The Red Cloud chief., 1892-04-08

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greSS.
ANDY GRAHAM, a resident of Box
Butte county. has become violently in
sane and has been SEM to an asylum.
CINDA PARKS millinery store at Blue
Hill burned the other night. The esti-
mated loss wa 81. ESQ; insurance, $3.50.
The building was owned by III. g.
koehier, who loses $500, with nc insur-
ance.
REV. JoHS F. HUFFMAN has sued the
lions Evangelical Lutheran church of
Roca for So, So for salary from April 1
to May IL. 1889. He says that they
agreed to pay him, but have failed to
do Sc.
PARTIES from Chattanooga, Tenn,
have been negotiating for the Beatrice
paper mill plant 1t is proposed to at
once enlarge the plant with the view
to adding the manufacture of print
paper to it's output,
w. c. LEIGnTY, a postal clerk on the
Burlington road, was arrested at Has
tings the other morning charged with
robbing the mails and with using the
mails in an attempt to blackmail
Cashier Outcalf, of the Capital national
bank of Lincoln. A decoy letter
caught him.
HENRY TROUTMAN got OIL one of his
periodical sprees at Omaha the other
day, went home, raised a row with his
wife and drawing n revolver fired at
her. An officer appeared and marched
him off to Jail. He had cruelty beaten
the oma the night before and also
attempted to kill her.
Two tramps who applied for lodging
at the Eureka hotel in Dakota City
the other night burglarized the ward
robes of the boarders early next morn
ing. They secured several suits of
clothes and other personal property.
They were traced to Covington by the
sheriff, but there they were lost.
A CRAZY man, wandering about the
Loup river, was captured the other
dav just west of Columbus. He was
naked, and declared he was going to
drown himself. He gave his name as
w. NJ. Bordrack. and said he had been
emploved as n lineman for the Western
Union Telegraph Co. in Chicago.
A DELEGATION from Logan, Custer
, county, lately waited on President
Hamilton of the Kearney Sc Black Hills
road, asking him to extend the line to
Candy, via Arnold, Custer county.
They guaranteed n large bonus from
Logan county and townships in Custer
county through which the prospective
road passes.
THE other day a United States EX-
press Co. detective arrived in Omaha
and swore out a complaint against
. Frank Bouten. alias j. A. Mills, a tele-
graph operator, for forgery. The Of
| fcer stated that Bouten was a fugitive
I, from Justice, and that he had forged
express company money orders for $50
| while working in New Orleans a short
time ago. The mau was arrested.
THE general conference OF the
! Methodist church, which meets in
| Omaha next MAY, will call together
| the leading thinkers and pulpit orators
! of that great religious BODY. There
| will also be many influential business
! men and successful financiers in the as
semblage. The leading educators from
| Methodist colleges all over the world
| and the chief editorial writers and
| managers of the great. book concerns
| and publishing houses conducted by
| the church will be in attendance.
Mrs NAGLEsCHMIDr, a uxom lady
| of middle age, was fined SIS and costs at
Grand Island the other morning for
horse whipping John Berry. Berry
| opened a road, which the woman i'm
mediately closed by replacing the
| fence. When Berry learned of this he
| Immediately reopened it As soon as
| he had begun the work Mrs. Nagle-
| schmidt appeared. lashing him over
| the head until the whip broke. She
| pleaded guilty of disturbing the peace,
| paid her fine aud went away happy.
THE passenger coach of Union Pacific
| train No. So was dumped into the ditch
near Pool siding approaching Grand
| Island, the other afternoon The
| coach turned completely upside down.
| Conductor Palmer and Brakeman
| Ramev were slightly injured and j. c.
! Pike and wife, of David City, were cut
about the head and face. The con
| ductor of the train said the accident
was caused by the carelessness of the
section hands in relaying rails by put
| ting pine blocks between the rails and
the ties.
Pensions lately granted Nebraska
veterans: Original-George III. Shaffer,
| Eli Campbell. John W. Davis, William
| Bundy, Mason Tingley, William A.
Shoemaker, Samuel Long, August
! Gherle, John NJ. Millhollen, James II.
| Riddle, james II. Coin. Additional
| William j. Perkins, Henry j. +. Wort,
Jonathan l. Fitzgerald. Supplemental
George W.. Barnard. Increase
Hampton Horton, j. Cobbey. Reissue
Samuel Grant, James c. Hall. Orig
inal widows, etc. Elizabeth Daggett,
minor of John Timothy.
The Thayer-Bovd contest is once
more before the state supreme court
| and unless the court denies the motion
lately filed by Mr.. Thayer to reopen the
case it will be heard from at intervals
| for many months yet 1t is not be-
! lieved tina a decision will be reached
until late next fall. Gen. Thayer says
| that he does not expect a decision
| hardly within a year. He reiterates
| his former statement that he onlv de-
| sires to see if the enabling act admitted