The Red Cloud chief., 1897-12-31

The Milford postoffice YVES robbed of
stamps and registered letters. about
S25 worth was secured.
Auditor Cornell has issued a certif-
cate to the Royal Oaks of Omaha as
opcr. ted by w. NJ. Guiwitz and his
ba '<ers. and DR.. Mercer has been left
out in the cold.
Prominent citizens of Lincoln held a
meeting and resolved to aid Senator
Allen and all other Nebraska congress-
men in securing the passage of the
senator's bill providing for IL million
dollar postofiicc at the capital city.
The supreme court has adjourned
without day, which means hat there
will not be another sitting until the
first Tuesday in January. On tho
Thursday following Chief Justice Post
will retire and j. j. sullivan will come
upon the bench.
Peter Ioungers of Geneva, treasurer
of the stat horticultural society and
G. II. Barnard of Table Rock, secretary.
are in Lincoln for the purpose OF
making preparations for the winter
meeting of the society which opens
January IL. 1t is proposed to have a
winter fruit exhibit in connection with
the meeting.
Two new complaints have been fled
with the board of transportation. Com
m~issioncrs of Pawnee asks the board
to compel the Kansas City Railway
company to open and maintain q safe
highway along a section line which is
occupied by the roadbed. A complaint
comes from Shubert, Richardson coun-
ty. asking for better passenger train
service on the burlington route.
The community south of Plattsmouth
was shocked Sunday to learn of the SUI
icide of Jennie Young, eldest daughter
of William Young, one 81 the old and
respected settlers Of that vicinity. She
took carbolic acid. A note was adj
dressed to her father encouraging him
to live ont his old &C., but gave no.
reason for her rash act. Deceased was.
forty years of age and had never mar
ried.
At recent meeting Of the state
"a Vi hSuith III W. 'Tptudu VI 81.
Paul vas appointed to succeed Dr.. Ed.
Haldeman Of Ord as one of the secrc-
taries of the state board of health. DR..
II. Cummings of Seward was appointed
one of the secretaries to succeed DIR. G.
i. Steward of Auburn. DR.. Cummings
appointment was made on recommend
alton of the state eclectic medical So
cicty in order to give hat school of
physicians recognition on the board.
Flossic Jones OF Wymore, aged about
fourteen years. died Sunday from the
effects of "a gun shot wound accidental
~ inflicted by her older brother who
had been out hunting. On returning
home he entered the house and at
tempted to extract n loaded shell from
his gun when in some manner his hand
slipped and the shell exploded striking
his sister full in the side, making a
terrible wound and one from which
there was no chance for recovery.
A serious cutting ARRAY took place
at a dance at Cortland Christmas.
night. Edward Sherman was literally
cut open in the region of the lungs,
WV ""AiN Nv cavity. yum
Cline received a cut on his arm which
penetrated to the bone. George Kret-
ger. another young man. received IA cut
on tho leg. q. w. Nandcrpool, NJ. $.
and $. ID. Woolathcr, the latter two
brothers, who are from Missouri, and
who have been husking corr in the
vicinity of Cortland, are under arrest,
charged with the cutting.
VIM. +. Cobb, shipping clerk for
Hargrcavcs Bros, wholesale grocers,
has been arrested for embezzling
about 81 800 from the firm. Investiga-
tions which have been carried on Of
late by Mr.. Ilargrcavcs seem to show
that the money missing will exceed
this sum and may reach twice the
amount, The arrest caused general
surprise among all who knew Mr..
Cobb. as he has been regarded q strictly
honest man by his friends and by his
employers. Mr.. Cobb drew IA salary of
500 per month, but lived like a pluto
crat. A friend of Mrs. A. f. Hargreaves
sent m annoying letter to her in
which she warned her that her hus-
band had best discharge Mr.. Cobb, as
he was living in n fashion which the
writer believed he could rot keep up
on the salary of a shipping clerk.
This led to the investigation and traps
were set into which Cobb was caught.
The celebration Of the twenty-ffth
anniversary of the nuptials of Senator
and Mrs. Thurston Christmas night
was undoubtedly the most brilliant
purely social function ever witnessed
in Omaha. Invitations had been is
sued to some 5000 people in Omaha
and elsewhere and there were during
the long evening between 300 and
200 in attendance. The spacious and
elegant home at Twenty-fOurth and
Farnam was aglow within and with
out and hundreds of carriages rolled up
to the entrance of the canvas-covered