The Red Cloud chief., 1898-02-11

charge of fraudulent banking. They
gave bail in s., 900 each for appear
ancc.
Dennis Welsh, an aged gentleman
living twenty-five miles northwest of
Sidney. was struck by the engine of
an incoming passenger train here and
received injuries from which he died.
The cause of the accident is not known,
but rs Mr.. Welsh is somewhat deaf, it,
is supposed he did not hear the train
and attempted to cross the track IN
front of it.
William Hanlon. the young man who
the other day robbed Stahlhut, the
Nebraska City milkman, of S45, a gold
watch and ring, and who was caught
at Hamburg, when arranged before
Judge Leigh, waived examination and
was held to the district court in the
sum of $500 bonds. y. is thought he
will plead guilty and be sent to the
pcnitentiary at the term of court now
in session.
The postofice at Rising City was re-
Gently looted. The burglars secured
over $500 in money and stamps. They
left not "a stamp behind them. The
safe was blown open by dynamite and
completely wrecked. Five men giving
their names as Clyde Daily, C.. Clark.
James O'Brian, Bill Redmond and Jim
Peel and having the look of hardened
criminals, were arrested at Wahoo and
are held as the probable hooters Of the
postot1ice.
The supreme court has handed down
an opinion upholding the validity of
800, 900 exposition bonds voted by the
county of Douglas. Auditor Cornell
had refused to register the bonds and
had refused also to register $4,000 OF
Douglas county funding bonds. The
authorities of Douglas county COM
menced mandnmus proceedings to com
pei the auditor To register the bonds.
The suit was n friendly one brought
for the purpose of having the validity
of the bonds decided by the cc.rt of
last resort.
Shipments of grain on the Burling-
ton from interior Nebraska points have
become so brisk of late that consider
able difficulty is being experienced in
securing sufficient box cars to handle
the traffic. The demand for cars is so
urgent that it was found necessary
in the Lincoln yards TO unload over Il
hundred box cars filed with coal and
dump the contents on the ground near
the ice houses, the storage capacity of
the coal sheds having already been
overtaxed. Practically all OF the grain
is destined for Chicago and st Louis,
the division between those markets be-
ing about equal.
Fremont's citizens held a mass meet
ing recently to take up the matter Of
growing beets for the proposed beet
sugar factory. The factory subject
came in for discussion. and n contract
was read which was drawn up by the
Fremont Beet Sugar company, pro-
vision being made for its assignee.
The price named in the contract was
81 per ton. 50 cents of that amount to
he donated to go towards the $4,000
factory bonus. Eight hundred acres.
were contracted for at hat rate. The
eastern parties to the beet factory pro-
iect have been heard from recently,
and they are ready to carry out their
part. and there is but little doubt that
the factory will be erected and be
ready for business neX year.
Arrangements nave been made by
the committee of the Nebraska press
association for an excursion to New
Orleans and Port Arthur, Tex, this
,,,-tL u1,n t.;,> ,r;1 n. tnnln Win the
following railroads: Burlington IL
Missouri River, Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf and Southern Pacific, leaving
Lincoln via the Il. & NJ. on Saturday,
February IL at l:l0 p. III. The in
tention is TO go direct to Port Arthur,
and after one or two days at this point
go to New Orleans, where two or three
days will be spent, returning direct
from New Orleans, making the whole
? trip and returning To Lincoln in ten
! DAYS. One or more Pullman sleeping
? cars will be chartered, and may be
, used during the entire trip. The csti-
mated expense for the trip is $40 for
r each person.
G. NJ. Hitchcock, editor of the World
Herald has Won in his celebrated con-
tempt case, and Judge Keysor a
. handed down a decision freeing the
, publisher of the World Herald for
5 having published the resolutions of
Y the fire and police commission in re-
S lation to the relative circulation of the
two Omaha dailies after the court had
= made an order prohibiting the paper
from referring to them or seeking to
v obtain the publication of liquor notices
{ in the World Herald by reason of them.
In an opinion covering six columns Of
: u paper which prints it in full, Judge
n Keysor decided that the injunction is
sued by him was void and that Hitch
a cock cannot therefore be punished for
contempt in violating 1t because I'M
@ der the constitution OF this state no