The Red Cloud chief., 1900-01-05
H NEWS IN BRIEF.

Reports from Paris indicate the ar
rest and prosecution of General Mer-
cicr for conspiracy.
The body of General Lawton has
been placed aboard "A transport and is
now en route home.
A combination is being formed in
Kansas City To control the zinc output
of the United States.
Ninety-five per cent of the Dutch
farmers of Ecchuana have dcstertcd
Great Britain and gone over to the
Beers.
1t Is predicted that the coming battle
at Colenso, between General Butler
and the Beers. is bound to be momcn
tuous.
The Wagner Palace Car company is
no longer in existence. having passed
into the hands of the Pullman com
pany.
The production of gold ore in Grip
pie Creek for the present year was 49,
sO5 tons, with IA bullion value of SD
Ti3, 100.
Andrew Carnegie presented Chcy-
ennc. Wyo., with SjO,O 900 to be used in
the construction of a free public libra
ry building.
Word has been received at Washing
ton that General Andrade, late presi-
dent of Venezuela. is living quietly in
Porto Rico.
At n fire in the Chicago business dis
trict, which destroyed prox valued
at $3.50, 900, nine tiremen y bured,
several seriously.
Ii Hung Chang, the venerable China
man, has been made viceroy of tive
provinces, which indicates he is still in
high official favor.
At Sioux City Iowa. John T.. Rob
son a well known contractor. was shot
and robbed in his Office. He may die.
No clue to the pcrpetrator.
At Portland. Ore. at the trial of the
torpedo boat Goldsborough the boat
steamed at the rate of thirty-two miles
an hour against a two-milc current.
w. Il. Moody, the lannon's evangelist's
eldest son, has ]petitioncd the probate
court to be appointed administrator to
to his fathers estate. Mr.. Moody left
nc will.
The negotiations of Secretary Hay
with European powers to maintain
open door throughout China have been
successful. All European powers have
approved.
At Vienna, Austria, one of the ami
NAL keepers at the Vienna geological
gardens entered the cage of six lions
in n spirit of bravado and the six lions
rushed upon him and tore him t.
pieces.
Attorney General GriggS has returned
to the interstate commerce commission
the transcript of the evidence taken at
n hearing before the commission. lie
declares he cannot act in the premises.
as the new freight classification is not
in violation Of antitrust law, and fur
Their states regulation of freight rates
rests wholly with the commission.
The designs accepted for the three
new, first-class battleships, the Georgia,
New Jersey, and PENNSYLVANIA, indi-
So'N 'hat th'N wiz pt NllnOul a peer
in the naval world. They are to be
what are termed $4,000 ton ships, and
will surpass in fighting force n ships
now afioat. Completed and ready for
sea they will cost to exceed 81, 100, 900.
At New York, Kid Mccoy knocked
Peter Maher out in the fifth round.
Spectators declare that the knockout
blow was the keenest and hardest ever
witnessed.
At Mafeking ON December 20 the
British made a sortic to relieve the
garrison. 1t resulted disastrously, the
Britons losing 100 men killed, wounded
or captured,
President Kruger of the Transvaql
has consented to the very polite re.
) quest of the United States to allow
an American army officer to accompan