The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-28

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600 TO build a now schoolhouse.
f. THE preachers of Otoe county have
formed a ministerial association.
THERE are seventeen criminal cases
on the Saline county court docket
LAND seekers are flocking into Nance
county and large amounts of land are
being sold.
HARVARD will, vote on a proposition
to issue bonds 10 build a system OF
water works. a
JONI w. HOWARD, Of Hastings.A has
sued the Burlington road for e25, 200 for
tho loss Of a leg. axrra% "
john LYELL, a johnson county farm
or. sold si33 worth of melons from n
acre of ground this season. ra
LIGHTNING struck and set tfhc TO a
stack of small grain rear Plattspouth
and 600 bushels were burned =
FIVE of the six children Of Mr.. and
| Mrs Elias Conger, residing near How
ellis, died recently of diphtheria,J
q. +. NELSON, q Polk county farmer,
has harvested fifteen tons of broom
corn, which will bring him 900 per ton.
THE school children of the state were
all patriotic on Columbian day, The
2lst, and celebrated with spirit and on
thusiasm.
Mrs. PAINTING, the widow Of q Buff.
falo county farmer, has suci two saloon.
keepers for Is, 900 for selling liquor To
her husband and causing his death.
AFTER six weeks of married life Ru-
dolph Altenfelt, Of Norfolk, deserted
his wife and carried away her savings.
as we'll as oil the money he had In the
bank.
have been arrested at Fremont on the
charge of holding up and Rrobbing
James II. Burns, q brakeman on the
Elkhorn road. p
THE explosion of q lantern caused a
fire which destroyed the barn on the
Arnold farm in Polk county and six
horses were burned to death. Light
Gregory was SO badly burned that his
life was despaired Of
MINNIE CLARK, aged 10 years. daugh.
ter OF c. +. Clark, Of Harvard, has mys-
teriously disappeared and no clew of
the missing girl has as yet been found.
Her father believes that she has been
made the victim of tramps. q
JOHN Cisco, employed Mt Duff, Bart
ling & Co.'S elevator ut Nebraska City
while at work on the top Of the build
ing recently lost his balance and fell to
the ground, Q distance Of fifty feet. lid
;. ! was unconscious when picked up.
, THE three judges of the state district
court at Omaha, sitting in the case OF
!, their colleague, Judge Scott, have re
fused to grant the injunction that he
sought against trying linn before the
Burt county lunacy commission, where
. complaint vas Allied BY. lawyers whom
. he w Snn H''s sne second .Stxos IL b..
freight No. u on the D.t& a.. was re
Gently entering the yards at' Crete
ran into an open switch, throwing thu
train on a sidetrack occupied by loaded
,, cars. The engineer and frema,
: jumped. The engine and ten cars ar
a total loss. The damage was abeu
. eco, 600. AS~~e -
!, OMAHA health officials have Just mad
the startling discovery, that the mil
= dealers, or Mt least some. of them, ar
: parties to a deep laid plot to do up tn
!, entire population Of that great Mi'
= souri, river metropolis by giving shor
= measure. 1t is said their quart meas
ures are too short at both ends. Moth
:. ing is said about the quality.
THE annual convention of the Con
gregational church commenced at ONT
y ha on the 18th. There were over Ia
ministerial and lay delegates preser
y from the 1870 Congregational churche
in the state, representing a membershi
Of over 10000 people, Sunday schoo
? having n membership OF over $4,000 an
y young peoples societies having a mon
bership of nearly 1000. ~ r" 400
:. A CHECK for s27O was presented at IL
First National bank of Omaha the 9th
- day, which turned out TO be a forger
1t bore the signature of Lewis Barn
-. and was made payable to Willia'
~ Woods. 1t was also stamped Certified
with the forged signature Of A. Y
~ Hickman, cashier of the First Nationa
" and the date October IL, IL q M
- was presented by some unknown par
- at the Peoples State bank of Gothic
burg, and was evidently paid, without
murmur. ftyg ueLg,f
~ AVERY painful accident befeil GeorI
y. McElrath as he was riding across u
:. country BeVcrui mitcS cdSJ VI NOtcTtul
$, the other day. He wins driving a frn
- tious team, which becoming uuco
~ trollable succeeded In breaking t
tongue and turning over the bugg
Mr.. McElrath was, hurled violently
r the ground, fracturing a hip bone p
bruising him up in general othe- wis
He remained where he fell until
!. passerby picked him up and took h
to his home. 1''f a"'Nfh "
&C. THE state board Of public lands q
nc buildings has finished its Investigate
of the charges of Encouragement
y. the Lincoln hospital for the insane q
q copy of the findings was filed 10 I
u1 executive office. The board reco
MI mends that the whole matter be :
ferred to the grand jury for a searchi
,n u investigation. Frauds In the coal a
II, TX flour departments were unearthed. I
testimony showed that the stewart 8
cs- eral times took toll of the -four passi
Nv through his hands, while cars OF c.
were delivered Mt the asylum swi