The Red Cloud chief., 1908-07-03
NEWS OF The WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts Of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft OF Our Readers.
Misc

T. Oil 10 prevent the drlnkln or intOXi-
eating liquors OF trains.
Five persons. all members OF one
family. were killed and n score of 9th.
ers injured by an explosion in n five.
story building at Chicago, the upper
floors of which were used as a board.
ing house.
Beef steers sold for 1925 n hundred
pounds at the Kansas City stock yards
recently, the highest price paid since
1902.
Two Missouri Pacific passenger
trains collided headon near Piper,
Kan. and several passengers were In.
jured, n seriously.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas has ordered
the flags on the state capitol to be
placed at half mast for 80 days out of
respect to the memory of the late ex.
President Cleveland.
A bomb was exploded In n church at
Rome I'm an attempt to take the life of
Cardinal Richelmy. Many people were
injured in the panic which followed
the explosion.
A bolt of lightning struck an auto.
mobile in which Gov. Hughes of New
York was riding near Albany, stunning
the chauffeur. The governor was not
injured.
BY order OF President Roosevelt all
the flags on the government buildings
in Washington were placed at half
mast as a mark of respect to ex-Presi.
dent Cleveland.
Attorneys General West Of Okla.
homa, Jackson Of Kansas and Hadley
OF Missouri, held a conference In Kan.
sas City for the purpose of discussing
the proper antitrust procedure to
adopt.
Secretary Garfield is TO initiate steps
to make a government reservation of
the site of the Capt. Cook monument
in the Hawaiian islands.
Over 100, 900 barrels of oil consumed
by fire, three valuable oil refineries
destroyed and a loss of $500.000 are
the results of two days electrical
storms in western Pennsylvania.
The Spanish steamer La Rache
struck a rock and sank near Muros,
Spain. OF the SO passengers and 81
Of a crew aboard only 62 had been
accounted for.
1t cost the government $48,3Go to
convict +. A. Hyde and j. II. Schneider
OF land frauds at Washington, but the
government RECEIVERS 100000 acres of
land valued at 100000 0
The registered mail pouch which
was stolen from the Union depot in
Kansas City recently has been found
near Kansas City, Kan, where the
thief had thrown 1t after securing the
packages Of currency. About so par
cells were found intact by the in
spectors.
Secretary Taft was an interested
and enthusiastic spectator at the Yale.
Harvard ball game at New Haven
when Yale won by a score of 3 to 0.
At Detroit. Mich, 5,405 cases of
Canadian whisky were seized by
United States officials under the pure
food law. The liquor is valued at
100000.
Frederick Immel, a former member
OF the Columbus. o., board OF public
service pleaded guilty to accepting .
bride and was sentenced to four
years in prison and fined $1,000.
Cholera has broken VI among the
troops at Camp Gregg In the Philip.
pines. The camp as been placed UNI
der quarantine.
! The total immigration into the
United States from all countries dur.
ing May was 3G,317, a decrease of 80
per cent compared with 1907.
Secretary Taft has directed that q
suitable plot of ground at the Airing.
ton national cemetery be reserved as a
site for a proposed monument to negro
soldiers.
An infammatory circular has been
issued anonymously In Manila de-
nouncing the Americans aud declaring
their p,Ipose is to rob and enslaye
the Filipinos.
From 100 to 1903 degrees was a com.
mon temperature in the western part
OF Kansas recently.
Randolph county. Mo-, went dry by a
large majority in the recen local OPP
ton election.
The Kansas Tax commission has
completed its work of assessing the
property of corporations in the state.
The actual value of the property is
placed at $402, 1896, 446.36. The same
property was assessed in 1907 at $76,.
600, 200.
A kite flown from the weather bu-
e station at Mount Weather, Va,
recently reached an altitude of 10000
feet. where the temperature was found
to be 20 degrees. while on the surface
it was rs.
A receiver has been asked for the
National bank of Harry, Iowa.
Twenty-six railroad compan!es In
the United States have either pro
duced their July dividends or passed
them entirely.
1t Is estimated that the wealth of
every Usage Indian is at least $4,000,
while numbers of them are worth UP
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