The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23
WIDE WORLD NEWS
COMPREHENSIVE AND CON.
DENSED.
A (oMpltut SUMMARY OF The wttK


sound off boston. and six lives lost.
An explosion in the paint room
started n fire which destroyed the
Appleton Manufacturing company's
agricultural machinery plant at &C.
neva, III. Loss, 81 1000, 900. partially
insured. The destruction of the plant
threw $50 men out of employment.
II Is announced that the Knapp 4
Stout Lumber company win give up
their yards at Dubuque. Ia, and con-
centrate their whole business in ST.
Louis. The company Is the largest
and oldest lumber firm In the MISSISSIPPI
pi valley. II has been in business In
Dubuque ne early fifty years.
In n head.on collision near Dallas,
Tex, on the Missouri. Kansas & Texas.
between Sherman and Denison. Fire
man Weaver was killed, e. A. Andrews.
vice president OF the Grayson County
National bank Of Sherman, probably
fatally injured and several others, in
GLIDING four trainmen, more or less
seriously hurt.
Police officer Charles =. Scott shot
and killed Thomas Smith a gambler at
st. Joseph. Mo. The shooting took
place in the bar room at the CONNER
cial club. II is alleged that Smith
accused Scott of having an article
published rejecting on him. Scott
denied the charge when, it Is alleged,
Smith undertook to assault the officer
and the shooting followed.
Paris, France dispatch says: Eight
persons were killed aud fifteen wound
ed in a collision between n suburban
train and an express at Choisey Leroi.
The suburban train was entering
the station to allow the express to pass
and the accident occurred then, the
suburban tain being telescoped. The
wreckage vas complete and the line
was blocked for hours.
The twelvc-year-old son of Chris
Rud, OF Lansing. Iowa. was u down
by u freight train and his left leg
was severed below the knee. The
rather, who is eccentric, became ire
spons,blc from grief and assaulted an
officer. who placed him in jail. Twenty
minutes later jail and city hall build
ing was discovered on fire. Rud wa,
burned to death. The building wa.
destroyed.
Mrs. Icraiaa James, widow OF JESSE
James. the Noted northwestern bandit
died ut her home in Kansas City Nov
IL. Of u complication Of diseases, aftel
q lingering illness. Mrs. James was
1 ALL. . al -.
Kansas City in ls4A. an was marie,
to James al Kcarncy. Mo-, in 1874
They mad n son, Jesse. jr., who |
now In business in Kansas City. Mrs
James was with her husband when h,
was sho. and L.illed by Bob Ford. on
Of the bard,t's former pals, near st
Joseph, IN Arril, 1851.
Ten people were injured in a col
iis'on between a north bound Lake
Shore passenger train and a eXtr,
freight train, which met head OF
three miles south of Kalamazoo, Mich
Seven persons escaped with Sigh
injuries. The fremen and engineer
In the two engines also escaped will
slight injuries.
The freight was ordered onto a sid
ing NJ the Kalamazoo paper mill, bu
failed to reach the point ahead of tn
passenger train. The engines me
on q curve in n binding snow storm
and were badly smashed. but not de
rallied. The property loss was small.
A speci.l fro,n Poplar Bluffs, Mo.
s.ys:
A fire, accompanied by q terribl
fstility, occurred here Nov. IL, result
ing in the total destruction OF tn
Clifford house, n large thrce-story fran
building, and y heavy loss Of life. Tn
aist OF known dead is as follows:
Heck Clark, Doniphan, Mo.
Rebeeca Owens, Poplar Bluffs. Nc
Shelby De Hart, Poplar Bluffs, Mo.
Cur y Berry, Poplar Bluffs, Mo.
Fatally injured:
Eta Hargrove, Poplar Bluffs, Mo.
Winslow Stowe, Tennessee.
Missing:
Eugene Dalton, Hot Springs, Ark.
After outstanding the pressure G
the sweatbOx At the Denver Jail 10
our days john Porter, the sixteer
year-old negro, who was arrested Nc
vember IL, charged with the murde
Of eleven-year-old Louise Frost, nea
LimOn, Colorado, broke down and cor
tcssed every detail of the hideou
crime. On November z, while on he
way home from school, the girl wa
waylaid. assaulted and murdered, til
body showing no less than fourtee
knife wounds.
The police department has vent tw
men to Limon to verify some Of POI
ter's statements. They wish to be al
solutely sure of his guilt before givin
him up. owing To a strong belief tina
he will be lynched on his way I
Limon.
The coroner's jury returned a verdi,
generating Detective Carberry fo
killing Charles Allen, the colore
deputy in the election day riot a
| Denver.