The Red Cloud chief., 1889-05-24
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.

NEDhAOhA "A w
A MALIGNANT epidemic OF tramps u
spreading through the country.
ABRAHAM THIESSEN. who devoted much
of his life to the promotion OF elk culture
in Nebraska. recently died near Jansen
Of heart disease. Many of his friends be-
lieve that il he had been successful in his
efforts t. induce the Legislature to subsi.
die the enterprise ne would have built mp
q most valuable industry in b State. He
was about seventy years of age and .
Russian by birth.
MRS. STEVENS. seventy three years old,
recently suicided at the residence OF her
daughter. Mrs ]. W. Trifln, at Louisville,
while temporarily insane. Mrs. Trifin
went to the kitchen and was horri6sd to
find her mother cutting her throat with q
butcher knife. She endeavored to stay
the old lady's hand, but was too late. The
jugular vein had been severed and she
died in q few minutes.
DURING the wind storm q few days ago
Q Juniata lady became SO frightened that
she died in a fit.
The Pacific Hotel at Norfolk was On.
tered by thieves the otheEAlEAt the par
ties getting away with several watches
and some money belonging to the guests.
ARBoR DAY was st,rted in Nebraska in
1872, and this year thirty .four States OBJ
served the day formally by planting trees.
MANAGER HOLCONBE, Of the Union Pa
cific. has written to the Grand Island
committee, assuring them that there is no
disposition to discriminate against the
town. At present there are 1l9 employees
in the shops there.
Two instances of heartless treatment Of
aged parents have recently occurred.
During q storm in Lincoln the other night
her sons home at the behest Of the daugh.
ter-in-law. A few weeks ago. a father,
almost tOttering o m the verge of the grave,
Was turned airift by his sOa in Omaha
and forced to beg for shelter among
strangers.
NEBRASKA corn is two weeks ahead o.
the record this year and most of it over
ground. h outlook in the country was
never better, nor the farmers in a more
cheerful moot.
The Nebraska Editorial Association is
preparing for a summer raid in the North
west. The date has not been determined.
MADISON COUNTY has a school pOpula.
ton OF 1 GA, and seventy.four school dis.
tricts.
EDWARD RODDEN. a young man about
twenty five years Of age. was crushed to
death in the elevator of the Consolidated
Coffee Company's warehouse at Omaha
the other afternoon. He tried to jump on
the elevator without stopping it and
missed his footing. His breast zone was
crushed in and every rib in his body
broken.
By a recent accident on the Union Pa.
cific road near Beatrice, a lady, whose
name was not learned, was badly injured,
and Sam Roberts. q lineman, received in
juries that mi hit prove fatal.
WHILE excavating for thu new Riley
Al Portsmouth the other day the
bank gave way, letting an old brick church
collapse, instantly killing Peter Matthews,
injuring John Kochberser and
slightly injurins " other labOrers.
TRAMPs broke into two cars Of mer.
chandise at Dakota City the other MORN
ing, destroying and stealing over $500
worth OF goods. One Of them. giving his
name as Joe Smith, was caught il the act
and placed in jail.
A YOUNG man named James McCul.
sO0eus ~ os'S y ~
miles southwest of Harvard, CONF
suicide by cutting has throat with
a penknife the other day. Two causes
given for the act, one i'll health, the
other unro Quilted love.
AN old man named Rush Anderson
asked 10 be locked UP at Nebraska C.ty
the other lay because his mind had be.
come unbalanced and he could not resist
the temptation TO kill his Old wife. whom
he married Only three days before. H.
was booked for the asylum.
THE railroad company while recently
boring al artesian we'll ut Emerson struck
good vein of coal, which Was considered
Df more value to the place Than several
wells.
TIRE farmers OF Douglas County have
against horse.ihieves
The " ife of 5. W. Iinkbam, Of Hartin..
ton, disappeared nv s~teriOusly tie other
night and her husband has been hunting
for her in neigibOring towns. He be-
hat she is insane.
The Bohemian Hall at V~erdigris was re-
Gently destroyed by fire, but whether it
Wal eau ed by lightning or incendiarism
is not known.
The movement for the Sunday closing
Of saloons has struck Valentine. and steps
are being t. ken to enforce the law.
The farmers Of Chadron precinct, Dawes
County,, nave sOwn 5,Si6 acres ~ wheat
md oats.
Two richly dressed women Keeling
the streets in a beastly state of
intOxicatiOn recently shocked the moral
o! Hastings people.
A MAD dog scare has been raging in the
of Powell. a number Of cattle hav-
Ing been bitten and shOwi unmistalable
signs OF hydrOphObia.
The WILDER TrOtting Association has !
purchased grounds and will lay out a half ,
nile track Immediately. !
j. H. IRWIN, one of the leading merchants
IF Kearney, and a member VI the City
Council. died Of rheumatism recently.
AURORA now has five banks. and the
Exchange Bank will soon I've reorganizsd d, |
a paid up capital Of So go and be-
the Aurora State Bank. openin. for
July l. fu-
CHARLES ALLEN, q farmer. living six
niles south Of Grant, was caught in the
Of his cornsheiler the other day
had his right hand horribly crushed.
was necessary.
WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN. . private Of
Company c. Fourth Infantry, stationed at
Tort Randall, shot aud killed his sweet.
leart, Maggie LOwene. the other night