The Red Cloud chief., 1897-12-24
Kenesaw has a newly organizid
association

Indianapolis tIuss a. ~ tuIitN law
patterned after the original Lincolr,
Neb., measure.
Farmers in the vicinity of Auburn
have subscribed 81 900 stock for a mod
crn creamery at Auburn.
Fire destroyed about 100 stalls at the
fair grounds in Lincoln, entailing a
probable loss of 81, 600.
Perry Whalen was arrested at Free
mon for trying to pass checks, the
signatures to which were forged.
Judge Holmes Of Lancaster district
court recently granted a divorce to
Mrs. Nellie A. Francis of Brooklyn,
n. Y.
Enemies of James Cook, n farmer.
living neal Plattsmouth. drained his
pond dry and thus shut off his supply
Of ice.
Herman Neal and julie Wittemire,
arrested ut Oakland for stealing grain,
have been bound over TO the district
court.
Senator Allen has introduced a bill
to remove the charge of desertion
from the military record Of Joseph Nc
Graw of Lincoln.
Governor Holcomb will deny the jur-
isdiction of court in the case of Expert
Helbig's claim against the legislative
investigating committee.
.3irs. Fred Hoyt of Gordon died after
a short illness and it was discovered
her system was full of poison from a
patent medicine she had taken for
rheumatism.
Boston capitalists have accepted the
proposition of Fremont's business men,
Of a bonus of $50, 900 and forty acres of
land, and will establish a sugar factory
at that point of 5OO-tons capacity.
Several stores. a barber shop and the
schoolhouse at Elba. in Howard county.
were recently looted. The net cash
receipts netted them less than SIS. but
about 81, 500 worth of notes were Sc
cured.
The state printing board let the con-
tract for printing 1000 copies of the
Lincoln day program to the State Jour
nal. its bid of S5.65 a page being the
lowest. The program is to be used in
the schools February ~.
Herbert Jcllison, n b. & NJ. brake
man, had his hand pinched and elbow
injured somewhat in the yards at
Table Rock recently. The wounded
arm was dressed by n surgeon nd it is
thought his hand will be saved
Deputy United States marshal Allen
of Omaha arrested Il. NJ. Davis, colored
cook at the Merchants hotel at FIR =
mont. He is wanted by Iowa authori-
ties and is charged with selling liquor
without a special government license.
Mr.. Proskowety of the imperial and
royal consulate of Austria hungary at
Chicago, has been supplied with a copy
of the Nebraska antitrust law by
Secretary Of the State Porter. The
consul requested copies Of the law to
send to his home government.
John Gillespie, q we'll known Ne
braska pioneer, died ut his home in
Lincoln. Mr.. GillespieIs greatest work
in the building of Nebraska was con
nected with the selection of the site
for the new city of Lincoln and the re-
moval of the seat of state government
to the new location As territorial
auditor and IA member of the capital
commission he had as much TO do as
anybody now living with the birth of
the city Of Lincoln.
Judge Dickinson made quick work
of the motion to set the BARLEY case
down for hearing at the close OF the
present term of court, for before any
of the attorneys had n chance to say
anything he announced that on the
showing made by the defense and the
question as to the legality of the sum-
moning of a jury at that time, he
would put the case over until the next
term. This will only delay the trial
about two weeks, as it will come up at
the head of the docket at the February
term.
The body of an unknown mar was
found on the main line of the Is. e. NJ.
road "a short distance west of Stock
wells brick yard southwest of Lincoln.
The back of the mans head vas
crushed in and nearly every bone in
his body must have been broken, for
his feet lay in n natural position when
found and his face and breast were
turned to the ground. The body vas
almost stripped of the clothing which
was found at intervals for more than a
mile along the track. His identity Is
not known, but it is believed he is a
resident of Denton n town u little
west of Lincoln.
c. l.. Davidson of Tarrytown, n. Y,
wrote to Secretary of State Porter to
find out IL Nebraska had a law against
progressive euchre. lie was told that
there was not and never had been.
State superintendent Jackson, as one
member of a committee appointed to
formulate a plan and to ascertain the