The Red Cloud chief., 1892-12-02
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.

l.. L $50 lth
passed from the hands of local capital
lists , Peoria (Tli.) parties.
JoHN THOMAS, 20 years old. receive,
such injuries in n recent runaway q
oseeola that he died soon after. -
TOMMY WoRLDMovER, an Indian DO,
10 years old, was recently murdere,
near Columbus. He was a truant from
the oenoa indian school, and the muir
oer was ~unprovolsed and wapton. TIL,
government will investigate the matter
IHE inc Office at Silver Creek wa.
burned h other day. While the offic,
was burning the proprietor was arrest
en- Tor o threat made a day or two pre-
vIous to shoot n Of his former EN-
pioyes, who had been ''dogging' his
steps.
IHE other morning sneak thieves en-.
tered the jewelry store of y. Jonasen &
TO-, at Omaha, and succeeded in getting
away with $1,000 worth Of diamonds
ana $4,000 worth of gold watches. Jon.
asen had stepped out to get shaved al
tho time.
The hearing of the manaamus pro.
ceedings in the district court OF CLAW
county, wherein e~x-Speaker Elder and
othcrs sought % compel the county
clerk to issue certificates to them was
had before Judge Hastings, and in
obedience TO the courts orders the clerk
issued the certificates.
LIE other night Charles Vandevent-
er, n farmer living near Plattsmouth.
was the victim of II peculiar stabbing
array. lie would not tell where
1t was done or who did IL. He
said that he met n man who Jumped
down off of a hayraclS and did the
work. The would-b be assassin aimed
Tor Vandevcnter's heart, the blade PEN
etrating just below the left nipple and
barely missing his heart.
On the evening of the aist a banquet
was given Hon. Patrick Egan, minister
TO Chill, at lincoln. Covers wers laid
for la5. Judge Field acted as toast
master, and toasts and pom were
given by Ill. M. Bushnell, Hon. Patrick
Egan, G. NJ. Lambertson, NJ. V. Gan.
non, president of the Irish National
League of America; II. VI. M~arauette.
chancellor Caniicld, of the state uni
versity; a. l.. Bixby and A. w. Sum-
mers.
THE first case under the valued'l
policy law passed by the last lcgisla-
turo was lately tried at Nebraska
City. Last February tho stone build |
ing of Henry Bachler was burned. He
was insured in the Insurance Company
OF North America for 1880. The com.
pany refused payment on the ground
that the building could be repaired for
comparatively a nominal sum. A YER
dict was brought in awarding plaintiff
full amount with interest from date of
fire.
oNE OF the worst prairie fires Rock
county ever witnessed started the other
day while the wind was blowing a bur.
ricanc. The fire is supposed to have
started from u spark from a farm house
one mile cast of Bassett, spreading
about three or four miles In width,
sweeping everything before it. The
damage will probably be from sf0, 600
to slb, ooo. The farmers, with the HELM
OF about 200 people from Newport and
Bassett by hard fighting, saved thou
OF dollars worth of property.
Several families were compelled To secI,
corn fields, lakes, wells and caves To
save their lives.
a wreck took place on the
Union Pacific road at Aida siding, eight
miles west OF Grand Island, the other
morning by which j. W. Keller, con-
ductor, and Gus Barrett, engineer of n
freight train; Barney Mcdonald, ,cngi-
neer OF n passenger train; Ira Owens and
Costello, tiremen, and William
sutherland, brakeman, were killed.
Conductor Keller, one of the killed.
switched his train to the siding for the
passenger and neglected to close the
switch. When the passenger train came
numbering along ut full speed it dashed
nto the freight with the fatal result (
given. All the victims leave families
except Costello and Sutherland.
L. a. BIDwELL, aged 90 ycnrs, q pio-
neer OF Dawson county. died the other
lay from the effects of n dose of rough
On rats, administered by his own hand.
Bidwell had been a consumptiye
or the past four years and unable TO
work. Some months ago he said To a 4
that he would live long enough :
% vote for Harrison and then ii death !
o come to his relief he would '
.dopt measures to hasten 1t. He took c
he defeat OF the republican national il
icket greatly to heart and that is sup. b
'osed to have been one of the causes y
which led to his act. The deceased q
erved in the Mexican and civil wars. :
nd was n member of the Grand Army Z
the Republic and Knights of Labor. =
THE twelfth annual meeting of tho :
'ational farmers congress assembled at :
with Representatives from all
'arts OF the country. On the last day
4 the session the laxity of the inter.
tate law was condemned.
nd a committee appointed to confer
nth congress with a view to having the
aw strengthened. Resolutions were
assed favoring government a~ppropria.
ions for the improvement Of water I
rays, favoring the establishment of
eepwater communication between the
and the great lakes and asking
TO reconsider its action closing !
worlds fair on Sunday. A resolu. |
ion was passed expressing sympathy !
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