The Red Cloud chief., 1891-05-08
NEBRASKA A NEWS

TIE other day lightning esnsea slosa
Of $50. 60 10 the Howell Lumber Co, OF
Omaha
THE Cedar county teschers' institute
WI be held az Coleridge the second
week 3 July.
II the caee Of link. the Lincoln law
yer charged with embezxlement tAe
tsry returned . verdict Of guilty. The
amount wss ele0.
r b HORTa, formerly city attorney
of Grand Island, Is reported 70 have
left the city, leaving quite . number OF
70 mourn his absence, besides
bsing engaged in other crooked trans
oct3ona
Tn three men who attempted 70 rob
the hank 1t Valparaiso and shot Bahker
johnson, have been captured cThey
are Jesse Rudy, Frank Tobin and Elmer
Nelson, young farmers Of Cass county.
Johnson's wound Is very serious
OSCAR STEELE, the Il & NJ station
agent at Ashland, was severely injured
the other day by being knocked from
the top OF q moving freight train. He
was dragged about thirty feet between
two cars. having been fortunate enough
TO catch q rod as he fell.
RECENTLY as Mr.. and Mrs louis
Dsmms were riding near Talmage
their team backed OF the bridge st
Tangemsn's mill, throwing the Occu-
pants of the buggy down an embank-
ment some fifteen or twenty feet The
lady wa fatally injured
ACCORDING 70 reports there is o dearth
Of farm labogers in northwestern Ne
braska The late spring precipitated
work with such q rush that the de-
mand for help was immediate and far
in xcess Of the supply. Wages rule
higher than for some years
JOHN SIBBALD, q wealthy stock raiser
Of Santa Ross, Cal, had his foot crushed
at Kearney the other evening. He was
OF his way east with eighteen car loads
Of stock. While the train stopped TO
water Sibbaid was punching up his cat
tie, and while standing on q bumper
the engine backed and his foot was
badly crushed.
Gov. BOYD has made the following
appointments: For members of the
visiting and examining board OF
soldiers and sailors home, George f..
Bartlett, Omaha; John Townsend, Dor
chester; A. w. Buffum, Tecumseh;
Mrs Mary E Ward, Lincoln; Mrs.
Jennie Zentmeyer, Schuyler. For
chaplain Of ~penitentiary. Rev. Martin
J. Corbett, of Palmyra
ABOUT noon the other day . box car
from Omaha, which had not been
opened for three or four days, was un-
locked at Lincoln, and a boy Of Is, fair
~ we'll dressed, was found lying in al
most q comatose condition. His glazed
yes and shrunken cheeks showed that
be was almost dead. lie could not
speak. and physicians pronounced him
to be suffering from malarial fever.
WALTER MAXWELL, expert chemist.
has taken charge of the United States
experimental sugar beet station that
has been located ut Schuyler by the
United States agricultural department.
About thirty-five acres have been Sc
lected near town as q beet farm, which
will be planted with beets OF different
varieties with the view Of making q
complete test Of the beet sugar business
WAHoo vas considerably excited re-
Gently over the attempted %elopement Of
the wife Of Frank Burgess, a prom
inent citizen, with a man by the name
Of Freeman, after the woman had Sc
cured her husbands money, the pur-
suit and return Of the truant woman,
the attempt to poison her husband. the
effort to mob Freeman and the arrest
Of about a dozen citizens who were in
the mob.
MRS JENNIE GREEN, of Lincoln. was
recently shot and fatally wounded by
f. w. Hutchinson, q wealthy farmer Of
Saunders county. Mrs Green Is said
to have been an adventures and Hutch
inson became 20 infatuated with her
that he turned over to her abont $1,000.
This caused a rumpus in the Hutchin-
son family. The other night Hutchin-
son went to Lincoln to demand q return
Of the money entrusted to the grass
widow, but she refused TO give it up.
and Hutchinson fred five times ut her,
one Of the bullets taking fatal effect
Hutchinson then attempted to shoot
himself but was prevented.
HERE is a goose story: Some two
years ago trouble arose between a man
and his wife living a few miles from
Newport, and was the means of q sepa-
ration and the granting Of a divorce to
the lady. One day recently. while the
former husband was out hunting, he
shot and wounded q fine large goose.
The wounded goose few q short dis
lance and dropped dead in the yard OF
his former wife, who, by the way, was
going 10 be married the next day 20
anothey man. When the would-be
bride saw the goose drop she thought it
was a Rod-send to her SO she cooked il
for her wedding feast the mex day.
On January I Warren Clough, of
Seward, was released from the peni-
Tertiary after serving fifteen years for
a crime which he steadfastly claimed
he never committed. He is now an old
man and claims that on the day Of his
arrest over sixteen years ago. he had
in his pocket $3.50. This money was
taken from him by ]. ID. Neihardt at
that time sheriff Of Seward county.
Neihardt told Clough that the money
would be taken care of, but while
Clougffs trial was in progress at York,
Neihardt announced that the money
had been stolen. Clough has engaged
an attorney and will sue the ex-sherih
and his bondsmen to recover the money,
with interest, which now amounts to
sl,O7a
The Harrington creamery has opened
for the season with q capacity Of 1000
pounds per day.
JOHN HANEY. Of Columbus lost forty
head OF hogs the other day from some
mysterious disease.
THE northwestern Nebraska normal
institute will be held at Wayne from
June 81 TO August %
The next annual meeting Of the in
ter-state Grand Army encampment will
be held at Superior June 3
A GUN in the bottom of the wagon of
w. T. Lucas, Of Fraser, Phelps county.
recently was discharged Unexpectedly
and shot the horse. killing the animal