The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-08
STATE NEWS.

AFTER q trial lasting a week at Nortl
Platte the jury brought in . verdict &C
quitting JEFF Long Of the Bascomb muI
der. Long had been in Jail over tire
years. On tho night of April I, 1885
the dwelling house OF Richard Bascomt
four miles northeast Of North Platte
was burned and the remains of Bascoml
and his wife were found in the ruins
The excitement was intense and lOca
detectives set to work to find the guilt,
parties. Long was indicted upon tn,
testimony Of \ man by the nam o
Meyers. whose brother worked TO
Long. but who disappeared soon afte
the murder. Meyers said his brothe
had confessed to him that he committed
the deed, having been hired to do it b,
Long. The Ierdict was heartily an
plauded when rendered.
THE farmers Of Lancaster County il
convention the other day decided TO or
ganize a company for the erection ant
operation of a beef packing house a
West Lincoln. Capitalists are to be dis
couraged from taking stock in the enter
prise. The idea is to supply the home
market, driving out all meats from
abroad.
THE wife and two children Of Robert
Nelson were poisoned the other morning
at Fremont from some food they ate fol
breakfast. Doctors we're Immediately
summoned and found them all uncon.
sciOus. Stomach pumps were immedi.
ately applied and the patients soon re-
vived. 1t is supposed the poison was in
the sugar they ate on their buckwheat
cakes.
An accidental shooting occurred at
Saronvillc the other evening which re-
suited in the death of Swan johnson.
The shot was accidentally discharged
from a revolver in the hands of August
Swanson. aged twelve years.
The Pan-American delegates received
. hearty greeting upon their recent
visit to Omaha.
LIEUTENANT BALLARD HUMPHREY, Of
the Ninth cavalry. United States army.
dropped dead at Omaha the other day of
apoplexy. lie had been in the service
since 1865, and was soon to have been
promoted.
FRITZ BADA, an1Omaha patient at the
State insane hospital in Lincoln, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself to a
bed post the other day. Bada was about
forty years of age and leaves u wife,
who is also a patient at the insane
hospital, and three children in Omaha.
w. H. SEXTON, q farmer living near
Ashland, committed suicide the other
night by shooting himself in the fore
head. For some weeks he had been in
mental distress owing to financial pres
sure. Fol- a long time he had had an
application in Washington for a pension
and In August his name was mentioned
in Se reports as being granted Il pen
sion OF nearly $1,000. He a~nxiously
the arrival Of the money, with
which he expected to pay his debts.
The day before committing the deed he
a letter saying that it was a |
mistake and that he would not receive |
it. The shock was so great that he be-
came utterly distracted and some time
during the night he killed himself.
The Missouri Pacific agent at Tai !
mage, while recently trying to open the
safe, pulled the handle from the socket,
and left the safe securely locked with
about $1,000 in money and securities in
side. 1t was necessary to ship the safe !
to Kansas City in charge Of the agent,
where it was opened by experts and
every thing found all right.
FROM twenty-six pounds Of beans
last spring. George Litchfield,
Of VerdOn, has harvested and threshed
thirty bushels, or 1,SOO pounds.
THE wife and two children of Joseph
Standley. who lives near Shelton, have
lied with typhoid fever within a few
weeks. and recently a fourth member Of
he family was stricken down with the
'atal fever. Water from a polluted well
supposed to be the trouble.
HENRY ARCHER, a we'll digger and
rouse mover, of AinswOrth, recently
skipped out after mOrtgaging consider
bile property to money ~loaners. which
le did not own. He was about 81. 900
head of the game and an effort will be :
made to capture him. ,
FIRE recently destroyed the barn Of ,
l. Stengline, neal Valley. together with {
I've ucdu "a uOTStS. IOU bushels OIL grain =
nd forty tons Of hay. Loss, about y
], 500, with no insurance. ,
THE other day Mrs. William II.
of Kearney. unceremOniously
eparted, leaving behind a husband and I
children.
APPLIES arc said to he SO plentiful in
ass County this year that thousands of q
ushels will go to waste under the
reeS.
OLLIE ZIMMERMAN. nineteen years :
Id. disappeared from his home near a
reeman pOst-Ofiice several weeks ago I
nd his parents have so far failed to i
any thing of him. y
EUGENE ONG, son of Judge Ong, re- ?
ding nea Nevada, was thrown from a o.
orse he was riding the other day, !. !,
on his head and causing con- :,
lssiOn of the brain. His injuries were O,
fatal. Of
ABOUT three hundred barrels are man. AZ
daily at Union and filled with -
pples. the crop being very abundant. 81
NEBRASKA CITY school boys recently VI
ruck against n Of the principals. pr
hey did lot object to being switched, Z.
1t drew the line at being cuffed on r.