The Red Cloud chief., 1890-10-17
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS

NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
Tn dwelling on the EHllwatef stoct
farm near Calhoun, owned By h J. Ken
DALI burned 70 the ground The othes
evening. Loss 90. eoo
WHILE driving st Kesrney the Other
afternoon d.. J. A. Haggard and wife
had . serious runaway. The horse took
fright at . motor y and ran away,
oserturning tie carriage. d.. HaGgasd
was picked up with . broken leg and BIZ
wife received . fractured arm
J. F. TRITxER . cattlemsn, was 70.
Gently run over by freight train ss
Weeping Water and had one foot cut
o6, besides losing the Greas toe Of his
other foot
MRA JULIA A0aR Of Lincoln. whose
husband. while Intoxicated attempted
to murder her, has sued the man who
SOLD her husband Liquor. laying her
damages 1t 5000. MohR 10 in Jail
awaiting sentence TO the penitentisry
for shooting his wife some time since.
IT 10 stated that the bogus lightning
rod mon have hit upon . new scheme TO
swindle fsrmerA They send . man
ahead who bargains with . farmer TO
buy . horse. The bargain will b made
to pay for and take the horse in . day
or two. but the horse buyer wishes the
farmer to sign . paper - reference He
does so The horse Is not cared for, but
the other parties come along with .
written contract for $50 worth Of light
ming rods A dispute follows. and the
farmer, to keep out Of . law suit, COM
promises for so or $50.
The other day two valuable stallions
. pair of mules and three farm horses
were cremated in . barn belonging to
William Willis. near Gresham Tho
loss amounted to %, 500.
HENRY MOmR who Wa found guilty
1T Lincoln Of shooting his wife. has
boon granted . new trial on the grounds
that the district Judge In giving his
charge to the jury read the wrong SEC
ton in the statutes concerning the pun
ishment of the crime.
Orro COwEk, of Grand Island, met
with . peculiar accident tho other day.
While putting . bride on . horse his
right arm suddenly fell useless to his
side. and he has not been able to use II
since. The arm seems to be 50 dislO-
Gated that the palm is turned to the
rea It requires considerable force
with the other hand to bend it forward
1t all, and upon releasing the pressure
the hand Immediately flies back.
JOSEPH WRIGHT, who vas recently re-
leased from the Missouri penitentiary.
was met at the door Of the prison by an
officer from Nebraska who brought him
to this State to answer the charge Of
stealing two horses.
THE three-year-old daughter Of A.
Nickel, Of York, while recently playing
on the banks of a creek, fell In and was
drowned.
The Census Office has completed the
count Of the Nebraska schedules, and
the official figures show q total pOpula-
tiOn of l.O56. 793. According to the last
census the State contained 4A9, $50 in
habitants, and it has therefore gained
6O7. AZ. or more than doubled in ten
years. the rate Of increase being about
l35 per cent
JOHN BENNETT, q we'll digger, was
overcome by gas the other morning
while cleaning q we'll lear Leigh. An
attempt was made to a v him. but he
fell head foremost into the we'll, and
before he could be brought to the sur
face was dead. He leaves a wife and
three children in poor circumstances
JOSEPH WHITE, q grain dealer of Pick
rell, recently had his foot 50 badly in
jured by the accidental discharge Of his
gun that amputatiOn was necessary.
PENSIONS were granted the following
Nebraska veterans on the 7th: Original
invalid, COrydOn A. Patrick. Hebron.
Increase, John H. Linscott John NJ.
Taylor. Loup City; Gilbert NJ. Hawkins,
Mantasket; Joseph NJ. Klinker, Ord;
George O. Aubert Western; John w.
Reimor. Hardy; August Witmann, Kent;
Warren Tusselman, Leigh; Bernhart
Olsen, Harrington; Fred Gesling. Ne
braska City; William s Motler. Genoa;
Martin II. WescOtt Malcolm; Lewis
Farber. Neigh: George Lambert Hay
Springs; Daniel J. Lee, Blair; William
kreitz, Lexington. Reissue and in.
crease, Elijah Gleason, Utica. Original
widows, etc, Jerviah N, widow Of John
A. Shockels, Minden.
ANNA ETOUGH, who teaches at Prairie
Island, Platte County. fell and broke
her arm the other day. Notwithstand-
ing this she kept right on with her
school and carries her arm in q sling.
A THIEF entered the house Of Henry
Heycr, nea Deshler. the other day. and
extracted s24 from q plethOric pocket
book, but had the Kindness to leave $50
in the purse.
THE city marshal Of WahOo is a brave
man. but he is afraid Of . woman with
. Ratchet A woman in that town put
up . COW for trespass and the marshal
went to get it without paying the dam
age done by the COW. The woman took
. Ratchet and defied the officer to open
the barn door. He paid the damages
and took the COW.
The other day Miss Allie Chambers.
Of Niobrara, swallowed . bone, which
lodged in her throat and had TO 60 to
Norfolk to have the impediment ex-
tracted.
LOUIE LIKBROCK. . prominent farmer
and influential German. Of Seward, was
recently killed by being thrown from .
horse
FRANK HUBsI. employed at the Demp-
ster min in Beatrice, had his left hand
frightfully mangled between cog-wheels
while oiling machinery the other
morning.
DoLIIE LEsERvB, . young woman OF
nineteen years. living In Syracuse, was
charged BY her brother-in-law. James
kudge. with being criminally intimate
with . prominent merchant and retired
TO her room in . very depressed mood
An hour later she was found dying. and
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