The Red Cloud chief., 1891-09-04

Miss ScHEEIREk q young lay Of Ne
son. has sued IL T. Ray. a young mai
for SANDER. claiming q. 600 damages
EARL. the son Of C Paisley. Of Lin
coin, vas recently killed n Sedgwic
City. Kan. by being thrown from m
dragged by . hore.
The state veterinarian discovered a
glanders on a recent examination {
horses at Glenwood, where the diseas
was reported 10 prevail
The state board Of transportation n
Gently elected w. Il. Taylor. Of Liz
coin, chief weighmaster. and l. +. Hi
ton. OF Blair. chief registrar, under tn
new warehouse Law. and also prepare,
rules for the government Of the officer
appointed
tn. total assessed valuation @
property in Nebraska is sIs3, I59. aGo. A.
Douglas county ranks first. the valua
ton being So, &Ii, 1919. Is. and Lancaste
next with an assessed valuation Of $40,
sl4,0o0.4a Hooker county shows tn
smallest valuation, II being si3l. s54- 81
As the North Loup train was leaving
a. obuCt NUT MIX o~
brake lever caught In the crossing :,
the Is. a. NJ. railroad and forcing itset
through the floor Of the baggage ca
struck a passenger. w. T. Gowan, o
North Loup, on the side of the leg
The leg was broken and an ugly flesh
wound inflicted.
An aged gentleman named Woodloch
was run over by the cars two mile,
east Of Odell the other evening and
frightfully mangled. Death was in
Simultaneous. He was ninety years old.
The track passes through the old gen
tleman's farm and he had been out dig
ging potatoes and could not see the
cars because of the weeds.
A FARMER named Henry Jacket.
heimer recently drove To Ashland with
his eight-year-old son. Before leaving
he purchased a pint of strong carbolic
acid and handed il 20 the boy To carry.
They had gotten about two miles on
their way home when the flask burst
splitting the entire contents into the
boys lap. He was so badly burned
that he died in q short time.
THE bonds of Douglas county, amount
ing 10 slis. 600, have been presented &c
the state auditor for registration sc
that refunding bonds could be issued
and money saved to the county by u
lower rate of interest, but the auditor
refused TO register them, as the law
only permits bonds drawing over seven
per cent interest to be refunded, and
Douglas county bonds draw just seven
per cent.
FRANK VEsEY, a young and prosper
Gus farmer, died recently near Fuller
ton under such suspicious circum.
stances that the coroner sent the stom-
ach To Omaha for analysis. This
showed the presence of arsenic. His
wife and cousin, a young woman. were
arrested upon the charge of poisoning
him, as he and his wife did not get
along well together and the young
woman had been known to purchase
arsenic. lie had married a young
Swede girl only six months before.
A ATE Omaha dispatch says: 1t be-
gins to look as il there was additional
ground for the belief that Clarke Wood.
man. who was found dead in the Grand
Pacific hotel in Chicago. committed sui
eide, in spite of the verdict of the cor
oner's jury. Developments indicate
that Woodlands financial affairs were
not in the best of shape at the time of
his death" Woodman's will has been
fled for probate. 1t was made the day
before he started on his fatal trip and
all his property to his wife.
j. T. WHIPpLE, a well known resi-.
dent of Ashland and a prominent MEM
Der Of the Grand Army of the Republic,
q few weeks ago wrote To the adjutant
Of his native state (Vcrmont) for his
army record. rs there recorded in the
capitol A copy was sent to him.
recited among other things that
''he was wounded and captured June ~,
1864. and died in a rebel hospital a,
Va, July l.. 1864" As
Whipple has been drawing a pen
sion for twenty years and has been in
active life at Ashland for ten years he
himself a very lively corpse
SOME time since two young fellows"
we're arrested at Lincoln on suspicion
# being connected with a bank rob
'ery. They gave the names Of Jack
Davis and lack James a week of in.
revealed nothing against
he two, but just as the police were
bout to release them one of the SER
discovered that the younger one
# the prisoners was a girl. On being
nut in the sweat box the prepossessing
admitted that she was a girl;
hat her name was Cora Gordon and
he was seventeen years old; that She
ras clipping with Davis, whose real
anne vas Fredericks. and she had
AIKEN this guise to avoid detection.
home is In Council Bluffs
A FEUD that had existed for some
between J. i. Farr and c. A.
hultz, two Hall county farmers, cul-
the other morning in the muir
er Of Farr by Shultz The murder
as caused by the breaking into a field
Z Shultzs of several horses belonging
, Farr. Shultz demanded s. damages;
arr offered 81, which was refused.
Farr and his men tore down
lie Enclosure and recovered the animals
lille Shultz started for Grand Island, ,
emit on having Farr arrested for tres :
ass. Failing to procure the necessary /,
apers for Fairs arrest he returned
late in the evening considerably e.,
lie worse for liquor. At daylight the
,xt morning he awokc vowing VEN .
,nce, and loading his gun he went TO I;
arr's residence and deliberately shot !
IN down in the presence of his family. ]
e then surrendered. 8
EUGENE HANKS, a farmer, was re-
'ntly killed by lightning near Rush
lie.
L. KELSEY, a young farmer living
'out twelve miles below Dakota CITY. :
Gently vent to Homer and drank too '
eely. On his return home he found y
at the heavy rain had washed out {
idge over a creek he had Z o cross He ;
to swim his horse over and a
As drowned u
LATE fire at Lexington DESTROYED !.
operty valued at $40, 600 The insur- ="
was very small !"
THE independents in convention at :,
nominated Frederick Il BeaL .
Alma. for district INDIE =,