The Red Cloud chief., 1891-04-24

NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.
LATE rains throughout Nebrasks
make crop prospects very bright ~ IN
sure . good supply Of grass feed Tor
stock.
A PARrY Of capitalists have been for
some little time figuring on he STA"
lishment Of . large malt house IN oms-
ha with . capacity Of 500. 900 bushels OF
barley annually.
A TRAVELLING man stopping sS the
Bostwick hotel 1t Hastings with his
wife, attempted suicide the other night
by taking morphine. Prompt assistance
Of physicians saved him
The msyoro Of Omaha was recently in
vited TO attend Q banquet in celebration
Of the opening Of . hotel in Council
Bluffs and requested 70 enclose SO IN
his letter Of acceptance II he accepted
THE ten.year-old son Of Mrs- Mason,
while recently playing with . revolver
at Orleans, was accidentally shot The
ball entered the abdomen and went
downward Tho boy was in . critical
condition.
Gov. BoYD respited Haustenc. the
murderer, who wa 70 have been hanged
at Broken Bow onsthe 18th, and . mob
Of indignant farmers attempted TO lynch
him, but the officers kept the crowd at
bay. and the attempt failed.
The other morning a young man by
the name Of Curtis attempted to get on
q moving west-bound Elkhorn train
near Irvington. He missed his hold and
fell on the track, the wheel cutting his
right arm of Just below the elbow.
THE Lyons Creamery Stock Co. has
been organized by electing Waldo
Lyon, president; Andrew White, vice.
president; C. NJ. Fullerton, secretary;
r. S. Hart treasurer. and John Lyons.
general manager, with even directors.
A WRECK recently occurred on the Ii.
& NJ. road two miles west Of York.
caused by two cars that were blown
from Q side track. Six loaded cars and
nine empty mes were piled up in a mar
row cut No one was hurt, the cngi-
neer and fireman saving themselves by
jumping.
ABOUT IL o'clock the other night the
Commercial hotel at David City was
completely destroyed by fro with most
OF the furniture. II was q large three
story frame building owned and Occu-
| pied by s. ii. Yonker. Loss about
1900; insurance on building, 81, 900; on
furniture, 81. 600.
A LARGE barn belonging to Charles
N. Pickering. two miles south Of Steele
City, was struck by lightning the other
morning and entirely destroyed. Eight
cen head Of cattle and one horse We're
| burned to death. The loss was about
$4,000 with g., 800 insurance.
THE other afternoon a laborer who
was engaged in digging a tunnel from
the deep gulch beneath the watcr
wheels at the electric power station In
Kearney was crushed to death by o cave
| In of earth. He leaves q wife and eight
small children, the oldest only - years
old. quite destitute.
A MAN by the name Of Wilson was
found dead In his bed at blair the other
morning. lie had been troubled with
dropsy for some time, which was prob
| ably the cause of his death. Some Of
the family were sleeping in the same
room and did not know he was dead
until they went TO wake him.
BISHOP SCANNELL was formally In.
| stalled as bishop of Omaha on the 18th.
Many clergymen were present from
| outside states, among them being
Bishop Hennessy. Of Wichita, Kan.
| Bishop Cosgrovc, OF Davenport, Ia,
| and Bishop Bonacum, Of Lincoln. Neb.
!! The address was made by Bishop Hen
messy.
FiRE In the Paxton hotel at Omaha
the other night did damage = the ex.
tent Of SIS, 900. Five firemen were
caught under falling walls, n In.
stantly killed, one fatally injured and
| the others badly hurt Thirteen years
ago four members of the same hose
| company were killed almost on the
| same spot when the Grand Central no
eel burned.
WILLIAM MURPHY Is in the county
| Jail Mt Neigh on the charge of dispos-
ing Of mortgaged property. lie lived
| on q rented farm three miles north Of
| town, and purchased q team from J.
w. Todd on q years time. Last winter
| he removed TO Pierre, where he dis
| posed of the team without paying of
| the mortgage. lie was brought back
by Sheriff Haverland-
| E.,xr, cr,co.pp ord n AZ nr1-
lock. neighbors, both Of whom live
about two miles north Of Lincoln, had
u difficulty the other afternoon over
cattle breaking through fences Swi0-
gard in q At Of rage got a shotgun and
hunting Bullock emptied the contents
Of the weapon into his neck and back.
Bullock was frightfully, but not fatally
hurt. Swiggard was arrested.
The home of s. o. Cooper, nine miles
north of Hastings, recently caught fire
from the explosion Of a lamp in an in.
cubator and was totally destroyed.
Miss Tuck, q sister Of Mrs Cooper, had
retired for the night in a bed Don ad.
joining the incubator. and before the
other occupants of the house could
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| The remains were taken from the
cellar after the fire had done its work.
THE residence Of BENJAMIN Scholting
ut Grand Island was burned about mid
night the other night Mr.. Scholtiua
and family had been spending the day
in the country, and returning discov.
cred the house in q mass Of flames A
brother OF Mr.. SchOlting's was sleeping
in an upstairs room. He was aroused
and made his escape through . window
by means Of q rope. With the excep-
ton of four trunks and contents moth
ing was saved. Loss e, 00O
q. ID. WALLACE, Of Rising City, VA
taken with Ii grippe, which made him
insane and he vas sent 10 the asylum,
where he died next day. His wife wa
sick with the disease at the same time
A SISTER Of Mr.. S o. Cooker. o farmer
living nine miles north OF Hastings wa
burned to death In the destruction Of
the farm house the other night Th<
rest Of the family had very narrow
escapes.
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