The Red Cloud chief., 1891-11-06
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.

fattened at Ewing this winter.
ONE ranch in Lincoln county has
raised 5000 bushels Of potatoes
TUE seventh annual meeting OF the
s~outheastern Nebraska teachers asso-
citation was held at Beatrice November
20, 81 and 3.
III is reported that John Tremsyne.
of Stanton county, has left for parts
unknown and that numerous creditors
his departure
The contract for Dakota county's
new court house has been let The
building is T. cost about $4,000 and TO
be completed by April l, 1872
HENRY MILLER died at Columbus re-
Gently of lockjaw. Several weeks
ago he stepped on a nail Some ten
DAYS later he was taken i'll and never
got up.
JAMES T. SMITH, head clerk in 5.
Schwab's clothing store at Lincoln, has
mi s,eriously disappeared. No reason
could be assigned for his disappear
ance, and foul play Is feared
WILLIAM Lyons, a brakeman, on the
Fremont, Elkhorn 81 Missouri Valley
road, was recently caught between the
bumpers of a freight train at Blair and
probably fatally injured
Mrs. ID. A. BoOTH recently died sud
denly at her home at Fremont during
the absence of the family. She was
found lying dead on the floor. Death
resulted from heart trouble.
A LARGE portion of Blaine county
has been swept by a prairie fire The
Ere was started by a boy tramp
Thousands of acres Of grazing land
have been swept over and hundreds of
tons Of hay, the property Of ranchers,
consumed by the flames
THOMAS DORFLISGER, d~efaulting
of the Pittsburgh, Pa, board
of education, was recently arrested at
Omaha as he was stepping from a Rock
Island train. He at first gave his name
as Henry w. Jones, put afterwards ac-
knowledged his identity. His shortage
is about $40, 600.
GREAT damage was recently done 10y
prairie fires which swept over the coun-
try south and west Of Arnold and
Candy, in Lincoln, Logan and Custer
counties Thousands of tons of hay
were destroyed and many farmers who
had not yet threshed their grain in the
stack lost their entire crop
THE case of eastman against Milne,
q contest for the office of county treas
urer of Greeley county, resulted in
favor of Milne, the holder of the official
certificate of the c%anvassing board. An
order of custer was Immediately i,suei
and delivered to the sheriff of the coun-
ty, but he refused to serve il.
A FREAK has been discovered in Lin
coin in the shape of a cOlored girl SIX
years old who is gradually turning
white For the past six months her
skin has been turning from black IN
white, commencing at the foot The
entire limb is now white. The ply
sicians of the city are greatly interested
in the case.
A LATE fire at Fremont destroyed
the warehouse of the Fremont Hemp
& Irvine ca The building was filed
with binding Irvine, there being about
$50, 600 pounds Of the finished product
in the structure. Very little of the
immense quantity of Irvine will be of
any value. The loss was from so. go
to SIS, 900; fully insured.
GAIT. john HAMMOND. a pioneer resi-
dent of Platte county, but of late years
of Grand Island, died in the latter place
the other day from an overdose of nor
phine. The deceased was appointed
commander of the soldiers home at
Grand Island in the early part OF Gov.
Thayer's administration He was re-
moved about two years ago.
The grand lodge /. o. o. +. at Lin
coin elected the following officers:
Grand master, George l.. LOOMS, of
Fremont; deputy grand master, A. ii.
Weir, of Lincoln: grand warden, r J.
O'Neill, of Pawnee City; grand sccrc-
tary, J. +. Gage, of Fremont: grand
treasurer. Samuel McCIay, of Lincoln;
grand representatives, j. = Hoagland.
of North Platte, and q. II. Cutting. of
kearnev.
TuE celebrated Dreesscn murder case
ended ut Valentine by the jury acqui'-
ting Dreessen. but bringing in a verdict
Of manslaughter against Mrs Drcesseu
for the murder Of the twelvc-year-old
boy, Theo Drecsscn. When the YER
dict was announced Mrs Dresser fell
to the floor in n dead faint, while her
husband. on his knees before the Judge,
pleaded to be sentenced too. saying
she was not guilty. Judge Critics sus-
pended sentence, pending a motion for
n new trial.
OS a crowded thoroughfare at Lin
coin the other afternoon j. r. Lcmist,
local agent for a coal company and n
prominent society young man, was
horsewhipped by Mrs f. l. Hancock.
Two years agothe woman was the wife
of an eStimable gentleman and business
man and alleges hat Lemist led her
astray and promised To marry her As
soon as she got n divorce from her hu9-
band. This she did and declares that
he refused TO fulfill his promise. Hence
the whipping.
QUITE a number of Sioux Indians
were recently at Chadron trading.
Among them was an Indian girl seven
teen years old. Her native curiosity
led her TO look into the window OF a
restaurant where Calamity Hank" a
broken down gambler. was eating a
lunch. Hank turned upon her as a joke,
raised his arms and with a terrible yell
started toward the girl. She turned
pale. and with a oan dropped on the
pavement unconscious She was taken
To her parents tepee, where she died
at two o'clock. literally scared To death
The large sorghum wo rks OF I. :
Bible at Madrid were destroyed by fire
the other day. The proprietor n two
employees were sleeping in the building
ut the time and narrowly escaped death
in the flames. The loss was estimated
AT 3. 800. including several vehicles
ForR masked men entered h Office
of the Ames avenue barn of the Omaha
Street Railway Co. At n O'Clock the
other morning. and. At the point OF re-
volvers. compelled superintendent
Beals and two assistants 10 throw MP
their hands while the burglars pro-
ceeded TO blow open the safe with
powder. They secured 5000
ard made their escape