The Red Cloud chief., 1888-07-06
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS

NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
The Omaha De- recently Published n
a PORTS from nearly every County In th
State, which showed the general crop pro,
poets Il be good. In the southeast c0uptie
-R.chardson. Pawnee, Gaze. Thayel
JohusDs, Ncm'na, Saline, FilIEaore, Otoe
Lancaster, C.s.@. Seward and York as j
also the c'sc Ill Sarpy. Saunders. Douglas
Washfni ton. Dodge, Butler. CAfax, Polk
Platte and Orn WAS generally
? plant d aad prospects .o- wheat favorable
Wheat and oats. on the who'll, are reporto,
as favorable, aud the crop will DC as large
II no: larger, than in former years. Heavy
rains had So:rewlat rc.ard, Il planting il
northern count 5, but from Western Ne
braska thrr; a:c very enc n reports
and the general outlook Was never NOR.
encouraging.
ABOUT fifty section men along the line o.
the Missouri Pacific railroad struck IN:
other day on account Of q reduction from
$l.5O to Sl.25per day.
SENATORS PADDOCK and Henderson re-
Gently made arguments before the Senate
Committee Oh Commerce in favor oil
amendments they have proposed to the
River and Harbor bill, making a~ppropria.
lions for improvements OF tho Missouri
along the Nebraska side.
BIDS are being received for q new school
house at South Sioux City. The building
is to cost $lS,OOO.
The State vetei marian recently went to
ArnoId. in Custer County, to investigate
reports OF diseased horses, which resulted
IN killing ono for w. II. Gunnison, another
Tor Andrew Bier and q fine stallion for E.
3. Allen worth $50 or 600. NJ. Bizcr's
morse was p 'rchased Of parties that brought
In their horses this spring from the East.
AN Omaha Intian out In Burt County re-
Gently los: q child and took q load of corn
TO Lyons 10 buy q coffin. Instead Of ex-
changing the corn for q coffin he converted
1t into corn juice and got so drunk no could
not sit on his wagon and was picked up
from the gutter and cared for by another
Indian who happened to see his condition.
village In 1850 sue has grown to be q beau.
-iful city.
TnB well at the water works at Norfolk
mas been abandoned at q depth of 81 feet,
:here being no sign OF finding the bottom
Il the s'rata OF soft rock through which
the drill had been working for Q distance O: |
235 feet.
ALBERT DrxKEE, who murdered his wife
by beating her to death some time ago, re.
Gently committed suicide IN jsil at COluu,
bus by hanging hiEself with a pair Of sus
peniers. dc left . letter, written in Ger
man, stating that he was tired OF being in
jail, wished to save the county further ex.
pense, and asked to be buried beside biz
murdered wife in the city cemetery.
A FATAL accidental shooting occurred q,
q school house ut Diller, Jefferson County.
the Other night. In rehearsing for q, anna
teur presc ltatlon Of 'Uncle Toms Cabir."
J. W.. Fouls. teacher Of the school. pJ;n,ed
= pistol 1T Samuel Stump. thinking it was
aot loaded. II exploded, killing Stamp
almost instantly.
AT Fort N'obrara the other day Private
aoOlahan, Of Company A, Eighth Infantry,
was shot through the arm and body while
target duty. He had arr;an ed the tar.
got and was in the act Of lacking cut from
it when he received tn. shot which was
thought to be fatal.
The oldest Indian village in Daxot.
County Of which there is any record wa,
loca 9 | by the Omaha's near the present
Of Homer. They burned it in 1870 t.
get rio OF the smallpox.
The recent Heath Of Mason, ut York.
ON hydrOphr.,ia has causel y rAentless
Mar to b: W. cl against dogs IN that vi ]
s,nity.
DrRiN0 q recent storm in Lincoln County
Saniue Brooks was struck by lightning.
which tore all tn, ClOthc, from his body
md boots from his fest. leaving him naked
md unc 'nsc'ous Oh the ground. II was
bought he wol!d recover.
WrMORE recently celebrated her twenty.
lrst birthday. Governor Thayer and staN
other prominent men Of tho State were
here. X
TIE tOfal nrrphop ~ .,h,1J.nr II
in Dundy County is l,C32. OF this mum. =
"a are males aud 4S5 females. =
HENRY Gross, Of York County.
reality and prominent cl,izea agen seven.
y-four years, diel OF the 18th. H.. arose 4
n the morning Il his d .a.h in usual health. Y
70 q hearty breakfast and seated himself
D read, falling f:Om his Chat dead IT ton
clock.
Two railroaders ut Talmagc recently
'cked themselves in . room on the second
o0r OF W~ashendOrf's res. aurant AMI pro- j
seded to settle an old grudge. They =
to . finish and Justice Rogers rave 4
lem 80 and trimmings for their fun.
A SERIOUS. and 1t was feared, q fatal &C. n
lent occurred the other day to Alfrec a,
Ie eight-year-Old son of Hon. Henry Spricb. .
ring near F~0ntaneil,. The boy found an
d. unused horse pistol lying about the
'uso and went to tho barn to play with II, -
long afterwards a report Of the weapon
As heard and the 10y was found badly
ounded H. the lower rart OF the abdomen. :
here the full charge hai penetrated. *
JUDGE WsKEI.Y has refused to grant the
;s;sed by tn. Evangelical Ali.
ce to prevent the Omaha Association
ON play n ball Ola s Inday.
granted Nebraska veterans On
c 23i: Original invalid. Henry c. Msxon,
esterviile; j. A. s anley, Wymore. Res,
r,tOi, Ames Holxvard, Pawnee CITY.
crease. JOSEPH, Star |. L n. Pine; Th,mss
,ro |, Syr,; James ". Gre ". brewster:
mes Anderson McCurmic :, Pa isade.
rnE O:her day tue f,~ur-year-o!d son of a
rmcr named Hendrick,on, living near
'p.r, fell into the Ell Ihorn r.ver aud wa. !
owned. sea
4 CYCLONE recently cAvOrtei around I,n- Si'
rial, the county seat Of Chase County No
Nv down several small houses, fatally SO1
urcd q stranger in the town and blew u ut
be against a wasO, l.. b. Cd King its arm.
Rev. I. J. NkwCOMB. aged merry eighty, pOl
. OF the pioneer 1r a hers OF tho Chris He
n Church., dropped dead ~ Fairfield thu PEI
'er morning. lie was form .rly the re- :. haI
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