The Red Cloud chief., 1889-07-19
NEBRASKA A NEWS.

FRANKIE CURRIk . young girl. has been
arrested at Lincoln 70. obtaining dry
goods upon forged orders. When the
premises where she lived were searched
about $500 worth of dry goods were found
that she had obtained by false representa-
ton and forgery.
KEARxKY went in ectacies, fred cannon
and rejoiced generally when the last dol
lar for the cotton mills subsidy. $3.50. 0OO.
had been subscribed. The mill alone will
cost half q million and perhaps more. as
the cotton maenates OF New England. who
are Interested in the enterprise. talked of
increasing the capacity from the original
plan Of l5.OO0 to d. 900 spindles.
AT the recent encampment Of the
Knights Of Pythias at kearney, in the
competitive drill. the first prize Of $3.50
was awarded to Hebron Division No %.
scoring 81 points. The second priz, of
$50 was awarded to Omaha Division No.
II. ssh points being scored Tho third
pr: ze Of 500 wss given to Marshall Di-
vision No. IL. scoring s2h points.
ROBERT and Cora Rishor, OF Logan
County, and Alice Overly, of Broken Bow.
were driving into Galloway the other day
when the neck.yoks strap broke. drop
ping the buggy tongue to the ground.
The team ran away and on turning the
corner at the hotel the three were thrown
against the building. Miss Overly had one
leg broken twice below the knee and was
internally injured. Her companions were
also injured but not so severely.
HENRY LoROFER, q farmer living near
Arcadia, was recently robbed of $3.50. the
proce. ds of his sale Of a losd Of hogs. Tho
money was left with Mr.. Lohofer at the
house and The rest of III, family went out
to work. Late in the afternoon a man
came in dressed in a woman; clothes and
chloroforming Mrs. Lohofe, ransacked the
house, took the $3.50 and hat was the last
seen of him..
JOSEPH NJ. MOODY, living fourteen miles
from Ansley. recently had trouble with
his wife over his treatment of the children
and she left him. One night he went TO
her fathers house and shot her lead.
The next day his body vas found several
miles distant with q bullet hole in his
head.
MRS. HAMILTON, Of Plaitsmouth. the
other day picked up a lucket OF boiling
water aud emptied it out Of an open win.
dow just in time for it to fall upon her
two children who happened 10 be raising
at that mCment Her One-year-0ld babe
received most OF it and was fatally scalded.
The elder child was also badly scalded.
A SAD case of accidental poisoning re-
Gently occurred near p attsmOuth. in the
family Of Samuel Stripping. q farmer.
Some poison had been put into q dish and
placed in . window for the purpose of
killing flies. Mrs. Siripling's attention
vas attracted by something out doors. and
upon returning to the house she was hor-
rifled to see her infant son standing at the
window eating the poison from the dish.
Medical aid was Immediately summoned,
but the child died before assistance came.
JANIS SILK, . farmer, recently took q
load Of corn to Alliance, which he sold.
He laid in q supply OF groceries and also
whisky. He then bought . bottle of whis.
Ky and . bottle Of cartolic acid. On the
way home he took Q drink Of the acid in.
stead of the whisky and died in the wagon
THE wife of J. Towner Smith, one Of the
Oldest and wealthiest citizens of Dodge
County, committed suicide at the family
residence in Fremont the other day BY
shooting herself with a pistol IL health
was supposed to be the cause. She was
about thirty years old.
The general manager Of the Fremont,
Elkhorn & Missouri Valley road recently
sent a check for $50 to Miss Mabel Peck,
the brave young daughter OF q farmer,
who Of June ID brav ed a terrible storm
and tagged a train in Dodge County, and
saved it from being wrecked by running
into a wash.out
HENRY GALE, a farm hand. recently
committed suicide in Dodge County by
hanging. No cause known.
ROBERT CLARK, who embezzled 81. 600
from the Howells Lumber Company at
North Bend, was recently sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
II is asserted that Polk County en-
ployed two experts -four months, at a
cost Of about 81. 200, to discover that the
treasurer owed the State 81 cents and the
County $3.50.
PATRICK DUDDY, q Holt County farmer,
paid an insurance note On his cattle one
day recently, anil the next morning two
Of his cows were struck by lightning. AL.
Donaldson. one Of Duddy's neigbbor. also
paid his insurance the same day and had
= horse killed by lightning during the
same storm.
LIGHTNING recently struck the residence
of Mrs. r. A. King. four miles from Wal
lace. Instantly killing a f~our.year-old boy
and so severely shock ing Miss King as to
render her deaf and speechiess.
HANS VEASE, a sixty-year-old Pierce
County farmer. recently hanged himself
to a step-ladder.
WILLIAM WOLF, who lost his feet by
freezing last winter near Atkinson while
ntoxicated, has sued the parties who sold
him the liquor for $780, O0.
The pr, MUM list for the fourteenth an
nual fair of the Hall County Agricultural
Society has been issued. The fair is to
be held at Grand Island September q. o,
&c and q, and the attractions will be nu.
merous.
The highest pinnacle of the f.m
Crow Butte. in Dawes County. was re-
Gently the scene of a romantic marriage.
The contracting parties we're Edward Ell
mer Powers and Miss Ida NJ. Pearsons.
The brida party was an hOur in making
the ascent, and although somewhat
IA igued the ceremony was immedi ately
performed by Judge Nesbitt. the stars and
stripes floating over the heads of the Us
ssmbled company.
Two spans of fine hor ,es and a double
carriage were lately consumed with the
barn of John Clark. near Clarks.
THE ~ten-year-old son Of William Prev
lit. Of Waco. was recsntlv drowned at