The Red Cloud chief., 1889-09-20

ANOTHER disastrous collision Of trains
occurred tho other morning about ESQ
O'Clock at the crossing of the Union Pa
cifc and Fremont Elkhorn & Missouri
Valley tracks near Ames. six miles west
of Fr. mont. 1t was exactly the same hour
and the circumstances precisely similar to
the collision which occurred there q week
before. A number Of cars loaded with
barley were wrecked, but none OF the
trainmen were injured
TIE Lincoln County commissioners have
submitted q proposition to the electors to
vote $50. 600 in bonds to the Missouri
River, North Platte & Denver railroad, on
the condition tnat the company has the
road completed and in running order by
January !, 1890. no interest to accrue or
the bonds until the rOad is completed.
UP TO date S565,OO have been paid into
the Chadron land-office. The office was
opened July I, 1881.
ELI PARKS. O Holt County farmer living
near Ewing. has decamped to prevent ar
rest on a warrant charging him with GRIM
inal assault on two little girls aged seven
and nine wears.
JAMES HAvILAND, of North Loup. while
recently cleaning a well, fell q distance OF
over one hundred feet He was badly in
jured. but will recover.
WHILE Lorey Sauers, Of Linwood, was
recently working On . pile driver he had
his hand terribly mashed, causing the
amputation Of three fingers and part Of
his land necessary. He placed his hand
or the pile just as the hammer started up.
when the grapper happened to slip letting
the hammer dOwn nm his hand
An old farmer named Martin, living
near Cedar Bluffs, recently got into .
difficulty with his son-in-law. named
Geisel and was numerically pounded
with a club, so that his life was despaired
Of. Geisel was arrested.
A. b. SNITH, has q hundred acres in
sugar cane near Fairfield, from which he
expects to cut and strip q thousand tons.
At IS . ton it would bring $4,000, q neat
sum for ono summers work.
URI TALBERr owns the only peach
orchard in Greeley County. 1t is six miles
southeast of Scotia and has q grove Of 500
bearing trees.
THE brick haulers employed on the
street paving work at Beatrice recently
went out on q strike. practically stopping
all paving. They struck for their pay,
which was in arrears.
TIE other day Mrs. Julia A. Petit was
in Buffalo County, charged with
being an accessory to tbs murder of Will.
lam Petit last April. She was placed in
the Jail at Kearney in the same cell with
her son, w. II. Petit. She is sixty.fve
years old.
IT is stated that a party Of masked men
nea Ohiowa recently tarred and feath.
cred n Ed. Taylor. who about M year
ego deserted his wife and family and
skipped put with the hired girl. with
whom he has since lived. He left his fam
lily destitute and recently returned to the
on q visit to q brother.
The second annual reunion of the old
soldiers Of Keya Paha and adjacent
counties was attended by fully 100 peo-
pie.
The corner stone Of Dodge County's
new court house was laid OF
the afternoon # the 10th with appropriate
The exercises were con.
under the auspices Of the Fremont
Masonic lodges.
s. b. MORRISON has been elected De.
partment G.. A. T. Commander of Nebras-
IA to fill the vacancy caused by the death
Of Major J. b Davis.
GEORGE PATTERSON, of North Platte.
who carried Off the highest honors at the
recent competitive examination for ap-
as cadet to the West Point
military academy. failed TO get into that
having been rej.c ed owing {
an in-growing toe-naiL
JOHN F. ALBIN. editor Of the McCool
junction Record. who vas struck bv light
ming three months ago., has sufficiently
from the shock to resume charge
of his paper. but is still very weak.
The mayor Of Grand Island has ap.
pointed Q committee to take subscriptions
and otherwise endeavor to secure the To-
cation of the State fair at that place.
THE old settlers of Furnas County re.
Gently held their annual reunion at Beaver
City.
SPONTANEOUS combustion recently
caused q fire in McEivain's coal sheds at
but the flames were extin.
before much damage was done.
The twelve-year-old daughter of Mr.
Sargent, q Holt County farmer, was re-
Gently killed by the upsetting Of q load Of
hay upon her.
A DEMENfHD young woman named Zaugg
from her homo eleven miles
sast Of Nashville recently and has nj:
heard from since. A reward is
rffered for information regarding her
FRED POCHoN, of Kearney, gave r G..
q chattel mortgage on q lot of gar.
len truck, and when the latter attempted
foreclose ON the vegetables the former
protected them with q shotgun, wounding
on the arm Pochon was arrested.
TIE Custer County supervisors have
allied an election for October 12 to VOC
IN q proposition to issue $500 in bonds
aid the Missouri River, North Platte &
Denver. railroad.
TIE Broken Bow school board has re-
to enforce the State Compulsory
Law.
TIE Germans Of Nebraska City will oh.
'erve October 3 as memorial day. the an.
liversary Of the landing Of the first Ger.
nan colony in America and in remem-
france Of the part taken by them in max
ng the Republic great
DODGE COUNTY contains four largs Eat.
le ranches the barn of one of which, the
standard. has q roof which covers more
han any other roof in the world.
INDIAN lands forfeited in Nebraska,
bout $500 acres, are to be advertised and
old.
Hoe cholera has appeared in Cunning
to an alarming extent