The Red Cloud chief., 1892-07-22
Miscellaneous.

MisceltaoeOus. |
CHARLES ROSE, IL years old, was killed.
by a motor train at Omaha the other day. |
CRop prospects for Polk county were
never better than at present, according
to all reports from that county.
The republican state convention will
be held at Lincoln August 4. The state
central committee lately met Mt Lincoln
and decided upon this date.
Ar Riverton the other day Tom Pack
cit, in n fit Of insanity, shot and killed
his father. Deceased was the mail car
rier Of the town and n respected citizen.
TIE bursting of u lamp resulted in
the burning of the residence Of William
O'F.illon Mt Nebraska City the other
night. The loss was about $4,000; part
ly insured.
LARGE quantities of corn are being
shipped from Nebraska to Mexico.
There Is great restitution In portions
OF our sister republic and the govern
ment, it is said, will exempt from duty
corr shipped from this country, and
thousands of car loads will go from Ne
/ braska.
RoBBERs entered the residence Of X.
i. Alexander ut Omaha in broad day
light the other day and stole about
$1,000 worth of jcwclry. Two diamond
rings, n valuable breast pin, q couple of
gold watches and considerable silver
ware were packed up and safely car
ried of.
THE farmers in the vicinity of Craw-
ford are jubilant over the prospect for
n crop. The spring has been n little
! backward, but it has been worry moist
and left the soil in excellent condition.
They have had an abundance of rain SO
far and the outlook for n crop was never
60 bright since the settlement Of the
country.
john HOWARD and wife arrived ut
sidney the other day with their wheel.
barrow and cooking utensils with which
they are making q tour across the coun-
try from Seattle, WASH. to Chicago. It
Is on u bet Of $40, 900 with capitalists Of
! Seattle, of which they receive one-half
providing they complete their journey
by September 10. Both looked badly
weather beateh. They average twenty
miles n day.
MASON was recently visited by n cy-
clone that destroyed many buildings.
Among the buildings were the resi-.
dences of ]. ii. Melville, J. A. Payne
and J. NJ. Amber, the Methodist and
Baptist churches and the new brick
schoolhousc, Payne's meat market
building, Jardorf & Elliott's hardware
store, CASTELAR, &c Hurley's blacksmith
shop, Dreyfus' livery barn and two un.
occupied buildings. Other buildings
were damaged, but no n was killed.
THE trustees of the German Catholic
church at Lincoln filed a somewhat sen
| sational answer to a suit instituted by
the German National bank to recover
!, on a note for s467 signed by the church
and H. Kueppenbender, the officia,
pastor Mt the time the note was given
/ The trustees allege that Kueppenbendei
executed the note without authority
from the church and that he never
4 turned the proceeds of the note into tn,
: church treasury. The answer asks tina
! the suit be dismissed.
SOME days ago n middle-aged lady
!, giving her name as Augusta Fuchs, ar
rived In Fremont from Denver ant
swore out a warrant for the arrest O
August Fuchs, who she claims is he
husband, the charge against him bein,
r. that Of bigamy. Fuchs is running
brickyard across the Platte, south O
: the city, and the officers arrested hin
a on the complaint filed. The defendan
~ gave bonds for his appearance. He ad
mitted having been married to wifi
number one in Germany and says II
lived with her after coming to this cou
try, but she became such u terror I
II him that he abandoned her and maj
!. ried again.
y THE Nebraska Woman's Suffrage n.
= ISOLATION, lately in session at Pendel
chose officers as follows: Presiden
: Clara Bewick Colby, Beatrice; vice pre-
a.. ident, Mary Smith Hayward. Chadroi
h recording secretary, Getty w. Drur,
Fender; corresponding secretary, Hele
= NJ. Golf, Minden; treasurer, Stell
Groves Freese, Pcndev. The associ,
~ tion adopted n resolution asking IL
:. legislature to coufcr municipal suffraq
~. on ONE A resolution was ais
adopted that while we recommer
/. that the woman suffragists of the sta
y. use their influence to secure the ele
~ ton to office of men who are favorab
y TO suffrage of whatever part
yet rs an association we remain strict
na non-partisan."
Two girls named Orindorf, aged
ek aud IL, while recently hiding TO scho
~ near Stewart on the same hor
were seriously hurt. The animal w,
ed scared by a boy named Murphy. ag,
Is. Both girls We're thrown. III
N, older one was dragged u quarter OF
ry mile with her foot in the stirrup.
mi was thought her injuries would pro
n fatal.
ANTONIO ALDEI, an Italian living
,rd Omaha, was instantly killed near Plat
mouth the other day. He and the re
is. OF the section CTS" were going 10 VI
he her on a nahu cur when Nc vas thro.
d,s oil and killed by a passing train. III
Others of the crew were injured.