The Red Cloud chief., 1891-10-16
NEBRASKA TATE NEWS.

frost OF the eaSOn on the Ath
FooTPAps held up Smith Boyd. q
farmer, hear Butte City and robbed
him Of $50.
THE Kimball cheese factory has beef
so successful this year that il will be
enlarged next season.
The post Office at Arapahoe was en-
tered by burglars the other night The
stracted
WILLIAM BOrToRFF. q r. & NJ. brake
man. fell between the cars Of a special
freight at Palmer the other evening,
and was instantly killed
THE proposed western Nebraska re-
union of ex-soldiers and sailors which
was to have been held a. Gering has
been abandoned for the present season.
A HERD Of cattle crowding on a bridge
seven miles west of Beatrice. caused
the structure TO fall, but only n Of
the steers was hurt The bridge was a
total wreck.
ERNEST SAVAGE, a sewing machine
agent shot Richard willard, a horse
trader. with a revolver at Ponca the
other day. The ball struck him on the
forehead. infiicting q severe but not
dangerous wound
THE governor has offered $500 reward
for the capture of Arthur Sloan, the
murderer Of Benjamin and John Bald
win on October /. The reward is twice
as large as Is usually offered owing TO
the fact that two persons were muir.
dered.
ONE farm er in western Nebraska has
raised sixty acres OF melons for the
purpose Of furnishing seed for an east
ern wholesale seed house. For the
seed he receives 10 cents per pound and
estimates hat the yield of this year
will bring him about s75 per acre.
REV. C c. WILSON. of North Bend,
got married the other night and was
given 1.-The largest charivari in the
history of the state" according TO an
enthusiastic correspondent which
commenced at 1880 p. IN and lasted till
midnight Much property was de-
stroyed-"
R c. VAUGHAN, q well known bust
ness man of Fremont committed sui
eide the other morning by lying under
. hICikh Cur u hio hCSn usioHo iS
track and when the train started up his
head was cut off. The waywardness
Of a son was supposed To have driven
Vaughan insane.
The barn OF Henry Match, a farmer
living near Germantown, vas burned
recently. together with its contents.
which were four horses, n yearling
colt, binder, seedcr, two sets OF har-
ness, 200 bushels of wheat, $50 bushels
Of BATS and fifteen bushels Of rye. ORR
gin Of the fire not known.
TIE democratic state central COM
mittee net at Omaha the other even
ing for the purpose OF naming q
candidate for the supreme bench in
place of Judge Brady, who declined
the nomination rendered him by the
Grand Island convention. After n long
consideration of the subject, the COM
mittee decided to leave matters as they
are.
Ir has developed that the unknown
young man who was killed at Union in
Otoe county early, in August, vas
Joseph Ferris, a prisoner, who broke
Jail in Madison county in company
with Frank Clark. Perris and Clark
were stealing n ride on the trucks Of a
passenger coach when Perris fell and
was instantly killed. lie was buriei
at Nebraska City unidentified. The
whereabouts of his parents are I'M
known. Clark is still at large.
JUDGE A. ". Critics has filed a petit
ito with the county clerk of Dawes
,n,,u 10 l,ro h;o rana yl.,,l 90 o., I
official ballots as an independent and
uon-partisan candidate for distric:
Judge. Mr.. Harbaugh. who received
the nomination at the judicial conven-
ton at Valentine. filed a protest alleg-
ing that the word independent attached
to Judge Critics name was misleading
to the voters and he was not entitled
to the use thereof. County Clerk Mahcr
decided in favor of Mr.. Harbaugh
Judge Critics appealed the matter to the
supreme court.
CORPORAL CARTER of troop +. Sixth
cavalry, stationed at Fort Niobrara,
was fatally shot by Trumpetcr Dixon
of the same troop the other night
Carter was ordered by the captain of
his troop 10 drive some disreputable
negro ONE from the quarters lie
obeyed the order, and in doing so one
Of the girls resisted and was forcibly
elected. She reported the matter to
Dixon. who called Carter out and shot
him. Carter caught Dixon before he
could escape. disarmed him and held
him until a guard arrived. He died
soon after.
]. ii. AMEs, of Lincoln. who was
appointed referee in what was
known as the Atchison & Nebraska
railroad case, has filed his report.
This is the case instituted by ex-Attor.
n~ey-General Lecse to declare forfeited
the charter of the Atchison & Nebraska
railway, from the fact that it was lille.
gally consolidated with the Burlington
i Missouri. to the destruction of com.
potion aud the corresponding injuries
of the communities through which the
road operated its lines. The conclusion
of the referee Is that owing to the
building Of new competing lines and
from the fact that the Atchison &
Nebraska il operated Independently.
would be utterly destroyed as an instru-
ment of commerce, the court in the ex-
crcise Of its discretion and for the pro
Of the public welfare, ought TO
Judgment of custer.
Mrs DR. MCCAHAN. of Axtell. met
with probably n fatal accident as she
was lately returning from a visit to a
patient in the country. When crossing
the burlington aud Missouri track east :
IF town her horse became frightened
and unm~anageable and overturned the =
throwing her out She sus- ,
several serious injuries, the
worst of which was confusion of the :
brain. Her condition was critical. 4.
EASTERN parties are searching for the :
heirs of Frank Flynn. James McGuire. /,
James Leonard, Anton Duval. Eunice .
pa,tee, Sabel Gertrudcr Doherty. These !
resided in or near Omaha about l
,S6S =
Mrs ELI ROBINSON. Of Aspinwall
precinct Nemahi City, was found dead
bed the other morning. having died -.
srdS.nlv of heart disease. .