The Red Cloud chief., 1897-12-17
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
OVER THE STATE
A Cor pietc Review Of the Fast Weeks
Happenings in the Tree Planters state
-succinct summary of the Most Inn
portant News.

columbus q q case OF mallgnuho
diptheria.
The Becmcr watcrworks plant has
been completed.
Maude Kate OF Norfolk, tried to kill
herself with arsenic.
Nebraska State Dairy association
will convene in Lincoln December ri.
The millinery stock and household
goods of Mrs. Armstrong at Nebraska
City were destroyed by fire.
Lieutenant John NJ. Stotsenberg the
new commandment of the state univer-
sity battalion is ut his post of duty.
John Wellin, a swcdc farmer near
Columbus, has been declared insane.
Religion was what unbalanced his
mind.
The store of Emp.cy Sanders at To
bias was broken into Saturday night
last. A valuable gun and some ammu-
uition were taken.
l.. Il. Nillson of Cheyenne county.
charged with horse stealing, was
bound over to district court ut Kimball
by Justisc johnson.
Henry Argcnsinger of Fremont has
been adjudged insane. His hallu-
cination was that someone was trying
20 poison his family.
Mrs. Stump, an aged lady of Osccola,
was hurt seriously by a runaway team
knocking her down. She may recover
but her age is against her.
published Mt Lincoln. has been o n
solidatcd with the Cultivator ut Oma-
la. The former will move to Omaha.
Auditor Cornell has made out war
rants for the various counties for
school apportionment funds and county
officers can now have the warrants
and money.
The Elkhorn pump house at Wahoo
was burned, but the windmill nearby.
which was not damaged, "a be used
temporarily to supply water for pass
ing engines.
II. n. Dryden of Kearncy aged so.
father of late candidate for regent
John n. Dryden, fell while putting up
a stove pipe fracturing two ribs and
sustaining other injuries.
Mrs. Frank Wagner of Fremont was
severely injured recently by being
struck by a locomotive on the Union
Pacific road. She received u broken
leg and was otherwise injured.
Eugene A. eastman was arrested
recently in New York City on u requisi-
ton issued by Governor Holcomb.
The charge against him is cmbezzling
SOS, 900 while treasurer Of Greedy county
lss9-93.
Samuel Campbell, a farmer four miles
west Of Bancroft, lost three fingers
and the thumb of his left hand in the
gearing of a corn shelter. He was
standing near the shelter and lost his
balance.
Sheriff Holloway of Cass county
brought Robert Henderson to the peni'
tertiary recently to remain a year fol-
stealing a cows; also Thomas Harris,
who was convicted Of daylight house
breaking.
State Superintendent Jackson Is
working on a program to be used in
schools on Abraham Lincoln's birthday
February IL. Twelve thousand copies
Of the program will be printed for dis
tribution.
A McCOol Junction special says thai
word has been received there that
Frank NJ. Dunlavy, an old settler, hat
committed suicide. He was unmarried
a farmer, and no cause is known why
he took his life.
The recent snow was quite genera
over the Burlington lines in the state
the worst of the storm evidently being
experienced in the eastern portion o
the state. The snow was not deel
enough to cause any delay in the run
ming Of trains.
! The city officers Of Columbus ar
! negotiating for the purchase of thu
Columbus Electric and Power com
. pany's plant with the intention o
: running and maintaining it by the city
, II they should purchase it, it will meal
. cheaper rates for the consumer and al
all-night circuit for the city.
James Callahan, IA blacksmith in thu
r Union Pacific shops at Omaha was de
: tected by his wife in the act of hanging
himself. lie was standing on "a barre
O with a rope around his neck, the othe
q end of which he had tied to a rate.
overhead. Aid was summoned an
Callahan, who had been drinking, wa
taken in charge by the police.
v State Superintendent Jackson ha
: received two applications from school
for space in the educational depart
ment of the trans-M Mississippi exposi
ton. S. p. Arnott, principal of tn
. Harvard schools, was the first to appl.
on behalf of his shcool. Ii. q. Moulton
superintendent of the York schools
: has also applied. Applications mus
be sent to the state superintendent
before February /.
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