The Red Cloud chief., 1886-01-29
A NEWS.

4 s1osx building and ssvssal residences
were destroyed by . late fire n Go:hen-
burg.
FocRrKxS engines were wrecked While
bucking snow drifts on the Burlington q
Missouri since the blizzard
HARLAN County claims the honor Of pro-
ducing four pair OF tw ms within aboa: Eve
months.
GINNING county has s3s-2s1.H in the
treasury.
IT will require $500 b run sarpy
County this year.
RECENTLY q German named Primer vent
to the Commissioner o! Lancaster County
and informed them that there was q fam
lily as his house that be mad been caring for
which the County Commissioner must
take charge OF, as he Was unatde 20 longer
provide for them. The matter was Inves-
tiGated. when il was discovered that the
parties were his sister, her husband and
two children. whom Primer had compelled
20 work as brutes. The husband WAS .
partial paralytic snd had been compelled
10 do drudgery until his feet and hands
were frozen. TIE woman, Primers sister,
was also badly frozen from exposure while
doing mental wors for an inhuman
brother. The sufferers were cared for and
the unnatural relative, who Is said 10 be IN
good financial circumstances, was 70 be
looked after by the authorities.
The town Of Papilion was visited by FIRE
the other morning, destroying several
business houses, including the postofice
and its contents. Loss, $1,000.
The Eagle estimates that the products
shipped from Weeping Water the pas, year
would make q solid train from there 10
Louisville. which would require seventy
eight locomotives to move IL. SIX hundred
and fifty cars of corn would be IN the train
and the balance would consist OK other
grain. lime, stone and stock.
CHsDEoS claims $os1,0O worth OF i'm
p~rovemeEts during 1875.
JOHN PARKER, VINO lives near Bird City,
while on his way To Benkleman, recently,
met with quite . serious accident. lie was
walking by the side Of his wagon, when
the team became frightened and ran over
him, breaking his leg and internally injur-
ing him-
TIE newly.appointed Register and Re
SCANcI Will soAV va >S~
land-oflice April /.
A K~EARSEY real estate firm sold over
5000 acres Of land in 1855, the price aggre-
eating Sll2,3O1.
THE newIy-appointed postmaster at
Springfield. Sarpy County. has been mott
fled that his nomination has been with
drawn, he having entered . homestead in
Kansas.
The State Board Of Agriculture recently
met at Lincoln and elected =. b. Barker,
Of Merrick, President; r. NJ. Henry. Of
Platte, and Frank Holt, of Gage, Vice
Presidents: L. A. Kent, OF kearney, Treas
urer, and r.. W. Furnas, Of Brownsville.
Secretary. President Barker named Ed.
McIntire, J. b. Dinsmore, Nat. Durham. E.
n. Grinnell and H. B.. Nicodemus As O
board Of managers for lss6.
NORFOLK boasts OF a population OF 1893,
an increase Of l.429 in five years.
ANsoS GIBSON and his son William were
hauling wood recently near Ponca when
they encountered the W~estbrooks, father
and sons, with whom they had had a long
feud. Jim Westbrook opened fire, tie ball
taking effect in one OF Gibson's mules. The
fight became general and all the combatanO
were more or less wounded. Tom West
brook died, but the others may recover.
One day recently a mad dog engaged the
attention Of a dozen citizens of Wakefield.
IN the United States District Court at
Lincoln the jury. which had been out five
days. in the Leighton & Clark insurance
case, brought in a verdict. The insurance
was in t~wenty-four companies and the ad-
justment was $4,000. Thirteen companies
paid in their proportion and eleven refused
to pay on the ground Of alleged fraud by
the firm. The eleven were sued for the in
surance and the thirteen sued the firm to
recover what they had paid in. The YER
dict was against the eleven companies for
about three-fifths of the policies and in ia
vor of the thirteen TO reduce what they
had paid into the same proportion. The
amount the firm will recover will be about
s24,OO.
AS a s,eek-looking young man recently
stepped from a train at Omaha the Sheriff
OF Wayne County, Ind, placed him under
arrest. The man was George Washington
Harry Claire. Early last year Claire set
tied at North Bend. Neb. He was a school
teacher, went into the best society OF the
town, and in the course % time gained the
affection OF Miss Nettie Dorsey, a near
relative OF Congressman Dorsey. In June
he left to visit his old home in Indiana, but
instead Of paying n friendly visit forged .
check on his mother for $500 and stole .
span of horses from a liverymsn in Rich
mond. He was traced TO North Bend where
Ike had married Miss Dorsey and gone To
Inywa ON . Visit Than tho AFFAIR hac,n.
known, when, in addition to his other
crimes. il was found that he had another
wife and two children living in Indiana.
Miss Dorsey learned OF the facts while on
the wedding tour and returned home. She
was induced to state his whereabouts and
by a ruse be was captured.
A SPECIMEN Of the ancient spinning
wheel, in good repair and in constant use,
has been discovered in the household Of a
farmer in Pierce County.
THE right of way for the Elkhorn Valley
Road through Fremont will cost 5000.
The price is said to be very reasonable and
will doubtless be acceptable to the officers
Of the road.
A nan Mt Harrington recently tarried too
long in > saloon. and his team became tired
OF waiting for him and started for home on
their own motion. They we're found in .
creek three miles from town, both dead
and the wagon was q complete wreck.
RETURNS Of losses Of stock in the late
storms are footing up well. Frank Stout
fer, Of North Bend. los: 20 bead o: cattle.
end at Gilmore. the big feeding ranch. 20
mares were frozen TO death. In the south
western tier of counties IL bead OF cattle
and ls5 hogs persisted
ST. PArL wants a fire company.
McHEyRI, alias Carleton, the dude tailor
OF Arapahoe, hastily lit oct recently to
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