The Red Cloud chief., 1892-07-29

M independent club of 100 members
was recently organized at Beatrice.
A RECENT rain in the vicinity of
Grant did much good to the growing
crops.
HICKMAN is soon TO have a new clc-
vator to take the place of the one re-
Gently burned.
AN infant child of NJ. b. Carman, OF
Moorfield. fell into a barrel of water
and was drowned.
THE twelve-year-old son Of Henry
S~eivens, II farmer residing lear FIRE.
mont, was recently dragged to death by
O runaway horse.
BURGLARS entered Collects drug store
Mt Mead and secured s25 worth of jew
elry. They tried to blow the safe, but
they didn't succeed.
AUGUST WALLMER, a young German
farmer living near Fender, committed
suicide the other afternoon by taking
strychnine- Cause unknown.
A BARD wire fence terminated the
career of u promising 1880 colt be-
longing to NJ. Ii. Cox, Of Norfolk. The
animals jugular was severed by II of
the barbs.
In the ease of Charles Paul, lately
found guilty at Hastings Of embezzling
county funds, the court overruled the
motion for n new trial and sentenced
the defendant to three years in the
p~enitcntiary.
AT Omaha the other day William
Leichteneau and James +. Knox, while
engaged painting Il building, were
thrown to the ground, n distance of for.
ty feet, by the breaking of the ropes of
their swinging scaffold. They were
thought to be fatally injured.
FREDDY REITH, aged eve years, was
drowned at Cedar Rapids recently. He
was wading in the river and stepped in
a deep place and sank. His playmates
gave the alarm, but too late to rescue
him. His parents reside ut Postville,
la. The boy was stopping with his
grandparents.
THE wife of a farmer named Strickler,
residing near Waco, recently attempted
to kill her husband and his brother by
putting poison in their coffee ut break
fast. When Strickler attempted to go
for n physician he was confronted by
his wife, armed with a knife, and she
declared that she had poisoned both Of
them and wanted to die, and said she
would kill herself II they succeeded in
getting to town. Her husband man
aged to get away and secure medical
aid and the lives of the men were saved
with difficulty. The cause of the won.
ans act was not known.
THE law requiring county clerks to
make monthly reports of all real estate
and chattel mortgages filed and released
has been in operation a year and the
state bureau of industrial statistics has
completed the compilation Of the re-
ports of the several counties of the
state. During the year which ended
July /, 24,5SS farm mortgages were filed,
aggregating in amount s22, 46l, 74i, and
2i,50o farm mortgages were released,
aggregating sl7, 094, 965. 10. For the
same period city mortgages filed
amounted to si2,8l6, 757.5i. while the
city mortgages released amounted to
50, O40, $50. 81. The chattei mortgages
filed during the year amounted to s22,-
0l5, 1914. 65; released for the same period,
si4, 565, 317. IL. In nineteen counties the
amount of the mortgages released ex-
cceded those filed.
MUCH excitement was caused Mt Chap
man the other day by the finding of Y
twelwc-foot piece of water fuse attached
to n can which was placed under the
meat market of ID. $. Shields. 1t Is sup
posed the can was placed there for the
purpose of blowing up the building
a fire was built on hes sidewalk and the
fuse connected with the fire. Had tn,
building caught fire almost the Who'll,
towi. would have burned.
GEORGE CLARK, u veteran of the wa,
of lbia, fell down u stairway at the res
idenco OF All Conine, at Beatrice tn,
other -.ight and was seriously injured,
!, The iujured man is 95 years Of age anG
tosally blind.