The Red Cloud chief., 1892-05-20
Miscellaneous.

THE store of Berry & Roe at Paddock
was burned the other night. Loss,
about 1000.
The ~ten-year-old son Of Joseph Tad
lccek was drowned in Walnut creek at
Crete the other day.
The Commercial hotel at Stanton
burned the other morning. The loss
was about $1,000; insurance, g. 200.
GERMAN farmers in the neighborhoOd
Of Sterling raised 500 to aid the relief
work among the starving Russians.
The Nebraska State Sunday School
association will hold it's twenty-ffth
annual meeting Mt Kearney June Z, 8
and 9.
The Baptist church Mt Ashland has
extended a call to Miss Francis Towns.
ley, of Chicago, to supply the pastorate
and she has accepted.
GEORGE BIDwELL, recently 81 New
York, was lately killed by u cyclone in
Oklahoma, and his father, +. A. Bid
well, seriously injured.
FRANK v. KRATKY, real estate dealer
from Wahoo, who had been taking
treatment at the bichloride Of gold in
stitute Mt Blair, committed suicide the
other day by throwing himself in front
Of the Black Hills passenger train on
the Elkhorn.
A HEAVY rain washed away q West
Point sidewalk and Il lady fell into a
hole four feet deep where the sidewalk
ought to have been. She was badly
bruised, and her warning scream pre-
vented several other ladies from falling
into the same hole.
NEAR Lexington the other day a team
ran away with which Marshall Spade
gre, q boy fourteen years old, was plow-
ing. The boy had the lines around his
body and was dragged to death. The
team ran until tired and stopped a mile
from the field. The boy was found with
the lines still around his body.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was recent
ly caused ut Plattsmouth by the discov'
cry of gold in the sands Of the Platte
river. The discovery was made some
time ago but it was supposed that the
sands discovered had merely washed
down from the mines ut the head Of the
river and the matter was temporarily
dropped. Now the owner Of a rock
quarry in the hills north of town has
discovered races of gold in his quarry
and he proposes to investigate further
1t Is proposed to organize a company u
, sink q shaft and see II there IL anything
behind the traces.
! THE charge of murder has been lifted
from the shoulders of the Steinbecl
, brothers, farmers residing in Merricl
county. About six months ago u won
!. an in the insane asylum, related Il
the Steinbecks, made utterings to tn
effect that under q certain tree on tn
Steinbeck farm the remains Of Gusta'
, Hagener would be found. Hagene
, wal an employee of the Steinbecks, an
!. suddenly disappeared. 1t was relatet
| that the Steinbecks murdered the maj
n for his money. The case never cam,
before the courts, however. 1t is nov
/ shown bv a letter received by tn
q father in Duff, Neb., that Hagener !
alive and well in Colorado.
II A FEARFUL electric storm attended b.
heavy rain and hail visited Crete re
Gently and flooded the town. AS u pas
senger train from the west came within
three miles Of Crete and while crossing
- q high e~mbaukment over u large an
heavy stone c~ulvert, the embanlSmen
gave way, throwing the engine to on
r. side and telescoping the mail and tn
baggage coach. The mail coach fel
y eighty feet in front Of the engine. Th
n smoker landed in the washout and n
ID NAMED there. The fireman of cngin
DO ESQ and two tramps who stole a ride O
r. the mail car were instantly killed
ID Floyd Keller, a mail agent, was dangel
ously injured and several passenger
injured.
" SEVERAL ladies belonging to the locu
Women's Christian Temperance unto
To- created u sensation at Wahoo the oth'
morning by making u tour Of the stree
10 and destroying the Autographs OF
female variety troop. They objected
\. the thin attire of the damsels as repr
sented In the Autographed picture
Nc The advance agent of the show demans
" ed pay for the pictures, and the ladi'
" promptly handed over $3.50 the amour
p demanded.
~ THE longest and most complete ter
~ Of court ever held In Knox county ",
81 adjourned at Niobrara the other day \
Of Judge Allen, who cleared the docket I.
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