The Red Cloud chief., 1897-12-24
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
OVER THE STATE.
A Complete Review OF the Past Weeks
Happenings In the Tree Planters state
-succinct summary of tho Most In
portant News.

lOaus OF celery were Snlppcu from
Kearney this season.
Marvin Stafford, while out hunting
near David City, accidentally shot him
self through the arm and left side. II
is not thought the wound is mortal.
As a number of lOO-pound sacks of
sugar were being raised to the second
story at the Norfolk sugar factory,
one fell on a workman names Amerine,
breaking a rib and bruising him.
william ID. Kirkland, a painter aged
twenty-three, attempted to commit
suicide by taking laudanum in his
room at the Commercial hotel at Shell
ton. Medical assistance arrived, how
ever, in time to save his life.
Arthur Hoagland Of North Platte, n
Union Pacific brakeman, while trying
to make a coupling at Julesburg, Col,
slipped and fell beneath the moving
train. He managed to wriggle out in
time to save all but his left arm.
Five tramps attempted to take po-
session of Turner e. Brenner's elevator
Office Mt Winside for a lodging room,
and Marshal Cavanaugh found IL nee
essary to shoot one of them in the leg
with a shot gun in order TO dislodge
the gang.
Winfred Vernon. aged twenty, son
of a farmer near Crab Orchard, while
on his way to Tecumseh in a buggy,
was struck by a train while crossing
N1a A.,al. ,A O., a,vA ,La- n. nj
most impossible to see an approaching
train. Young Vernon was injured in
ternally, and may perhaps die.
Mayor Moores of Omaha has de-
manded a trial by jury in the action in
quo warranto instituted by ex-Mayor
Broatch to test Mr.. Moores' right to
hold the Office of mayor. the relator
claiming that Mr.. Moorcs was in de-
fault as clerk of the district court and
therefore ineligible under the consti-
tuition.
W. ID. Acor of Fremont was arrested
and taken to Omaha by United States
Marshal Allen to answer to having
violated the postal laws. When ar
rested the old gentleman was greatly
ngitated. In writing to II. ID. Blaks-
lee, his former partner. he used Ian
guagc which the department construed
as rejecting upon Blakslee's character.
Warden Leidigh has asked Governor
Holcomb TO take steps to place Fred
Andrews in the reform school. An
drews was SEN up from Dodge county
for one year for the theft of a bicycle.
The warden says the youth gives his
age rs sixteen but that he does not
look to be older than twelve. and that
he is aversc TO having SD young a lad
mixed up with a lot of hardened crimi-
nails.
Local freight train No. 30 on the
Elkhorn was wrecked between Airing
ton and Bennington. The train left
Omaha a double-header, with twenty
six cars Of merchandise under Conduc-
tor Forney. On the big hill between
the stations mentioned the train broke
in two and came together at the foot.
Five cars were smashed, three of them
beyond repair and the contents gen
orally wrecked. The track was clear
before passenger trains began TO move.
Ex-Land Commissioner A. II. Hum
phrey appeared as attorney for Custer
county clients before the board Of ed
ucational lands and funds. In the
matter of a protest of w. II. Forsyth
against n lease coverings certain quar-
ter section it was claimed that Forsyth
had an extension of contract from ex-
Land Commissioner Russell. 1t was
shown that no extension had been
granted. The board laid the matter
over tothe January meeting in order to
give time for the collection of evidence
as to service of notice.
C. n. Jones, Rock Island agent at
Harlan, swore out a complaint before
United States Commissioner Billings
ley n. Lincoln charging Claud II.
Temple with ~obstructing the mails.
Jones, on November "a, was carrying
!. the mail between the depot and the
p~ostofice, when a personal alteration
|, ensued which resulted in the COM
plant. Temple is IA physician and
; was recently appointed "a pension cX-
aminer. The assault is alleged to be
because Jones did not call in the ply
stefan when his wife needed attend
ance.
|, Dick Eastwood. the ~tcn-year-old boy
OF Lincoln, charged with opening the
, United States mails and with forgery
5 In signing Il mail order not for him,
and with two other f~elonies in destroy
ing n $50 draft and keeping two let
tiers. was bound over to the next term
Of United States court. lie furnished
u $500 bond signed by +. Hunger, r.
Malone and A. +. Ha~rgreaves. The
federal laws make nc provision for in
FAINT offenders and 1t is a matter OF
, speculation what will be done with the
? boy in case of conviction, as IL would
not do to give him ten or fifteen years
In the penitentiary.
An effort is being made by Harvard
go.