The Red Cloud chief., 1891-10-02
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS,

4. BEAJkIcE has lately ben overrun
with tramps-
some heartless pasent left n six.
weeks-old girl ba6ym an alley at Lin
coin the other night There was moth
ing TO identify the child The infant
was found BY the police
FRASK BALDWIN. a printer thirty-two
years old recently committed suicide
at Omaha He shot himself. lie was
an inveterate smoker Of cigarettes, and
to this is attributed the disorder that
resulted in his death
THE republican state convention, re-
Gently in session at Lincoln, nominated
A. NJ. Post Of Columbus, for the SUI
preme court and II. II. Shumway, of
Dawson county. and Charles MARBLE, Of
Douglas county: for regents Of the uni
versity.
UNION college. the new educational
institution of the Seventh Day Advent
lists at Lincoln, was dedicated with APP
propriate ceremonies on the esd At
present there are three large buildings
ready for occupancy. They occupy
a commanding ate overlooking the
city.
recently at the insane asylum at Lin
coin. He was taken violently insane
about ten days previous Over business
troubles and the prospects Of forclos-
ures which he feared would bankrupt
him A comfortable fortune will be
left his family out Of his estate when
all indie btedness is paid.
JOHN FOECHEN, q young laborer, re-
Gently hanged himself near Talmage.
he had been OIL a spree and was heard
frequently, prior to committing the
deed, to threaten self-destruction. after
recovering from one Of his periodical
spreea II was said by some Of his
most intimate friends that the refusal
Of q young lady to marry him was par
TALLY the cause Of the act.
THERE was said to be a bare possibil-
ity that Mrs. Gessler, who was recently
shot BY her husband at Dunbar, might
v She was not killed, as at first
reported. Gessler, the would-be muir
derer, seemed TO care little for his
crime and only expressed a wish to die.
The only request that he has made
since being arrested is that the officers
allow him to attire himself in his Sun
day clothes before they hang him.
RECENTLY as Arnold Roggre, a farm
er, residing near Crete, attempted to
pass a crossing of the Il. & NJ, ahead
Of an engine his wagon was struck,
throwing him and his four children
out He was badly cut and bruised
about the head. His daughter aged
twelve, was injured internally, and the
~ten-year-old girl had a leg broken.
The baby was also cut and bruised
about the head They will all recover
DORY Cool, a Saunders county farm
or, was astonished the other day upon
going to the post office at Fremont to
receive a letter written To him by his
sweetheat, Miss Harris, in May. 1875,
and which had been vainly trying to
reach him for sixteen years. four
months and thirteen days Years ago
Mr.. Cool and Miss Harris were married
and they nave n number of children.
A MAN wa found lying on the grass
near a grave in Forest Lawn cemetery
at Omaha the other morning with 4
great gasipn each side of his neck and
a bloody knife lei by. He was taken
TO police headquarters and his wounds
dressed, during which he became very
violent and again attempted to finish
the work of self-dcstruction. lie gave
his name as A. S. Brockway. but re-
fused To say anything more about him
self.
The other day the freight agent of
the b. & NJ. road at York left the office a
few minutes to go into the yard and
seal a car. While he was absent two
men who had been sitting in the wait
ing room for about an hour, went into
and helped themselves to the contents,
amounting to Sl7S.4s. The robbery
wa committed with fifty men in easy
reach. The robbers escaped.
THE Lutheran synod of Nebraska
| closed its late session at Beatrice with
the election of the following officers
for the ensuing year: Rev. w. l. Rem
burg, of Beatrice, president; Rev. w.
c. McCOol, Of Ponca, secretary; Rev. L.
| NJ. NuUuS, VI olidiiu StutiSttthi Sttc
tary; Rev. F. W. Wilhelmy, of Omaha,
| treasurer; Rev. c. Huber, Of Omaha,
travelling secretary. The next session
of the synod will be held at Ponca in
September, lsp2.
An official Of the Burlington road,
who recently was on a trip through
western Nebraska, stated that on the
| H. - xIn ~.oI I,&an ttAllen%, .el
Holyoke, a distance Of $50 miles there
will at the lowest estimate be 1000
carloads of corn, wheat and oats for
shipment 70 market, and that this is 4
fair indication OF the crops all over
| Nebraska. : lie further said that lit is
not so much a question with the farm
ers u there how long they shall hold
their grain as when they can get cars
10 move it"
WHILE a young lady of Buffalo was
recently visiting the penitentiary at
Lincoln In compdny with a relative
who Is one of the executive officers Of
the state. she uttered a scream on
catching sight of one Of the convicts at
work in the harness shop. why.
Mollie." he calculated She was about
10 mention his name in the same ex-
clamatory manner when he suddenly
said: "Mollie, don't mention my name
or you will betray my identity" The
fellow is doing time for forgery. /,
has been learned that he was engaged
TO marry the young lady and came
west 10 make his fortune. but got into
the ~penitentiary.
NJ. II. MURPHY. a dissipated telegraph
operator, committed suicide the other
night at Arlington by taking three
ounces Of laudanum. He had been
discharged aud was unable ~ secure a
position elsewhere. This 80 affected
his mind that be sought rest In death.
He wa. forty-ive years old and a Wild.
over with several children, none OF
whom could be located.
q. j. WRIGHT, a prominent citizen Of
Scotia met with a serious II O fatal
accident about noon the other day.
While on top Of his wind mill tower he
slipped and fell TO the ground, abou,
twenty-five feet He was insensible
when discovered living on the ground