The Red Cloud chief., 1892-07-08
NEBRASKA A NEWS.

Beatrice.
FRED IREsoN, aged IS years, vas re-
Gently drowned while bathing ncar
Fremont.
THE republicans Of the Fifth district
have nominated Prof. w. L. Andrews
for congress-.
w. J. BRYAN has been renominated
for congress by the democrats Of the
First district.
A DEFECTIVE fiuc resulted in the do
struction of the house Of Charles Ripley,
near Harvard
NEAR Surprise the other day a run
away team threw Mr.. and Mr.. T. II.
Lysta rom the buggy and seriously in
3ured both.
DIXON, the murderer of Corporal Car
ter, of the United States army, was
hanged Mt Omaha on the cath. He was
q private in the army ut the time Of
committing the murder.
A PIERsoN, one of the oldest resi-
dents Of Sterling, fell dead of heart
failure on the street in that place the
other day. He was "a years old and
leaves a wife and five children.
Ar LOUISVILLE the other day Mike
O'Rouke went to sleep on the Rock
Island track while in an intoxicated
condition and a passing train took off
both Of his legs. He will not live.
THE other night Elva Jones, II years
old, committed suicide at Omaha by
taking s~trychnine. She wal infatuated
with q young member Of the fire de-
partment which her parents opposed.
She left n letter, stamped and sealed, to
be delivered to the young man.
THE state supreme court has decided
that the governor has nc power to re-
move q member of the Omaha board of
fire and police, except for official mis-
conduct and upon charges specifying
the particular act or acts to be- proved
md an opportunity to be heard in open
defense. This decision referA TO the
case Of the state Of Nebraska, ex rel,
G.. ii. Hastings, encouragement,
against Howard Is. Smith.
BEN FORD, the groom of a fortnight,
killed himself almost in the presence Of
his young wife Mt Beatrice the other
afternoon. He vas toying with an old
rusty revolver which had long hung on
the wall as an ornament. His wife had
just stepped to an adjoining room when
she heard the report and the sound of
his body striking the floor. The bullet
entered the left eye and pierced the
brain. Ford was twenty-three years of
age.
RECEIVER GIBBONS, Of the defunct
Commercial and Savings bank Of Kear-
ney, has filed his monthly report. 1t is
as follows: ~ have collected to date
81, 0S5. 60 and nave commenced suits for
the collection Of SEQ, 800 Of past due pa
per. With the laws delays the pros
poets are anything but encouraging for
immediate results. Nor can I at the
present time see much hope or cncour-
agement for those who are creditors Of
the bank"
SUIT has been commenced against the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
by Mrs Carrie Grace Pennington, Of
Omaha, for $1,000 damages Her hus-
band, Lewis N. Pennington, was an en-
gineer on the Burlington and early on
the morning Of February 3, last, was
killed at the Twenty-seventh street
crossing in Lincoln. In her petition
Mrs. Pennington alleges that the acci-
dent was caused by the imperfect con-
dition Of the road bed.
Six prominent citizens of Lincoln were
severely injured in u runaway accident
the other afternoon. A party composed
of Mr.. James Aitken, his daughter, Mrs.
Jennie Hard, Mr.. and Mrs Il. II. Leav-
lit, Mr.. Stevens and Mr.. Barnett, had
started on a picnic. They were riding
in a light spring wagon, when one OF
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frightened the horses and they ran of.
The wagon was overturned. All the
occupants Of the vehicle were severely
injured, Mrs. Leavitt it was feared fa
tally.
AT the close Of the Sons of Veterans
encampment, lately held ut David City,
officers were elected as follows: Com
mauder, p. II. Borrow, St Edwards;
senior vice, j. c. Seacrist, Lincoln'
junior vice, George w. Boot, Nelson'
council, II. c. Scarf, Columbus; Henry
Miller, Red Cloud; C. ID. Gideon, South
Omaha; adjutant, +. N. Abbott, st. Ed
wards; qu~artcrmaster, i. j. Norton,
Albion; surgeon, DIR. +. w. Gerter, Da'
vid City; chaplain, f. N. Cosgrove, Glib
bon; inspector, George c. Nell, Indian
olhS iiuStSIiuk oihSSAs - Az hoSS
Stuart; assistant, Frank Dugbee, Ches
ter: Judge advocate, NJ. c. Hogear, Nor
folk; sergeant major, II. c. Pierce, Dav
export; inspectors clerk, ]. 4. Brown
Central City.
The Nebraska Columbian commission
has offered the following special pre-
miums for grain designs to be exhibited
Mt the state fair: Best ornamental de
signs made entirely of grains Of corn
$40; ornamental design made entirel.
Of ears Of corn, $40; ornamental design
made entirely OF corn cobs. $40; orna
mental design made entirely of corr
husks, el0; ornamental design made en-
: tirely Of q combination of ears, grain
cobs, husks, stalks and silks Of corn
: go, ornamental designs made ~entirel.
OF heads of small grain, $40; ornamental
> design made Of a combination of al
grain, shelled and threshed, and stalks
heads, cobs, silk and grasses, $50. Al
!, designs receiving awards to becom tn
; property of the Nebraska State Colum
bian commission. These premiums pal,
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