The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-07
NEBRASKA A NEWS.
HERMAN and vicinity was visited by a

The firm of Cohn & Harris, dealers IN
dry goods and millinery at Lincoln, ha,
been closed by creditors.
Il. NJ. MILLER, q Furnas count,
farmer dropped lead the other day
while mt work on his farm.
U KEEN, a Custer county farm
hand, fell from his horse at Broken
Bow and was fatally injured.
HALF the business part of North
Bend was destroyed by u recent fire.
The loss was estimated at $50, 600.
SIX pocketbooks, which were stolen
on circus day at Norfolk, were found
under the depot rifled Of their contents.
OTTo, the Sol of Il. T.. Carver, of
Grand Island, was drowned recently in
Oregon. lie had just attained his ma.
jority.
The case of Chancellor Creighton,
lately tried at Nebraska City by an
ecclesiastical court, resulted in his ac-
quittal.
WHILE feeding an ensilage cutter, C.
II. johnson, of Fairmont, stuck his
hand too far into the machine and lost
three fingers.
THE jury In the Gravcly murder trial
ut Lincoln returned q verdict finding
the prisoner, Green s. G~ravely, guilty
OF murder in the second degree.
CHRIS MiKEsELI, a farmer residing
neal Dakota City, fell from a haystack
and although no bones, were broken
his left side was completely paralyzed.
MINY MINER, Il fifteen-year-old boy,
recently attempted To cross the street
in front OF n car at Omaha, but fell and
was terribly mangled. lie died 500
after.
I. j. KEL.so, u farmer residing near
lnavale, recently had his barn, forty
tons OF hay, one horse, two sets of har-
ness and other farm implements
burned.
vi DEAN, an Ashland drayman, quar-
relied with % man named Landreth and
struck him with "a Ratchet, cutting his
head wide open. The wound will not
prove fatal.
D.. l.. AYLswoRTH, n Chicago drummer,
while mt the depot in Omaha the other
day received n telegram saying his child
was dying. The news made him crazy
and violent.
The wife of Nels Peterson, a boiler
maker of Havelock, took all her hus-
oand's money, $3.50, the other day and
left for parts unknown with a man
named Corners.
The Norfolk beet sugar factory has
commenced operations. The factory
will be run at it's full capacity, using
about $50 tons OF beets and making
about 40, 900 or 80, 900 pounds of Ia
The ffteen-year-old son of U. A. Day,
Kearney. was run over aud killed by
a freight train the other evening. The
boy jumped on the train for n short
ride, as is the custom Of many BOYS
about the depot.
WILLIAM RAsP, u we'll to do farmer
living live miles northeast of Gresham,
lately attempted suicide by drinking
alcohol. He sold his farm for 81, 600.
n told him that he sold too
cheap; that he should have sl.5 500 more
for 1t, and 1t SO preycd on his mind that
became partly insane.
The fifty-foot section of shelving,
loaded with dry goods to the ceiling, in
the store of the Pennsylvania Mercan-
tile Co. at Lexington. fell down the
other day. Several statesmen were be-
tween the counters and the shelving
and narrowly escaped with their lives
by jumping under the counter.
FIRE in the sheep pens of the Union
Stock Yards Co. Mt South Omaha the
day burned six pens, each 50x20O
feet in size. The fire spread with such
rapidity that great damage was done
before the packing house and South
fire forces arrived. Nine hun
dred sheep confined in the pens, and
had just been weighed out TO
Swift & Co, persisted.
THE sheriff of Washington county has
from Gov. Boyd a requisition
on the governor of Texas for the arrest
OF Arthur ID. Sloan, whose murder of
stepfather and stepbrother near
Washington county, is q
of history. Sloan, il will be re.
was captured in Iowa short
ly after the commission of the crime,
but after lying in Jail three weeks he
managed to make his escape. Sloan
was lately captured in La Sale county,
Tex.
AN elderly man named Wilson went
into Bars jewelry store Mt Lincoln and
asked to be shown some gold watches.
The clerk accommodated him, and
a watch was selected for which the
customer agreed to pay So. He tend
cred a check for $50 in payment and the
accepted it, giving in return the
watch and $40 in money. The old fell
low was to call later and get the bal
of his change, He hasn't returned
and is not likely to, as the check was
q forgery, and q very clever one Mt
that.
THE preliminary examination of Anna
for poisoning Andrew j.
Roberts was concluded ut David City
by the defendant being held for trial.
Andrew Roberts, her first husband,
died on the 10th day Of February, 1887.
at the time were not
especially suspicious. On the 9Th Of
1890, Mary N. Armagost, her
mother-in-law, died. Nearly one year
ago suspicion was SO strong against
Mrs. Armagost that complaints came in
suspicious neighbors, and the cor
oner concluded to investigate the mat
for The hOdies yyara avhumad md a