The Red Cloud chief., 1891-09-25
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.

| banks at Beatrice
WILLIAM Fosp, living near Galloway.
had wheat this season that averaged
| ~forty-six bushels TO the acre, and Tor
which he has been offered % cents per
bushel
PRoY. GouDY, superintendent OF pub
lie instruction, has chosen his wife.
Mrs Alice Goudy. as deputy superin-
tendent The position is worth sl''V'
per year.
AS Mrs L. ID. Fowler and two other
ladies were recently driving through
| the streets Of Lincoln the horse ran
away and threw the ladies out Mira
Fowler was very seriously injured
TEDDY, the ~six-year-old son OF Henry
Davis, of West Beatrice, was strangled
TO death the other afternoon by a bean
getting into his windpipe. He had been
sent out to gather beans in the garden
and put two of them into his nostrils
and drew one Of them into his throat
He strangled 10 death before medical
aid could be summoned
IT is stated that q government labora-
tory for the district will be opened at
Norfolk at once. United States Keve-
nue. Inspectors Everett Il. Norton and
DIR. J. j. Thatcher and ID. c. A. Comp
ton, chemist of the internal revenue
bureau, will occupy an Office provided
by the secretary Of the Norfolk beet
sugary factory, on the factory grounds.
The nineteenth annual convention of
the Nebraska Lutheran synod con-
vened at Beatrice on the 18th for a six
days session The meeting Vas opened
with a sermon by Rev. J. { Jacoby, OF
Nebraska City. Rev. L. V. Ludden, of
Lincoln, delivered an address or home
missions, followed By discussion The
session was largely attended
AMIEL, the s~even-year-old son OF Mrs.
Schultz, residing in Norfolk. was re-
Gently drowned while playing with his
younger brother on the dam in the Elk
horn river. His five-year-old brother
slipped and fell into the river, which
was about twenty feet deep. and the
little s~even-year-old hero plunged in
after him. The younger brother was
saved by a gentleman who was pass
ing.
FROM his eighty-acre field of spring
wheat in Perkins county. David McBee
threshed 2, $50 bushels, for which he re-
ceived in ash at the elevator the sum Of
81, $50. -. For 315 bushels of winter
wheat he received S2sl. -. BESIDES this
he has fifty acres of good corr worth
1925. This makes a total, exclusive of
a large mou of garden truck, Of
81. 1856 :. With the exception OF har-
vesting and threshing Mr. Nc Bee and
his tfteen-year-old son performed all
the work.
RECENTLY a fourteen-ysar-old boy
living near Anselmo saved the life of
the little child of Ira Foster. deputy
sheriff of Custer county. While the
child's parents we're away from home
the little one was bitten on the leg by
a snake. The boy discovered the child's
condition, and after tying a rope tight
Iy around the limb above the wound
and applying turpentine, he hurried for
help. The nrighbors arrived i'm time to
administer antidotcs and counterfeit the
effects If tn" poison.
The four-rcar-pld son of Sergeant
Donahue, of company c, Eighth in
fantrv, was shot at Fort Robinson the
I Quiet AFTERNOON Nv al piottfl 10y Nv
the name Of Walker, aged six years,
with whom he was playing. The
Walker boy had picked up a pistol left
carclessly amongst the furniture Of a
family who were moving. He pointed
it at his playmate and il was dis
charged, sending a bullet into Willie
Donahue's head just above the eye and
coming out near the top of his head.
The wound vas believed 10 be fatal.
ABOUT seven o'clock the other night
Mike Gessler shot and killed his wife at
Dunbar, and then attempted To shoot
himself. but was prevented. A mob
quickly collected and would have
lynched him, but the sheriff, who hap
pened to be on an excursion train from
the Syracuse races and which passed
about the time, arrested Gessler and
hurried him off to the Jail at Nebraska
City. Gessler gave as his reason for
the act that he had been drinking beer
AMI playing cards all day at a saloon
and when he went home his wife re-
fused to notice or speak to him. He is
about thirty-five years old.
WILLIAM HECHr. of Kearny. has be-
come insane owing To business troubles.
Three years ago he built a packing
house and il burned down after being
n operation only a few months The
plant was insured. but he claimed to
have lost heavily. Last year he erected
another packing house and has met
with financial reverses at every turn he
made since. Foreclosure proceedings
had been commenced on his property
and the mental strain was too much
for him, although, it is said, a comfor-
table fortune would be left to his &C.
count after paying all Indebtedness il
his property was not sacrificed.
ISAAC l. MCCOY. the aged father of
DR.. II. +. Mccoy. died at his home in
Omaha the other night from the effects
Of injuries received in an accident
caused by the dog catcherS The old
gentleman had been accustomed to
meet his son. the physician. at the end
of the Walnut street motor line each
evening with e carriage. lie was wait
ing in the carriage for his son, his large
dog being under the carriage. The
dog catchers made a dash for the dog.
The horse became frightened and start
ed to run. The old gentlemen was
thrown ont and received injuries which
soon caused his death. He was seven
ty years old.
Two cars loaded with lumber went
up in smoke at Wallace the other morn
ing at an early hour They had been
side-tracked the evening before. and IL
is thought that the fire was comnuni.
Gated from a passing locomotive.
JOIN CLARK, a man Of abou. thirty
eight years, was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Billingsley
at Lincoln the other day on the charge
of passing counterfeit money. II was
proven by a number of witnesses that
he had passed bogus dollars At several
places Jackson waived examination
and was bound over tn the United
States court in the sum of 81. 600. In de-
fault he was taken to jail
SrANToN's schools opened with an At
tendance of 10 pupils
THERE are almost 700 pupils in at