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Show Oullitntry of the HioiiK. AcfdTe.spondent who has just returned from J 'inn Jtidne agency tells a Flory of tie) vi.'diinjj Sioux Jndiami who are now in Wnsliiligton. "Itciidius of the reception, the Indians received iu church .Sunday, and the (act that tiiey iitte.'..1.!"! tho theatre Monday evenintf, recalls a funny incident that happened when they were in I'liicao en route to Wanhinijton. The manager v, !n has charge of the) visiting Indians thought ho would iiinnse them by taking I them to tho theatre in tie.! evening. Ho never for a moment thought that tragedy would rouso the warlike nature of which the Sioux is no abundantly on- uowed. Well, heg(,t them into wtvoral Ltixcs all right, and everything went Well until the third act. "Tho play wan a h"avy tragedy, and fn this net the heroine was to be killed. T'Iib minuti) tho villain attempted to strike tho woman with a kuifo three of the Sioux lo.se from their mats and actually act-ually prepared to leap over tin) boxes onto tho stago for tho purpose of rescuing rescu-ing tho heroine. The theatre was fiooa In an uproar, and it was only by removing remov-ing tho three refractory Indians from tlia theatre that the actors could proceed. That also cxpIainH why they were taken to see a light opera iu Washington." Philadelphia Press. |