The Red Cloud chief., 1889-08-09

year; for 1883 it footed up SIG. OF. Ssa4a
This shows an increase in the valuation In
n year Of Sc. 80, 7Ul.Si The total levy
for the current year is 81 49,. 006 q. while
in 1883 the levy was Il, 81, ISL. g. or . de-
crease Of $l3s. SD So
MlscellaneOua.
THOMAS TAfUN. while working at Q well
at Elsie. was struck on the back Of the
head BY the crank Of . windlass and
almost instantly killed. Tatum wa.
among the most prominent men in the
eastern part Of Keith County.
u other night . man named Mccoy,
the keeper Of . saloon at Roseland, and
A.. II. Hengan, became involved in . wal
of words, when Mccoy drew . knife and
stabbed Hsngen in the abdomen, resulting
fatally.
The six-year.old son Of w. J. Beujamin,
. farmer living on the reservation two
miles from Fender, was recently murdered
bv . Winnebago Indian. The boy with
| his two brothers was after their cattle,
which were pastursd near their home.
when . wagon containing three Indians
came up and n of the red devils firel
I've OF six shots at the boys, one shot hit
ting the child in the forehead. He was
assisted to his home by his brothera His
mother, who was visiting at q neighbor's.
was sent fol-, but before she arrived the
boy became unconscious and soon died.
The Indians were arrested and there was
much excitement in the locality.
The block owned BY the Nebraska Loan
and Trust Company at Hastings. and oc-
cupied by the Gazstte Publishing Com
pany, the Pathfinder, Vail and Green.
boots and shoe; Frank HolIingsworth.
dry goods, and Ellis. grocer. was recently
destroyed BY fire. The loss was $4,000.
HARRY MOORE. q lad of twelve years,
son of H. C. Moore. a carpenter of Fair
mount, disappeared the other night and
with him ven 500 belonging to his father.
and which was concealed in the parental
bedroom.
The other morning the family of Frank
Kos, of Plattsmouth. were start ed by
hearing two pistol shots fired in quick sue.
cessioh In an upstairs bedroom. Otto.
the nineteen.year.oli son. rushed to the
room and found his aged father sitting be-
side The bed In a pool of blood with q
smoking revolver in his hand. As tho son
entered the door the father pointed the
revolver at him and told him to leave or
he would kill him. The boy had scarcely
reached the foot Of the stairs when Kos
fired again and killed himself instantly.
He was eighty.twO years old and had been
considered slightly demented for some
time. Until lately he had worked at his
trade, painting, in the B. & n. shops.
The other evening Miss McMullen, a
guest at the Creston Hotel. in Creston,
started from her room to her brothers.
Mi|taking the stairs for the room, she fell
the full length Of the stairs, injuring her
spine and also causing internal injuries,
which 1t was thought would prove fatal.
CLAIMS amounting to over 81. 600 have
been filed with the board Of supervisors of
Antelope County for the pursuit and cap
ture Of Nick Foley, the murderer who met
his death at the hands of q mob but the
matter has been laid over.
ER- McDoNALD, living neal De!oit, will
be 1O3 ear old in August. He is hale
and hearty and in the last forty years has
not miss Q a dozen meals. His father
lived to be III years old.
miles OF electric railway in the city Of
Keafney. The road is to Le in operation
BY January I. 1880
"A NEW 0uu BOu"Wu6G 9eIIOUS C0GII0
disease recently broke out in two or
three herds near Lincoln and balm ID all
efforts to relieve it The disease begins
BY . swelling Of the eyes, which become
50 thoroughly inflamed that blindness
follows in q few days. The gatherings
break. leaving . small round pimple on
the eyeball and the beast is totally blind.
A fever accompanies the disease and the
milk OF the cows il unfit for use.
JOHN JOHNSON, q member Of the firm of
Burns & johnson. implement dealers of
Creighton, was riding into town the other
morning and had in tho buggy with him
. shotgun and q little boy about six years
old, when the boy accidentally touched
the hammer Of the gun with his foot and
discharged it The charge entered John.
sons right side. broke one rib and passed
through and out at the back. The doctors
said there vas small chance Of his recov.
cry.
EITH NHKDLES aged twenty.tbree. and
Page Moore, aged fourteen. we're recentIt
wrestling at Hayes Center, when Moore
threw Needles on his back and head. At
the time Needles struck the ground he be-
came unconscious and died within two
hours.
MRS. CATHARINE EvERs committed sui
eide by hanging near Willard recently.
She ha0 broOded over self-destructi0n nm.
til It became q mania. Six years ago she
made an unsuccessful attempt to drown
herself, and since that time has been sub.
jsct quite often to morose and apparently
insane spells. She left Q letter to her hus-
band saying she could not help il, to take
care Of their two children, and to forgive
her.
WHILE chasing . calf the other day,
farmer named Shuts. living near Stock
willie. was pitched headlong from his horse
and killed. .
WILL BoHANNoK dropped dead in . pho
tograph gallery at Omaha the other day
and the mother was % overcome with
grief ver the death Of her boy that she
attempted to take her own life with poison
but was prevented BY parties present
CHAcH COUNTY has no bonded indebted
ness and the farmers are almost Q unit
against bonding the county for any pur.
posa
THH aax crop around Stsrling ID being
tAreshed and yields from eleven to four.
tosn bushels Of SEED to the acre
1H4 Ulysses school house has been sold,
aAd will b converted Into . hotel.
4 sroCK company b being formed
o0ornfo the Hoe2olk f0uudrv In ifs full -.