The Red Cloud chief., 1888-12-14

fully worked the merchants oe 0sssd
Island
HoY ii Linooln recently buiis . boaars
and succeeded In burning . tAfa and .
VaiuabIe horse
Tur Armour & Cadshy packing hous~
1t South Omaha. was recsntiy damaged.
| including ba ldinEs and ncsts 20 the CT.
tent OF >ioo.osl.
JoHx KoBrso, the Madison man who
was shot. while fosaxiug for he Thanks
giving turkey, - III lose . leg hy The opera
ton. II is stated that the rtn- us~d IN
shooting him Was the sam enc Nth which
ko:~n and Ashley wer. Mere murdered Al
Broken Bow.
The people Il Norfolk are fully satisfied
tina, q paper mill 3, that place will pay.
A PETITION was recea,ly circulated and
%extensiyeIy signed praying that the
United States dis;Tic, attorney compro
mise 81. Judgment against tho bonismsn
OF ex-Receiver Lovejoy. OF the Siobfsra
land.ofice. Some of the bordsnaen are
dead, some are insolvenf and only . few
are lief, 20 b<Ar the burden.
oIrMB merchants want the Platte
river bridge completed before The spring
trade commences
SLArks for the Offices are being made by
the Wholesale IN tho new county os Rock.
IT took sixty turkeys for tn. ThanksSiv.
ing dinner AZ the Kcarncy reform school.
A MORMON baptism drew . big crowd ~
North Pla,t. the other day.
JoHy MxHLIS. who tried TO kill DIR. Nor
ris near Humboldt. has b-ea put undc,
81 coo bonds TO appear for trial.
THE stable Of l. f.. Le~!s. station agent
at Scotia, burned the other day. Three
vaIuab,e horses. harness. carriage, hay,
oats and corn were lost.
The State convention Of the y. W. G.
A., recently held AT Hastings, proved both
profitable and interesting aud Was well a.
tended.
THE other day the eight-year-old son OF
John Conrad, Of Boone County. rod, =
horse TO a small lake TO water, an a, { WAS
frozen around the edges. tried To ride in
further when the horse fell on him. break
ing one leg and an arm. Whom found hs
was crushed dow through the ice and was
drowned IN two feet Of water.
WILLIAM NOLAN. a fireman. was fatally
injured and two Burlington engines were
demolished in a collision a. Hastings the
other morning.
BAssErr was nearly wiped out by a re-
cent i~ncendiary fire.
/. BUTTS, a farmer residing near Ord.
jumped from a moving train opposite his
home the other night aud was found dead
beside the track next morning.
AT Kingston. Adams County. the other
day a man by the name Of Bowling. eighty
one years old. committed suicide by hang
ing himself To the limb Of q tree In the
front yard. He had been deranged for
some time. and. getting away from the
surveillance OF the family. managed 10
execute the deed and was found dead.
AT Omaha the other day a Union Pacific
freight train crushed the life out Of Mrs
Andrew Jacobs. "a very poor woman, aged
sixty two years, who was picking up coal
along the track.
JAKE BoNSvM. q farmer living near
Campbell. tried TO burn Dick Stockton's
house the other day because the lat.er's
sister refused 90 marry him. Before set
ting fire TO the house Bonnum attempted
to shoot Mis-, Stockton. but failing to do so
he skipped for parts unknown.
From January I to November - the
North Platte land-ofice received 2.2i9 en-
tries under the homestead. pr.-emption
and timber culture laws. During the
same period the Sidney office received I,S9
entries.
THE farmers in the vicinity OK Tobias
have subscribed $4,000 TO erect an elevator
and handle their own grain. There are
seven~y.five men in the new corporation.
THE new building Tor the feeble minded
institution at Beatrice is nearly ready for
occupancy. When completed forty more
children will be received as inmates.
The verdict in the case Of David Phil
lips, convicted at York Of forgery, has
been set aside by Judge Sorval and a new
trial granted.
The farmers around Burweil are work.
ing hard 10 secure the building OF Q
creamery.
BLAIR has Just had y new reservoir COM
.truc,ed at a cost of $3.50. The other day
Il was filed with water and during IN"
night il all leaked OUT. The contractors
were not bound to guarantee the work.
THE Fremon, Hemp aud Irvine Com
pany. with a capital OF $1,000, has flied
articles Of incorporation.
THE Federal grand jury, lately inves'i-
eating election frauds at Omaha, was al
vised by Judge Dandy that IL had Ike
cases at Lincoln also to investigate.
DANIEL boDGE. n pioneer q Dodge
County. died the other day At the az. az
eighty.sevea years. He moved TO the
county twenty-seven wears Z He leaves
a wife and rne children. all bat one OF
the latter being residents OF the county
j. Il. SEvRoLT. n farmer living about
| eight miles ives. Of P~lst,smouth. suffered
considerable loss by fire tho other after.
noon. The loss 10 estimated at about
$1,000. The property was insured Tor
about $50.
PIrER JOHNSON, coior.d. wanted in Lin
coin on the charge Of house breaking and
grand larceny, was arrested at York the
other day.
A DOG belonging 10 the sheriff went mad
at Plat, smouth the other day and bt sew
eral other dogs before be was killed Ihs
result has been q war on the dogs.
Mas DUDLEY. the lady whose marvellous
| recovery under the Christ an science
treatment has been the sensation Of the
hour at Atkinson, il is stated continues 70
Improve and there 10 every reason 20 be-
lisve the cure is permanent
FRKNoNr has recently successfully or
gained . Young Men, Christian Assoc
alton.
Exos NoYKR. nineteen years Old. Was
instantly killed IN Hedges foundry .;
. Lincoln the other day by the barstinz os
an emery heel at which he Vas working
THE two-year-old child Of bafus Jenssn
~as recently scald~d TO death n.ar Gen.
trail City by up.es'ing . kiisle o! boiling
water upon itself.
! PIArrsxorrH schools have BEEN tempo
nTily closed on accoun, Of the prevalence
OF diph,hsria
CxIox. Cass County. has . res hotsl-
On Thanksgiving night burglars nna.s
Q successful haul at Cr-tA The c.oiaIEs
store Of x A. Desh. Was broken open AID