The Red Cloud chief., 1891-07-24
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS


IoAIuIC " CIOpo N toc WcStcIu post vi
the state last year and low prices for q
series Of years the people are in ex'
eeptionally good financial condition
with almost enough cash deposit tc
liquidate the entire farm mortgage in.
debtedncss Of the state. The popula.
! ton Of the state in 1857 Was IL, O00. and
In 1890 over 1000, 600. In 1868 the ss.
sessed valuation was So, 600. 900; the
actual value in 1891 is 81. 5s5. 100. 800.
The grain product of 1874 was 10. 900.
900 bushels In 1889 wheat alone
reached ls, SIS. 900 bushels, and the yield
Of corn was nearly $50, 0)0. 900 bushels.
and oats 80, 600, OO0. The estimated
yield for this year In all crops is greater
than ever before.
0-iscellaaeoas-
LATE FIRE did considerable damage
At Aurora
The Hitchcock county fair will be
held ut Culbertson, September ed 70
25th.
ANTON BENAK, a Bohemian boy 10
years old, was recently drowned in the
Missouri river at Omaha
The old settlers association Of Da-
kota county will hold its annual re-
union at Dakota City, August %
+. NJ. WALCOrr. county judge Of
Cherry county. says that the total
amount received from the county by
him during the last nine months is only
So. IS.
THREE little boys, ranging in years
from 8 to Ii. recently undertook 10 go
swimming" in the Republican river,
near Superior, and one of them. LATE
Doggett was drowned.
The Democratic state central COM
mittee me at Omaha on the 10th and
fxed upon Grand Island as the place, and
September II at 8 o'clock p. m. as the
time for the next convention TO meet
II will be composed of SIC delegates
The man who robbed the Union Pa
cific depot and agent at North Bend the
other morning was later captured near
Morse Bluff. He proved TO be one Jo-
seph Dodge, a resident of that neigh
borhood. He was lodged in Jail at FIRE.
mont
The other night Miss Grace O~verton,
An OtOe county young lady, while
walking in her sleep, fell out of her
bedroom window to the ground. a dis
lance of about twenty feet Strange
TO say she was not injured in the least
although badly frightened .
WHILE pulling weeds in her garden.
Mrs Barbara Brown, of Nebraska City.
was recently bitten by a rattlesnake.
Her arm Immediately began swelling
and turned black, but a physician was
quickly called and succeeded in counter
acting the effects of the poison
THE two:year-old daughter of DR..
Daniel Freeman was recently stung to
death by bees five miles west of Beatrice.
The little one was playing out in the
yard. and getting near the hive man.
aged to enrage the bees. When found
her head, face and arms were literally
covered with the savage insects.
On opening the door of the power
house of an elevator at Chapman the
other morning a CHASTITY scene met the
eye of p. O'Herne. 1t was the body of
a man about IS years of age. In his
hand was a revolver and a bullet hole
was in the right temple. The man had
evidently been dead several days Not
a scrap of paper on the body revealed
its identity.
IT Is stated that the crops of all
kinds in Sherman county are unprece-
denied in its history. Wheat is yield
ing on an average of 25 bushels To the
acre. oats 80. rye 81. barley IS, and
corn. fax. potatoes, and in Tact every
article of produce and all kinds Of veg
etables were never SO promising in the
history of the county. and il is doubtful
IL they were ever excelled in the his
tory Of the state.
NJ. |. Uni, senior member of the firm
Of Uhl & Barras. was found dead in his
bed at Lincoln the other night with a
bullet hole in his head In his hand
was a revolver with az empty chamber
and it was therefore supposed that he
had come to his death by suicide. He
was 20 years old and had bees married
ing in the cast. After the tragedy IL
was learned that he was financially
embarrassed.
JOHN HEATH and his wife, OF WASH
ington county, nearly lost their lives
by poisoning the other day. They we're
taken suddenly i'll and a physician who
was summoned declared they were suf-
fering from arsenical poisoning.
Proper remedies were applied and
their lives were saved A daughter
who ran away with a circus and was
brought back home was suspected Of
having administered the poison. but
she denied all knowledge of the crime.
SOME time ego Charley Stevenson. q
jeweler at Superior, accommodated .
neighboring druggist BY tending store
in his absence. Miss Eisley sent to the
drug store for calomel and the pro
ten. druggist put mp corrosive subj.
mate. The young lady took the poison
and it killed her. Jeweler Stevenson
was arrested on the charge of man.
slaughter and convicted. Pending sen.
tence the matter was presented to Gov.
Thayer, and the executive, owing to
the young mans fine character, set him
free.
WILLIAM SMITH. a colored veteran
Of the late war residing at Nebraska
City, was examined at P~lattsmouth for
a pension and the board recommended
that he be granted IS q month Being
without funds Smith was forced 10
walk "a Nebraska City. The exertion
proved too much for him and he died in
Q few days
En- NEAL. the murderer. who In
in Jail at Omaha under sentence
to be hanged in October. was re
Gently detected In a scheme to
escape. A woman Was the prime
mover in the plot A letter, however,
revealed and frustrated the plans of
the plotter-
THK Ulysses mill dam was washed
by the heavy rains. causing . loss OF
p, 600
GEORGE BRADBURY, the night engi-
neer. was recently killed by the elevator
in the Paxton hotel at Omaha
The Omaha baseball team has been
disbauded- Its last fight was 70 give
Kansas City an unmerciful drubbing.
Tur Srv-rear-old son NJ Youn0-