The Red Cloud chief., 1886-04-02
NEBRASKA 4 NEWS.

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granddaughter. Cude. the statutes ho
penalty a. confnenen; in -. peuitsut.A.T
from one 20 ten year. Sentence was 70
served. bu: !, was believed that the Jufga
would lupl>e the extreme p~nnl'v % the
law The jury was on. nearly fsTty-c E8'
hsur.. and a. the trial. Which lasted ahoC;
9 week. the cour: room Wa daliE ro"d-d-
The farm Of II 6 ~Sisadmau. ~" miles
north 81 Lyons. was Recently the scene 81 n
q terrible tragedy. VI S~teadman. the pro
prietor - two CTeamcric-. one 81 the mos,
prominent aud uprigh, Of Bart County
CITIZEN. a pros?erou. and vell-to-do farm
or. aa.Ir: thirty years Of AZ and married
had a his employ a man named Johnson or
+ Anderson. Steadman discharged tie man,
which 50 angered him that he shot stead
man in the bowels. causing death ~ a short
time. The desperate then i,ei. hO:iy Dur
sued b. a posse, one Of hom, Edgar Ev r
EFT. WAS sho and killed. and several Others
wounded. The murderer took refuge IN a
barn and detied arrest. During the s.c-c
the barn was fired and totally consumed
The charred remains OF the desperate were
found in TIE ruins.
An unknown tramp made an Outrageous
Nl'I n lAlt4' EIA lA'3i l-'i ! ~
the other dey. hut was speedily hunted
down and captured. IL required IA posse
Of thirty men 10 prevent the Infatuated
crowd from hanging him.
IT * stated that household goods are be-
ing unloaded al Valparaiso by the carload
which goes 10 prove that many people are
finding home, on the fertile pra.rIvs OF Ne
hraska.
HARRY ELsFFFFR. a United States naval
officer visiting hi brother near Wakefield.
was instantly killed the other day ~ the
accidental discharEe Of a gan while riding
in a wagon 10 go hunting.
~Po-r-nrFICE changes in Nebraska Tor the
week ended March ~: Established. Butka.
Loup County, Frank Butka. postmaster;
LOYAL Hill. Lancaster County. Benjamin
I. Dodrill. postmaster; Phebe, Keith Coun-
", Mamie r. Jack. postmaster. D.sc"n-
:.nued, Ba~rtonville. Frontier County ,
Brooks, Howard County; Loup Fork, How
ard County.
Two appropriation bill, have been re
ported from the Committee on Indian Al
fairs Ia the House. making appropriations
for the rebuilding of military posts and the
completion OF the posts already begun.
The first contains a clause approprIatjnS
SlO0US for the rebuilding of Fort Robin
son, Seb. and the second bill authorizes
the completion of improvements begun Oh
Forts Niobrara and Omaha. III Nebraska.
THE bridge over the Elkhorn river at
Crowell has been swept away by the food.
The Union Pacific lead, hy twenty miles
in the railroad race 10 the Northwest. The
i. q VI. however. i making glanthke
strides To close the gap, and contractors
have 900 men and u teams nt work ON
the Grand Island < Wyoming Central
grade. IL il expected that both roads will
reach Brok Row about Julvi
Two years ago a farmer near Scotia.
Greeley County, found n gold nugget IN
the cTaw of IA chicken, and the other day
the same farmer IN digging IA well dlscov-
cred the ClittcrinE sand alden with gold
nuggets. varying i'll size from a pms head
t. n pea. Scores Of people flocked 20 the
find and were permitted t. fish ~ the rich
sand and analyzc IL. An Old mn" pro
pcc:or was found, and his opinion that 1t
WAS pay dirt increased tn" excitement
FIVE thousand homestead entries have
been fled in In" Neigh lane Office.
The body of George Hpge. who diSap
pcarod from Kcarn"y last November. wa
recently fDGnd near the highway north Of
town.
THE loss Of Farmer Johnson. IN whose
barn the Burt County desperate took
refuge and mas burned out. can not Ice de
finitnlv estimated. His barn, with con
tents. i completely DESTROYED. His dwell
ing : considerably damaged. and his farIl
md fit" orchard completely ruined
A. Illinois wool manufacturer offers To
locat" in Omaha and put Sio.o" III a fac
tory if the city VIII raise $500 for a build
ing.
THE nineteenth annual convention OF
the Nebraska SUNDAY Schrol Association
VIII be held at Central City, Mrrrick Coun-
". commencing Tuesday evoning, June i.
I>N;. and continuing "Wednesday and Thur
dav.
Last November the confession Of n con
Wet in the Nebraska peni,entiarv was
mad public. which implicated n fellow
Convic: named picrSon. He charged the
latter with the mur'ierof Watson Il. Smith.
former clerk IF the United States Court AZ
Omaha Ii was one Of the most noted trag-
edic> that ever occurred anywhere in this
country. and was the result of a contest 10
tween the temperance people and saloon
Keepers. Persons term expired IN the
I'D. and n he stepped outside of the prison
he was arrested ~ the preliminary exam
nation he was held 70 answer.
CHRIS MEDIC. Of Madison, denies the story
recently published 10 the effect that be hal
salt.d a coal mine near Ewing and sold the
adjacent land for n large sum Of money.
FREE fight with knives AT Rank-lmln
the other night resulted in seriously wound
ing Gus kleber md Joseph Goodwin. The
latter i not expected To live. The day bc-
fore T. &. Munger. county attorney OF
Duudy County. was without provocation
murderouslv assaulted bv Mike Farrell al
Haigler. Farrell and kleber are undcr ar
rest.
GEORGE C.IIES recently went 70 his
home in sherman Comfy md o com
mencei shooting at hi family. His wife
received q serious wound in the breast and
was brutality beaten. and his son and
daughter zach received a Sigh, wound.
Drink was the cause OF the trouble. Calien
was arrested.
". &. KI-rLER. foreman Of the foIriuE
mills az Madison. was drowned she other
iay. He was IN "A boat removing some ICE
IN the vicinity Of the mil dam. when The
boat upset and be was swept over tie darn
R~UsHyIILE has an y. l. " lodCr.
Tnr people 81 Norfolk were greatly s:r-
rri-cd and shocked by the recent ~anuounce-
msnt Of the disappearance OF Charles l..
M~a;E-vson. prrsiG-n, of the Norfolk Ns-
t.ouai bank tie left tie city AMI mailed
= letter 20 hi y .fe on tie train near Chr
caCo. saving he was rC.uel Al could lot
fac. disaster ssd vozli not return I.s
wife was Frustrated by the n@ss- Il i
s-lrpo>.ei hs d;si-a.t.~- arc chiefly - a