The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-21
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.

THERE was snow at Fort Robinson on
the 18th.
r. II. Evans, of Cuba, NO., was re.
Gently killed by the cars at Alva.
CYRUS MEAD, of Omaha, committed
suicide at Denver, Col, the other day.
The residence of David Fouts at Blue
Springs was recently burned during
the absence of the family.
FIRE Mt Omaha the other day de-
stroyed the residence of DIR. Ralph, his
stable and n horse, also the residences
of william Fleming and B. II. Robin
son.
WHILE preparing dinner the other
day the clothes of Mrs. David O'Brien,
of Nebraska City, took fire from the
stove. Her son David cxtinguishcd the
flames, but both were terribly burned.
JONI BULGER, a farmer residing near
Grand Island, recensly quaIreled with
his hired man, Henry Peterson, and the
latter shot him fatally, the ball enter
his breast Peterson secured "a horse
and made his escape. Bulgcr died soon
after. lie leaves "a wife and six chill.
dren.
The other morning while Mrs. Ed
Burns vas out milking, near Friend,
the elder children accidentally set the
bed on fire, upon which was sleeping a
six-month-old child. The infant was
literally crcmated, and only lived a few
minutes after being discovered by the
mother.
LAWYERS of Tekamah commenced
tNY.praa1tnre q, I,,ar I,,l.., S.-t4 - xl,a
district court, before the lunacy COM
mission, but Judge Scott has enjoined
the lunacy proceedings. This grew out
OF his recent action In fining Attorney
Peterson and sending him to Jail for
contempt
Ar Tel,amah the other day Judge
Scott sent Attorney Peterson to Jail for
contempt for suggesting that his rul-
ings were not fair. The county court
released him on habcas corpus proceed
ings. Scott then ordered the sheriff to
rearrest Peterson and the county judge.
The officer declined to do this, and
Judge Scott declared that he would
find other officers to make the arrest.
The other night st. Johns church at
Omaha was raided by burglars and si0,.
000 worth of sacred vessels were de-
stroycd and about 81, 200 worth Of frag.
ments of gold secured from the debris.
An investigation showed that the
burglars had broken open n of the
heavy iron safes in the vestry and rified
II of the sacred vessels stored there,
part of which they carried away aud
the remainder were Uttered about the
floor, broken in pieces and totally de-
stroycj.
KNOX county is considerably worked
up over wholesale cattle stealing that
has been going on for three months.
Some time < Mr.. Hall, living near
Bloomfield, lost three cars of three
year-old steers, which he has not been
able to locate. Mr.. Stiffen, living in
the same neighborhood, recently lost
twenty-nine head, and later g. v. Ora
vonski had fifty.nine head stolen from
his herd near Penn Valley. Efforts
have been made to trace the thieves,
but without success.
Ar the late meeting of the grand
lodge Knights Of Pythias, held ut Ge'
ncva, officers were elected as follows
Past grand chancellor, viii c. Hamil
ton, Lincoln; grand chancellor, Maj
william B. Dale, Columbus; grand vice
chancellor, c.. S. Alling, Seward; grand
prclate, Is. II. McGrew, Crawford: grand
keeper of records and seal, ii. M. Shat
fer, Lincoln; grand master of c%xchequer
j. ID. Wright; grand master-at-arms
James Donnellin, Omaha; grand inner
guard, Ed $. Mansfield, Wymore; CRANE
outer guard, j. w. Tanner, Fullerton.
TIE eighteenth annual convention OF
the Nebraska Woman's Christian TEN
perancc union was lately in session nj
Grand Island. The president of the
union, Mrs. Mary A. Hitchcock, OF Ere
mont, delivered the annual address
which was u complete review of the
! work done in the past year. The ole
officers were reelected as follows
President. Mrs. Mary A. Hitchcock
Fremont; vice president, Mrs. Caroline
NJ. Woodward, Seward; corresponding
| secretary, Mrs. Octavia Jones. Hastings
| recording secretary, Miss Ella NJ. Wat
| son, Bellwood; treasurer, Mrs. Mary NJ
Lantry, Omaha
THE four hundredth anniversary o
the discovery Of America was cele
, brated by the Catholic churches o.
, Omaha on the 18th. High mass wa
celebrated Mt st. Philomena's cathe
| dral, and Bishop Scannell made an ad
! dress to the children. In the Afternoon
| 8, 1000 pupils of the parochial schools
passed in parade through the street
and afterwards listened to patrioti
address by Hon. T. b. Minahan in Elk
position hall. The Italians gathered a
the cathedral, wher Rev. Father BrueI
blessed the American and Italian
colors A parade in the afternoon an
IA ball In the evening wound up tn
celebration.
THE Wyoming cattle war has bee
transferred to Omaha and now instead @
fighting with shotguns and Winchester
1t is proposed To do the fighting in tn
courts of Douglas county. This
brought on by the commencement OF
suit In which Milo Burke is the plaintiff
and ii. d. Ijams, w. c. Irvine and c.
Talbot are the defendants. The plants
alleges that he arrived in South Oman
with n trainload of cattle from tn
ranges Of johnson county, Wyo.; tina
Immediately upon his arrival he wa
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