The Red Cloud chief., 1891-05-22
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS

NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
Nxs business houses In Hardy wers
Docently burned. Los4 ss0.ooo.-
Fms broke out the other night In the
drug store Of D.. Seigel st Brunswick,
add before It could be extinguhhed
damage 10 the amount Of 500 MA
done 70 the stock and about 500 70 ~
building.
A LIrTLE girl Of Mr.. Hsmmond
Strayed away from her home near Thed'
ford the other day. and although tn
whole community turned out 70 search
for her and traced her for mileA JET
after one handTcd hours the searching
party failed TO And her.
II the district court at Lexington
Frank Manning. . mere boy, pleaded
guilty 70 forgery and was sentenced
70 one year In the p~enitentiary. Owing
TO the high standing Of the family and
the boys previous good character, the
sentence Was made - light q possible
THIsry.Two carloads Of ma
chinery for the Norfolk beet SINGER fac
tory were shipped from New Orleans
the other day. Twenty-Five carloads
r already in position in the building
and Il viii require about sixty carloads
besides those mentioned TO complete
the plant
JACK SHErHERD was recently a.
rested ut Omaha for brutality to q child.
He became enrs1ed 1t . neighb0r's
child for . trife and seizing il by the
ears lifted II from the ground and acted
in . most brutal n Both ears
were torn away from the head at the
top and bottom. and it was feared that
the organs were injured internally.
RECENTLY as two men named Win
tiers and Hansen were returning home
from hunting near Omaha their buggy
wheels ran into . hole in the road
causing one of their guns TO be dis
charged. the contents of which entered
Winters left arm tearing the flesh and
muscles In Q bad way and also making
q bad flesh wound in Hansen's right
arm.
JOSEPH ELwELI, late candidate for
county attorney of Rock county and q
prominent politician, was arrested re
Gently at Newport OF the charge OF
making counterfeit money. United
States officers watched him in the pro-
cess of molding silver dollars and
bounced upon him. The authorities
had been at work on the case for the
past six months
The celebrated poisoning case Of the
state VS. Stevenson has been decided in
the district court at Nelson. the jury
bringing in a verdict Of guilty. The
case grew out Of a mistake by a drug
gist putting up corrosive sublimate in
stead Of calomel for Miss Carrie Eastey,
which resulted in her death in great
agony three-quarters of an hour after
she took the poison The young lady
lived at Superior.
FIRE ut q late hour the other morn
ing destroyed the Davis hotel at Be-
atrice. 1t was caused by spontaneous
in q closet where oil was
kept There were seventy-five guests
in the house, many of whom had lar
row escapes from being killed by the
smoke and fire. which started beneath
the only stairway in the building. A
number received serious injuries by
jumping from windows, and nearly all
lost personal property.
THREE men who had been stealing
corn, wheat and other articles from tho
people of Overton for the last two
months were lately captured and taken
to the Lexington Jail. A mob of about
men met the prisoners as they
were being taken to Jail with the inten-
ton of lynching them. They succeed
ed in getting the rope over the neck Of
one of the thieves and were about to
pull him up when the constable arrived
and finally succeeded in getting the
prisoners out of the mob's hands and
escaped.
The Nebraska Fire Insurance Co,
with headquarters at Omaha, has been
forced to the wall by the action Of a
minority Of the stockholders, who went
into court and applied for the appoint
ment Of a receiver. The petition was
at once granted, and W.. G. Albright
The company recently
changed management, and arrange
ments, sanctioned by a majority of the
stockholders, were being made to wind
up the affairs of the company and turn
over the business to the Phoenix, of
Assets of the company are
placed at $50, 600, but no statement Of
the liabilities is given.
A SENSATIONAL feature of the Sheedy
trial at Lincoln was the confession Of
the negro implicated in the
In this he said he was hired
TO murder Sheedy by his (Sheedy's)
wife: that she gave him the money
with which to buy the cane with which
was killed; that If her husband
was disabled so that he would go to
bed she would finish him with poison.
The confession stated that Mcfarland
was to get 81. 900 for doing the job, but
all he had received was fifty cents for
The reading Of the confess
sion to the jury created a profound SEN
sation in the court room.
The United States signal service has
issued the following weekly weather
crop bulletin for Nebraska: The week
past has been cold and cloudy. No in
Jury from frost has been reported, al
q light frost occurred in q few
localities and a hard freeze in the ex-
IRENE northwestern part OF the state
On the Sd, where, however, the vegeta-
ion was not sufficiently advanced to be
Corn planting has progressed
r,sny preferring to wait until
he ground is warmer before planting. |
but in q few localities the corn is re-
Is nearly half planted. Fruit
are unusually numerous and
he promise is for . large crop.
THERE were heavy frosts in various
parts of the state on the night Of the
Ar Ashland the other day J. w.
Iranger's Hambletonian stallion, Mike
sprague, trotted ON trial and made q
nile in s:s6 against a heavy wind
THE Antelope county alliance has de-
.ided to open . purchasing agency to
be conducted by four members in diff
'erent parts Of the county. No alliance
tore will be opened