The Red Cloud chief., 1891-06-19
NEBRASKA A NEWS

4 CAMP Of the Sons Of Veterans has
been organized 1t Columbus.
In three days during the strawberry
season . Merrick county farmer picked
go qnaTta Of straw berrieA
NKls NELSON, . Swede. vac found
dead In bed II his boarding house In
Lincoln the other morning.
FEE at Madison the other morning
destroyed the store Of N. =. Thomas
and g. 600 worth Of merchandise.
THE farmers Of the sdjsceut country
will Join the people Of Holdrege In .
grand celebration on the Fourth
CHARLES SCOTT. Of Harrison. had his
arm caught in the eogs Of some M
chinery and tho muscles were torn out
Gus KoEHLER . real estate dealer.
Wa seriously injured by his horse run
ming away with him 1t Columbss the
other day.
The Sons vf Veterans held . very
successful encampment At Geneva The
next encampment will be held ut David
City the second week In June, 1872
PROF. CAsvIkLD. of the University OF
| Kansas, has been elected chancellor Of
| the University OF Nebraska, TO succeed
Acting Chancellor Bessey, who has
held the position since the retirement
of Irwin +. j. Mannott In 1883
CORNELIUS MEYER, an expressman,
was recently arrested at Nebraska City
| charged with cruelty treating his young
sOu. The arrest was made upon in
formation furnished by Meyers neigh
born, who alleged that he chained the
boy In the cellar and left him there
over tw~enty-four hours.
WHILE at work building a stable on
his farm about two miles north OF Wy.
more q scaffold fell with bud Davis
He fell on the stump OF a small tree.
which struck him in the lower part OF
the abdomen and penetrated his body
about four inches His physicians had
hopes of saving his life.
s. X. CLARK. q prominent young
business man Of Elm Creek. was Ar
rested the other day for the alleged
murder Of his roommate, w. II. Wat
son. on May 80 Watson was supposed
10 have suicided, as he was found in his
room with a bullet through his head
and q revolver lying near. The cor.
oner's jury so decided, but later devel-
opments led TO the arrest of Clark.
A DRINK Of embalming fluid, which
he mistook for whisky, nearly ended
the earthly existence of Will Herrick.
living in the northeastern part of kear.
ney county. He had been sitting up
with q corpse and thought he needed Q
bracer, but the wrong bottle was given
him. He discovered the mistake be-
fore II was too late and his life Wa
saved by generous doses Of emetics-
MRS q. w. Brown. the keeper of q
boarding house at Chadron. recently got
| into an alteration with one Of her
boarders, a railroad man named Wheat
on, who had been drinking. Wheaton
used abusive language, threatened To
throw Mrs Brown down stairs and final.
ly slapped her faoa Tbereupon she fired
two shots at him with a revolver,
neither of which, however, took effect
The fourtcen-months-Old baby OF
Frank Artz, OF Tecumseh, was drowned
in q tub of water the other afternoon.
| The mother had been washing and had
set a tub Of water on the floor while
she went to another room TO speak to .
neighbor who had called. A few min
utes later she went back to the room
where she had left the child only to
find that the little girl had fallen into
the tub and drowned.
ONE year ago George W.. Hubble was
divorced from his wife at Lincoln, and
then married again and moved further
west The other day the rejected wife
| brought suit to have the divorce an
nulled, alleging that her husband had
procured it by fraud In not giving her
right name. and publishing the notice,
although he knew of her residence at
Clarinda, Iowa The court granted her
| prayer and now Hubble is the hubby Of
two wives
The other evening William II. Doyle,
cashier of the Western Union telegraph
| Office, shot himself In Syndicate park,
South Omaha lie had not been at the
Office during the day, as he said In the
morning that he was not feeling well.
That was the list seem of him until his
body was found. Ill health vas the
cause. A letter was found in his pocket
addressed to his mother in a very ten
| der tone, and In it he inclosed a check
for eSO0, drawn in the mothers favor.
j. L. CANTON; who for several years
had been cashier of the Consolidated
| Tank Line Co., at Omaha, was recently
arrested by Inspector Bowen, of the
New York Fidelity Surety Co. Cam
pion's populations exceed 5000. and
covered q long period. He kept two sets
Of books, one for Che company and the
| other in q secret drawer for himself.
In the latter he kept . record of his
stealings He a superintendent Of .
Sunday school and had stood we'll in
| the community. His stealings had been
known for some time but he was spared
arrest on account of his family. he hav-
ing sons and daughters married.
THE superintendent OF the Genoa In
dian school. upon the strength of resO-
buttons passed by the workingmen OF
| Norfolk, suggested to the superin tend
| ent Of Indian affairs that Indians in the
| school be prohibited from working in
| the beet sugar fields, the Indians being
looked upon in the same light rs aliens
Commissioner Morgan says in his letter
to the superintendent that the Indian is
| the original American citizen and has Q
better right TO work when. where and
how he plesses than any other citizen
Of this country; that the Indian orig
inally owned this country and that
white people are In point Of fact tres.
passers upon L.
THE assessed valuation Of real estate
and improvements In Springfield pre-.
cinct, Sarpy county. amounts TO $50. 'oA
and personal ut $50. 5sa. The real estate
and improvements in the village Is si7.-
ga and personal property So, Ssi- The
| report shows that there are eighteen
| union ex-soldiers in the precinct
THE people in the vicinity OF Blanche
enjoyed a genuine buffalo hunt the
| other day. A buffalo supposed to have
escaped from Buffalo Bills ranch at
| North Platte strayed into that neigh
borhood and an exciting chase began
| Alter running . number Of horses down
the animal wss captured and held for .