The Red Cloud chief., 1891-03-20
MiscellanneOrs.

AT an early hour the other morning
the large printing and lithogr aphing es-
tablishment of Gibson. Miller & Rich
ardson at Omaha was entirely destroyed
by fire. The loss was placed at $780,
OGO, which was covered by insurance.
Sc~vcnty-five employees were thrown out
Of work. The fire was reported Ia have
been started by the fiendish cigarette.
The purchasing committee Of the Ne
braska relief commission has issued or
dcrs tn Wholesale grocers in Omaha
and Lincoln for about siO,O 900 worth Of
groceries and provisions, a large amount
of which consists of flour. Several or
ders for the latter article were placed
with mills in the interior Of the state.
The committee also ordered about So
900 bushels Of wheat from farmers
throughout the state, who will ship 1t
u points nearest where IL is desired.
An order for 1900 bushels Of barley
was also issued under the same condi-
tons.
THE house apportionment committee
has decided on the division of h state
into congressional districts n follows:
First district-Cass, Otoe, Nemaha, Rich
arison, Pawnee, Johnson. Lancaster.
Second-Sarpy, Douglas, Washington.
Third-Burt Thurston. Dakota, Dixon,
Cunning, Dodge, Colfax. stanton. Wayne,
Cedar, Knox. Pierce, Madison, Platte,
Nance, Boone, Antelope. Merrick.
Fourth-Saunders, Butler. Seward. Sa-
line. Gage. jefferson, Thayer, Fillmore,
York. Polk. Hamilton. Clay. NuckollA
Fith-Hail, Adams. Webster, Franklin,
Kearney. Phelps, Harlan, Gosper, Fur
mas. Red Willow. Frontier. Hitchcock.
Hayes, Perkins, Chase. Dundy. All the
balance Of the state is included in the
Sixth district
GOVERNMENT officials are investigat-
ing the ease of George NJ. Baldwin &
Co. wholesale lumber merchants OF
Omaha, who arc accused of attempting
~ secure by fraud thousands Of acres of
timber land in the state of Washington
The firm, il Is charged. has been send
ing carloads Of men to the coast, n
furnishing them money TAI file on timber
land. which was aftcrward decided tn
the firm.
The Commercial hotel at Ord, owned
by II. y. McCord. was recently destroyed
by fire with nearly all the contents. IL
was valued at sla, 600 and insured for
half that sum The livery stable a.
joining was also destroyed.
RECENTLY Mr.. and Mrs Daniel David
son. Of O~ceola, celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary. They have lived
In Nebraska twenty-five years of the
fifty years Of their married life
The other night . west-bound freight
train was wrecked ten miles east OF
Oxford. near Mascot Engineer Swan
Nelson Was instantly killed
FRANK GRASS, Prank Davis, . mes-
scnser boy. and John Wier were re-
Gently bitten by . mad dog NJ Nebraska
City. The rabid animal bit many other
dogs and the mayor ordered AL dngs
shoe that should be found on the streets
the succeeding two weekA
THERE was . sensation ~ Geneva ths
other day n the trial a George Chap
man for criminal libel aeainsa B. p.
Morrill,. when the witness for the State,
under cw.sexaminasion. suddenly pus
his hands 20 his bead and wiAed - be
taken out He Ind gone crazy He b
the man who was charged by Chapman
with firing the residences Of r. II Dsuisr
tArope in January. on which he was
the c~ontrscsos and was doing . losing
Job. The attorney for the state ss once
dismissed the c,se against QapGaa-
A xuxsxExs meas and faxmer' sOo-
eiasioa has hesa oryaniscd AZ vsaRr
rsisA