The Red Cloud chief., 1892-08-05
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.

lightning near Oakland.
A COMPANY has been incorporated to
build a hotel at Hickman.
WORK has been begun on q new s5, 900
schoolhouse at Nehawka
The thermometer registered 104 in
the shade at Central City on the 10th.
MEs. MILLER and a hired man were
killed by lightning near Hooper the
other day.
JOHN KrSe killed John Germaune ut
Chaldron the other day while the latter
was resisting arrest
A YOUNG farmer named Hillingasa
was sunstruck near Central City on the
10th. He could not survive.
CROPS In Dundy county are reported
to be I'm n fiourishing condition. The
wheat promises an abundant yield.
FIRE at Chadron the other day de-
stroyed the Jerry Mahoney Furniture
Co.'S store. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$500 O.
IDA Il. BRreHT, apretty st~epographer,
was found dead in the office of DIR. Noah
Corricker at Omaha the other day. The
matter was being investigated.
Bob CANwELI, n seven-year-old boy
shot and killed his three-year-old sister
ut Juniata the other day with an old
shot gun that was ''unloaded."
HARRY MULLEN, IL years old, was re-
Gently drowned in the Missouri river at
Omaha. He had gone into the river TO
swim contrary to the orders of his
mother.
SWAN JOHNSON. n Swcdc in the en-
ploy of c. j. Nobes, lear York, was Sc
verely injured the other morning by be-
ing thrown into a barbed wire fence by
a horse he was driving.
A BURLINGTON freight train was
wrecked at the east end Of the Missouri
river bridge ut Plattsmouth the other
morning. Three tramps were killed
and twelve cars filed with grain were
demolished.
DORA and Mary Wood, aged ii and 12
years, were drowned while recently
bathing in the Elkhorn neal Stafford.
They were daughters of a farmer. The
younger girl got beyond her depth and
while her sister vas attempting to res
cue her both sank.
CHASE COUNTY has harvested as fine n
crop of small grain as any one could
wish to see. There will be nearly
double the amount of wheat raised in
tina county this year compared with
that of last year. Winter wheat and
rye is excellent So with oats. and
corn prospects never were better.
THE good rains of the past two weeks
have brought the wheat and corn crops
out far beyond the expectations of
everyone in eastern Perkins county.
Farmers count a yield of at least twenty
bushels per acre of wheat, and the pros
poets for corn never were better. The
acreage OF wheat will be fully twice
that of last season.
ABOUT 3 o'clock the other morning
some miscreant set fire To the barn. of
w. NJ. Stewart. one mile vest OF Cort-
land, completely consuming it, together
with -four sets Of harness. u new spring
machinery. While the family was try
| ing TO save what they could from the
barn the incendiary ransacked the house
and took what money Mr.. Ste had,
about s45.
FIRE ut Rising City the other night
| destroyed five stores causing u loss of
| s13, 000. The flames broke put in the
| drug store of Ross & Co.. at II o'clock
|, and the entire stock of drugs was con
sumcd. The hardware store of G. w.
| Day was burned, but part of the goods
were saved. The millinery store of
| Miss Newcomer, the brick building be-
longing to Thielen, of Shelby, and the
I store Of a. j. Day were entirely de-
! stroyed.
THE clerk OF the state supreme court
| desires to call the attention of the Ne
braska bar to the fact that rule 8 of
the court has been amended In two i'm.
pogtant particulars. In all eases
brought into the court upon error or
appeal the plaintiff in error or appel.
liant shall furnish the opposite party,
or to his attorney, n printed copy of his
brief Of points, and authorities relied
upon at least twenty days prior to the
week i'm which the case shall be entered
for hearing. The old rule made the
limit fifteen days instead of twenty.
The defendant In error or appellee shall
furnish his brief within fifteen days in
stead of ten MS under the old rule.
THE governor has issued his procla
nation in reference to the constitu
tional amendments to be voted upon a,
the coming general election. One %
these amendments provides that tn,
three railroad commissioners. 70 b,
elected by the people, shall be added t,
the executive department OF the stat,
government. In the event Of the adop
ton of the amendment three commits
%sioners are to be elected In November
1893. An additional proviso authorize
the governor to appoint three commits
sioners TO serve until their successor
nre elected and qualified. so that " TIL
amendment is adopted the law will e
into effect at once. The other amend
ment provides that all funds belonging
to the state for educational purposes
the interest and income whereof onl,
are to be used, shall be deemed trus
funds held by the state, and the stat
shall supply all losses thereof that ma.
In any n accrue. So that the sam
shall remain forever inviolate and updi
|, unfinished, and shall not he invested o