The Red Cloud chief., 1901-05-31
LATE NEWS TOLD BRIEFLY
Important aud General Happenings Sue
cinctly unmarried

,NaCa' B,"h
of the house. and his wife, have left
New Yerk for Europe for u three
months tour.
At Chicago, Matthew j. Flynn, we'll
known In theatrical circles, consumed
the contents Of twenty-three cham
payne bottles, and died the following
day.
General George Augustus Stone, a
veteran of the civil war and since 1884
"A national bank examiner in Iowa,
died at the Burlington hospital, Bur
lington, Ia, aged sixty-eight.
At the instance Of Count Won Buelow,
the imperial chancellor. Emperor Will
lam has ordered the command in China
to be broken mp and that preparations
he made to reduce Gerinany's forces
there.
President Mckinley and party left
San Francisco Saturday for Washing
ton. The special will go direct, max
ing 10 stops. Tuesday morning Mrs.
Mckinley was reported as standing
the trip very well.
At Key West, Fla. Edgar Beauclcigh
killed lncz Leonard and then shot him
self. Both were members of the
D'Ormund-Fullc dramatic company
and were engaged. No possible cause
is know for the tragedy.
Information has reached Elkins, w.
Va, of the murder of Miss Sarah
Parker by sam Reed, at Gladly Fork,
twenty miles from there. William
Dooly. of whom Reed was jealous, was
slightly wounded. Reed escaped.
At Portsnith. o.. Noah Johnson, n
cyclist while scorching over the course
for the coming race collided with T.. j..
Barrows. who sustained injuries from
which he died. johnson was arrested
on a charge of manslaughtcr.
The Rev. Louis Zcahn, pastor OF st.
Johns Lutheran church at Quincy, ILL.,,
dropped dead Sunday afternoon while
delivering an add at the laying of
the corner stone of the new building
being erected by 81. Jacob church.
The naval board having charge OF
the naval station on Pearl harbor, Ha-
waii. has completed its work. The
board adheres to its view that Pearl is
the only harbor capable of complete
naval defense. 1t is only five miles
from Honolulu.
Lincoln, Neb., high school track
team won the annual Missouri Valley
high school field meet at Kansas City,
with ~ points. The team met repre-
sentatives from Missouri, Iowa and
Kansas, and made the remarkable rec
ord of scoring in every event.
Utlcy Wedge. receiver of the Sicgcl-
Sanders Live Stock Commission COM
pany of Kansas City, has made afidav-
it charging Frank Siegel, late presi-
lent Of the company with embezzeling
u total of $l45. 4s6. % of the company's
money. Sicgel is in Jail.
W. q. Hartquist. a brakeman on a
w%estbound Burlington freight, slipped
and fell while trying to get or the
caboose in the Omaha yards, and was
instantly killed, his body being mangled
in a terrible manner. He was single.
The body will he buried in Lincoln,
where he has relatives.
4 record was established in the com
bination sale of Hereford cattle in the
Union stock yards Chicago, Wednesday,
when John Hooker, of New London,
o.. sold the ninc-year-old Gov Dollie
ILL.,, with heifer calf at her side, for
$1,000. The purchaser vas N. W.
Bowen of Delhi, Ind.
l.. &. Brickcr, living northwest OF
Beatrice. Neb.. reports the disappear
ance of his hired man, John Holdes-
ness and simultaneously $40 in cash
which Mr.. Bricker says he left in "a
trousers pocket. Ilolderness lived at
Beatrice until he engaged to work for
Brickcr, about Il month ago.
Both Senator's Tillman and McLaurin
Of South Carolina have resigned as
United States senator's, and agreed to
go before the people of the state in a
joint canvass TO settle the question of
leadership. The people will express
their preference in a vote in u demo-
cratic primary to be held in November.
The yacht Independence will race in
trial races against the yacht Constitu-
ton, Mr.. Lawson having removed the
obstacle against his boat by agreeing
to n charter interest to a member of
the New York yacht club. The Amer
ica's cup races will begin on September
T., Sir Thomas Upton having agreed
to that date and promised to have his
boat ready.
Moses 4. Hale, for nine years city
treasurer of Colorado Springs, has
been arrested charged with %misappro-
priating funds of the city amounting
To $4,000. Charles Il. Smith, who had
been selected by Hale to make an ex-
animation of the books, and who re-
ported everything correct has been
held as an accessory.
In the beauty of u perfect May day
and with all the pomp and circumstance
OF n military funeral and the rites Of
the church, all that was mortal of
Former Governor John II. Tanner was
consigned to mother earth Sunday in