The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, January 05, 1900, Image 6
V Red Cloud Chief. pudi.isiikd wkkkly. HKI) CLOUD. NKDKASKA A rciiHlblu Rlil doesn't let a tick Kazcr daze her. Tlcvornllilc wcntlier Ih UHiintly due to slippery sidewalks. lio spider Ih seldom In danger when his life Ih hanging liy a thread. If the hens form trust they will probnbly try to lontrol tlio egg plant. A HiiliHluntlnl rode of ethics Ih much wore vnliinlilo than u historic coat ot lUIHS. Millions strive for wraith, thousands for fame--anil possibly n dozen to ho good. lloston Ih contemplating tin elevated railway on which to inn Its trains of thought. What man has done man can do, hut II'h never half so much as a woman ex pects him to do. The more experience a mini has In making good resolutions the poorer tho quality ho tutus out. No man ever had to stop climbing tliu ladder of fame because thuro wnsn t another rum; nhove him. Tho cheeky Individual usually gets there, hut It Is generally at tho expense of some one's good opinion. Women are queer creatures. One may laugh at you If you are rich and nolle on you If you are poor. A spinster of uncertain years who recently married u man named Ilopo xpenks of lit in as the Hope long de ferred. The liners may he making u mlstako when they try to shoot the Ilrltlsh gen erals. Those thnt would replace them might he hotter ones. Already the deepening of the Cana dian canals has Induced American grain-handlers to seek space for the erection of elevators at Montreal. Now, too, the Montreal legislature's action In prohibiting tho exportation of logs from that province Is compelling Mich igan lumhermen to transfer their Haw mllls to tho region of Georgian hay. There Ih surely some retaliatory meas ure that can lesson the complacency of till-so Canadians over their "smart jiess." In 1830 a mining party of thirty men started from Chicago for the North west territory of Canlda, lured thither hy talcs of a region where tho qimrtr, assayed -SO ounces of gold to the ton. Tills HI Dorado proved to he a myth, and after harrowing experiences of t-tarvatlou, sickness and disillusion ment, the HiirvlvorH nro said to ho try ing to heat their way hack to tho hap py shorcH of Lake Michigan, whom the worst that can happen to one Is to ho whero one can eke out a living in win ter time hy the healthful and soothlug occupation of shoveling snow, which Is enough arctic oxperlenco for any rea sonable individual. An nctrcss stopped tho play recently In a New York theater to allow tho conversation In one of tho boxes to go on. It was a stern rebuke, hut was It undeserved? "Nothing In all my ca reer," said Madame Mnrchesl, tho great Pnrls music teacher, "has annoyed me more than chatter during my singing." Onco when bIio was singing at the Ger man ambassador's, and the noise hud reached Its height, shu suddenly ceased. The host rushed up. "I wish to he listened to," she said In clear tones, and silence followed. It is doubtful If any of thoso who had thus trespassed on the artist's rights and on the enjoy ment of tho other guests, ever re peated the offense. It Is proposed to establish In con nection with tho Chicago public school system a two years' courso In domestic science for girls, to provide for all In tho seventh and eighth trades a thorough study of domestic economy, Including not merely cook ing, but buying hearty and economical foods, arranging them neatly on the table, arranging hills of fare that shall bo both cheap and appetizing. Tho en tiro care of tho houso Is also to be in cluded In the work, which by Its most ardent ndvocates Is known as "home making." It Is advocated from two standpoints, tho pedagogical and tho sociological. From the first It Is con sidered as a manual training for girls, which Bhall do for them nil that tho shop work docs for the boys; from tho second It la considered a necessary step In tho improvement of tho living conditions of tho masses. For these reasons It has tho support of many prominent persons of both classes, and lias by them been brought to tho atten tion ot tho board of education. American energy and enterprise are stamping themselves on tho European and ABlatlc mind and stimulating of tort aH never before. A mechanical turn is helm; given to tho awakening mind of all the people with whom wu come In contact. (Ion. Duller has not shown any marked superiority over tho other Drlt lsh olUcers In gaining ground, but hu has demonstrated a refreshing willing ness to tell what luipponcd, nnd, more over, to tell It clearly and Intelligently. FORCE IS Men Behind Bullcr Believe in the General. DON'T LIKE THE CHANGE TO ROBERTS Ilnvn Itrtnlved lo llcdeera ThemelTi at Next lliitlle mid Help to Vindi cate Their Coniinander-ln-ChUf Face Strong I'oiltlon. A London, December St, dispatch nays: The Morning Post has received the following from Mr. Churchill, un der dale of December M, telegraphed from Chlevely camp, where ho has ar rived: "All ranks have complete confidence In Sir Kedvcrs Duller, .tuil there Is a stern determination to succeed next time at all costs. A painful impression was caused by the announcement of the change of commander-in-chief, and the soldiers here arc resolved to vindicate their trusted leader. "The situation, nevertheless, Is illfll colt, the Doer position being one, of extraordinary strength, with high hills, lined tier on tier with trenches and galleries, rising from an almost uufordable river and witli a smooth plain In front. "Tho enemy have all the ranges marked, and many powerful guns dom inate the various points of the river, while thu drifts are commanded by converging musketry .tlio from prob ably l'J.OOU Doers. Then; arc sixteen miles of wild, broken country before reaching Ladysmith, which demands early relief." The Dour trench work Is so good that it enables tho enemy to hold u long lino with very few men, and to travel great distances under perfect cover, so as to reinforce any point attacked. Dispatches from Modder river repre sent Dutch disaffection in (iiiqullund West as growing very serious. In homo towns the entire Dutch popula tion has joined the Doers. Anxiety regarding the attitude of tho colonial Dutch, is steadily growing. They make- no effort to conceal their hympathy with tho two republics, and the only question now U whether, if the military situation is not changed, they will keep from open rebellion. FLEE TO THE HILLS. Complete Rout of limnrconti Near Mnntalhaii. Colonel Lockott, with a fores of 2, .100 including artillery, says a Manila ills patch of tho 27th, attacked a strong force of Insurgents hi tho mountains near Montalban, about five miles north east of San Mateo. The enemy was completely routed, tho Americans pur suing them through the hills, amid which they fled in every direction. Four Americans were wounded. Tho Filipino loss was large, resulting from a heavy infantry and artillery fire for three hours into tho trenches. It Is supposed tho Insurgents were those who were driven out of Sail Ma teo on the day General I.awton was killed. They numbered probably a thousand. A dozen lines of insurgent trenches covered tho steep trail through tho hills and likewise the valley below, along which the Americans passed. Tho mala attacking party consisted of tho Forty-sixth volunteer Infantry, a troop of cavalry and artillery, Colo nel Lockett commanding. The rest of the troo a separated at different points In an endeavor to carry out Colonel Lockett's plans of throwing his Hues arouud tho enemy and thus cutting off retreat. Tho nature of the country made it Impracticable to execute this I lovcmciit successfully. American Negro A en demy. The American negro academy, an or ganization of educators, clergymen and other prominent men of the race, met at Washington in uunual session nt the Lincoln Memorial Congregation al church. At an afternoon session papers were read by W. S. Scarborough of Wilbcrforeo university and Peter II. Clark of tho St. I.ouls summer high school. Thursday President W. It. Du bois of the Atlanta university deliv ered his annual address, bis text being "The Present Outlook for tho D.uk Races of Mankind." New Untie. Col. William J. Volknuir, assistant adjutant geueral, has been relieved from duty in the department of Colo rado, and ordered to temporary duty at New York in the department of the cast, on '.omplctlon of which ho will proceed to Havana, Cuba for assign ment to duty as adjutant general of the division of Cuba. Nmallpnx Among Indians. Smallpox among tho Indians in the fndian territory and Crow Creek agency In South Dakota and other eservatlons has assumed serious phases. Congress immediately after reconvening will bo asked for an ap propriation of S.10,000 with which to ttamp out the epidemic. Tho l'urt ot Wliilom, A Connecticut farmer who Is a largo grower of turnips, nnd who has suf fered heavily through tho pilfering propensities of the villages, this year planted a special part of the placo and put up a notice: "You aro requested to steal out of this part of the field," AbolUh Cnfiou l',iiurt Tut. Word has been received here iccently that tho Mexican government has abol ished tin export tax on colTee. This is expected to have a considerable effect In tho United States by Incrciiblng tho receipts of Mexican coffee, FAirnrUL SHOCK WAS MOST SEVERE Earthquake Shock Leave Devolution be- html It San Jacinto, Cal., Is a scene of deso lation. People arc beginning to recov er from the terror Inspired by the earthquake which centered there on Christinas morning, and destroyed "'- I or? building in the town, and definite estimates of the damage wrought can now he made. At the Kabtibn Indkn reservation a number of bquaws had huddled to gether in au old adolM! building and were sleeping off the effects of liquor Imbibed at a dance the night before. The heavy walls fell In upon them. Six were killed outright and two died later while a score more are badly Injured. Main street presents a sad appear ance. Two-story brick walls were rami to the level of the ground, with thousands of dollars worth of tncr liiandisc buried beneath. Thoru Is not a business house In town but has suf iercd. Klecliio wires are down and some of the power houses have fallen in. The walls of tl r county hospital, erected recently at a cost of SIO.uuo are badly damaged. STRONG PRESSURE USED Violator! of lutcrnnl ICeioimc I mv Ap- prill I'or 1'ariloii. An application for the pardon of Jo seph Wilklns anil Howard Dutlcr, now serving terms in the Moyauicnslng prison, Philadelphia, for violating the oleomargerlno laws, has been made to President McKlnley and the attorney general now has it under considera tion. All the personal and political prcssuru wielded by the olconiargcrlne Interests of tho west is being used in behalf of the convicted men. For three years tho cases were stubbornly con tested in the courts. Wllklns and Dul ler were apprehended by Internal rev enue agents In the act of removing stamps and other marks from over one hundred packages of oleomargerlne in warehouses on the water front In Phil adelphla. BURIED BY A SNOWSLIDE Accident on I lie White 1'aim uail Yul.on Rnllronil. News of a big snowslide on the Whlto Pass and Yukon railroad, was brought to Victoria, II. C by the steamer lees. A rot-iry and two engines were buried by the slide and after they were shoveled out the rotary ran into a rock, knocking out fourteen of its twenty knives. The train which was behind the snow-bucking outfit was not damaged. P. Oregon, one of those who en deavored to walk to Skaguay from the snow bound train, was found uncon scious with his face and hands frozen. The operator at (Hauler reported to Skaguay that the track there was covered for a distance of 8.10 feet with snow from live to twenty feet deep. Telegraph wires beyond Olacier are down. MORTON MAY BE PRESIDENT Ankcd to Heroine lie id or Itcorcuulzed (iiilf Sjptlrui. Paul Morton, third vice president of the Santa Fo railroad, may be asked to accept the position of president of the reorganized Kansas City. Pittsburg .t (Julf system. Ills name was seriously considered at a meeting of the execu tive committee, and plans were dis cussed which, if carried out in their entirety, will result in a new railroad system which will reach from the At lantic to the Pacific seaboards ami to the (Julf of Mexico on tho south. The proposed trans-continental sys tem necessitates a 'combination be tween tho Harriman syndicate and James J. Hill. FRENCH MINERS QUIT WORK Only SB I'cr Cent Knlrr the I'll ut SI. Ktenne. A St. Ktenno, France, Decembar 2(1 dispatch says: Tho coal miners aro calm, but tho mines arc guarded by troops. Only 2." per cent of the lnineis descended Into the pits today. The lace workers held a meeting this morn ing nnd resolved to continue the strike. The cabinet council held at the Klysce palace, Paris, discussed the St. Ktenno strike. The premier M. Will-dcck-Kousscau, and the minister of public works, M. Daudin, announce that measures would bo taken to pre vent a serious shortage of tho coal supply. A CLAIM OF SELF-DEFENSE llllud Clill War Veteran Coufemic to Killing' HI Wife. Franklin II. Livingstone, a blind man, aged fifty-six years, choked his wife, Uosie Livingstone, to death at their home In Daltimore, Md., and then gave himself up to tho police. Livingstone claims that his wife tried to smother him with a feather bed that be succeeded in choking her and put her body in the bath tub. He was locked up. Jealousy Is thought to have been the motive for tho crime. The man is a civil war veteran, having lost his eyesight by a shell in the bat tle of Fair Oaks, lie had a pension of 81',' a mouth. I.lfe Mileage of a I. otter-Carrier. Duvld Haiusay, a letter-carrier who delivers mall in Alyth, Scotland, from the Kirriemuir postotrlec, has Just been retired at the age of 80. He figures that In tho thirty-seven ycar3 ho has been delivering' mall ho has traveled 232,000 miles. Comluf; hy llsiiy Siller, (loneral Drooke, who arrived at St. Augustine, Fin., from Cuba, is not coming north at on.e, but will stop at some convenient southern iv.s'irt for a time In order to avoid a sudden cli mate change. WAS FATAL WRECK Life Lost In a Collision Ft eights at Columbus. of EfiR HAS A VERY NARROW ESCAPE 1'ln.ied llimn In the. Wreck, lint lit Kicupri Without living Injured Th .Sudden Dentil of u Tanner Hay Cause I ntcntlsutlnn. A railroad wreck, which resulted in the loss of one life occurred at Colum bus. Freight No. '.' crashed into the rear end of au extra freight standing on the track, completely demolishing the engine and four cars. The en gineer was pinned down In the cab, but was extricated without injury, while the fireman saved his Hfo by Jumping. Tin dead man is C. J, dross of Pine DlulV, Wjo.. who was accom panying a car of hor.-cs which he wa i taking to Pennsylvania. He was in 4tantly killed by being hurled from tho caboo-se. and his b.idy was picked up in a mingled condition. Nino horses Wv r.' killed. The accident was eaus-d by escaping steam from the round house, which ob scured the lights on the extra. Mrs. (!ros-t, accompanied by her brother, Mr. Donne, came to Columbus and they returned to Wyoming with the remains. It U tvport-il that Mr. liross was a man of considerable wealth. Klght thousand dollars in drafts and checks were found on hN person at the time of the accident. EXPIRES IN CONVULSIONS liiidtlcii Death Nv:tr lluiiilinlilt May I. Mill to luicittlgMtloii. 1. ester Wil-on. a well to do farmer, iving three or four miles' northwest of Humboldt, died very suddenly after a sickness of only thirty minutes. The exact particulars of the death arc not obtainable, but eircumitanccs sur rounding tiie case indicate that the d'ath might not be due to natural cause- He was taken with cr.uupi while in the room with his family and died In convulsions before medical aid -ould be secured. There Is a possibil ity that a post mortem examination may be necc.s-.ary to determine the cause w lilcli led to his death. HE ESCAPES THE GALLOWS Murderer Tom Collins Ih Olteu a Life Sentence. Tom Collins, the murderer of Charles .'. Crove, was found guilty by a jury la Judge linker's court at Omaha and his punishment was determined at life in the penitentiary. Laughter rang out from behind the gloomy walls of the county jail. It was Collins' celebration of his escape from the gallows. From the tini" the case was submitted to tlio jury until the verdict was rendered Collins was morose and downcast. He said noth ing in explanation, but it is now ap parent that hu was brooding over ills apparent proximity of th gibbet. Hunter Kilt a Tame Deer. A tin.' large deer was killed by a brace of hunters on the farm of M. II. Marble, a couple of miles south of Ta ble Dock, ami the killing is likely to cause quite a constrover-y, as it is said to be a tame deer that hid evaped a year or two since from J. C. Atkinson's park at Pawnee City, and for which he had quite u reward offered. Prosecu tion under the state law has been threatened if any of the venison N found. Church Hum. Tho American Daptist church at Stronisburg was totally destroyed by tire Sunday at midnight. Tin? congre gation was holding watch meeting at U::iu p. in., the pastor, .1. L. lied- bloom, and Janitor Cowan were In the basement inspecting the acetylini; light plant, which was ceasing to give light, when suddenly an explosion occurred. The destru ilou of the church followed. i:iilltlns lo right KiiRUrul. Something of a sensation has been created in Chadron when it was stated that Col. John ('. Maker and Allen (J. Fisher had a movement on foot to organize a regiment of Nebraskans to go to South Africa in behalf of the Doers. It is said a total of s.1u have been enlisted. Declared liMime, Thompson, the former Missouri U.C Pacific ajront at Talmage. who left fiat place and was found in Omaha and taken to Nebraska City, was before the board of commissioners recently and adjudged Insane by them and will b taken to the asylum at Lincoln. Methodist Church Medication. Dedicatory services were held at Nebraska City In tho First Methodist Kplscopal church, which has been un dergoing cxtensUe remodelling and Improvements and was completed re cently. North mill South Itullnny. A dispatch from Hastings says that matters aro reported to be progressing nicely with tho new North and South Hallway company. The line has been surveyed from Davenport to a point cast of Clarks.and runs through one of the best agricultural sections of the state. The company has nlready se cured forty-five miles of tho neccssniy right of way and report that thete will be no dinicitlty In securing the balance. In addition to this stock subscriptions have been taken to the amount ol S-'OJDU. - - IRISH MAIL IS TAKEN OFF tin Served IM I'iirioo and Mtiat Stand Aftldo for Modern Method. With the beginning ot tlu new year, jays an Omaha dispatch, the 'irtsh mall" will wave its green Hag In a last farewell and the old "dummy." as it was inoro often called In recent years, will run no more after a quarter of century of active existence. Away back In thu early '70s the Irish mall service was established by the Union Pacific to ply between Omaha and the Union Daclllc transfer on the Council Dluffssldc. In those days all trains from the east stopped short at Council DtulTs and everything was there transferred to the Union Pacific. So unless they were through passen gers every Omaha arrival had to trans fer to the "Irish mail" to come across, for which a quarter has always been charged unless the original tickets read to Omaha. As the years went by the eastern trains began to make Omaha their western terminus, so there became less transferring by the dummy, or Irish mail. Dut the Irish mail then began running through to South Omaha for the benefit of the packing house em ployes. When the new union passen ger station was completed the next of the last of the trains terminating nt Council Dluffs the Sioux City and Pa cificbegan running to this side. Now all that Is left that is made up at tho union transfer is a local Quincy route train. So the Irish mail, having served its turn, will be discontinued Jan uary 1. FOR A FIRE-PROOF LIBRARY Mr. Carnegie Unn r.Tldcntly Mndo Cp IIH Mind. A telegram has been received at Lin coln giving further information of tho decision of Andrew Carnegie to give a fire-proof library to Lincoln. The tele gram Is as follows: Ai'sn.v, Tex., Dec. 20. To The Journal: Mrs. Dryan has been corre sponding with Hon. Andrew Carnegie in regard to a library building for Lincoln, She liar, just received a letter from hlui dated December "0, saying: "If the library has a good start al ready and Is maintained by public tax, I would be glad to giro the money to build a fire-proof library. Would S.'iO, 003 be sufficient? I think probably S7.',(H)0 would be needed. Would you kindly confer with those who take the deepest interest In the library and let me know'."' .Mrs. Dryan haswrlttm Mr. Carnegie In favor of the larger building and will mail the letter (Mr. Carnegie's letter) to Mr. Oerc, president of the library association. W. J. DitVA.v. On the day after this letter was writ ten, Congressman Mercer received a letter from Mr. Carnegie, saying: "I have, just given Lincoln S7ri,0.'G for a library." It Is presumed that Mr. Mercer's letter contains, the second thought of the iron master and that he will give the larger. sum when he learns more about the situation at Lincoln, which he will soon through tho library board. WunU Her Ilimhand Found. A dispatch from Atlanta, Oa., says chat a woman who was formerly Miss Laura Tucker of Lincoln, later Mrs. J. 11. Mct'ormack of Salt Lake City, and still later Mrs. Lon Miner, has asked the police of Atlanta to locate and ar rest her husband. Her first husband, Mr. McCoimack, died in Salt Lake City about one year ago. Soon after ward she married a man by the uamo of (Jcnc Hobinson. He deserted her and she followed him to Atlanta, (la., where she learned his true name was Lon Minor. There he remarried her under his right name. He has again deserted her and hhe asks that he bi arrested. Union rnclllc llrukeman Killed. Kdward (J. Wright, a brakeman in the Union Pacific switching gang at Ames, was killed by the cars. He tried to jump on a moving freight, but fell beneath the wheels. His body was literally cut In half jimt below tho waist. No one saw the accident and the exact manner of the occurrence Is not known. Deceased was twenty nine years old and leaves a wife and two little boys in Omaha. He was a member of the Masonic, Maccabees and Highlander orders of (Jraud Island. Horn to Chlcnco. V. C. Darber, assistant pathologist at tlio experiment station of the state uni versity, has gone to Chicago to ncccpt a position with the Pasteur Vaccine company, Importers of vaccines, anti toxins and remedies manufactured by the Pasteur laboratories at Paris, France. This company has increased its working staff from one man in 183.1 to fifty men in IS',19. Mr. llarber passed a rigid examination nnd goes w ith good recommendations. Die nt Age of Nlnct iltioe, Mrs. Catherine Wood died at Table Rock, at tho residence of her daughter, Mrs. Kmily Wcmplo, at the advauced ago or nincty-ihreo years, sno was born May 1, JSOU, in Albany county, N Y., where she was inariiid October i, in-.. North llend is going to have a quail eating ccntest a prize for tho one who cats one quail a day for the greatest number of days. January P. 10. nnd 11, the fancy poultry people of Madison nnd adjoin ing counties will have a poultry show at Dattlo Creek. Miss Helen Knight, a Hastings Foliool teacher, sues that city for Sl'.'.ooo damages. She was out riding on her bike November I. last, and ran against a i top box at a street crossing, and hit th t ground, (.masking a few bones nnd J her vhi;ci. 0UII BUDGET OF FUN. SOME GOOD JOKES, ODIGINAL AND SELECTED. Variety of Quip, lilhru nnd Ironlrn, lo Cum o n Hmlle l'!nlitii nml lelmtin from the Title of Humor Witty gjjlnci. Where It Hurt. "Why are you weeping?" naked tho loving husband. "When llttlo Harry and I went down town today," sho sobbed, "the con ductor Insisted that I must pay for the child." "Oh, well," he said, "I wouldn't let that bother me. Wlmt'D a nickel to lis?" "It Isn't tho nickel," she Indignant ly replied. "It's tho Impertinence ot Hie brute of a conductor In Insinuat ing that It Is possible for me to be tho mother or a child more than ten years old." Chicago Times-Herald. Uood Ilraaou. Hor-on "You know that part In tin ,ilay wheie the man seizes tho woman, forces her Into a closet and tuni3 tho key on her?" I'sbort "Yes; I remember It." "Well, last nlRht a fellow In the au dience applauded it so that they had to put him out." "I don't think there la anything to applaud about that part of the play " "Oh, but It turned out that the fol low applauding wan the husband of tho actress, and It was the first time ho had ever seen anybody shut her up." Yonkcrs Statesman. Rooster Oh, pay, this is a cinch. Al the other chickens down the hill and the old lady with such a cold she can't call them. Already She Had Ilegun In Prepare. "If you keep on hb you have hcKun, Mabel," complained the young hus band, running his eye over tho week ly account, "wo shall never be abio to lay up anything for a ralK day." "How can you say so, Henry," ex claimed the young wife, righteously indignant, "when you know that I have two of the loveliest rainy-day skirts that wore ever made!" Stray Stories. Ilroocht It Cpon Hlmialf. "What Is the woman's offense?" "Sho threw a brick at a neighbor, your honor, and hit a man standing be hind her." "The man Is guilty of contributory negligence. If ho hadn't been an idiot, he would have atqdfeln front ot her. Case is dlsnilsseijMf Jtrsy tlto lies. Natural Inference. "It seems strange that you never re ceived a proposal of marriage," re marked the sarcastic girl. "Who says I never received a pro posal of marriage?" demanded the other. "Why, no one, of course, but I've always understood that you aro a eplnster." Chicago Evening Post. Thou I.otIiis (llrli. Maude Mr. De Jones asked mo to sing for him the other evening after we had been Introduced. Clara And what did you sing? Maude Why, how do you know that I sang at all? Clara Well, I noticed that ho didn't ask you to slug to-night. Chicago News. A Difference In Taite. "I saw you kissing my daughter. I don't like It, sir." "Then you don't know what's good, ilr." Life. In tho Harny.ird. 1'ollteneit In the Conn try. "Hand me ray hat, Schorch!" "What do you want of it?" "I want to take It off to tho par son when lis passes! " Fllegendo Ulaelter. A rnrerait, "Tho Indications ure," remarked the aian who was looking at the sky with in expression ot great wisdom, that It rill bo cold and raw." The man who has trouble with tho jervant girl problem meekly Inquired: "What are you talking about, the tveather or dluner?" Washington Star. Irreiiienll), "Pa, what Is a drawn battlo?" "It Is one In which tho enemy father the beat of It." Puck. has I. )