The Red Cloud chief., 1892-09-02
NEBRASKA A NEWS.
BANCROFT has voted in IA vor Of water

BANCROFT has voted In IA vor Of water.
works.
Mrs. CARL SCHROEDER, living seven
miles southwest Of Randolph, was
struck by lightning early the other
morning and instantly killed. She had
gone up stairs to get some -four and
while there the house was struck by
lightning.
THE Wood river Touring mill, located
five miles north Of Kearney, owned and
operated by 5. Bearss, was destroyed by
fire the other afternoon. Loss, about
o., 900; no insurance. The fire Is sup
posed to have been caused by over
heated grain.
j. ID. TUuR, a German farmer about
70 years old, hanged himself the other
afternoon ut the residence of his son-in-
law, Herman Hcincman, residing about
FIVE miles west Of Pender. He was
found hanging In the woodshed by
some children.
PETER RANK went into the cellar Of
his saloon ut Schuyler the other night
and struck n match. Instantly there
wa an explosion of gas which had es-
capped from n barrel of gasoline. Mr..
Rank was so seriously burned that he
died soon after.
MELBOURNE, the rainmaker, recently
attempted to produce rain at Grand
Island. for a valuable consideration, but
made a miserable failure. Not even q
cloud mo bigger than a mans hand'
was produced. He threw up the sponge,
n very dry sponge at that.
A~.r,x- yN... -- TIL
about thirteen miles north of Harting-
ton. met with a fatal accident early the
other morning. While driving to 81.
Helena his team became unmanageable
and ran into "a fence, causing instant
death. His body was found next morn
ing by farmers.
CHARLES :. TENNY, n farmer living
west of Creighton, was found dead on
the public highway the other morning.
He had been to the post Office for his
mail, and was returning home, when
he met his death. The verdict of the
jury was that he came to his death by
falling off IA horse.
FRIENDS Of Judge GARRISON, who
lately disappeared from Omaha, have
nearly all concluded that he was not
drowned, as was reported, but took a
sudden fancy to- play tramp, as he had
once expressed q desire to do, aud that
he is now wandering about in Il cheap
suit of clothes with his whiskers shaved
off.
AT Omaha the other night Mrs. Annie
Swestka, n bohemian woman, died
from the effects of n dose of poison
taken with suicidal intent The cause
OF the act was attributed TO stories told
about her by a married daughter, who
became angry mt her mother for refus-
ing to let her have money to pay off a
mortgage.
YoRK CoUNTY's wheat crop was never
known to be better than this year. The
largest yield reported is that raised on
the farm of A. i. Test. Mr.. Test
threshed from thirty-eight acres 1900
bushels, making an average yield OF
fifty-one and three-fourths bushels per
acre. Several farmers have threshed
fifty bushels per acre.
TIT prohibition state convention met
at Hastings on the 18th and nominated
G. l.. Bentley, of Lancaster county, for
! governor and James Stevens, of Mcr'
rick, for acknowledgements. Mrs.
Belle Bigclow was nominated for SUI
~periutendent of public instruction and
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Lanton was chosen one OF
the presidential electors.
ST. PAUL was recently much excited
over n fracas in which Il. ID. Smith. OF
the Press, attempted TO shoot j. q. !.
Hildebrand. 1t appears from reports
that an unsettled account between ex
Editor IIildebrand and Mr.. Smith
brought on a controversy in which fire
arms were used. The interference o.
friends prevented anything serious.
HENRY HANSON, u German % years
old, committed suicide the other morn
ing ut his home two miles west of Pen
der. He was found in a shed with 8
bullet hole in the center of his fore
head. He had been sick for severa
years and had been in Oregon for som
time for his health, only returning
few days previous to killing himself.
The other day Herman War;, resid
ing near Kearney, was fatally injured
by being caught with the needle Of
self-binder. The machine bccam'
clogged and War; went in front Of
to clean it ont. The horses gave a sud
zen start anu tnc uceUlc cdulc ONcr
striking him between the shoulders ant
going clear through his body. Ii
leaves n wife and young child.
APPLICATIONS nave bcen made to the
reunion committee at Grand lslan'
from various portions Of the state 70
quarters for more than 10000 veterans
members of their families and friends
The demand for booth privileges is ais
more active than ever before and every
thing indicates an attendance of at leas
twenty-five per cent owe that OF an.
previous year, and the committee ha
found 1t necessary to increase the ten
order TO n very considerable extent.
Two supposed smallpox patients cor
fined in n tent near Lincoln attaclke
one of their three guards while tn
others were asleep the other night
: beat him inscnsible and escaped. TIL
men were taken i'll while confined !
the county jail OF three charges {
5 burglary, and We're manacled together
1t transpires that each had rubbe