The Red Cloud chief., 1890-10-24
STATE NEWS

NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.
Tn State convontjoa q The DasgA-
ters Of Rebekah, L q q r., oonDenood
at Beatrice on the 1lth.
JAcoD SrAIyoRD. 81 the Aru Of 0il-
man 4 Stafford, Of Redingtoa. Neh.
died recently st Cheyenne Wyo He
had been ono Of . hunting party In the
m~ountainS but being taken da~ngerously
sick he started home. dying whom he
reached Cheyenne.
ALDEsr BRYANT u In trouble 1t Dsko-
= City for shooting 1t the COW Of .
neighbof that broke into his field
RALPH MURDOCH. . son Of Captain s.
n. Aurdock. accidentally shot himself
dead near Wymore the other day. He
was getting into his buggy to return
home when the charge exploded. strik.
ing him In the head.
BEATNcE has been chosen for the
nextoonvention of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society Of the N. E Church.
A YOUNG man who calls himself Frank
c Wertman Vas caught at Anselmo in
tho act Of breaking into . hardware
store 1T that place. He wa taken to
Broken Bow and lodged in Jail He adj
mits breaking into tho store. but said
that bis only object was to secure . gun
to commit suicide
The Nebraska City Board Of Educa'
ton has resolved to enforce the Com
pulsory Education Law.
THE two-yearold child Of N. Barker,
Of Lyons has died from injuries received
by falling on . wire nail
HARRY STEELE, . brakeman, was
killed by the cars tho other morning At
Challo He was twenty-five years Of
age and his parents reside at Lafayette.
Ind The young man was formerly EN-.
ployed IS clerk in . Lincoln hotel and
had only been employed on the road
n month.
THE stable Of Frank Daley, Of Brews-
ter. was recently fred by his children.
who were playing with matches In
addition to the stable . span Of mules
burned
A. J. AYDELETTE an old man. was
stopped BY . highwayman at Beatrice
the other night The thief made . grab
for MI. Aydelette's watch and succeeded
in getting hold Of the chain. Aydalette
promptly knocked the fellow down and
gave him . good kicking. when tho
thief dropped the chain and disappeared
in the darkness
JOHN SPRINGER the school teacher in
Wheatland township sixteen miles
south of Hastings, started for his school
house the other morning and has since
been missing. The distance he had to
travel was three miles His dinner
pail was found and the ground showed
evidence Of . struggle and prints Of q
revolver in the mud, but NO other traces
OF the missing teacher. Foul play was
feared, As he had had some trouble with
stranger who threatened his life.
COMMISSIONER JENKINS has received
from the new sugar mandatory at
Grand Island samples OF the first sugar
made from beets in Nebraska The
samples arc of both the refined and un,-
products, and there is q pleasing
delicate taste to both which is not found
in the ordinary zane sugar. The Com
missioner is delighted with the spec.-
sen him and now feels as if no
had triumphed over tho unbelieving
who had branded him as the beet
sugar crank on account OF the enthusi-
asm he has manifested in his pioneer
efforts to have this great industry estab-
lished in the State.
THE Platte river bridge OF the Chica-
90. Rock Island & Pacific road has been
Twenty miles of track are
completed between PapilliOn and
South Bend. Work has been pushed
very rapidly. and the entire line be-
tween Omaha and Reatrice is expected
to be finished within q month. although
I is the date set for running
trains to Denver.
DANIEL CASEY. who shO: Mrs Ellen
RiordOn dead after a quarrel, has been
acquitted at David City, on the ground
of temporary insanity.
THERE are 162, 900 sheep being fed in
Dodge County. The cost of feeding them
Is estimated at SAIL. 600.
An unknown man. in jsil:.at Mead. COM
suicide by hanging himself with
belt strap He had 81 in money on
his person.
A A with q penchant for breaking
windows annoys the people Of Sidney.
FIRE broke out in ]. c. Fletcher's res
and bakery at Nelson the other
night which was entirely destroyed.
The family slept in the building and
awakened by the explosion Of an
old stock of ~flre-crackers. when they
found the room filed with smoke and
had time to escape. Fletcher's
loss was about $500; fully insured. Tho
loss on the building was 81, 500; insur-
ance. $500.
The other night fire at Liberty de-
. livery stable, q wagon shop. a
fcnce factory and the Masonic Hall.
The loss was about s., 600; partly in
The Grand Encampment !. O. O. F.,
recently in session at Beatrice, elected
the following officers: Grand patriarch,
E Daughty. Norfolk; grand high
G. A. Bennett Omaha; grand
warden. H. NJ. Utley, O'Neill; grand
J. p. Gage, Fremont; grand
treasurer, Samuel McClay. Lincoln;
junior warden. j. F. Heller. Hastings;
grand representatives F. Il Bryant
OmahAand II. Cutting. Fremont
A YOUNG son Of Andrew Wilcox, 70
siding near Tobias, was probably fatal
" injured the other day. He attended
3 bsptising and returning with some
other boys were racing their horses
The animal he was riding stumbled and
fell, rolling completely yer him. He
was picked up for dead. but revived
A LADY living in the northeastern
part Of the State has asked Governor
Thayer II there Is not . reward for
OF which she confesses to be the
The Governor blushingly re-
grets that the Legislature has over
1t with other important matterA
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