The Red Cloud chief., 1892-08-12
NEBRASKA TAT NEWS.

The other evening a special stock
train took from Grafton over Ell, 900
worth of cattle.
GEORGE ID. MEIKLEJoHN has been nom
mated for congress by the republicans
of the Third district
DEMOCRATS of the Third congrcssion-
al district have nominated State Sena-
tor KEEPER for congress.
REPUBLIcANs of the First district
have nominated Judge Allen w. Field,
Of Lincoln, for congress.
CARRIER SLOAN, who carries a star
route from Albion north, has been ar
rested nj Omaha for rifing mail sacks.
WHILE recently riding on q mower In
his harvest field, near Lincoln, ]. s.
Mann was struck by lightning and
killed.
DURING the recent hot spell Hon.
George c. Tucker, an ex-senator and
wealthy citizen, was sunstruck and died
In an hour.
WALTER SMITH, "a Lincoln boy, is one
Of the most persistent horse thieves in
the state, as well as the youngest He
will be sent to the reform school.
The ten-months-old child of II. Roll
land, of Bartlett, drank the contents of
q saucer containing rough on rats.
Deaf followed in q few minutes.
DURING the late heated term George
Paulson was raking hay in u field rear
Lyons when he was overcome by the
heat and fell TO the ground, where he
was found dying some time later.
THE people of Mcpherson county have
pctitioned TO have the name of the
county seat changed from Mcpherson
to Tyson to prevent its being confound-
ed with a town in Kansas of the same
name.
a COMPLAINT has been filed with the
secretaries of the state board of trans
p%ortation in which Byram w. Blair, q
grain dealer and shipper OF Broken
Bow, alleges unjust discrimination
against the Chicago, Burlington 4
Quincy Railroad Co.
JOHN Il. MUssER, OF Butte City, Boyd
county, has been bound over for trial
on the charge of attempted criminal as
sault upon Miss Bowdish. lie is u
prominent business man Of the town,
but from the testimony at the prelim-
mary trial is a fast one.
Ar Wymore the other day Henry
DstuIlRuTuutT was uTOWutu III Tie IDlup.
His sister ran to give the alarm and on
reaching home fell unconscious from
sunstroke. The mother started for as
sistance and she too was FRUSTRATED.
The mothers condition was precarious.
PASSENGERS on the Missouri Pacific
train which left Kansas City the other
night for Omaha reached there in a
train consisting of two box cars and n
caboOse. The passenger train had been
ditched near Nebraska City before day
light by spreading rails. Nobody was
hurt.
The b. & NJ. depot at Ashland was
recently burned. About 81, 900 worth
Of baggage was destroyed, in addition
to q quantity of freight and considera-
BILE property of the company. The total
loss will be about $4,000. The fire was
caused by the explosion Of a SWITCH
lamp.
JOHN SURDYL, n Polander, 70 years
old, was arrested ut Duncan charged
with criminally assaulting Josie Fida,
nine years old. John Fida, an uncle of
the girl, wanted to hang Surdyl and he
stirred up much excitement for a while.
Surdyl was taken to Columbus for q
hearing.
:, The comnittce appointed by the
4 school board of Louisville to audit the
accounts of the late w. Ii. Shryock. who
wa treasurer of the school fund, found
"a shortage in the account Of 81, 1888. 81
and also failed to discover the 81, ZOO
that was turned over to Shryock by the
previous treasurer, making a total short
age of s5,3sS.S7.
INVESTIGATION by experts into the
accounts OF ex-Treasurer Wilkinson, OF
Dakota county, discloses a shortage OF
1 3,400. The board of supervisors have
begun civil action against his bondsmer
and sworn out warrants for him on the
charge of embezzlement. Wilkinson
was treasurer six years. The invests
CATION has been in progress sever
months.
The reunion committee Of the G. A
r. met at Grand Island the other day
and completed all arrangements fol
the great reunion of veterans in thai
7 city next month. Fifty thousand pro
grammes were sent out. Quartermastel
Harrison reports that applications from
the various posts throughout the state
, as far as rave been received and fled
. show an increase i'm attendance of ovel
! 20 per cent. The number of Sons ant
7 Daughters of Veterans and Woman
Relief corps will also be larger thii
year than last.
: JAMES CLARK. who is KIN own to tn,
police authorities of several cities a
Charles Baxter, escaped from the cit.
Jail in Lincoln ut 2 o'clock the othe
morning in II very clever manner IL
8 had just completed n thirty days sen
u tence for petty larceny and was to hav
been taken to st. Louis to answer to
more serious charge. by some mean
he had secured a fine steel saw an
with this he managed to saw one of tn
q iron bars in the grating. The opera
ton must have consumed some tim
, and it was carried on with the doc
leading to the outer room wide oper
Watching his opportunity he pried bac
the severed bar, squeezed his bod
through the narrow opening and boldl
q walked out of the station, with the of