The Red Cloud chief., 1888-07-27

EASTERN Nebraska was visited by .
heavy rain the other night.
A. C. SIMPSON, aged twenty-five, wa
recently drowned while bathing in Cutoff
lake, near Omaha. He had been married
only 1--WE weeks.
SARAH CLARK, the sixteen-year-old
Of j. G. Smith, of South
Omaha, was recently enticed away from
home by one Mrs. June, under the pretext
of giving her remunerative employment,
taken to u railroad graders camp about
ten miles from Grand Island and subjected
to the most brutal treatment. She was
discovered md rescued by q detective.
Warrants were issued for the arrest of the
vile woman and : number Of the men.
GEORGE CRAIG, a wiper at the B. & NJ.
rOundhOuse at Hastings, drew a n
pay recently and suddenly disappeared,
leaving his wife.
OAKLEY's large dry goods store at Lin
coin burned recently, with a loss Of $4,000
to $4,000 and insured for $4,000. Mrs.
Helen Foreman, notions, lost about $1,000,
insured for half. Mobiles, photograph gal.
lery, lost 5000 with slight insurance.
Lambertson, dental parlors, lost $500.
L " tOSS VII i NASSOhilCiA . usAuAh ""~
$l5,OOO; fully insured. The fire was sup
posed to be the work of an incendiary.
GREAT excitement was caused at Ne
braska City the other day by the infOrma-
ton that detectives had succeeded in un-
earthing a plot and locating a large guam
tity of dynamite sent to that place for the
purpose of blowing up the new bridge
across the Missouri river.
ALL the saloon keepers Of Dakota County,
save one. have signed an agreement not to
sell liquor ON Sunday if the prosecution Of
the cases against them is withdrawn.
The demand for township organization
is growing in Madison County, and the
proposition will probably be submitted to
the voters this fall.
A REWARD Of $50 has been offered for
the arrest of the incendiaries who set fire
to the p~Ost-office building at Dunbar a few
weeks ago.
THE people in the vicinity Of Lyons were
very much excited recently by the dis
covery of what was supposed to be silver
ore.
W. s. BREWER, of Bellwood, and C. F.
B~uchaunef, lately from Kentucky, were
drowned while fishing in the Platte river
~ OtuCI a buN was u NOAAh
man and was to have been married soon.
THE board of regents Of the State uni
versity, who for several days sat as a court
in the trial of charges preferred against
Chancellor Manat. found that charges l, :
and ) were not sustained; dismissed
charges 3, : and 8, and found charges 4, =
and 8 sustained. Among those sustained
vas the charge that his conduct to-
wards the students has been such for the
last three years as to render them almost
unanimously hostile to his administration,
and that he has a habit of using sarcasm
and irony to such an extent as to offend
his intimate friends and to bring him into
conflict with his associates. The regents
passed q resolution requesting Chancellor
Manat's resignation, which he refused and
the board then resolved to dispense with
his services after January I, 1853.
GRANT BROwN, a young man residing in
the Southwestern part Of Antelope COun-
ty, near Menterville post-office, was re-
Gently killed by the accidental discharge
of of his gun. He was holding the gun at
his side or in front when his dog came up
and jumped on the gun, causing it to go
of.
MRS. WARE, wife of the station agent at
Stanford, was killed the other day by the
roof of a dugout cellar falling on her, She
had gone into the place to get something
and was in a STOPPING posture when the
ROOT gave way and the weight of earth
held her fas until she was smothered to
death. =. 49,
Two eight-year-Old boys named Herman
and Griffin were badly burned Mt Fremont
recently. They procured a cigar box full
of powder and while playing with it acci-
ighited it. 1t exploded and set
fire to. their clothing. The Herman boy
would probably die.
THE Methodist church at Syracuse was
by lightning the other night.
AT IN evening entertainment given by
some young people Of David City recently,
q young lady and a young gentleman in
hurriedly attempting to pick up a hand
struck their heads together 50
violently as to knock the young lady over,
and leave her in an unconscious condition
for some time. A physician who was
called said the lady had sustained a con-,
of the brain Of such a nature as to
the case serious. i
A RECENT cyclone at Benkelman de-
twenty ION buildings, including
lHC e &c tSA tnIh huA(hs OIC INV
Of twenty frame houses was wiped out,
while all the cellars i'm the business part Of
were completely flooded by a cloud
burst which followed in the wake of the
other messenger of destruction. No lives
were lost
c. A. THOMPSON, a painter employed on
the dome of the capitol at Lincoln, was
killed the other day by the giving away Of.
a scaffOld upon which he was at work. He
a wife and one child.
THE free mail delivery is now In opera
ton at Fremont.
A. W. LADD, editor of the Albion NeES, !
had a close call one day recently. His
was struck by lightning. and al
there were five persons in the
building none Of them were shocked. But
the editor, who was in the hay loft of the |
barr, sixty feet distant from the house, was
knocked insensible by the bolt, and was
supposed to be dead, but revived.
A GERMAN farmer named Hardtlich be-
came insane at Plainview recently and an |
nOunced hat he was going to see Emperor
Frederick. He used a shotgun to per-
suade his family to accompany him on the
but was intercepted by friends and
forced to return home.
LIGHTNING played queer freaks in a DIS
trict school house in Wayne County the
day Tho fiery uid rau dOuu tha