The Red Cloud chief., 1891-12-04

TIE bridge across the Platte river .
Cozad has been made free.
A YARMERs' institute will Be held .
Broken Bow January IL. IS and 10
j. II. PBILLIPs . Burlington switch
man, was killed 1T Lincoln the othel
night
The Wesley murder trial at Fuller
ton resulted in the scquittal of tho de
PENDANTS.
The force at the Nebraska City pack
ing house has been increased SO As 4
bring the killing capacity up to l.ar
head Of hogs per day.
DISCRETION by her husband is said 4
have caused the insanity Of MA Lille
Harvey. Of Boyd county.
An immense amount OF hay on the
reservation north and east Of Pender
was destroyed by fire the other night
Nearly 5000 ton were consumed
THE residence OF John Trautwein
seven miles southwest Of Beatrice, wa,
destroyed by FIRE the other morning
The house and contents were q totsI
loss
PAUL TATE, the clerk who stole S.,
900 in gold from the Merchants Ma
tional bank Of Omaha last July, and
who was captured after an extended
chase. pleaded guilty TO grand larceny
and was sentenced TO one year at hard
labor.
A PIERCE citizen asserts that while
watching the moons recent eclipse he
saw three balls Of fire fall from tina,
satellite. The first he likened unto q
shooting star, but the second. he AYERS,
was the sight TO behold, having the ap.
pearance Of a round ball of fire as large
as his hat
THE residence Of A. r. Harrington.
two miles south Of Beatrice, was
broken into by burglars the other
night and watches, money and other
jewelry TO the amount of SIS taken
The thieves were q couple Of corn
huskers employed by Mr.. Harrington
the day previous
ONE evening recently w. n. Andrews,
city marshal Of Curtis. retired to his
stable and shot himself. After strik-
ing the skull the bullet passed around
towards the back Of the head and there
remained until extracted. The ball
vas fiattened, and the would-b 70 suicide
cured of his mania
THE city council Of Nebraska Cit1
has refused TO accept the resignatios Of
the members Of the board Of health
and instructed the city s~ttornss 10 pro-
iced against DR.. NJ. A. Csenker upon
the charge of violatipS she health or.
1inance. II is char!ed that d.. Car
riker neglected ~ report fifteen cases
Of diphtheriaAshich he was treating.
THE sevsath annual convention OF
the Nebraska Dsirymen's association
viii Be held at Norfolk December Is.
10 and II. The sole object Of this as
ISOLATION Is to encourage and develop
the dairy industry Of the state. and tho
hearty cooperation and support Of all
citizens of the state who are interested
In this most important industry Is In.
vited.
The other morning r S. Thornton. .
clerk in . jewelry store at Shelton,
boarded . freight train at Gibbon TO go
10 Shelton. About two hours after the
train had passed the latter place he
wandered into the depot in . dazed
condition. He did not know where he
vas He had several cuts and bruises
on his face and body and his injuries
we're thought to be fatal
The official vote Of the state has been
declared For supreme jud2e, Post re.
ceived ~ AT votes; EdRcrton, 72.sil.
and Bittenbender. Z,ssa For regents
tho vote was: Marble. 50. so7; Shum-
way. os,9S2; Hadley. $1,000; D'Aller-
:~xn. 66. 924; Gorst 1907; Woodward,
Q, III. The official canvass. which
the election Of Hsdlcy, WAS .
surprise, - tho returns - received
favored D'Allerman.
IT has been discovered that the
amount Of money appropriated for the
new library building for the state usf
versity will be insufficient TO coDpaete
the building according to the g.sos &C.
cepted by the building committee, The
board has returned the plans to the
architect with Instructions to modify
them. No change .~fll be made in the
size of the buil4ing. but pressed brick
will be substituted for stone.
The president Of the Lincoln board
Of tra1e has issued a call for a beet
suRsr convention TO be held In that city
Cd Thursday, December II. Repre-
~sentation in the convention will be ap.
portioned as follows: One delegate
from each newspaper and five from the
state agricultural society, tho state
horticultural society, each board OF
trade. real estate exchange. CONNER
cial organization, from each county
agricultural society and each county.
The lives of q number Of burlington
freight officials were recently saved by a
tramp. who halted a special. composed Of
Manager Holdrege's private car and an
engine. forty feet from . partially
burned bridge over Q deep canyon e
Crawford The bridge is 10 feet long.
and three be nts had fallen The tramp
was given a purse, q hearty meal and
pass to St Joseph, but was on boarl
No. 70 in q later wreck at Lahey's sid.
ing and was badly shaken up
A TRIAL that has attracted the atten-
ton of railroad officials from far and
near was settled in the district court at
Beatrice the other day. Several weeks
ago q train on the Burlington road ran
over and killed several head Of cattle for
Elijah Filley. Suit for damages was
instituted against J.. c. Williams, the
engineer on the train. resulting in his
acquittal in court The real issue was
whether the railroad company was liza
BILE when all prescribed precautions
had been used 70 prevent the accident
CHARLES Crow. head Of . private de-
tective agency. died the other morning
at Lincoln. He shot himself a week
previous and fred at but missed his
wife He accused her OF trying 20 kill
him, but when he found that he would
not recover he confessed the truth
A MAN named James Stokesberry. .
~switchman. had his sister arrested the
other day for disturbing the peace. but
she got even with him when she charged
him with being q crook and that he
had broken into a freight . and stolen
nineteen boxes OF ciga1 The empty
boxes were found and identified and
Stokesberry taken to Jail while his
sister was left free TO u $ her tongue