The Red Cloud chief., 1901-04-05
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Japan is steadily going forward in
her preparations for war with Russia.
Mrs. Esther Cohen and two children
were burned to death in a New. York
tenement house.
Roland Reed, the actor, died at the
home of his mother-in-law in New
York of cancer of the stomach.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon, is con-
fined to his bed with an acute attack
of grip, says Washington dispatch.
Fierce gales have been sweeping
over the English channel coasts and
life boat crews are having hard work.
Sir Thomas Upton in a recent in
terview regarding yacht race, said
that all he wanted was u fair race and
no odds.
A dispatch from Salonica announces
that men were scalded to death by
the bursting Of steam pipe on the
Turkish torpedo boat Shehab.
Florian Irner, saloon keeper, aged
forty, was found hanging to a tree
over his wife grave in Amwood
cemetery, Kansas City. Grief over his
wife's death is supposed to be the
cause.
All trouble between the motormen
and street car conductors, and the
Monongahela street railway company
at Pittsburg has been settled, and all
differences adjusted. There will be no
strike.
Governor Yates, of Illinois. issued
proclamation designating Friday, April
26, as Arbor day and recommending
that said day be set apart for the plant
ing of trees, shrubs and vines to
beautify the homes, highways and
public grounds of the state.
The first trace of the stolen express
booty taken at Manila, Ia, has been
found in a barn about one and a half
miles south of town. The sack was u
currency sack and contained about
Sl9 in silver. 1t was known to have
$3.50 in it.
A dispatch from Denver says: The
Stubbs capital punishment bill, which
as it passed the house provided for
electrocution as the method of execu-
ton, was amended in the senate by
the substitution of hanging for electric
chair and passed. 1t is believed that
the house will refuse to accept the
amendment.
Isaac Maaige, living on thirty acre
island in Black river. was arrested at
Holland, Mich, for selling horse meat
to a local meat dealer, who in turn
retailed it to his customers as dried
beef. Maaige has been under arrest
before, it is alleged, for similar crimes.
Lately conflicting stories are rife about
Maaige that he has sold meat of
diseased hogs to local meat dealers.
After joint conference at Spring
field, H., of two days the miners and
operators of the Chicago & Alton sub
district adjourned without any results.
There was difficulty over the scale and
though subcommittee representing
both sides conferred for day on the
matter, no agreement was reached. In
consequence last years scale on all
sorts of labor will continue in force for
the present.
In an insane At Christian Leix, aged
thirty-five, cut the throat of Jacob
Mooth, aged sixteen, and then ended
his own life with the same instru.
ment, says a Mayville, Mich, dispatch.
Mooth was employed by Lick on his
farm and was dead when found.
The diary of Major Andre, after ly.
ing hidden for over 100 years, has been
discovered in England. Lord Grey un-
earthed it while searching among
some old family papers. Lord Grey's
great grandfather was an officer in the
British army in America and Major
Andre served on his staff.