The Red Cloud chief., 1911-08-24

Savings bank repositories are TO
be extended gradually TO practically
all of the postofIces In the United
| States.
Union button workers OF Muscatine,
Ia, again threaten q general strike
such as caused military rule here last
spring.
Floods in the province OF Anhul
China, have destroyed 325,000 acres
OF rice. Half million persons are
homeless.
Twenty-eight states were represent
ed in the registration for lands in the
Fort Brotherhood Indian reservation
In North Dakota.
Railroad lines are tied up and the
country to the west OF La Crosse.
Wis.,. is still isolated as the result Of
the floods OF Sunday.
The Alfaro government In Ecuador
was overthrown Friday by = revolu.
tion organized by the supporters Of
President.elect Estrada.
Prices OF beef are to be raised and
eastern retail dealers say the advance
makes the cost Of meat pass the high
water mark Of last fall.
Mohammed Al Mira, the ex-shah,
Is reported to be in full flight. after a
crushing defeat OF his forces by gov.
eminent troops at Teheran.
Senator James b. McCreary, the
democratic nominee for the Kentucky
g0vernOrship, filled that Office some.
thing like a generation ago.
After more than 200 years under
the aldermanic form OF city govern.
ment, Mobile, Ala, officially passed
under the commission form.
Governor Cruce has been notified
that a clash Is impending between
whites and negroes at Caddo. Okla,
and asked to prevent violence.
On August 90 Uncle Sam will throw
open to settlement over 10000 acres
OF land in northern Minnesota, 82,220
at Cass Lake and 1884 at Fon du Lac.
More than 500 lives were lost and
great devastation ashore and afloat
resulted from typhoon and tidal
wave which swept over Japan July 26.
Rising prices Of meats have reached
a new high record for the season In
New York city. Retail dealers report
heavy falling OF in trade, 100
Much property damage was done at
Walla Walla, Wash, when the worst
dust storm since 1886. according to the
weather observer, visited that sec.
ton.
Walter Clyde Jones. progressive re.
publican candidate for the guberna.
torial nomination, began an autOmo
bile tour of the eastern cities OF ILL.
nois Monday.
George Butcher. aged fifty-fve
years. city marshal at Missouri Valley.
Ia. was shot and instantly killed by
two tramps whom he was trying to
place under arrest.
When an emery wheel In the plant
of the Lennox Machine company at
Marshalltown, Iowa, bursted, q piece
struck Nicholas Jujgos, a Greek labor.
err, killing him instantly.
Frank Miller, while digging a we'll
near Pierre. 8. D., fell seventy.five
feet to the bottom. A board near the
bottom broke his fall and he escaped
with few minor bruises.
Two people were killed and thirty
were injured at Fort Wayne. Ind, in
the second wreck within a week OF the
Pennsylvania railroads Chicago-New
York eighteen-hour train.
A severe epidemic OF black small.
pox Is raging in Guadaloupe, San
Ygnacio, Montezuma and other points
In Mexico. The disease Is pronounced
OF the most virulent form.
Two aviators. William II. Badger OF
Pittsburg and St. Croix Johnstone OF
Chicago. both young men, lost their
lives at the international aviation
meet in Chicago Tuesday.
Following q parade of 5000 striking
garment workers and strike sympa.
thlzers at Cleveland Wednesday, the
police were called out to quell numer'
GUS cases Of rioting. A dozen arrests
were made.
China has been waging an anti.
opium war for years In the face OF
discouragement and temporary finan.
cial loss. 1t Is estimated that the az.
gregate annual loss in opium revenue
to the government will be about $780,.
100000.
The feast OF the assumption. Of
our lady Of the angels. and the
one hundred and thirtieth anniversary
of the founding of Los Angeles. were
celebrated Tuesday In accordance with
an annual custom.
Meetings with q view to settling the
controversy between the railway com.
panies and their employees were held
at the London board Of trade, but
when they adjourned the situation re-
mained as far from being solved as
when they began.
Francisco !. Madero's efforts to In.
duce the disgruntled revolutionists In
the state OF morelas. Mex. to submit
to disarmament have failed and Gen.