The Red Cloud chief., 1900-06-22
Comprehensive Condensation
Of Christendom.
A COMPLETE SUMMARY or THE wffK
~ CIT Para G rnpbs Conveying . World OF
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF the
Past seven Days Inter-
esting to All.

Out Of a total of seventy-five plague
cases since the outbreak at Cairo.
Egypt. thirty-four of them have re.
suited fatally.
Belle Boyd, the famous spy Of con-
fcderate fame, died suddenly of heart
disease at Kilbourne, Wis, aged fifty
seven years. She was in that city to
deliver a lecture.
For the past two days and nights. a
continuous rain has been falling in the
section lear oxford, Miss. Rivers and
smaller streams have overiowed their
banks and great injury has been done
to the drops.
Two Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
trains collided read on at West Falls.
New York. Engineer William Katon
of Buffalo was killed and Engineer
Frank Matteon Of Bradford fatally in
jured. No passengers were killed.
The official counts of the ballots cast
for officers of the international typo
graphical union has been completed.
For president the count shows: James
NJ. Lynch, Syracuse, y. y, 14.l43;
Samuel Il. Donnelly, present iucum-
bent. g.GO6.
Charles p. Packer Of Chicago, en-
banker, clubman. ~fnancier and IA lead
cr in church circles. has been arrested
in Minneapolis on the charge of ATTAIN
ing money by false pretenses. Packer
was former president of the defhnct
Park state bank.
The Alaskan Exploration company
has received advices that the com
pany's steamer.,A. +. Gustin left Daw-
son on June +th for ST. Michael, carry
ing s., 900, 900 in gold dust. 1t is ex-
pected to connect with the Iealandia
at st. Michael for San Francisco.
A Flora, Ind, June IL special says:
The Baptist church at Young America
was struck by lightning and several
children who were practicing for chill
dren's day exercises were Frustrated.
The Dunkard church at Darwin was
also badly damaged by lightning.
While nj ne men in n basket cable
line suspended eighty-tive feet above
the Tallapoosa river at Tallahassee,
Fla. were crossing, the cable broke
and the men fell to the river. One was
killed and two are reported unable to
live. The others were more or less
injured.
Definite official information was re-
ceivcd ut Washington from the foreign
Office of one of the most important
continental powers stating that the
tSung Ii yamen had notified the min
ist.. &c tbnt Ayx Ut b,lip thnt tLn
, dowagcr empress would not object to
the presence of foreign troops in
China's territory.
Former Governor Drake of Center.
Vile. Ia, who attended the commence.
: ment exercises ut the Drake university
at DeS Moines, announced that he had
made the university joint heir with
! his five children in his will. His prop
erty is valued at 81, 900, 900 and the uni
versity will get $685. 900. lie has al.
.. ready contributed $500, 900.
l.. Sonny jefferson, a negro twenty-t We
t, years old, was lynchcd near Mctcalf
IT Ga, by unknown parties. Jefferson
n had been working Tor Emory S~tringer
a a white farmer. and recently ATTEMPTED
Y. to assault II OF Mr.. Stringcr's daugh
80. tiers. He was caught and confined il
:, the Jail at Metcalf, Ga. soon afte
~ midnight he was taken to the ont
- skirts of the village, hung to a tire,
and riddled with bullets.
r. A London, June II dispatch says
5. Lieutenant General Sir Frederick For
" estier-Walker, in command of the line
I, of communication in South Africt
k reports that in the disaster To the Brit
he ish troops June 0, at Roodeval, wher
N the Beers cut Lord Roberts line o
IL communications, the Fourth battalion
e. of the DerbyShire regiment were al
killed, wounded or made prisoners ex
ccpt six enlisted men. Two officer
and fifteen men were killed and tv
n officers and seventy-two men wer
It wounded, many of them severely.
IL i. NJ. Ringdal, temporary chairma
Mt of the Sioux Falls populist convention
st has named the following committe
r. To notify Charles A. Towne of h
nomination for vice president:
Gerry Brown, Massachusetts, j. |
y; (Cyclone) Davis, Texas; Howard
d Illinois; A. II. Weir, Nebraska; q. Il
II, SHIRLEY, New York; Leo Vincent, Co
o, orado; +. n. Wardell, California; j. v
n Mcoiabick, Virginia; W. Il. Sattel
he Missouri; Thomas A. Petit, kentuck,
rs and Ernest Kramer, Oregon. The con
es mittee is to meet in Kansas Gil
July 4,
er Monday evening at Des Moines, Ia
o.. as the regular train on the Chicago
m Northwestern was pulling out f.
- Ames il came into collision with n sp
cial passenger train that was comm
'o in, Engineer Thomas Smith w,
N killed, but the other enginem,
jumped and were not hurt. Both e
n gines We're demolished, but the rest
's' the trains remained on the track. MOI
.er of the passengers were hurt beyond