to where Professor
William Lipscomb, principal of the
Central high school, was seated, and
shot him without a word of warning.
Carlisle was seized and taken to the
county Jail. Profess o Lipscomb died
at lO:45.
Carlisle had been chief ~janitor OF
the high school, but failed 20 be re-
appointed by tho school board. He
attributed his defeat for reappoint-
ment to the professors influence, and
1t is believed this was the cause OF the
murder. Carlisle is a cousin OF former
Secretary Of the Treasury John @.
Carlisle.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
KIDNAPPED A KANSAS GIRL
A S-Yoar-Old Adopted Child stolen q.
u Revolvor's Point Near Lebo

n Revo'vor's Point Near Lebo
LEBo, Kan, July IA man giving
his name as j, II. Mccain went t the
house OF n. s.. Fewqua, twelve miles
northwest OF here, yesterday after
noon, and at the point OF u revolver
took possession OF their 5~-year-old
adopted daughter, Violet. The kid
naper drove a small white horse to q
road wagon, was about six feet tall.
of light complexion, with a heavy
mustache, had u broken nose and
wore gray clothes The little girl
n red calico dress The sheriffs
OF Coffey and Lyon counties are fol-
lowing him East. A reward has been
offered for his capture.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
stick to Old Habits.

Tailor-You have recently inherited
a nice sum OF money from your uncle.
Why don't you pay me? Customer
hate all outward show, ! don't want
II I o be said that my newly acquired
wealth has caused a departure from
my former simple habits.-The Rival.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
The Ho,plt.l ship Delayed.

WASHINGTON. July IL. "A dispatch
rom Major Bradley, commanding tho
hospital ship Relief, on her way from
Manila to San Francisco with ESQ sick.
dated at Yokohama, states that the
ship has been unavoidab,y detained
by heavy storms, but will sail to-day.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
Not Worth IL.

"Tommy." said his mother. "if I get
vou q new suit Of clothes you must
promise not to climb trees or play
marbles until they are worn out"
Then" answered Tommy. after a
moment or two OF reflection. II don't
want them"
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
WRECKED DURING A FOG.
stsa mcr Portia Goss Ashore on Nova SEQ
tia Colst-No Live, Lost

HALIFAX, N. s., July -. - The
steamer Portia, from New York for
Halifax, was wrecked during a dense
fog last evening on Flynn's island,
OF ssmbroe, q point about fifteen
miles to the eastward OF Halifax, The
passengers and crew, lis all told,
landed on the island in the ships
boats aud are all comfortably housed
there. No loss OF life Is reported
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
viii Use Elsctric!ty.

The owners Of the famous Cog Road
running up Pixies Peak. have decided
to change the motive power from
steam to electricity. 1t Ia estimated
that the cost OF making the change will
b about S50.o0Q.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
Dunuo s,S Cop,o,,iat,o,.

New ioRK, July IL, THE banking
house OF j. & w. Scligman & Co. has
undertaken to finance the consolida-
tion Of the various gas companies of
Buffalo. The capitalization will b.
$40, 600, 900.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
UnAuswernble.

"Charles Francis Adams says in this
life we a rarely have our W way
That's the unanswerable logic OF q
married man."-Clevsland Plain Deal.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
Sunday. .InlH a.

."'r IA, the French troops will cele-
L.ses the fall of the bastile.
There is a drouth in the island Of
Jamaica, and a famine is feared.
The wreck of the Maine is fast sink
ing in the mud In Havana harbor.
Sixty per cent of the oil seed COM
panies of England have decided to
form q trust.
The Texas food has left many ip
want, and S4,OOG,OO worth of cotton
has been destroyed.
1t is asserted the peace conference
will adjourn at the end of July to re-
assemble next spring.
The Shamrock had a trial spin and
gave evidence of being the best
equipped cup challenger ever seen In
the Solent.
John NJ. Lane, freight and ticket
agent of the G.. Nj. & st. p. Ry., al
Council Bluffs, has been arrested
charged with embezzling $4,000.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
Monday, July 10.

Wealthy Spaniards, formerly in
business in Havana, are settling in
Mexico.
The gas companies of Chicago are at
war and a reduction in the price of gas
Is looked for.
Theodore Weber was killed while
attempting to prevent n runaway team
from dashing into a crowd of children
at Madison, Wis.
Over n 30-mile triangular course, ten
miles to the leg, the new cup defender
Columbia defeated the old Defender by
a margin Of 1853.
Robert Bonner the publisher and
fancier of famous horses, died at his
home in New York, death being due TO
a general breaking down ofthe system.
Near Waldron, Mo-, seventeen miles
north of kansas City, a northbound
Burlington passenger train went
through a culvert and q numbcr of
persons were injured.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
sunday, July D.

In spite of the renewed talk of the
resignation of Hon. Russell A. Alger,
secretary of war, there Is absolutely no
indication around the war department
of the contemplated retirement OF that
official.
Paymaster w. II. Wilcox Of the navy.
who was court'martialed for drunken
ness, was sentenced to be dismissed
from service, but on recommendation
OF six of the seven members of the
court for executive clemclcy, the pres
dent has mitigated the sentence To a
reduction TO the foot of the list OF pay
masters and a loss of one-half pay for
one year.
Mr.. Choate has not communicated 10
the state department the result of any
Representations he has made To Lord
Salisbury in London respecting the
modus vivendi under his instructions.
Although 1t is believed that il Is al,
most hopeless to expect n successful
outcome of these direct negotiations
with London in regard to the Alaskan
boundary, II Is not regarded in Wash.
ington as inevitable that a hostile
clash will follow the failure to secure
u modus.
Lieu'' oauiuei u. Takue, ~. y. vi
retired, courtmartialed in 1895 for an
assault upon Colonel Crofton of the
10Th infantry at TT. Sheridan, com
mitted suicide In the New Era hotel,
Chicago.
Secretary Long, OF recommendation
Of Senator Thurston, will name John
Parnell Golden of O'Neill as cadet al
Annapolis, representing the Fifth Ne,
braska district in the academy.
Near Pikeville, Tenn, a pitched
battle occurred ut q picnic between
three brothers named Hoge and Caro-
Seals and two brothers. Carol Seal
was fatally shot, and two Of the stheI
participants were seriously wounded
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What q woman can't understand is
how she understands to make a fool
Of q man without understanding why.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-07-14
SATURDAY.. ,Duly a.

General Wheeler will sail for Manila
on the 10Th.
Lieutenant Lawson n. Fuller. ord
nance bureau, L. =. A., has been order
cd to the Philippines as chief ordnance
officer in the field of the army opcrat-
ing there.
At Tampa, Fla, 1000 cigarmal<crs
nre ont of employment. Twenty lead.
ing factories closed their doors and
others may follow suit. Failure TO
adjust matters with employees is the
cause.
Col. Hartigan, who was colonel of
h Seventh Illinois volunteer infantry
during the Standardization war. has
been offered u majorship in one of the
new volunteer regiments. Col. Ilarti-
gan has not given his reply.
The acting commissioner of internal
revenue has reafirmed the decision Of
his Office to the effect that the revenue
stamp required to be affixed to parlor
or sleeping car tickets may be affixed
TO berth or seat checks when tickets
are not purchased by the passenger
prior to his entering the car.
Senator Thurston has recommended
to h war department the following
appointments for officers for provision.
al regiments: Capt. j. A. Culver OF
Milford, who was captain in Griggsby's
rough riders, for first lieutenant: VIM.
i. =. Mapes of Nebraska City, who was
major Of the first Nebraska. as first
lieutenant, and Charles II. Wilson, ir.
of Omaha, son Of Paymastcr Wilson OF
the army, now stationed in New York
as second lieutenant. Wilson was also
q captain in the Second Nebraska.
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