The Red Cloud chief., 1889-10-11
NEBRASKA A NEWS.

severely burning Mr.. Hill, his daughter
Edith and Jacob Shaw. Miss Hill was
the worst injured Of the three, her cloth.
ing having caught fire by the explosion.
and her fathers injuries were the result
of his successful efforts in saving his
daughters life by extinguishing the
flames which enveloped her. Mr.. Shaw
was burned while trying to throw the
blazing stove out Of doors
IRA RAKEs, Of Nebraska City, returned
to his home the other evening to find his
furniture smashed and his W fe gone.
ABOUT eight hundred farmers OF Lam
caster County mel at Lincoln in response
to call recently and organized against the
packers who are shipping in dressed
meat and selling it to local dealers. A
committee was appointed to formulate a
plan OF campaign and report at q meeting
to be held subsequently,. The pan which
seemed to be most pOpIla was a boycott
on the local dealers and their patrons.
HARVEY WHEELER. who was recently
tried in Wheeler County for the killing of
George Logan last spring, received a sem
tence of twenty years in The penitentiary.
r. G. BARTLETT, known in pioneer days
as "Wild Curley," died al Kearney re-
Gently. In 1913 he walked from Wisconsin
to Omaha and joined FrenOnt's expedi.
ton across the continent. Later he Joined
the regular army and becams a famous
scout, and was of the survivors of the
Mountain Meadow massacre. His death
vas caused by canoe Of the tongue.
APPLICATION was made the other day to
the Attorne: General asking him to be-
gin proceedings in the Supreme Court to
compel the several railroads in Nebraska
to adopt and put in force the schedule
Of coal rates recently made by the State
Board of Transportation. This order re-
du ces the rates materially, and, although
promulgated some two months ago, has
never been Obeyed
Two freight trains on the Union Pacific
recently collided at Rosco . small sta
ton neal North Platte, and were bad y
wrecked. A tramp named J. Seward,
from Villisca, Iowa. was killed. Engi.
neer billiard. of North Platte. and Gilbert
Putz, a Pullman conductor, were badly
injured.
In q row in q negro saloon at Omaha
the other night Jack Kenney. colOred.
made q desperate assault upon Tan Bow.
man, also cOlOred and proprietor of the
saloon, when Bowman shot and killed his
assailant. He was txoneratsd by the
cOroner's jury.
WHEN the six O'Clock whistle blew at
Omaha the other evening, Tom Klopman,
a young man belonging to q grading
gang. did not lear it and failed to stop
work. This so enraged John Qainlan, the
foreman, that he struck the young man
over the head with a singletree. inf cling
fatal injuries. The brute fed to escape Q
mob. but was arrested.
In . recent quarrel over . tree claim in
Logan County William Wells shot and in
stantly killed James GilkinsOn. The muir.
dered man leaves q wife and eight chill
dren In destitute circumstances Wells
escaped into the sand hills and nearly the
entire population Of the county were after
him. This was the first murder in the
county.
The other day . little girl. bound from
some point in Kansas to Linscott, Neh,
fell from her seat in the Burlington train
in q dead faint. When resuscitated the
passengers ascertained that she had not
tasted food since she began her journey.
and the travelling men on the train pur-
chased her q meal and collected a purse of
SIS aud presented it to her.
AN aged citizn of Ogaliala, named A. p.
Curtis. lately started out with q rope to
hang himself and had written a farewell
note, 81 die to phase others. when he
was discovered and prevented from car.
rying out his design. He is supposed to
have been driven insane by family
CEDAR RAPIDS is to have q new GENE.
terry with a square for the Grand Army
where q will be erected dedi.
to the old soldiers.
MRS. BRUSHA, mother of the b & u.
agent at Wilcox. was fatally injured in q
runaway accident the other day.
HENRY SCHULTZ and Frank Kennary,
Beatrice boys aged fourteen aud
respectively, recently borrowed q
neighbor's team and struck out for the
Vest The Schultz boy took SIS from IN.
der his fathers pillow and on arriving at
Diller bought the younger lad q suit Of
They were arrested and taken
back.
FRANK SNOIK, a Bohemian living q few
miles east of Valparaiso, committed sui-
eide lbs other morning by hanging. He
had just returned from Western. where
he became crazy drunk. and it Is probable
hat the widow will bring suit against the
saloon keeper who sold hin the whisky.
An Englishman named Boar, aged
seventy-seven, applied recently to the
clerk of Dawes County for naturalization !
in order to become a homesteader
He was married before Queen Victoria as.
ended the throne and has been the father /.
Il fifteen children.
WILLIE CONVERSE, o ffteen.year.old
10y of Chadron, ran away from home Sep
"A and as yet no news concerning
lis whereabouts hav been received. |
The institute for the blind at Nebraska
City opened this season with fOrty.th-ee =,
and fifteen more will enroll later. !
farmers in the vicinity of Kenesaw are
owing wheat this fall. spring wheat hav.
ng become very unpopular.
PETER WALDORF. of Western, is q pretty
.ood guesser. He came within eleven of
the number of packages required
b build a house of coffts and yeast on the
)maha fair grounds, and got q fifty
'ound case Of coffee in retu for his
The exact number used was
,bt6
Mrs. JOHN SHINEsT, Of Gilead. is under
rrest for attempted murder. While her
husband was asleep b stealthily ap.
and struck him o murderous
low on the head with a corn knife. The
round was considered dangerous
A FARMER near Dakota City gathered .