The Red Cloud chief., 1889-08-30

day BY aking Rough on Rats Temper
ary INSANITY was assigned As he cause
She vas employed ~ a domestic by
family in Hutchinson. Kan. She left
letter stating that she intended 10 Kill
herself because she did not want to e
back to her people, who had sent for her
because Of ill treatment
j. II. MANESS. arrested at Nebraska City
for the murder Of a man at Est,lville, Va.
has been released on q writ Of habsas cor.
pus. The papers for his arrest were i'm.
perfect and did not charge where the
crime was committed or in what court he
had been found guilty. On being released
Maness mounted a horse and fed.
Hon. JAMES LAIRD Representative In
Congress from the Second district died al
Hastings on the 18th. He was born in
Livingston County. n. Y. June 90, 1s49.
He was educated at the Michigan Univer-
sity. Before attending college. he entered
the volunteer military service OF the
United States from Michigan as aprivate.
July q. 1867, wheno only thirteen years old.
and served with the army of the Potomac
until the close of tho war; was . menu
her Of the Nebraska Constitutional
convention Of 1875; was first elected
to the Forty eighth Congress and has been
. member of that body ever since. His
death was due to blood poisoning result.
ing from a surgical operation.
The Wymore train On b Burlington
was derailed . mile out from Lincoln the
other morning. Two passenger coaches
| rolled down an embankment of about ten
feet and all the passengers were moro or
less shaken up. Twenty were injured.
some only slightly. Others were badly
hurt. though none were considered fatally
injured.
The Republican State convention to
Of the supreme Court and two members
of the Board Of Regents of the State Uni.
versity. has been called to meet at Hast
ings Tuesday, October 8. 1889. at eight
O'Clock p m. N convention will consist
Of SIG delegates. each county choosing
n delegate-at-large and q delegate
for each $50 voters, based upon the vote
cast for Hon. George H. Hastings for
Presidential Elector.
The State convention Of the third party
Proh,bitionists, met at Lincoln on the af-
ternoon of the 21>t with about 800 dele.
gates present. representing twen'y-eight
counties. Judge Martin ]. Brewer, Of
Nance. was elected permanent chairman;
&. orge H. Gibson, Of Douglas, secretary.
and J. c. Heald. Of Polk County. assistant
secretary. After appointing the proper
commit ees the convention adjourned un-
til morning. The most of the second day
was taken up in debate. When nomina.
tions were reached F. p. Wigton. of Nor
folk. was nominated for Supreme Judge.
Mrs. Jennie F. Holmes, Of Tecumseh, pres.
ident of the State w. c. T. u, and l. b.
Palmer. Of Hastings, grand worthy chief
templar. I. o. g. T., were nominated for
University Regents.
FRANK GUTHRIE, confined at Niobrara
for grand larceny, broke Jail the other
n ght during q raging storm and escaped
He left q note for the sher II saying he
would return in time for court.
THE two.year-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
Reedmuller, of Fontsnelle. Washington
County, recently got hold Of and drank
some fly poison. causing its death after
lingering two days.
Two girls and a boy, aged respectively
three. four and five years. were poisoned
at Beatrice b other day by eating jimson
seed pods. Physicians were summoned in
time to save their lives, but it was q mar
row escape for ono of them.
AT q recent wedding near Stromsburg
q number of guests ate freely Of canned
cherries and next morning were taken
violently i'll from poisoning. There has
been NO fatality, but many were seriously
i'll.
DURING . recent storm lightning struck
the residence Of DR.. H. J. Hill at Alma.
The bolt went down the chimney to the
ceiling. when it took various directions.
doing more or less damage in every
room in the house. The doctor and his
wife were asleep in one Of the rooms and
were SO badly shocked that it was two
hours before they recovered conscious
ness
TIL pcst.office inspector who has been
investigating the alleged irregularities OF
Miss Clark, the postmistress at Blair, it Is
said completely indicated the lady.
CHARLES GORE and Dora MuchmOre,
who hOld claims down in Dundy County
near NseL were arrested ths other day for
living together without having taken the
precaution to hav a marriage ceremony
They were lodged in Jail at
but the county judge affected
their release by joining them together in
wedlock.
The lodges Of Odd Fellows at Indianola
and Barley have consolidated.
A SPORTING woman by the name Of Nc.
Genry. OF Chadron, took four children out
the other day, when the horse ran
away. s~eriously. II not fatally, injuring
two Of them. The woman had one knee
broken and rec lived other injuries.
THERE Is now but . little over three per
Of the population of the State from
school age up that not read or write. |
The Northwestern is putting in addi.
tional switch tracks and 0 tur n-table 1t
Geneva.
MRS. J. l. Tour. Of Kearney, recently
caught q sneak thief in the house in pos.
session of q valuable gold watch. In an
she had him covered with q re.
telling him to drop the watch,
which he did and left the premises in a
hurry.
A RUNAWAY team was recently stopped
near Creighton. and q sleeping babe dis.
in the bottom Of thu buggy. The
team had started to run at a point about
i've miles distant whils the parents of the
child were out and the infant slept
it all.
The other day John Mcguire. of Omaha,
Iell fifty feet down the inside Of . smoke
tack sustaining a number Of flesh
wounds, but no bones were broken and he
recover.