The Red Cloud chief., 1910-11-17

ponents for the unsettled conditions
regarding the Alaska coal lands.
The main building OF the Ontario
Wheel company works, with all its
contents, was destroyed by fire Loss,
$4,000.
Mr.. Bryan has been making some
speeches in Speaker Cannon's Illinois
district.
Fourteen deaths due TO smallpox
having occurred at Saginaw, Mich,
within a month.
Fire at Alexandria. Egypt, de-
stroyed several large cotton sheds
and 5000 bales Of cotton. The loss
was $1,OO0,O0O.
Carl Robr, a defaulting bank clerk
Of the National Union bank of Water
town, N. Y, whose alleged shortage
Is $4,000 was arrested at Seattle.
John j. Smythe was sentenced to
death in Norfolk, Va, for the murder
OF his wife. Bullets intended for
Mrs. Smythe also killed a 12-year.old
daughter.
The financial panic in China con-
tinues to spread, according to advices
brought by the steamship Seattle
Maru. Twenty-seven of Shanghai's
foremost Chinese banks have closed.
Following an investigation. begun
in st. Louis the interstate commerce
commission suspended until March /
next the date OF putting in effect the
advance in the rates of transporta-
tion.
D. p. Conger OF Detroit, son OF the
head of the United States weather
bureau station there, was placed un-
der arrest in Denver on the charge OF
forgery and working confidence
game.
The National City Evangelical
union Of the Methodist Episcopal
church, holding its eighteenth annu-
al conevtnion in Pittsburg. elected
Hanford Crawford of st. Louis as
president.
Charles Webb Murphy, the presi-
dent of the Chicago National League
Baseball club. says he stands ready
to give John T. Brush 100000 for
Christy Mathewson, the star pitcher
Of the Giants.
After an illness OF less than four
days, George A. Rasmussen, an in
structor In the Sioux City high
school. died OF infantlle paralysis. He
was the third adult to die in Iowa
of that disease.
Asbury Spicer, who has figured con-
spicuously in the Breathitt county
(Ky) feuds for many years. was CIV
en- life sentence In the state peni-
tentiary for the murder of Nephew
Asbury Fugate.
II Is feared that Solomon, settle
ment of a dozen houses on the beach
of Norton sound, twenty-three miles
east of Nome, was wiped out by the
unusual tidal disturbance which sent
flood in from the Bering sea.
The hearing by the London crimi.
nal court of appeals of the appeal OF
DR.. Hawley II. Crippen. under SEN
tence of death for the murder Of his
actress wife, Belle Gilmore, was post
poned to November 5.
Assistant postmasters who hope to
be transferred into the permanent
service of the government under the
civil service recently issued by Presi.
dent Taft must first stand rigid
examination as to their efficiency.
Asbury Spicer, who has figured
conspicuously in the Breathitt county,
Kentucky feuds for many years, was
given a life.sentence in the state
penitentiary for the murder of
Nephew Asbury Fugate last spring.
A formal request from Washington
for the detention of Harry Ham, o.
Caralson and Dan Archer. in custody
| at Acapulco and first believed to be
the Los Angeles dynamiters was
transmitted to the Mexican foreign
| Office.
Vital questions concerning the is.
| sues OF stocks and bonds by the rail-
roads engaged in interstate COM
merce will be investigated by the
Railroads Securities CO m IN s O n,
which will begin public hearings prob
ably on November 2S.
| The negotiations by a syndicate to
secure the controlling stock of the
Cramp Shipbuildng company have
been declared off.
| The Northern Central railway
stockholders have approved of lease
of their road to the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company for 800 years.
Americans who land cars in Eng.
land for four months tour or less
will no longer be subject to the pay
ment of license fee, and those from
whom fees may have been exacted
since May l last are likely to have
these amounts refunded.
Application was made to the super
Tor court in Seattle by State Food
Commissioner Davies for an order to
destroy a ton of turkeys and FIVE tons
of smelts, salmon. crab and Holsters
received last May from a California
firm to be placed in cold storage foi
the fall trade.
Personal.