The Red Cloud chief., 1890-11-14
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS


To UAoo1o - Uoog00a0s
Returns Of The late eloctiou received
mp 70 the Sth Indicated the electioa 81
Boyd. Democrat for 0oveeaoe. By . plu-
fality Of from Loo % 4So0 BOYD car
Sisd Douglss County b. . majority 81
II, 100 ovs RichardA The indications
were that tho Rcpublicaa State ticket
With the e~xceptoa Of Governor. he'd
beoa elected The total vots OF the
State wss Is. 900 greater than for Prssi-
deaf In 1854
The Prohibition amendment was de-
featsd BY fully 1000, and tho Farmers
Alliance has . majority Of the L-gisis-
turs. just how large had not been def
nitely determined
In the First Congressional district
Bryan. Democrat defeats Connell, Re-
publican. BY 200 ms; ority.
In the Second district McKeighsn,
Allianee-Demoorst IL elected over Har.
Ian, Republican, By . majority. indi-
Gated BY tho returnA Of anywhere from
1000 70 q 00a
In tho Third district tho result had
not been determined BY the returnA but
KEN. Alliance was leading both Dor.
sey. Republican. and Thompson, Demo-
crat Dorsey being second in the race,
with several counties TO hear from.
The Alliance captures most Of the
county Offices in the State.
Mlscellaneous.
JAMES ARMSTRONG. . blacksmith. Of
York, died the other day from tho Of
fects of poison taken by mistake. In.
stead OF taking morphine no took rat
poison.
In . saloon just over the west limo of
the reservation at Fort Robinson, the
other morning. Private Rufus Tate. of
Troop f. Ninth cavalry. was beating
Julia Reeves. when Coke. the prop.i.
etor. interfered. Tate turned on him
with . knife and Coker shot him dead.
Coker then surrendered to the guard.
Rev. HENRY SLEIGH. who Is wanted
in Baltimore. was arrested at Lincoln
the other day with Mrs. Alice Baugh.
~ and the two lodged in Jail. charged
with adultery. Sleigh Isl married man.
but deserted his wife in Baltimore
about . year ago and eloped with Mrs
Baugbmsn.
HARRY HURST. who al of from Lincoln
some time ago with Mr.. Clark's wife and
six children. has been arrested ct Cedar
BluRG In addition to tho charge Of
criminal intimacy, . warrant has been
sworn out for the arrest of Hurst on the
charge OF running of with mortgaged
property.
KATIE HARLAN, . domestic In the
family OF Judge Stewart at Lincoln.
was recently arrested for setting fire to
the judges residence. She had been
supposed to be mentally unsound and
refused to talk, but the other night
she told the officers that she had been
induced by . man uamed J. II. Hunt to
fire the house and that he promised to
give her S75 for the job. Hunt was Al.
rested, at which he appeared to DO
greatly surprised and stoutly declared
his innocence. The police were work.
ing on another clew, however. and the
girls manner and Hunts strenuous
denials impressed them with the belief
that the girl was trying to shield the
guilty man at Hunts expense. Later
A. w. Day, manager OF tho Lincoln
steam laundry. wa arrested.
Mrs JANE DRUMMAN. q lady 50 years
of age. was killed by q runaway horse at
Lincoln recently. She was thrown from
the buggy and her head struck the curb
stone. She died in half an hour. Her
companion was only slightly Injured.
d. w. BRITAIN, ex-County Treasurer,
was struck on the head at Wayne the
other afternoon with q pick-axe by a
negro section hand named William lib
bets The skull was fractured and
Britain died next day. Tho cause Of
the trouble was o stated.
THE twelve-year-old son of G. l.
Rouse. Republican candidate for the
State Legislature at Grand Island. was
recently thrown from a horse and his
foot catching in the stirrup he was
dragged to death.
FRED c. Cox. q brakeman, was killed
in the II & NJ. yards at Nemaha City
the other morning while switching. Ho
leaves . wife and child at Nebraska
City. He had been braking only .
month.
In walking through . stack yard" at
Springview, the other day. q little girl
accidentally lighted . match by step
ping upon It Over i've hundred bushels
Of wheat about seventy-five tons Of hay
and q threshing machine were burned.
JUDGE broadly has overruled the mo-
ton for q new trial, made by the attor.
ncys Of Charles Johnson. who murdered
his brother-in.law. Jonas Whiteman,
near Auburn last June. The murderer
has been sentenced to be hanged Feb
ruary IS, 1891.
HANS MOE, q Norwegian laborer work.
Ing with . gang Of men on the Union
Pacific track at Avery, . way station
five miles southwest of Omaha, was
struck by the gravel train the other
afternoon and two cars passed over bis
right leg. From . few inches below the
knee to about an inch above the ankle
the limb was ground to pulp
Pensions recently granted Nebraska
veterans: Original invalids; Oscar A.
StearnA Columbus; Samuel F. Moore,
Fremont; Andrew Atwood, Crawford;
William E Zines. Sterling; Jason Lu-
Gus, Merna Increase; Owen Buchanan.
Dawson; Horace II. Warren. Nelson;
Francis n. Hun. Columbus; John Sars-
by, Fairmont; Clark Newcomer, Cen
trail City; John |. Duke. Plattsmouth:
William J. Turner, Red Cloud Origi.
nal widows: Jaannette L, widow of
Oscar A. Stearns Columbus; Anna n,
widow Of John A AmneyS Beaver City.
The other day Henry Edison was In
killed and nine other workmen
received bruises As the result Of IN ex.
Of dynamite in Behan's quarry
at Louisville.
ELIZA GRIFFIN Wa found dead on
the prairie about eight miles northeast
OF Beatrice the other morning. It IL
thought he fell during the night in IN
epileptic at and died through cold and
exposure
RECENTLY . North Platte man while
out hunting shot and killed . tame deer
belonging 70 the Hershey ranch near
that " He treats every - he
to the cigars to keep them from
kAaSin0 him