The Red Cloud chief., 1911-10-12


for president of Mexico.
Bandits held UP an NJ, X. & T. train
near Okesa, Okla. and rified the mail
and baggage cars, but II js believed
got little for their trouble.
Incessant rains for the past three
or four weeks have caused the Illinois
river to go on q rampage and much
damage has been caused as a result.
The special session of the forty.
ninth general assembly of Illinois
which recessed late in June until Oc
tober reconvened Tuesday.
The property loss caused by the
food at Austin. Pa, will exceed So.
OOO, 900 and It Is the general opinion
that the town will never be rebuilt.
Following a rainfall Of almost three
inches at 3 o'clock Sunday morning
st. Joseph Mo. was visited by tts
most disastrous food in It's history.
Considerable anxiety Is felt by the
officers in charge Of the work In the
wreckage at Austin, Pa. because OF
the non-arrival Of several cars OF sup
plies that have been reported on the
way.
Twenty.four coasting vessels went
ashore and forty small craft were
sunk in q storm that swept the
North sea Sunday. Many lives were
lost.
Tripoli has been bombarded twice
by the Italian feet. The first shot
was fred Tuesday afternoon. Shelling
was resumed the next morning after
q quiet night.
Italians gathered at Salonica from
all over Turkey. to sail for home, were
attacked by the Turks. There was
blody fighting. The exact death roll
is unknown but heavy.
A call has been issued for meet
ing of the national republican com
mittee at Washington. The meeting
will decide upon the time and place
Of the next convention.
Governor Dix OF New York has
signed a pardon for Captain Peter c.
Hams, jr.. who killed William Il. An.
mis- at the Bayside, l.. l., yacht club
house in August, 1908.
A special venire Of 125 possible
Jurors for the trial at Los Angeles OF
the Mcnamara brothers. alleged dy-
namiters, has been drawn. The trial
will begin on october II.
John Jinuse, a recent Immigrant
from Russia, was taken into custody
by detectives at Des Moines because
1t was feared he was plotting against
the life of President Taft.
George Schober. the heaviest man
In The United States, died at Jersey
City Wednesday. He weighed $50
pounds, and it required twelve pail.
bearers to handle his coffin.
Negroes OF Oklahoma may vote In
the election Of federal officers with
out heed to the grandfather" clause
Of the Oklahoma constitution accord
ing to a decision rendered.
Advices from Helsingfors. Finland.
indicate that the Firms are preparing
to resist. by peaceful means It pos
sible, by force II necessary. the new
Russian policy Of aggression.
Two sections of the bleachers at
the state fair grounds at Springfield.
ILL.,, collapsed during the races. About
750 persons were precipitated to the
ground, twenty being injured.
The fourteen men who were en-.
tombed in the SHAKESPEARE mine on
Nome creek. Alaska, were rescued
Monday, none the worse for their
confinement of eighty-four hours.
Six prominent Mexicans. one OF
them O Baptist preacher. were pol
soned near Sanderson, Texas. Sunday.
presumably from strychnine In the
ilour from which meal was prepared.
Robert Mitchell. an Illinois Central
switchman, was shot and killed in the
railroad yards at Mounds. Illinois. by
q machinist. brought as strikebreak'
er but later discharged for incompe-
tency.
In a fight in the freight yards Of the
Illinois Central at McComb City. Miss.
between strikers and strikebreakers.
several persons are reported to nave
been seriously injured, one probably
fatally.
Fifty persons were injured at Adde-
Vile, La. q number seriously and
several hundred thrown into a panic
when q grand stand at West Side
park collapsed. Several had limbs
broken.
A special session Of the Chickasaw
and Choctaw council assembled at
Tuskahoma, Okla, Monday to make
recommendation as to the disposition
OF tribal property and to wind up the
affairs of the tribe.
South Dakota. North Dakota. Mich
igan, Wisconsin, New York. Pennsyl'
vania, Oregon, Montana Minnesota,
Iowa. Missouri. Kansas, Oklahoma
and Nebraska are represented at the
land drawing at Gregory. s. ID.
There was q cheaper food" riot at
Warsaw directed against the Jews
In the suburbs. Three Jews and two
Christians were wounded. The po
lice restored order.
The French cruisers Lean Gam
beta, and Ernest Renan are IN readi
nkt -