The Red Cloud chief., 1890-04-18
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.


suited in . tie. each candidate receiving
%9l votes. The Council WA attcmp tinR
To solve the problem.
IT Ia claimed that samples Of good coal
have been fouAd in banner County near
fi'eport
HARNV WOOLsyy, nineteen years old,
bsd both legs cut on by the cars at Nc
Cook the other n ght. lie. In company
with two others. were stealing . ride on
the baggage car Of Q train.
MATTHIAS JENSY, q farmee. was re.
Gently seriously, II not fatally, injured
by . runaway team ~ Columbus.
JANIS O'IsHigS, formerly Of Winona.
Ill, was found dead In his house about
sixteen miles northeast of Sidney tho
other morning. lie had been living
alOncO on his claim for about three years,
although having . wife and ak children
~ WinOns. The man had evidently
been dead for some days There was no
sign Of violence on the body, and as go
and q watch were found in his pockets
there was no ground for surprising that
he was killed for money. His horses
were found In the stable with their har.
nsss on and were nearly fsmished foe
food and water.
TnE house of Joseph Ford. near Itha.
ca. was destroyed by lightning the other
night, but four persons asleep In the
building At the time escaped unhurt.
ri A NuMnEIi Oi farmers met at Oakland
recently and organized . mutual firc In.
sursnce company for Burt and Cum.
ming Counties.
TmE State Superintendent Of Schools
has Issued q circular recommending that
the officers, teachers and patrons Of the
public schools Observe Arbor Day. April
81. by the adornment Of school grounds
and that teachers and pupils devote Q
portion OF the day to talks and reading
Of compositions OF selections upon trecA
their proper care and usca
JOiiN lIOMFEi.DE. . German farmer.
about twenty-scven years Of age, resid.
ing six miles southwest Of Avoca. COM.
IN tied suicide the other night by
first hanging himself TO his wagon
by rope and then shooting him
self through the head with q revolver.
The only apparent reason for his action
was that he was afraid he could not
make payment on his land that IL due
some timc In the near future.
A ~CoACHMAN named Gottlcib Henson
blew out his brains In the parlor Of
Millionaire j. n. u. PAtrick's house At
Omaha the other morning In the pres
6 Of the servant girl who had refused
his offer os marriage.
Ar Blair the other day Vallic Warner,
q girl sixteen years old. shot herself
through the breast just below the heart.
she sad abe had not bcen doing just ~
ahc ought % of late and wanted to die.
Tho wound was considered fatal.
nrnnEiL IL considerably excited oycr
tho finding Of coal At the depth Of two
hundred feet.
A LATE fire at Hampton destroyed the
hotel Of Thomas whitman and other
business houses. cntailing . ipss oil
about 2 1000; Insurance about 81, 900.
RECENT wind storm carried away the
roof Of the opera house at Nelson.
A LArE prairie Are In the rescs walton,
opposite Niobrara, destroyed several
buildings
WILLIAM SCiiNAbEN, q farmer living,
ton miles ast Of Lincoln. VAS fixing u
pump fifteen feet below the surface the
other day when he was overcome by
damp and fell 10 the bottom. A neigh.
bov named Thews started down Ia assist
him and was also overcome and fell ~
the bottom thirty feet below. Thews
recovered. but Schrndcr was dead when
taken out
PETER HENNEoix, who disappeared
from Seward ten years e with = lot OF
money belonging u other people and
who was supposed to have boon mur.
dcrcd. has turned up In Seattle. WASH.
where he 10 engaged In the rial estate
husincsA Tho wife and child he de
serted are o living In Iowa but In
spite Of that fact Henncgin has married
again.
JOmN SKiWNING. ot Dustin. struck his
pony over the head with . rife. causing
the gun n discharge and INSTANTLY kill.
Ing tho animal. .
lr took sevcnty.hvc men to save tho
town Of Hardy from q confederation
which WAS threatened by . 9 prai.
rio tirc.
RscENrLS -four hundred Wild geese
and ducks were found dead on tho banks
~ the Platte near Columbus The only
theory advanced Is that many farmers
are dipping their wheat In n solution OF
blue vitriol 10 prevent smut, which
polsons the fowls
TmE Indian school ~ Genoa, cstab-
lishcd six years ago, Is now the third
largest ~ the ton Indian schools in the
United States, and the superintendent
says no will make II rank sccond within
another ycar.
CWAkiIs CRArENuoor, who has been
away from Ulysses for sixteen years and
WAS supposed to In dead. has turned up
alive and we'll in time 10 participate In
the distr. bu ton " his fathers estate.
Isaac WILLIAMS, . tramp recently
lost both feet by hcinR run over by Q n
4 NJ fright train At InAvAle.
GEosu'e NlcMOus sN. III south Omaha,
Who has had . 9rcst deal VI family
tNoublc, rrcntly threatened 90 kin his
s~,u-in-lAw, John RruhAnk. and chased