The Red Cloud chief., 1889-08-16
NEBRASKA A NEWS

into York.. Several parties ave him q
square meal and paid his fare to his des-
tination. The other day the York philan.
! ~thropists received Q check for the amount
| expended with interest
! n other afternoon a. q young man
was attending 10 some horses in tho barn
! Of John n. EbertS. Mt Cozad. ne discov-
! cred the corpse Of James Clement. living
upon the hay in b upper part Of the
barn. Clements was n German, about
thirty.five years OF & a butcher by
trade, and his death was thought to have
been caused by whisky. as his employer
gave him money 10 purchase some In the
forenoon.
DoDoE CoUxTY's So 900 court house
bonds were sOld to the Central Trust
Company, Of Kansas City. for q premium
Of $3.50. The bonds are five per cents.
running thirty years.. with optional pay.
ment after ten years.
A WOMAN with . dying child in her
arms was heartlessly elected from a room
at Omaha the other day. The woman. ON
account Of the illness Of her child. a baby
boy two months old. was unable to earn
the money due for room rent. and was ac-
cordingly forced to cave the quarters,
wretched as they were, and go int the
street with her babe in her arms. An
other woman gave her shelter and she
had only time to place her sick baby In .
bed before it died.
The Central Nebraska Circuit Fair As.
ISOLATION has issued its programme for
this years meetings. They will b held at
HastingS September IL 70 20; Minden.
September "a to q, and Rcd Cloud. Octo-
ber I tOA. Purses amounting to s., OOO are
offered
C~ULBERfsoN and Trenton will contest
for the county seat Of Hitchcock County
on Septdmber 8.
CARL MADISON has been arrested at SEQ.
tia for trying to cut his wife's throat.
THERE are ITO lodges Of Old Fellows In
the State.
A NEW town has been plated six miles
north Of Platte Center, on tho Union Pa.
cific. and has been christend Burrows.
BURGLARS recently T~ansacked the store
Of Rittle & Tasdeman. at St Edwards.
securing about $500 in cash and goods.
NELs JORoENsoN, q n~ine-year-Old boy.
was instantly killed ear Minden the
other day by the accidental discharge of
a gun, which tore of one side of his head.
He was accompanying his father and sew
eral others to the country and was sitting
in the bottom Of the conveyance back of
the seat holding the gun. when by some
means il was discharged.
j. X. C~RlTTENDEN. superintendent Of
the Compass Cattle Company's ranch on
the North river, has been arrested and
taken to Sidney charged with emb xzle.
ment. The company had about SIS OOO in.
vested in the ranch and stock, and an in
vestigation shows that it has nothing left
but the land.
A BAND Of the Brule Indians from the
Brule agency passed through Norden re.
Gently on their annual hunting expedition
In the southwest part of Nebraska. There
were nine lodges. They were accompanied
BY a white woman who is their teacher
and Q very accomplished young lady. She
has been with them for three years. She
states that the Indians are making great
progress towards civilization. She lives
with them and they are very attentive to
her wants and wait upon her as il she
were q queen.
II excitement over the coal find at
South Sioux City does not diminish. An.
other hole has been sunk about 10 rods
from the first group. and coal was found q
little nearer the surface after penetrating
the same formation.
Z are in Nebraska the following
tracts Of lands yet open to settlement: In |
the Grand Island district, mostly in Gree. |
ley County, about $4,000 acres; Broken |
Bow district, Custer County, about lG. 600
acres; O'Neill district, largely in Holt
County, something over 5O,0OO acres; North |
Platte district embracing the counties of |
Lincoln. Perkins, Keith, Logan, McPher. J
son. Arthur. Grant, Hooker. Thomas,
Blaine and the west half Of Custer and
Dawson Counties about 9. 200. OOO acres;
district, embracing the counties
in the western part Of the State, about
zoo. 600 acres.
LIGHTNING played havoc during q re.
cent sto' m in the vicinity of Wahoo A
IN farmers house was struck bv
lightning and burned. Mrs. Thompson
had . mare killed. N. B. Green had three
horses killed and Joseph Graft lost q fine
mare. Dan Anderson had his barn de.
n three horses killed. The rain
fell in torrents and crops were badly dam
aged.
J. C. BRADLEY and wife returned the
other day from Nebraska City to Duchess
County, N. Y, in charge of an officer to
answer the charge Of grand larceny COM
mitted there last spring. They had made
good their escape. but since coming West
the wife had fallen from grace aud was
going to the bad. and to save her
informed the New York officers
and asked them to come after himself and
wife SO that they could go to prison and
thus possibly save her from a worse fate.
THE b & N. Railroad coal house at PALM
" burned the other day, together with
about W hundred ton of coal and some
bridge material in III yards. The st.
fire company was summoned and
prevented the spread Of the flames. Loss
lbout $1,000.
The other morning a Union Pacific
train ran into q washout about
.hree miles west Of Weston, wrecking the
Mr.. Conklin, the yardmaster at
was instantly killed and Eu.
reno Mitchell fatally scnIded. He was
between the drive.wheel and cab
or four hours and was being slowly
calded all this time before he could be
emoved from the painful situation. Fire.
nan O'Farren was badly scalded from
he knees down N may lose his legs.
Roster was also scalded and cut
lbout the head.
DURING . storm at Sterling on the
Of the 9Th BENJAMIN Archer's
arm was struck by lightning. William
3aftleY and Fred Mohier were ~sleeDin1 in