The Red Cloud chief., 1891-08-21

THE crops In the vicinity Of Curtis
ere yielding q golden harvest Wheat
turned out from thirty-two TO forty
bushels per acre.
The board of transportation has
fixed the salaries of grain Inspector
The chiefs are TO receive ECO and the
deputies 81. 200.
A TERRIBLE storm passed over the
neighborhood in the vicinity OF Hyan-
mis- on the 18th. Gardens and the corn
crop were entirely destroyed In the
path Of the storm, which seemed TO be
about three miles in width
The attorneys Of Ed Neal, the muir.
derer, arc making . last desperate ef-
fort to save the neck Of their client
They have fled in the supreme court .
motion for . rehearing and with 1t .
brief bristling with citations
PosrMAsrERs lately appointed in Ne
braska: G. L King at Benkelmsn,
Dundy county. vice E v. Moore. re-
signed; C Alton at Elmwood, vice A.
W. Mayield, resigned; L A. Roger at
Hardy, Nuckolls county, vice w. J.
Brooks, resigned; NJ. Robertson at
Smyrna, Nuckolls county, vice H. S
Bottom. resigned.
DURING a recent storm lightning
struck q number of places al York.
One bolt struck Mrs Tenney while she
was stopping down dipping water out
of Q barrel to water her flowers and the
lightning struck her on the hips and
passed down one limb. tearing her dress
and seriously shocking her. While it
did not cause death it was a narrow es-
cape.
WHILE recently walling up a cistern
At Nebraska City, Wallace Roach and
Ed Shannon, bricklayers, were precip-
itated from q scaffold. The brick and
mortar fell upon them and both men
were painfully bruised and cut and
were almost suffocsted when taken out
The fall vas fully sixteen feet Roach.
In addition to his bruises. sustained .
broken leg.
WILLIAM BURDINE, a brakeman, wa
taken to Lincoln with a badly broken
leg as the result Of an accident Dur
ing the amputation hat followed he
died. A telegram was sent to his wife
at Hastings the receipt Of which 90
shocked her hat she died in an hour.
He was about twenty-six years Of age
and she was twenty, and they had been
married q little over a year.
AT Fremont the other day the wife OF
Nelson Lindell. a carpenter. was about
to begin preparing supper and got the
oil can to hasten the fire. When she
poured the oil in the stove an explosion
followed. She was instantly wrapped
In flames She ran out doors and some
passers by undertook to put out the
fire which enveloped her person by
throwing their coats ove her. The
woman was badly burned and died in q
short time. She left a baby only ten
days old. The house took fire and
burned.
The state relief commission has fin
ished its report for April. and the tinan-
cial statement Is as follows: Balance
on hand. S57, 7l8. IS; received from ". c.
T. u. Talmage, $50; from A. J. Sawyer.
81; from sale Of bonds, 500. $50; total
sl5s. 02S. IS. The disbursements were:
For grain and potatoes $40, 92l. IL; for
provisions, etc, sl2, 794. ~; for freight
IS, 5ll.O9 for expressage, 1922. 20; for
coal. 254. 20; for Office expenses. $500. Is;
total, 500, 1913. 70. Balance. May 1, $751;
629.9 @. During April 4,275 families re-
ceived provisions and 1888 families re-
ceived grain.
UNDER a new law the superintendent
Of public instruction Is allowed ar as
s~istant, and Superintendent Goudy
wishes to appoint his wife to the position
but meets with much opposition Mr..
Cloudy recently said TO a reporter: IF
the governor can appoint his o to the
best position in the executive Office; the
auditor a give his brother q desirable
position under him, and the state treas
urer do the same for his daughter, i do
not see any reason why the superin-
tendcnt Of public instruction cannot
appoint a relative a. his assistant It
Is strange hat one state official should
be Disseminated against in such q mat
ter"
THE assessment returns from the sew
eral counties show great variations In
average values The average IN i'm
proved property in Dawson is 81. "a per
acre, in Box Butte SIS and in Red
Willow 81. 40. Douglas has the highest
average, $40. As, followed by Dakota,
90. 81. and Sarpy. s.. 20. On unimproved
land Kimball is the lowest with an sv-
erage Of % cents per acre. Custer, Lin
coin and Hooker are tied for second
place at 81. and Cherry and Dundy fol-
low with SILL Oddly enough Douglas
county's unimproved realty averages
higher than Its improved, being sla Is
Sarpy Is next highest, with 1855, fol-
lowed by Dakota with 50. 1a.
SOME miscreant recently attempted
TO wreck a passenger train between
Tecumseh and Graf, by placing ties and
stone on the track. The train was
running at q high rate Of speed when
the engineer saw q farmer standing
In the middle Of the track In a deep cut
waving his handkerchief and motion.
inr with both hands for the train to
stop. The engineer reversed and ap-
piled the air brakes but II was impos-
sible to stop the train In so short .
space and the engine crashed into the
obstruction at . rate Of about twenty
miles an hour. Fortunately the ties
that had been placed on the track were
30 rotten that they broke easily and to-
gether with the rock piled on top Of
them we're thrown to one side by the
COW catcher without derailing the en-
gine. The passengers were given .
severe shaking up, but no one wa in.
jured.
GUY c. BARTON, president Of the
Omaha and Grant smelter, was recently
arrested charged with violating the
eight-hour law. He will probably re-
ceive q Jail sentence. and will then ap-
ply to the supreme court for . writ of
habeas corpus on the ground that the
Law is unconstitutional. This will be
made a test case.
THE other evening Christian Chris
Hansen. q Dane, was found dead By the
side of the road south Of the Elkhorn
river at O'Neill II is supposed that he
fell forward out Of the wagon and
either died from the injury thus sus-
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