The Red Cloud chief., 1890-11-07

NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
Tn jury In the whitsmsn Dusde1
$3.50 st Auburn. after being oct III
sight returned . verdict Of murder II
the drst degree against Charles JoAn-
son. who shot and killed his brothef.in-
law. james Whitsnsn. il July last
TnE clothing store Of Stone 4 Co, Of
Central City. VA robbed Of 500 worth
Of goods By burglars the other night
(HAKLEs n. TBosLrOS, . young farm
er living twelve miles from Alliance. -
Gently killed Fred Robinson and fatally
shot his sweetheart Myrtle Ken. The
.irl and Thoslton were engaged to b
married. but when Thoslton called "a
see her she told him that she hsd Dc.
csded to marry another man named
Foreman 70 please her parentA Thosl-
ton e~xpostulated with her. when her
father came out and seized her, and
Thoslton attempted to shoot him. Rob
inson. who was In the house. rushed out
and Was shot dead by the furious lover.
and the girl was shot In the side in at-
tempting to disarm him
J. r COSKLIS, . wealthy stockman,
was arrested Ut Lincoln the other day on
the charge OF criminally a~ssaulting the
wife Of Andrew J. Reed The crime
vas committed some time ago. but IL IL
declared the lady, through fear OF her
life. has had to keep the secret
A KECEST fire in Ulysses destroyed
fourteen buildings causing $50, 900 loss
The wife OF Charles Clark. Of Lincoln,
recently d .sappeared with her six chill
dren. six COWS and q horse. the result
Of seven years industry on the part Of
herself and husband. Clark says he
misses the children. the cows and the
horse but thinks he can continue bust
ness without Mrs Clark.
The other morning Samuel McCath-
ron. m Of the oldest pioneer settlers
Of the Platte valley. vas perhaps fatal
~ wounded at Chapm an by n Joyce
Scott a young man, who struck the old
gentleman on the head with . club, in
ficting two cuts VIII ich penetrated to the
skull. Mr.. M%cCathron is eighty years
old. with poor health. and his recovery
was considered impossible. Tho COW.
ardly murderer fed, but a being pur.
sued by citizena
Mrs GRIFFITH, . Brown County
woman, created considerable excite
menti in Loup the other day by appear
ing on the streets with q shotgun on her
shoulder. a pair OF handouts in her
pocket and a revolver in her belt She
wal looking for her runaway husband.
= CHARLES VANCE, . young man who
had been employed OF . farm. took q
girl to a bagniO At Covington the other
night and soo after taking . room the
girl was heard to scream and Vance
rushed out in q half-dressed condition.
The girl was found unconscious with
her skull crushed back of the right ear.
as il by q blow from tho butt Of . re-
volver. She could not recover. The
girl is said to be the daughter of highly
respected parents residing nea the
State line. Vance escaped, but officers
were in pursuit
THE fine barn belonging to Fred
Meyer at Fremont was burned the
other night with its contents including
three horses. q COW. grain and hay.
Loss about So, 600; insured.
BERT SHIELDS and Smith Hart two
Kansas farmers. were run down by q
Northwestern freight train near Supc-
rior the other night Both men were
badly hurt and will probably die.
THOMAS DOI.ISON, o farmer residing
near Exeter. recently left home ostensi.
bly, to assist q neighbor move . barn
and has since been missing. Several
days later over three hundred men met
at his farm and spent the day in thor
oughly searching the premises and the
country for miles around without re-
suit Tho prevailing opinion seemed
to be that Dolison was decoyed away
and murdered. A neighborinR farmer
heard q pistol shot in tho direction OF
his house upon the night of his d.sap-
pearance. His granary and cellar col.
tanned about $3.50 worth Of oats and DO
tatoea He was always very particular
about his horses. and the fact Of their
being left without food or water, to-
gether with the fact of his having con-
siderable money from the sale of farm
produce, caused apprehension Of foul
play.
ELDER NJ. MEcHAX, Of Beaver Valley, |
recently net with an accident that
nearly cost him his life. In attempting
to cross the railroad track about . mile
and . half from Wilsonville his wagon
was struck by the west-bound passenger
train and thrown into the ditch beside
the road. Mr.. Mecham was crushed bo-
meath the overturned vehicle and sus-
tanned very serious injuries
A FAMILY OF newcomers to Ashland
have lately lost two children by diph-
iberia They had previously lost sew
eral children from the same disease in
the East and it is supposed the germs
Of d phtheria were taken to Ashland
them.
Ar . dance recently given on the res
ervation near Pender. some Indians got
into . fight and one OF them had three
ribs broken and his head pounded into
. jelly. He died from the effects
The York creamery has been pur-
chased BY John Peters
MARTIN BARKER, . we'll known bar.
Der. recently shot and seriously wound
ed Ell Lewis, employed in Tanners
stable 1T LyonA Barker WAS
considerably under the influence Of
liquor 1t the time.
GEORGE ARKIN has been found guilty
Of burglarixing Shimanek's shoe store
1t Central City.
An election was recently held at Lex
to determine whether or not tho
Council should issue water bonds in tho
sum Of SIS. 00Q The vote was largely
in favor Of the proposition.
MORE room IL needed 1t the Norfolk
hospital for the insane to accommodate
the patients already committed to IL for
,are and treatment For some time
past from two to seven patients have
been sleeping outside the wardA The
condition Of the institution