The Red Cloud chief., 1892-08-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

Nst~celtitueOuSs
THE Columbus creamery makes over
n ton OF n butter u day.
JUDGE CLABKsoy. of Omaha, was re.
Gently drowned while bathing at Honey
Creek, la.
A DISTRICT fair association has been
organized at Wilcox, Kearney county,
and a kitc-shaped track will be built at
once.
JONI KEsIIyG was killed by the cars
near Lincoln the other day. lie was a
German and had no relations in this
country.
A ARMER named Damon, near Daw.
son, was gored to death by n bull which
he was about to feed. Mr.. Damon was
rs years old.
An alteration between Drayman
Moore and Jake Dillon, n farmer, at
Oxford the other evening terminated in
the serious stabbing of the former by
Dillon. Moore's condition was critical
and he would likely die. Dillon cluded
all efforts for his capture. He is only
about 20 years of age.
THE residence of Charles X. Emory,
at Omaha, was considerably damaged
by fire the other day. One of the chill
drcn in the family was playing with her
dolls upstairs and called her mother to
come and see the pretty bonfire she had
built for the dolls. An alarm of fire
and the arrival of the apparatus was
the next entertainment provided for the
dollies.
Mrs. ANNA CHAsTEK, perhaps the old
est person in Nebraska, died Mt the
home Of her son in Western, Saline
county, the other day. According to a
statement recently published by her
grandson in a bohemian paper at Will
bur, Mrs. Chastek was born in Bo-
hernia, July 20, 1881, and therefore
lacked only two days Of being Ill years
old at the time Of her death.
The other morning Delavan S. Cole,
II OF the oldest settlers of Hastings
and one of her most respected citizens,
was found dead In an old deserted one.
story house a couple of hundred yards
south of his home. Mr.. Cole was we'll
off financially. On the day of his death
he received and handled considerable
money, dcpositing u good sized amount
in the bank and also sending u large
sum away. lie was the owner of Cole
park and about 10 o'clock at night went
out to close the gates of the park. A
little later his body was found by n
reighbor The coroner vas Investigate
ing the matter.
THREE of the best known counter.
feiters in America were captured about
daylight the other morning while ac-
lively engaged in making five-dollar
gold pieces in a tent on the Elkhorn
road about fifty miles from Omaha. A
posse of United States deputies under
Harris, of Omaha, took the gang in.
They are Charles butcher, c. II. Holden
and Grant Baughman. When Harris
made the arrest he found q complete
outfit of molds, ladies', babbit metal,
about 20 S. pieces made Of the worth.
less metal used by the counterfeiters,
some of which had been gilded, and q
half dozen counterfeit silver dollars.
JouN II. MoBERRY and Mrs. Sarah
Moberly. father and mother of the two
boys killed by a Missouri Pacific switch
engine at Lincoln on the 9TH Of last
June, have commenced suit against that
company for s., 900 each. They allege
that the boys were on the engine with
the knowledge and consent of the en-
gineer and that for at least q month
previous the engineer had been in the
habit of permitting boys to ride on the
engine whenever they wished to; tha'
the engineer in charge ut the time wa
an inexperienced man, totally unfit u
manage "a locomotive at any time, ant
! that he wa running his engine at
dangerous rate of speed.
} The other day Plattsmouth wa
: visited by a destructive fire which de
I stroyed Waterman's opera house. TIL
building was one of the finest amuse
! ment houses in the state and was values
at $50, 900. 1t was owned by John Wa
terman and for the past ten years, O
I during It's whole period of existence
7 was managed by j. =. Young, now @
Lincoln. II was opened in September
: 1859, by Fay Templeton. The insuranc
on the building was only $4,000. 10
Kline also lost $40, 900 on his stock q
t clothing, with an insurance of ST., 0O(
Y besides several other losses. The entir
: loss on the building and contents wa
s $40, 200, with insurance of s2s, 900.
ir is stated that the crops In Red wi
l low county this year will be second I
none in the state. The acreage @
wheat, oats and rye Is double that G
Q last year, and about one-third more G
Q barley. The grain is nearly all safel
q cut and In the stack and shock. TIL
= yield will exceed that of last year, q
the heads of the grain are larger an
L the berry better.
: DURING a dance near Ryno's post O
ice, Custer county, Robert Frazier u
II tackled Charles Stout and injured hi
q so severely that he died. Stout had ci
culated u slanderous story about Fra
y Ter, and when they met a fight ensue
With n result 0iven.