The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-23
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.
QUESTION asked: "Is Nebraska to BE-
the Slugyer'S ~paradiSe?.''

QUESTION asked: us Nebraska to BE-
come the S~lugger'S paradise"!
EX-SENATOR PADDOCK, it is stated, has
Withdrawn his resignation as a member of
TIE Utah Commission.
POsToFFICE changes in Nebraska during.
The week ended uIay 10, 1854: Established
-Purdun. Sioux County; Geo. L. Purdun
postmaster. Name ~chansed-Sand Hiu,
Franklin County, to Alpine. PoStmaSters
appointed-Alpine, Franklin County, Chas.
a. GriSwold: Freeman, Gage County, EliZ-
abeth Mumford; Lone Star, Butler County,
Chas. 3 Stevens: Rock Bluff. CaSS County,
Chas. l.. Graves; Willow Springs, Wheeler
County, Richard G.. McCiimauS.
RECENTLY CLAYTON Johnson and Fred
Maberlin got to quarreling over Il board bill
az Ida Grove and Johnson shot Haberlin, the
ball striking him i'll tie abdomen. causing a
fatal wound. Johnson is a young man who
has borne a good reputation, and the SyTnpa-
thy of the community appears 10 be largely
with him..
Two amateur pugilists recently left the
Nebraska side. crossing the river into Iowa
to fight. One was sent to grass" twice,
whereupOn they concluded to fight it out
some other time.
ELIJAH WALTERS, fugitive from Iowa,
was recently arrested near Milford and
taken back by officers from Iowa. Walters
is wanted in Polk County, Iowa, to answer
the charge of embeZZlement from his emf
ployerS. The whereabouts of Walters
would never have been known had he nos
been betrayed by his brother who was also
arrested at Omaha as a fugitive from justice.
These men broke Jail in Des MOineS by pry-
ing out several stones from the wall OF
their Jail room by means of a crowbar
handed to them from the outside by their
friends in the absence of the jaiior. Fiji
teen in all escaped. but nearly all of them
have been recaptured.
Two rOughs recently severely beat Mr.. Il.
Adams at Omaha and pursued him into his
own house, when Adams seized 4 gun
loaded with duck-shot and fred the charge
into one of his assailantS. The roughs e-
capped.
THE Greenback State Convention recently
met at Lincoln and elected the following
delegates to the National Convention: ).
G.. Pace, Lincoln; L. W. Wheeler, Nemaha
Ed. j. Hall. Saunders County. The dele
gates are unrestricted, but supposed to favor
Butler.
MANY people left Omaha to witness the
recent prize fight between Fell and lianley.
near Clear Creek. On the return trip. rs on
the outward one, there We're fights at every
half dozen miles, but always quelled with
out more than a black eye or a cut cheek
bone. When nearing Willard many hard
fight, occurred in one of the ears, in which
several revOlverS Were discharged and
three men fell severely injured. One was
Ghrt ,Irn,rl, .I, b.aI mud 1nntLnr flrnp,fh
the face and the third under the arm. Two
of the wounded men are John Marks and
John Mcclellan. The third is unknown.
The train was stopped, half of the people
deciding to wait till the next one and the re-
mainder got off at intervals before Omaha
was reached, and when the train arrived
there We're but six eXcurSioniStS and three
men aboard.
THE Grand jury of Saunders County in
dicted Jim Fell and Jack ~lian.ey, principals
in the recent prize fight in that count, ), and
Hanley was arrested in Omaha and lodgedin
Jail. An officer was sent to Missouri TO. Fell.
The penalty for prize fighting in Nebraska
is from three to five years i'll the peniten-
tiary. Several newspaper reporters have
been suppHnaed as witnesses.
TIE State Medical Society recently closed
its fifteenth annual meeting at Omaha. A
vote of thanks WIS rendered the outgoing
officers for their labOrs during the yea just
passed. and to the various railroad cCmpa-
MES for their courteSieS 10 the Association.
Resolutions on the death of Willard Parker,
Samuel ID. Gross and J.. Marion Sims, three
world renowned men in the science of medi-
cine and surgery, who have died in tn. past
year, were adopted. 4 resolution was also
,lz-,tnI ht- rn-E,.l, tho nriAr IN, g nf
the Association are to be furnished with
blanks for births. deaths. contagious and
epidemic diseases. These when filleS out
are 10 be sent to DIR. Mansfield. of PldttS-
mouth. Secretary of the Association, who
will compile them and send his repOl. to
the Governor of the State each year. The
Governor, it is said, has agreed 10 transmit
these reports to the Legislature with his
recommendations. On the evening of the
adjournment the members attended a bal
Quet given them by the citizens.
SENATOR VAN WICK had a tilt with Se,l-
ator Blair in the Senate the other day while
a pension bill was under consideration. Ne
braSka'S Senator took exceptions to Mr..
Blair being too liberal with committee Sc
cretS.
A YOUNG man named James +. Bailey
was recently arrested at Omaha on the
charge of forgery. His crime was forging
his employers name to an order for 4 suit
Of clothes.
Il. W. DOWNING, q teacher in the Council
Bluffs Deaf and Dumb Asylum, visited
Omaha the other day and was shown the
sights by two soldiers named Williams and
Patten. and while walking on the railroad
track Downing received a terrible blow
from one of his companions, telling
him to the earth. He attempted
to rise but was again struck down. lie
begged piteously for his life, but his com
paniOnS still continued to beat him. When
Downing saw that resistance was useless he
feigned insensibility. After his soldier
companions saw that he was unconscious
they ritled his pockets, taking his watch
and seventy dollars in money. When they
had finished their work, Patten made the
remark, IF l thought he wasn't deal
would kill him. The soldiers then started
toward the city, leaving their victim le-
tween the rails. Hearing the means of the
wounded man, who began to feel some IS
surance of life. they ran with all possible
speed from him. When Downing felt 1t
was safe to venture, he arose and crawled to
the city. His aSSailants were arrested aid
jailed.
A LADY was recently run over and sert-
ously injured by a team driven by two reck-
less cOlOred boys ut Opaha.
THE Omaha Bee threatens to sting a pro-
tessiOual ''masher" if be don't subside.
OMAHA was recently disturbed by the