The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
NEBRASKA state NEWS.

THE Omaha Bee threatens tn sting a pro.
tessioial '.masher' if lie don't subside.
TIE Stanton creamery has commenced
operations.
TuE Catholics of Ponca are building 4 So
600 church.
PICKPoCKETs are said TO be doing a profit
able business at the L. & NJ. depot at
Lincoln.
COLONEL WARNER, of Dakota County.
expects 10 gather over one thousand. bushels
Of apples from his orchard this year.
REV. j. j. FLEIIARTY, founder and first
President of the Wesleyan University at
Fullerton. died in Florida recently.
r d. SILVER. of Lincoln. has been
awarded the contract for building the peni-
Tertiary at Santa Fe, y. NJ, tOcost Sl3O,o0o.
WHILE Mr.. August Doll and his wife,
of Omaha. were out riding recently they
We're thrown from the buggy and Mrs. Doll
seriously injured about the head.
Mr.. NJ. BLACK, a tTayelmgdealer in fancy
groceries, was held up by two men az
Omaha the other night aud robbed of $780,
THERE is considerable mortality among
hogs reported in various sections. One
Saunders County farmer sustained a loss of
81, 900 in three weeks.
DURING April there was filed upon at lie
land-of,ice at Valentine, 81 claims, or all put
1880 acre sDs "a, and is at the ,, present time 1f'y
y .;ENEwAL of dress parades and music
by the Military Band is decidedly pleasing
to the people of Omaha.
THE new building just erected by Mr..
Charles Slatterly. at Lincoln, was burned
the other night. Two other buildings, one
occupied by 6. W. Gale, and the other by
the grocery store Of John Jones, were also
burned. Loss about 1000; partially in
sured. Supposed To be the work of an in
cendiary.
The late convention of druggists at Oma-
ha Wa attended by fully two hundred drug
gists of the State. The meeting next year
will be held at Omaha the second We,ineS-
day in May.
A MEETING Of the State Board OF Agri-
culture was held recently al Omaha. There
were present Chairman Barker, Secretary
Fm1laS and Mcssrs. Jensen, White, Me
lntyre. Dinsniorc, Bowers and Treasurer
Hartman. ID. II. Wheeler, as sp+ci@i sta
t~istician of the United States Agricultural
Department, presented his line of work and
asked the board TO make all appropriation
Ia not exceed seven dollars per month 10
publish the saiue for distribution. The IT.
quest was granted. Mr.. Druse reported
that he had arranged with certain stock
breeders to have a respectable showing at
the Fair. MesSrS. Nye, Daniels, Harvey
and bailey will sell and exhibit. The board
retains the right to take five per cent. of
sales FROM anv exhibitor. and also allows
them to chose their own auctioneers.
ID. l.. HrGHES, 4 college student, was
,1r,,. ~. -, Oh. DT,,n D1x..r ..A,,ty nIg,ty
one mile north of Crete.
THE President has nominated John d..
Seaman Receiver OF Public Moneys at North
Platte. .a
J. ii. Russell. Of lincoln. recently dis
appeared and it was feared had committed
suicide. Several weeks ago he said lie
would live just twenty days longer. The
time was up m the day OF his disappear
ance, and lie quit work saying that he had
doae the last days work he would ever DO
IN this earth. II is thought he drowned
iiI,Selt.
FIVE special trains of seven coaches each
recently took a Methodist excursion of over
sesen hundred people TO Omaha.
TIE Bank of North Bend has filed its
ell ar;er with the Secretary of State. Capt.
tai $50, 000.
MAJOR FRANKLIN SWEET, Inspector
General of the Nebraska National Guard.
has been ordered to make an examination at
once of the companies of the First Regi-
ment and Company \, First Light Artillery. |
order calls for a critical Inspection OF
the militia, iii order TO bring to the knOwl- |
edge OF the Executive Department the exact
condition of the militia as TO their dis
cipline. drill, soldierly appearance, anus, |
srmor.es and general efficiency.
SEvEEvL weeks since a Lancaster
County couple procured license at Lincoln
and then went into Saunders County and
were married. Being informed that the
marriage was irregular. and although the
statute has a saving clause that provides for |
cases in which the ceremony is performed
by an unauthorized person, but i'm which the |
contracting parties act in good faith, they
were not disposed to have any doubt hang |
Ing over their matrimonial matters. and &C.
cOrdinsiy returned To Saunders County, pro-
cured a second license and were again
married.
\ UNBER of newspaper reporters were
summoned as witnesses in the trial of
lianley, the prize fighter, at WahOo.
THE first freight train with air brakes
ever used passed through Lincoln the other
morning. 1t was from Chicago and bound
for Denver. The train had tweaty-tiIree
ears of dead freight and three private
coaches. containing a number of railroad
The experiment is pronounced a
success. 1t made twenty-Seven miles an
hour and much time was saved in stopping.
and no damage to goods from CONCLUSIONS
prevailed
THE Democratic State Convention met at
Lincoln Oh the I'D. Ii. /. IIinman, OF
Lincoln County, was chosen Chairman. j.
Sterling Morton. James +. BOYD. W. III.
Munger and Tobias Castor were elected
delegates at large To the National Conven-
ton. James L. North, q. W. johnson. Il.
|. Hinman and Charles J. Bowlby were
altemateS. The convention then
dissolved into district conventions, and the
first district elected q. L. Marvin. of Rich
ardSOn. and John A. Creighton. of Douglas.
delegates. and G. W. Pool. of Johnson, and
j.. A. Fandemark. Of Saunders, ~alternates.
The second district elected Il. a. Beatty, of
Adams, and J. A. Rittenhouse. of Hamil-
ton, as delegates; j.. w. Ferguson, If
Kearney. and j. X. Kennedy, of Harlan.
The third district elected
Patrick Daily. of Holt and Judge John q.
Higgins, of Platte, delegates; S. G. Glover.
of Washington. aud II. q. BonesteeI, of
Knox, aiternateSa $3.50
THE Nebraska State Homeopathic So
ciety met at Omaha OF the I'D. The at
$500 $3.50. la 49, -.- A