The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

John Quinn, mother n son, were
asphyxiated by stove gas.
MAY Il. j. Schmidt shot and killed
her hurband Peter, at their Chicago,
home. She made no attempt to escape.
| and declared her husbands drinking
had driven her to desperation.
At Willoughby, o., David uurran,
eighty years old. was shot and killed
by one of his tenants, Potter Michael,
aged sixty, as the result Of u quarrel.
Michael is in Jail.
The Rockdalc mills OF the American
steel aud Wire company at Joliet. ILL.,,
are closed. owing To a faulty condition
Of the boilers. Several hundred men
are affected. The shut down, IL Is
said, will last but a few days.
With a majority Of one vote aud
that the vote Of a moderator the New
York presbytery decided that the
Westminster confession. with its doe.
trine of predestination, was good
enough To remain rs the creed of the
Presbyterian church.
Three negroes who had been arrest.
ed by sheriff Haywood for waylaying
and attempting to kin Mr.. Stallcup,
were taken from the Jail at jefferson
Texas, by unknown persons and hanged
To a railroad bridge. The negroes had
confessed to the crime.
Charles Prince, wanted in L~itch6eld,
H., On Il charge Of the murder of a
miner named John O'iIara. was cap
tured In Sorrento, ILL.,, by City Marshal
Davis and Deputy Sheriff Trupper Of
Litchteld. Princes father is In jail ut
Litchfeld. O'Hara was shot and killed
during a quarrel with the Princes.
The session OF the seventh annual
convention of the Daughters of the
Confederacy was called to order at
Montgomery. Ala, by Mrs. Edwin q.
Weed, general president. The Bible
from which the scripture lesson was
read was the same upon which Jeffer-
son Davis took the oath of office NJ
president of the confederacy.
The worst marine disaster In the
long list of steamers wrecked among
the rocks and shoals at the entrance to
the Bay Of Fundy, occurred when the
si~dewheelcr City Of Monticello, bound
from st. John for Yarmouth, was over.
whelmcd by the mountainous seas
only four miles from her destination
and engulfed with thirty-four passcn.
gers and crew.
Chicago, dispatch says: James Is.
Dunlap, the leader of several bands oi
bank burglars, one of which robbed
the Northampton, Mass, bank Of 81,
100, 900, confessed at Watseka, H., to
looting Pateq's bank at Wellington,
H., on March ~ last. He has been In
Jail In Watseka ever since last April
when nc was captured In Chicago, but
until recently denied his guilt. III,
nally. however, he pleaded guilty and
Judge Hilschcr sentenced him Il
; twenty years imprisonment, the ex
treme limit,
Holland has expressed a willingness
says the Berlin correspondent Of thu
: London Daily Press, to buy on behal
: of Mr.. Kruger, for the exiled Beers,
portion of German southwest Africa.
A Berlin dispatch Of November 1:
: says the government has officially in
formed the colonial council that IL vii
gladly grant permission to 1900
\ Transvaal Beers to trek through tn
Kalasari desert to the territory in Gei
man southwest Africa. Arrangements
Z therefore. are now being made to wei
come the vanquished Beers rs a ne,
and valuable element for the colony.
A Cincinnati, o., dispatch says
United States Bank Examiner Tucke
u has taken possession Of the German
D National bank at Newport, KY, an
posted a notice that the bank woul,
remain closed pending an examination
5 Examiner Tucker also announce
D nnoficiaily that Frank NJ. Brown, tn
individual b%ookkecper and a~ssistan
= cashier, was missing, and that a PAL
I tial investigation showed "a shortag
e OF about So0i 900. Brown had Zee
I with the bank for eighteen years an
u was n of its most trusted employe,
" II Is stated by the experts that his OF
e%rations extended back as far as te
years.
A Breslau, November 10, dispatc
e says: Emperor William was the oil
: ject of an attempted outrage, which
e however, failed. As he was driven |
e an open carriage to the Cuirassier bai
e racks, accompanied by the hereditar
prince Of Saxe-Meininger, a woman !
the crowd hurled an axe at the ca
rage. The rapidity with which tn
vehicle was passing saved its occ'
pants. The axe, or hatche
fell just behind the carriage III
woman was Immediately a~rreste,
The woman's name is Selm
Schnapke. She o~ccupieda place in I'll
front rank Of the spectators, on I'll
# side farthest from the emperor. I'll
Ratchet, IL now appears, struck I'll
carriage. A crowd of people who wi
messed the outrage threw themselv,
n on his majesty's ~assailant, but tn
n prompt intervention of the polio
saved the woman from injurys
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