The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10
BRA A NEWS.

manner. He had been sent out to pillow
with q team Of oxen and took q double bar.
relied shotgun with him. Reaching AN un-
occupied house he went in. took of his
right boot and sock, cooked both locks Of
the gun, and with his foot, after placing
b muzzle Of the barrel in his mouth, dis
charged the gun, which blew the whole
top Of his head of. No cause known.
WHILE bathing in the Elkhorn river at
West Point the other day Ernest BOettcher,
a German farmer, aged twenty-One years,
wa drowned.
By q late wreck ON the Omaha & Repub-
liean Valley railroad, a quarter Of q mile
north OF Upton, six tramps were killed.
Four Of the bodies were identified by pa
pers on their persons Is George Stokes,
residence %unknOwn: John Gleason, Earl
Talbot, q boy Of about twenty, apparently
o German, with letters addressed to him at
Columbus, Neb.: John G. Taylor, Louis
willie, Ky, with q letter from his wife Kate.
Two cars were derailed. one loaded with
shelled corn, in which were the six
tramps. The car rolled down an embank-
ment about fifteen feet and came to q
stand still bottom side up, and the unfor-
tunate men, who were stealing Q ride, were
smOthered under the corn.
A LARGE barn on the farm OF J. p. Dun
lap, at Dwight, caught fire and was burned
the other day. 1t was supposed that the
fire was started from an engine on the
Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley rail-
road. Loss about 5000, with small in
ran
THE other night as . young man by the
name of Schmidt his sister and two broth
ers named Vandoschmiet were returning
from q wedding in Ewing a row COM
menced in which Schmidt was fatally
stabbed in the abdomen, his sister cut
across the arm. n Of the VandOschmietS
had q shoulder broken and was stabbed
twice in the back and the other VandO-
schmidt seriously injured about tho head.
Schmidt's Injuries were fatal.
EMMONS, the murderer of Bertha Schultz,
was taken from Jail at Pawnee City by q
mob about three O'Clock the other morning
and hanged from the Chicago, Kansas &
Nebraska bridge. EmmOns killed the girl
because she refused to marry him. He
had been q Methodist evangelist and .
railway well digger. He was twenty-five
years old and the girl twenty. He slammed
insanity after his arrest and pretended
that he had no recollection of numbering
the girl.
THE premium list of the annual fair Of
the Chase County agricultural society has
just been issued. The fair will be held at
Imperial September 4. ), 6 and :. Premi-
ums t. the amount Of II, III are offered.
1t is predicted that 200 students will at
tend the fall term Of Hastings College.
DR. T. L. MYERS, a prominent physician
Of Aurora, attempted to board a freight
train at Bromfield the other night. and fell
under the wheels. His head was severed
from his body.
SONE weeks ago three men broke into
the Acme mill at Blair. beat the engineer,
q. W. Fackler, in q brutal manner and
helped themselves to all the -four they
could carry away. The other morning
about two O'Clock Fackler heard q noise in
the store room and found three men there
helping themselves. He opened fire with
his revolver and one Of the men with q
fell to the floor. His two companions,
who had jumped outside the window,
back n picking the wounded man
up carried him away. They were traced
some distance by the blood but finally
escaped.
CHRIS ROBIDOC, q young bully living
near Norden, assaulted an old man named
the other day because the latter
protested against his driving over a garden
patch. RObidOu was not satisfied with .
of knOck-downs, but started {
finish the old man with an axe, when
neighbors interfered. Samuels il over
years old, and the n~eighbOrs were
about to treat his assai;ant with q coat of
Tar and feathers when RObidou made his
escape.
Cora, the daughter Of A. L. Wilcox, Of |
recently eloped with and married
, man objectionable to her parents and
who had made threats against Mrs. VIII |
OK. Mr.. Wilcox having occasion to leave |
home bought . pistol for his wife to defend
herself with in case Of emergency. The
morning they rose early and when
be was ready to start Mr.. Wilcox was
his wife how to use the pistol
when it IA accidentally DISCHARGED, the I
ball entering her heart and killing her in.
A HAY SPRINGS brute has been given
public warning that unless he desists from |
his little step-son with a raw
hide he will be given q big dose Of his ewn
nediciOe.
OHIO soldiers living In the neighborhood
II Beatrice are talking Of chartering q spe-
.ial car and attending the National G. A. r. |
at Columbus, O., mex September.
The post-ofice at Superior was struck
~ lightning the other evening, the fluid |
q number Of curious antics,
nut injuring no one.
THE only son Of Tom Montgomery, who
in the northeast corner of Gage
was drowned in the Blue river,
bout three mies northeast Of WILDER, the
'ther day.
GEORGE OsTRAxDER, a painter, was ar
ested at Nebraska City the other night
or beating his sixteen-year-old daughter
o badly hat her life is in danger. He.
followed to Jail by a mob yelling for a
ope, and had it not been for the care of
he would have Jared badly.
IT il reported that when the fast east
,Ound freight on the Burlington road
Benkelnan the other day the train
non put four tramps of the train, and
them badly, breaking one mans
uose and nearly severing an ear from an
ther. The tramps reported that one Of
heir number was thrown from the train
t Parks Station, ten miles west, when
be train was running thirty miles 40
our. The matter was investigated and .
nan was found in the weeds beside the
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