The Red Cloud chief., 1884-07-25


Is Dakota County the apple crop h ex
pected To be large thi1 seaAuo. Co'Ooe
Warner will have ~ thousand bushels
John Finnerty tVo thousand bushei, an<
numerous others viii have from i've hun
dred to one thousand busbelA
A wKrrER In the Omaha Bee calls thu
attention Of the Humane Society % the cas-
of . private soldier confined In the NilItar!
Prison. who was sentenced - seven years
imprisonment for desertion, and who. tht
writer charges, Is .'xnsekied with twelve
pound irons, both legs being shackied 10
gether in such . way that be can haril,
walk. and has been 20 for nearly two years
and Is compelled TO work and sleep will
them on In fact, they are never OF. Hi,
legs are all skinned. and the flies give him
the crueiest torture" The soldier. he says
yet has i've years 10 seve and to suffer.
THE Valley County far will be held on
September p. "A and IS.
THE Omaha Street Railway has again
been sold and the new company has bondes
the road for three hundred thousand dollar.
for the purpose Of extending the line.
NISDES claims to have received and
III ~ - fooi> vi kDDSiS. saitSu -
S2.364, OBS. since January.
A FLoATER was found In the river a,
PlattsmOuth recently.
A BLACK burglar struck North Platte ths
other night and received the contents of a
revolver in the neck. He broke into the
store Of j.. {. Hupfer and was helping him
self to the nickels in the till, when Hecto,
MART, n Of the clerks sleeping in the
store. blazed away. When the smoke cleared
a dead darkey was stretched upon the floor.
ALA, the three-year-old girl Of Mr.. X
L. Livingston, Of Lincoln, recently strayed
away from her parents residence and when
the alarm was given police and citizens
Joined in the search. When found the little
one was more than q mile from home. hay.
ing wandered through the heart Of the citv.
When asked about her trip she answered
II dis dot out an tum."
BECAUSE of the accumulation Of new
criminal cases at Omaha. a special Grand
Jury has been ordered by the District Court
DIR. W. II. MEYERS, a we'll known
physician of Lincoln, was recently attacked
yith epilepsy and fell down the stairs OF
hft death the following day.
nv. Dir +. y. POTTER, President OF
HohaeS ColIege, has declined the BislrOprio
Of N4ku1hs. To which he was recently
In attaAt9ting to seperate two dogs that
were hghtuG. Willie Yates. q t~en-year-old
boy Of Oma0ak w1s badly Uftten in the hand
which may n Tire Nnputation.
BURGLARS ire sbecome SO bold at
Omaha that they lkvethe temerity to enter
the house Of the u&puty Sheriff, just to
show what they caS -.
THE late storm did IN tnmense amount
Of damage In Saline cbuuty. The storm
belt was ten miles sOu1k a. Friend and
passed almost due east frUAk the west. com
ing from the direction of HArde1d. u was
about three miles wide, the epstroction be-
ing greatest In the center audi eseaing to-
ward the edges. The hail stOu>s wore al
most the size Of hen eggs, and 0fIi lAAors
some having edges so sharp as t0sSut IN
corn stalks and limbs as though q kTnts H
been used. In the center Of the storm sorn
was cut down till only stubs six to ZEN
inches long marked where IL stood. Gr1ta
and grass were fairly pounded into thG
earth, and a great part Of the visited area
suffered a total loss Of all growing crops.
A NUMBER of prominent gentlemen met
in the Senate Chamber at Lincoln the other
day and effected an organization to be
known as the Nebraska Centennial Com
mission. Robert w. Furnas was named
Chairman, and John G. BOnncll Secretary
Of the commission. SubcommIssioners
were appointed to take charge of the differ
ent departments or bureaus assigned
them, and prepare for arranging the dis
play TO be made by Nebraska at New
Orleans. 1t wass decided that each
member Of the State Agricultural and Horti-
cultural Societies should be asked by Com.
missioner Furuas to aid In securing speci-
mems Of grains, grasses. root products, etc,
and to forward them to him at Omaha when
notified and requested. A special selection
of gentlemen from every locality in the
State was also made to make cOllections In
their districfS and to render such other aid
as may beS0ecworth in &c work Of giving
the State De showing In the great
NassAsKA crops OF all kinds are report.
ed better than ever before. The season has
North-rn and Eastern Nebraska, embracing
In territory moro than one hundred miles
west and south from, the northeast corner OF
the State, without . single exception are all
Of the most fiatterihg kind. South Of the
Platte the reports are equally fiattering.
THE B. & M.suffered a number of serious
wash-Outs from the late rains
AT Omaha, Judge Dundy recently
sentenced w. II. Holden, who had pleaded
guilty of stealing registered letters at Aims
worth, to imprisonment until May 5th. 1856,
In the Minnesota Penitentiary 1t Saltwater.
. P~OsT-oFPgCE changes In Nebraska during
lbe week ended July IL: Established-Cars
~ Brown County. David Beattie, p. NJ:
Rsgess. Colfax County, William Young:
6tIA Custer County, Frank EOchtman:
fh0k3en. Knox County, Theodore T. Thor.
see. observation-disclosures, Cooper County.
Mans shanged-Cant0n, Stanton County,
OMAuA. tl0 other morning, had . sensa
ton in t. 13Dearance Of . fre-tall. Il was
about tory 1Set from the gruund and was
first notices NrNTwenty-third street II
onrst rear ~ ss6pvent with n dezfenine
and a nu11AsxS Of people we're stunned
BY the shock. IeN long time after the
q Que6e aIaeu Was noticeable In
nat vicinity. The 6fAooon was from north.
e4st to southwest ~
LINDSAY, the Line s~Audlbeater. aftes
serving his sentence 10 IN ofense, was
Immediately re-arrested 14k4ced to answer
/ charge Of a different naeQ1
The corner stone of the 1GcSaska State
Fouse was formally laid on f14oAeasoon O.
&c 18th under the direction Of a5Nasonic
Grand Lodge, other societies asst1fna The
Grafton was delivered 0tflGOy.
Robert W.. Furnas Of 1:rovn,Njia.
Grand Master John w. Wemple tlIn,
immediate charge. Anumber Of interOu
State documents were placed in the boz
Inder he corner. ~
Box burglars trouble Lincoln. -
A GANG Of car breakers and robbers was
by Conductor Cook on the +. & ".
week. Two Of the gzng broke into .
ar near Louisville. The conductor di~eoy-
red them nailed M the docr. and took
hem to Lincoln where the police rendered