The Red Cloud chief., 1889-10-04
NEBRASKA A NEWS.

NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.
H P..SuTToN. an employe Of the Omaha
gas work. recently left work and went on
. spree. during which he attempted suicide
BY poisoning. He was pumped out
THERE are over thirteen hundred pupils
In b Hastings schools.
GH0RGR DAVIS living near Chadron,
was recently arrested for sending obscene
and threatening letters through the mails
to . neighbor.
A train OF twenty.one cars OF sheep was
badly wrecked tho other day two miles
from Wisner. Cattle ON the trackwas the
cause. The engine and several cos were
piled up . total wreck. The sheep lay in
great heaps bruised and dead. The en-
gineer was the only person injured. and
he not seriously so.
WHILE Thomas Duncanson with bis
wife and child were out riding near
Aurora . few days ago the team became
frightened and ran away. In attempting
to shield her child Mrs. Duncanson was
thrown out Of the buggy. receiving very
serious injuries
jim BUssEY, who deserted his family at
Mad son some time ago, returned the
other day and failing to persuade his wife
to depart with him Mortified the neighbors
BY producing q bottle which he said con-
tanned laudanum and which he proposed
to drink, and dia He swallowed the
liquid, hut while i'm the ''agonies OF
death" . physician examined the bottle
and pronounced the contents nothing
moro than colored water. Bussey recov-
cred imm 'diately m lett town in disgust.
A PARTY Of York boys recently played
banging. using Charlie Shrsck. son Of
Sheriff Shrek, for q subject AMI q ladder
~ the gallowa There was . hitch in the
programme and they came near finishing
the young sheriff. Help came in time to
~ his life.
TIE thirteen .year.old son Of Peter
Peterson. Of Stringtown, ran away from
homo recently, and as yet nj trace Of him
has been found.
TIE other day 8 A. Ripley. . butcher
Of Weeping Water. secured q railroad
velocipede Of the car repairer and went to
Avoca, six miles south, ON business. He
started back at about three p. m. and
coliided with . freight train md was
killed. Deceased was q prominent G. A r
man and q member of the 1. q. q. F. He
vas an old settler and leaves q large
family.
HENRY HANSON. q Dane, who lived neal
Eldou post-Office. hanged himself in his
hen house the other day and was not dis
covered until the following afternoon. He
was . bachelor and in good circumstances
JOE BIG BEAR. M Of the Indians con.
fined in Jail at Fender for the murder Of
the Benjamin boy, died the other day.
A D0Sr If tho GeonA Arvnv h.. boo~ ~.
ganized at Craig.
WESTERN NEBRASKA m to the front
with wheat averaging twenty three bush
els to the acre. raised by Isaac Childs,
who lives seven miles southeast Of Ansel-
mo He has just finished threshing 2,377
bushels Of wheat and S26 bushels Of oats.
A FUND is being raised at Tobias to de.
fray the expenses OF bringing to justice
the rascal vino recently assaulted q lady
at that place. About 500 has been sub
scribed.
WILLIAM VAN, a riprapper at work near
Nebraska City. has narrowly escaped
death BY fire thirteen times.
THE body Of q man supposed to be
James Larrity has been found in q corn
field neal Albion. 1t is supposed that the
man had been dead three or four weeks,
as b last time he was seen he was on q
spree at Newman's Grove. over q month
ago Larrity was an old soldier.
A NAN at Cornles, Platte County, owns
q cow which recently gave birth to a six
legged calf. which is alive and healthy.
The city marshal Of Norfolk has offered
ten cents apiece for unlicensed dogs, and
the boys around town are making mOnev
BY capturing cannes for slaughter.
JONES and Turner. the burglars who
were captured while blowing a safe at
Ainsworth, have been sentenced to four
and three years in the p~eni,entiary re-
spectively.
MANY Logan County farmers are sow-
ing fall wheat, they having discovered
that 1t pays . great deal better than
spring wheat
RECENTLY Mrs Henry Schneyer, of
Scranton, tried to cut of the head Of q
chicken with an axe, but instead she
clipped of about an inch of her thumb
A MAN BY the name of Hagan died on
the B. & n. passenger going south be-
tween Broken Bow and Ravenna the other
day. His body was embalmed and await
ed the arrival Of friends. He vas about
i've feet six inches in height, wore q full
beard. had dark hair and was about forty
years old.
IT cost Scott Bluff County 81. 600 to send
Arnold. b murderer. to the p~enitentiary
for for y-nine years 1t is said that in
the beginning OF their deliberations eleven
men Of the jury were for hanging the
prisoner, while the twelfth was for &C.
This man declared his intention
Of staying out q year rather than agree to
verdict of murder in the first degree.
IT ia estimated that owe one hundred
thousand sheep will be fed in Dodge
County this winter.
The Orleans oat meal mill recently
shipped q a Of its product to Philadel-
phia and one to IN Francisco.
A KEARNEY pIasterer recently lost all
four Of his children within twenty.sou
hours of scarlet fever.
CHARLES CHURCH. q young man living
ut Blue Hill, recently was caught in the
Of a sorghum mill and Instant
killed, his skull being crushed. He
leaves a wife and child in destitute cir
JOHN MARTIN, the sixteen.year.old son
of q Pierce County farmer, was recently
killed by lightning while on the prairie
A dog which was with him was
also killed.
MARY BLAIR, Of David City, has secured
. judgment of 81. 500 against a saloon.
Keeper for personal injuries resulting from
he sale Of liquor.