The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-11
NEBRASKA TAT NEWS.


A TASSERY with n capacity of 1000
hides a year has been established At
Cortland.
A MAD dog was killed near Wakefield
after IL had bitten another canine and
killed twenty chickens
A ON of William Horn, near VOL
bach, was instantly killed by tho acci-
denta, discharge of n gun.
PLATTsMoUTH people report q four
foot vein of coa discovered on the land
OF Joseph Sherry at Rock Bluffs.
IL. ROGERs, a horse thief, recently at
tempted TO escape from the Jail at Lex
ington and was shot dead by the dep
uty sheriff.
II. NJ. TITUs, a grain dealer of Hast
ings, was recently killed by the cars ut
that city. He was carelessly On the
track at the time watching a wrecking
train and was struck by q freight lie
was 4s years old.
THE three Sumner boys, who broke
Jail Mt Auburn about a month ago, ha We
been captured in Richardson county.
They were heavily armed. each carry
ing W r~evolvers. Quite a battle took
place between the shcriff's posse and
&he Summers before they were capt
ured.
THE Nebraska grand lodge knights
Of Pythias, has discovered that it lost
5000 by the failure of the Ainsworth
bank. The grand treasurer of the or
der was cashier of the bank and had
the funds on deposit. 1t Is said that
his bondsmen are involved SO that the
order will lose the entire sum.
SIDNEY SMITH, who is charged with
forgery and embezzlement, and who
left Omaha under n suspicious cloud
last May, was recently arrested to be
returned for trial. lie was formerly
connected with the Home Loan and In
vestincnt Co, and In skipping out from
Omaha crossed over the border into
Canada.
THE other day n colored man was
sent to n disreputable house ut Omaha
with u note and while talking to two
Of the inmates on the steps he fell. His
skull was fractured and he died soon
after. One story was that he was
pushed down the steps by two OF the
m and another that IL was q case
Of heart disease.
EDWARD WAGNER, living near Ash
land, was shot perhaps fatally the other
morning while trying to dislodge sew
eral bullets that became caught in the
barrel of his rifle. lie heated the gun
in order to melt the bullets, and there
happened to be some powder in the bar
rel, which, exploded and shot the bull
lets into his stomach
FRED CANT met with injuries the
other day, during the noon hour. ut
Cudshy's packing hohse in South Oma-
ha, from the effects OF which he died
three hours later. Camp was employed
in the oil Don and fell through an ele-
vator shaft to the door below. a dis
tancc OF twelve feet. He was 80 years
OF age and unmarried.
AMADoR ANDREWS, general superin.
tendent Of the central division of the
Wells Fargo Express Co.. says that In
all probability he will remove his head
quarters from Omaha to Kansas City, as
IA more central point, now that the
Adams has secured the burlington and
Missouri lines. lie has IS, 900 miles of
line in his charge and fifteen men in his
Office corps.
The coroner's jury devoted a day at
Lexington investigating the killing Of
Rogers, the prisoner, by Deputy Sheriff
Lamma and found the deputy justified
in his act. The Jail breaking plan was
premeditated and it wa only upon the
urging of the other prisoners that Rog-
ers was prevented from using n large
lump of coal to knock the old Jail as
sistant down.
+. B. OWENS, an eighteen-year-old
bell boy Mt the Palmer house in Grand
Island, was arrested recently for steal
ing from the guests of the hotel. A
search Of his room brought to light a
great variety of articles and q num-
Der OF letters. Some of the latter
had had remittances inclosed, but the
money was gone, and there were sew
earl loving epistles addressed to Grand
Island women
The largest business ever done by
the Omaha p~ostofice in n single month
was done in October. The stamp sales
amounted TO $40, 725. so and the envelope
sales to s8,9lL o., making n total OF $685.
G36,6 !. The largest months sale prior
to this was done last April and
amounted to go, O4l. 6S. For the month
Of October n e a ago the business
amounted to s24, Gas. 20, an increase of
almost $4,000.
A LINCOLN attorney claimed that un-
der the new apportionment Nebraska
was entitled to three additional repre-.
sentatives In the present congress-. and
applied to Gov. Boyd to call a special
election for the election Of threc con.
gressmen at large, which, under the ad-
vice of the encouragement, the gov
erno refused To do. The attorney then
applied to the supreme court for u writ
of mandamus commanding the governor
to issue the proclamation, but the court
denied the writ.
WHILE out hunting near Fremont the
other day II farmer by the name of Will
son found the body of Frank CHAD,
who disappeared from North Bend the
next day after the big fire there. From
the marks on the head and breast it is
supposed that some one shot him and
threw the body into the river, and left