The Red Cloud chief., 1900-06-22

OF SIN vessels ancDOreu Oh ATlCa, feru.
They will remain for a week and will
the proceed southwark.
Cadets for West Point under the in.
crease provided by recent legislation
nave been appointed by senators from
the states at large as follows: William
A.. Howard, Grand Rapids, Mich; Rod.
erick Dew, Tecumseh, Neb.
A Kingston, Jamaica, June Is dis
patch says: British Guiana mail reports
river boat accident, June 10, when a
boat with twenty-three persons were
precipitated over the falls Of Cuyuni
river aud dashed to pieces. All hands
were lost.
Tn the United States district court
at New York, the jury in the Dodge
case. in which Mrs. Phyllis +. Dodge
sued to recover S64, 900 worth Of jewels
seized one year & on o charge of in.
tent to avoid duties, returned a verdict
for the claimant, Mrs. Dodge. q,
A Beloit, Wis, June II special says:
Fourteen carloads of tissue paper
making machinery were shipped by a
Beloit mandatory today to Shanghai.
China. This marks the first American
and is probably the only paper making
machinery ever sent to China. There
have been paper-making machine ship
ments made from that city to Japan.
John Evans alias Ed Ratiga, a noto-
rious p~ostoffice robber and criminal
having escaped from Wisconsin peni-
itentiary and being wanted in Chicago
n other cities, was convicted in
the United States district court OF
robbing the Wapella, Mclean county.
p%ostoffice, May Is. of S23 in money and
stamps. lie was arrested in the Pco-
pies bank, Bloomington, where he had
gone to have small bills exchanged for
larger ones.
Mr.. Hitchcock, chief of the bureau
of foreign markets, agricultural de-
partment, testified before the industrial
commission that the falling off of our
exports of butter and cheese is entirely
due to the inferior articles exported,
The only remedy was shipment o.
frst-class products and a government
guarantee of purity. lie favored uni
formity in board of trade grain in
spection rules. Cotton for export, he
said, should be better packed.
A Washington, June Is dispatch says:
II seems probable that after all the
United States troops in the Philippines
win be called upon to furnish n %
tingent to- assist in the rescue of the
foreign missionaries in China and in
the protection # the foreign embassies
and legations. A great change has
come over the administration in this
regard. for as late as yesterday there
was a firm determination not to 90 be-
yond the employment of marines and
sailors.
Manila dispatch says: General says:
General Macabulus. who has been per-
sistently active in the Pangsansi dis
trict, has surrendered to Col. Emerson
ii. Liscum ut Tarlac with eight officers
and l24 men, all armed with rifles.
Senior Pedro Haterno, former presi-
dent of the so.callcd Filipino cabinet,
has been released temporarily and ne
is now comforting with Senior Felipe
Bucncamino, former minister of agri.
culture and commerce. with reference
to the latters peace platform.
During General Otis visit at the war
department the other day he made one
statement in particular which came as
a distinct surprise, in view of the fact
that he has spent a year and a half in
fighting the Nlipinos. for he declared
that these same Filipinos were, with
out question, the very best of any
Asiatic race living on the Pacific coast
and islands. He paid a high tribute to
their acquisitiveness, saying that the
young AMI old were alike anxious to
learn from the Americans and quick to
do so II given an opportunity. The
demand for schools on the American
plan was Unsuitable. 1t had not been
possible to secure a sufficient supply of
Spanish-American text books.
A dispatch from Washington dated
June II says: Not a line of news was
was received today from any official
source respecting the situation in
China which is most critical. Cable
communication with northern China
is suspended.
The navy department during the day
made an effort to reach Rear Admiral
kempff on his flagship Newark at the
: Taku forts, at the mouth of the Pci-Io
river but without success. Just what
. course will be pursued is not yet de-
termincd, but if communication re-
mains interrupted, it is certain that
more naval troops will be dispatched
l from Manila to extend aid to the inter-
national relief calumn.
A London, June II, telegram says:
A special dispatch from Hong Kong
says all the Pekin legations have been
destroyed and that the German minis
ter, Baron Won Kocttcler, has been
r killed.
I There is no confirmation OF the re-
: ported destruction of the legations in
Pekin and the killing of Baron von