The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-04
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.

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Tng board Of insanity met at Teka-
nah and declared Judge Scott sane
The Beatrice street railroad war has
been settled by n company buying
the other out
IRVINE, who was acquitted at Lincoln
Of the murder of Banker Montgomery,
will sue for n divorce.
THE Santee Indians in Nebraska have
been paid s34, 227. ~ by the government
In adjustment of claims for allotted lands
belonging TO them.
AT Fremont the other day Mrs.
Henry Fielder and her infant child
were seriously injured by being thrown
from a buggy In a collision with
another vehicle.
OCTOBER has beer a blue ribbon month
for the South Omaha stock yards. The
receipts of cattle have been Mt least To-
600 more than the corresponding month
of any previous year.
A MAN named Franklin, from York,
was knocked down at Geneva the other
night and robbed of $50 by two men.
When found he was unconscious, and
remained 30 for some time.
THE Beatrice Barb Wire Manufacture
ing Co. has filed its articles Of incorpor-
alton. The capital stock Is e10, 900.
The new concern will at once actively
engage in the manufacture of the HUFF
man patent Of barb wire fencing.
Work was recently commenced or a
new elevator at Inavale, which Is to be
completed by December 1. The grain
business Is looking up In that locality,
there being more than n hundred
acres of winter wheat sown this fall to
acre heretofore.
EDWARD KING, q farmer who lives
eight miles north Of uoldrege, while
butchering a hog let q knife fall, strik-
ing the back OF his left hand, cutting
the leaders and arteries. When he
reached, town he was very weak from
loss Of blood, rat prompt action by u
physician stopped the flow of blood.
RUFUS GLoTFELDER, awaiting trial
for unlawful traffic in whisky, again
escaped from the Jail at David City the
other night lie evidently had assist
ance from outside parties. He had
drilled the heads off n number OF bars
ana broken the cross bars, making a
hole sufficiently large to crawl through.
PENSIONS lately granted Nebraska
veterans: Original, John A. Dodd,
James NJ. Donaldson. Additional.
Samuel A. Quincy, John Ort, John Cain,
Philander Wright, Charles Vauberg,
Charles Davis, Jonas II. Evans, Joseph
Minors Of Richard Mcintyre, Aurelia
l.. Knapp, mother; minor of Matthias
Il. Hartley. Anna Oiene, mother;
Martha A. Trout, Malvina c. Curby.
THERE is said to be no longer any
doubt that the recommendation Of the
state board Of public lands and build.
ings in regard to the asylum investiga-
ton will be carried out. A special
grand jury has been called to meet al
!, Lincoln on November 10, and although
the reasons for calling the jury are not
given by the court 1t Is generally un.
derstood that the methods Of purchas
ing supplies for the asylum IRE to bs
thoroughly investigated.
THE other evening Tom Andrews, 9
cook in the European hotel, at Weep
ing Water, shot five times Mt c. ID. Sit
ger, hitting him once in the arm. An
drews was attentive to STEERS daugh'
ter and called on her in the absence o
q II y tliN bitLCi hCu hs
: found the door locked. During the wa,
Of words that followed Andrews sho
, through a glass in the door. Thu
d, wound was not of a serious nature. An
= drews was arrested and then attempte,
suicide by taking %laudanum, but failed
TIE other morning n freight trail
. going east over the Union Pacific wa
! wrecked ut Ravens siding, six mile
east of Clark's, by the splitting OF a de
fective rail. Fourteen cars. loaded witt
4 grain and coal, were piled up. Th'
dead bodies of three men were taker
. from the wreck and 1--WE men wer
a badly injured. At the inquest 1t wa
developed that one dead man wa
, named Adolph Fibiger, having a brothel
in the jewelry business at Omaha
Another was named Joseph Fanferleh
al WILLIAM Ii. IRVINE, OF Salt lake City
who had been on trial at Lincoln for
week for shooting and killing Banke
" Charles +. Montgomery in the dinin
room of the Hotel Lincoln. May 20, wa
acquitted. The trial created widespread
interest The defense was that Mont
gomery had wronged lrvine's wife an
|, that Irvine was so wrought up over hi
= ruined home that he was not RESPONSE
= BILE for his action. The scene in tn
court room when the verdict was rea'
|, was dramatic In the extreme and tn
= verdict was received with applause.
9 A NOVEL suit has been filed in the dii
y trict court at Lincoln in which Williai
ii. Swisher, the ''rainmaker Of Kar
sas," sues J. II. McMurtry for $50
!. Last summer during a prolonged spe
!, of dry weather McMurtry made a col
" tract with Swisher to produce an inc
, of rain, agreeing to pay him $500 Il
i, the same providing the rain came witt
in a certain specified time. Swisht
y commenced his lamentations and on I'll
u afternoon on the day specified In ii
" contract a heavy rain fell. 1t contii
:. ued for several moments and then Il
sun came out brightly. 1t was q sing
~ lar fact that the area covered by Il
:. rainfall was limited almost exclusivel
:. to the locality contracted for. Sever