The Red Cloud chief., 1891-08-07
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS

has gone into o cracker trust and prices
were finmcdiately advanced
The buildings on the Commercial
Cattle Cos ranch, twelve miles from
PSerce. werc recently burned Eight
imported horses perished. Loss, s5a-
600; Insurance, 5000.
CHARLES KEYEs, q laboring nan and
stranger. was run over by . X & NJ
switch engine at Omaha the other day
and had both legs cut of. He died
scon after. Letters found on him showed
| that he Mad rcls&ives In Kansas City.
The North Platte Irrigation & Land
Co.. recently filed . notice with the
secretary Of state that It ha appro-
priated q water right in the county Of
Lincoln. twenty-five miles long. and
that il has taken from the North Platte
river a volume Of water equal TO . dis
charge Of $40 cubic feet per second
THE other afternoon Florence, the
| eighteen.months-old infant Of William
Smith, of Blue Springs, fell into a fifty
foot well that is being bored on his
premises. The town people turned out
and in an hour succeeded in getting an
iron hoop-hook under her arms and into
her clothes and pulled her out safe and
sound
The son of the postmaster broke into
the post Office at Stanton the other
night and stole SIS in cash and some
stamps. The father of the boy says
his son wants to get married very
much, and to the union he is opposed,
and that the sons object in stealing
the money vas to pay his wedding ex-
penses-
JOHN NOLAN, a noted horse thief hail
ing from Cambridge, while attending a
dance at the school house near Hyannes
the other night was rudely prevented
from having a good time. In the midst
Of his enjoyment the sheriff made his
appearance and arrested Nolan for hav-
ing stolen horses in Wyoming and
jumping his bonds.
DAVID CROCKETT. a cowboy about
nineteen years old, claiming TO be a
descendant Of old Davy Crockett, re-
Gently went to the farm OF old William
Mckenzie. near Winside. for whom he
had been herding cattle, to secure q
balance of $40 due him. A quarrel and
fight ensued in which both parties were
severely cut with knives.
A LARGE catamount belonging to
Bogart & Knee, managers OF the Ne
braska City exposition, escaped the
other day and created great excite.
ment A crowd soon collected and
went in pursuit Of the animal, which
was captured after a desperate fight,
the assistance Of a dozen or more dogs
being brought into requisition.
Mrs. RUSSELL, of Yankton, S. d.,
arrived at Norfolk the other day in
search of a runaway daughter. BY the
| aid of the police she succeeded in ind
ing her in a house of i'll fame under an
assumed name. The girl had run off
with a girl connected with Il theatrical
troupe. The young woman Is the
daughter of n retired clergyman.
A MAN named Tom Henderson was
recently arrested at PlattsmOuth
charged with stealing some meat from
a butcher shop. He is well known there
and confessed to the deed. He said he
was out of work. Hitherto he has
borne an excellent reputation for in
tegrity, and claimed TO have committed
the crime in consequence of his desti-
tute circumstances and failure to pro-
vide food for his wife and three small
children.
LEANNIA JACKSON, of Dunbar, ar
rived in Lincoln the other day to find
out whether or not she is married. She
was engaged to Waldo Whitman, a
student at college in Lincoln. Whitman
was taken sick and she went there to
nurse him. On recovering Whitman went
through a mock marriage with her, de-
serting her three weeks afterwards
No record of a marriage license and no
minister Of the pane given were found
after a long search
RECENTLY /. w. Nicely was engaged
in cleaning a well ninety feet deep at
the Berger school house, near Louis
Vile, when he became affected by The
foul air. He signaled to be hauled up
rapidly and his helper had him within
thirty feet Of the top when he was
overcome and fell back head first a
distance of about sixty-five feet. When
finally hauled up he was in n stupor
and died in n few hours. He left a wife
and three children.
NEBRASKA railroad managers are
actively engaged in an effort to evade
the law of the recent legislature which
went into effect August I, making eight
hours a days work. All the companies
prepared instructions to their employees,
declaring that all will be employed and
paid by the hour after that date. The
new law inflicts penalties for attempting
to avoid its provisions, and it was only
after consultation and legal advice that
the railroad companies concluded to
fight the law.
In the United States circuit court at
Omaha Judge Brewer recently handed
down his decision in the famous
Rock Island Union Pacific bridge
case in which he sustained the
Rock Island in every position 1t
took. The court held that as the
contract was signed by the presidents
of both roads, attested by the secretaries
under the seal of the corporations and
approved by the executive COMMITTEES. 1t
is valid. The ground that it was not
approved by the stockholders at their
annual meeting is held not to be well
taken LOT TIC EtdSou thos nv SWIM
kholders, by resolutions, delegated their
DOW ers to the executive board
The vicinity of Elm Creek was re-
Gently visited by one Of the most de-
~structive rain and hail storms OF the
seasons. Hailstones nearly two inches
in diameter fell. leveling small grain to
the ground Garden vegetables were
completely ruined. while the corn crop
was fairly riddled and cannot recover.
JOHN A. CoNKLIN alighted from the
west-bound passenger train at Alliance
the other morning before il had stopped
at the depot and was caught under the
wheels and instantly killed His neck
was broken, head mashed and leg
crushed. He was section boss at Ash
by. He was married and about IS years
Of age.
THE residence of James Pace on Bell
street and Grimes beer storage house
in the south part OF Beatrice were
struck by lightning the other night and
c,rx;3arahlv damaCed during a heavy