The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-17
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS

TRUMPErER HANSON, Of the Second In.
fantry, stationed at Fort Omaha, commit
ted suicide the other morning by taking
morphine, because a girl had Tilted him.
Ar Hastings the other morning Ulysses
Nelson, q colOred boy fifteen years old,
shot and fatally wounded Policeman Bal
cOmbe, shot Officer Lacey Clark and for
several hours stood off six men who were
attempting to capture him, only surrender
ing when his horse was killed under him
and he himself was fatally wounded. The
boy had just arrived and the officers at
tempted to arrest him upon a telegram
charging him with stealing a watch, when
he ran and commenced shooting.
A SPECIAL election held in Grant County
on July 81 resulted in the county seat being
located at Whitman by about half a dozen
majority.
SECRETARY Mason, Of the State Board
! of Transportation, has filed q twenty
typewriter report on the Burlington
strike, which is cOncurred in by the board.
1t states that the strike of the Brotherhood
of Engineers on February - and their at
tempt to dictate whom the railroad COM
pany should employ was clearly illegal,
and the Brotherhood was liable for con
spiracy and for damages sustained there
by. The report further says that che en-
gineers and liremen now in the burning
tons employ are as competent as '"'''
VIII went out Oh the strike,
AT Sp-;~sGosa the other day Mike
Dauren, a laborer, fifty years of age, drew
his wages and proceeded to invest III
whisky. While intoxicated he lay down
beside the Missouri Pacific railroad track
with his hand resting OH the rail. AT mid
night the train came along and cut his
hand of.
SMART tramps have been working the
. charitably inclined citizens of Humphrey
by raising blister on their hands, cover
ing the sore with salve and then asking for
help for the ''pOor man with q scalded
hand"
The wife Of Judge Shickley, of Geneva,
lost her voice some time ago., and the best
medical treatment failed to restore it. Re-
Gently she took a trip to the mountains.
and one night awoke from a dream and
found herself speaking. She has recovered
! the use Of her voice entirely.
AN Iowa lady named Cool, who for five
years had been searching for her little son,
found the missing boy at the residence Of
Simon Kirk, near Creighton, recently
I MIX Udu IWcu EINCh ~ SuStOuN wv
child by its father, who had separated from
his wife and had later been sent to the
penitentiary.
Pensions lately granted Nebraskans:
Increase, John a. Robinson, Guide Rock;
Otis Johnson. Belviderc; Ferdinand Zim-
mer. Tuckerville: Daniel Harrigan, O'Neiil:
Alvin NJ. Miller, CARLYLE; Robert Cheney,
Camp Clark; John X. Weimer, Hardy:
Patrick Mc(ierr, Lincoln: David Y. COe.
Ewing; William Bradt, Dillon: s. Mum
! son, Blue Springs; Jacob F.. Oman, Schuy-
Ter; Charles Berberich, st. Helena: Fred
erick W. DOmnick, Stanton: William J.
Morgan. Shelton: Peter d. Clark. Rush
! vile. Reissue, John W. Rogers, TrentOn;
Hollis X. May, Beatrice; Eli Sampson.
PlattsmOuth. Widows arrears, Fannie A..
widow Of Thomas j. Hewitt, Plum Greek.
A MAN named Bradley was thrown from
a horse near Chimney Rock recently and
the horse fell upon him. lie died two days
after, having been unconscious from the
time Of the accident. He was about thirty
years old and Il single man.
Mr.. MCPECK, living southwest OF Gene
va, recently had over eighty rods of wire
fence cut to pieces by some malicious per-
son.
The State G.. A. X. reunion committee.
composed of Commander II. c. Henry, OF
Fairmont, and Comrades H.. Alice. and U.
F. Briggs, of Omaha, E.. &. Parkinson. of
Seward, j. NJ. Coleman, of Neigh. and w.
V. Allen, of Madison, with the local conf
mittee met the other evening mt the Pacific
Hotel i'm Norfolk and adopted programme
for the tenth annual reunion, to he held
ut Norfolk commencing Monday. August
! 81, and lasting through the week. Three
glee clubs will be in attendance and the
crandest reunion in the history Of the
State is anticipated.
SIxTY-FOCR families were made desti-
tute by the recent hail storm that started
in the northeast corner Of Cherry County
and swept a breadth Of country four miles
wide and twenty long in the direction Of
the NiObrara river. Hundreds of acres Of
crops were destroyed. In n instance .
man and wife with nine small children
were left without food enough to last them
q week.
JOHNNY HOLMES, twelve years old, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Holmes, of Strang,
was bitten by a mad dog several weeks
ago and the other morning was stricken
with ~hydrOphObia in the most virulent
form, it requiring three men to mol him
while in spasm~ and being necessary to
muzzle him to prevent his biting every
thing within reach. When bitten the boy
knew the dog was NAL, but told no one
about it.
CLARENCE FORBES, a plattsmOuth youth,
umbled out Of n wagon the other day and
fell on q brickbat in such a manner as to
cut off his right ear, but with the skillful
aid of a physician the severed member was
replaced.
4 LOGAN County woman has sworn out
a warrant for her husband, charging him
with '.leaving her bed and board with u
fine horse belonging to the plaintiff"
\ TURKEY ut J. Sterling Morton's Arbor
Lodge has adopted an almost full grown
quail, and the little bird rests every night
under the shadow Of its protectors wings.
A TERRIBLE wreck occurred at the west
end of the yards at Crete the other morn
ing on the B.. & NJ. The Denver fast freight
had orders at Lincoln to run to Dorchester,
and passenger No. 1 had orders at Dor
chester to run to Crete. The operator at
Crete was ordered to throw the order
board out for the freight, which was done.
! but the freight could not stop, and both
engines came together with terrific force,
| Milling the freight cars four deep on one