The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

VIII hOld It's annual convention In
Topeka, January as and .. w. r.
Jensen, the president, shortly will
the program.
Says n Washington dispatch, United
States Vice Consul General Knight, at
Capetown, has informed the state de-
partmen' that plague is declared on
cially to exist in the interior of the
colony. The information was com
municatcd at once to the marine hos
pital service.
Secretary Long has acted upon the
findings OF the court martial which
convicted Lieut.. Patrick Hourigan for
intoxicatiou at Lisbon. The court
sentenced him tn dismissal. but recon-
mcnded clemencv, 70 Secretary Long
has committed the sentence to reduc-
tion To the foot Of the list Of lieutcn-
ants In the navy, amounting to the
oss OF about 200 numbers.
A Manila dispatch says: Two hun
drcd bolomen, with afty rifles, attack
ed Rugazon, island of Panay, October
30. The Americans lost three men
killed-Lieut. II. NJ. Koontz, Sergeant
Kitchen and Corporal Burns, all VI
company +, forty-fourth infanty. The
enemy lost 100 killed. twenty-one
wounded and twenty prisoners.
The following bulletin on the cars
| condition was issued from 81. Peters
burg, Nov. 10,
Ills majesty has passed a salts
factory day. Last evening his tempera-
ture was 1924, pulse ~. His majesty
slept fairly well during the night.
Temperature this morning, 1000, pulse,
6s. General condition very salts
factory"
One hundred thousand dollars worth
Of city water bonds, bearing o per
cent interest, were sold at n special
session Of the city council OF Musca-
tine, Ia. To- a Cleveland firm. After
January ! Muscatine will W an OPP
crate the w~aterworks.
The hosting engineers Of mining
districts No. 3 and IL, who had been on
"a strike nj Brazil, Ind. for an increase
of wages and shortening Of the days
work, declared the strike on and will
return To work at the old price.
The Topeka Commercial club has de-
cided to give the members Of the new
Legislature a banquet early In January.
The object Of the feed In TO jolly the
members into the proper humor for
making an appropriation Of $3.50, 900
for the 1894 exposition to be held at
Topeka.
The United States surveying corps
found ovei 100 bodies in n swamp just
,yapS 80 na1ynaSnn TaS an tha tSlan1
where they had been deposited by the
storm Of September 3: The unburied
dead were In an out-of-the-way place
near the country road and had not
been found by the burying parties sent
out after the storm.
American trapshooters are the latest
TO propose Nh invasion Of Europe A
team OF representative crack shots Of
this country will probably sail from
New York early next spring for a tour
Of England and the continent. Four
teen men will 60, ten OF them forming
the team, and the others being substi-
tutes. j. A. II. Elliott Of Kansas City,
John y. Tanning Of Chicago, Thomas
/, Marshall Of Keithsburg. H., Frank y.
Parmalee Of Omaha, Neb., Richard
Merrell of Milwaukee, william r.
Crosby of Batavia, N. ", Rollo q.
Heikes OF Dayton, o., Chauncey Pow
ers Of Decatur, ILL.,, n Charles w.
Budd of Des Moines, Ia, are h ones
: for the trip. IL Is the intention Of the
/, party to challenge any team In Europe
; and after contests In England a trip
may be made to Germany, France and
/. Austria.
A Chicago dispatch OF November ~
says: Resolutions were passed by the
i, executive committee Of the national
business mems league, asking Pren&'
dent Mckinley to urge in his next mes.
q sage to congress early legislation IA
vorable to pending bills establishing
the department of commerce and in
: dustries and the reorganization of the
. consular service. Laverne Noyes and
Elliott Durand were appointed TO rep.
resent the league Mt the con vention OF
the league Of the national association
in st. Louis, November 20.
, The following casualty list has been
received from Manila ut the war de.
|, partment:
Killed-Corporal Herbert II. Case,
e First Lieutenant M. Koontz, John
! Lambert.
' Wounded-Charles McCollister, 90
4 we're; Patrick Green, severe; John Bogt
| serious; Corporal Henry Kunkel, head
o slight.
Lieutenant Koontz served during the
. Spanish American war as first ~lieuten-
ant in the Twenty-second Kansas.
( A dozen brawny men with pick
2 axes, crowbars and shovels appeared
!. at Madison Square, New York at mid.
: night Friday to begin the work Of
: removing the Dewey arch. In a few
minutes the workmen pulled away tn,
heaving casting of staf around thu
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