The Red Cloud chief., 1898-01-07
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 the Most I'm
portant News.

is G33, the highest eve attained.
A. ID. Warner, a prominent %stockman
of st. Edwards, fell and broke his leg.
Mrs. DIR. Doris of Lincoln fell on
the icy pavement and broke her arm
ut the wrist.
Elizabeth Stanton Woolworth. wife
Of Judge j. NJ. Woolworth, died at her
home in Omaha.
j. A. Hunter, a prominent ranchman
near Hcmingford. has been arrested,
charged with fencing in government
land.
The biggest and best state teachers
meeting cver held in Nebraska has
Just been had. The enrolment reached
nearly 100.
At Columbus, Emil, the seventeen
year-old son of DR.. T.. IIohcn. fell on
the ice and dislocated his left shout
der. lie was taken home and the bone
forced back into the socket. II was u
very painful though not serious acct
dent.
The bondsmcn of cx-County Treas
urcr j. w. Lynch of Platte county,
have paid his shortage in full to the
county commissioners, the last pay
ruent Of 81, 7lG. 10 being handed over re-
Gently.
II. Walker Of Juniata recently
met with a serious injury by acci-
dentally getting his hand into a corn
shelter. The member was seriously
crushed. The forctinger had TO be
taken off.
Lcmuel Kindig. of Hastings, driver
Of an express wagon, was quite serl-
ously injured by the ov%crturning of his
wagon neal the Il. g. NJ. depot, and the
running away of the team. One Of
Kindig's legs was caught between the
bed of the wagon and the rear wheels,
and only that the wheel came off pre-
vented terrible injury. As it is he will
be confined to his bed for some days.
Acknowledgement Smyth was in
formed that the attorneys of Eugene
Moore are having their briefs printed.
After being informed of this the at
torney-general said he did not wish to
appear to be %captious. SO he will not
file a motion To dismiss Moorc's appeal
because the attorneys failed to file and
serve briefs within the time allowed
by rules of the supreme court.
General Manderson of Omaha has
letter from Major Thomas Lord, a re
tired naval o ficer of Washington, ID
c., an old friend of General Henderson
telling the general that he had no
forgotten the promise he made las
summe at Newport, X. l., that h'
would make a model Of the old 'Oma'
ha" wal boat. The model will be
finished in time for the trans-Missis
sippi exposition and will be shown
together with the original billct-hca'
and log OF the old vessel.
Acknowledgement Smyth has com
menced suit for the state against the
Omaha National bank TO S20l,
ss4, the amount paid by the bank L
itself on a check issued by j.. 5. Bart
ley at the time he was state treasurer
The petition was mailed to Omaha 4
be filed in the district court. Tn
, amount mentioned in this suit is tn
same which BARLEY was convicted o
~cmbczzling. In this suit the attorney
general takes the ground that Bartle.
:. fraudulently issued his check and tina
the bank and its president received tn
| money, knowing that the money bc
/, longed to the state, thereby convert
|, ing TO their w use property of tn
= state.
There is a woman in Omaha name
= Mrs. Eliza j. Durbin who suppose
herself until recently to be the wido'
of an old soldier, but she has dis
covered that she is only a sort of n
' Enoch Arden widow. For the last t.
years she has been W of tn
: whereabouts of her husband, who wa
Q an old soldier, and of late years. undo
I the scven-ycars' absence provision, sh
o has been trying to get a widows pei
, sion. She was in a fair way to succce
|. until here recently, when she WI
u notified by the pension departmer
that her husband was living in SON
; other part of the country and was hin
. self an applicant for a pension.
Hargreaves Bros. of Lincoln hay
fled another suit against W. +. Cobb
their late employe, whom they chars
. with cmbczzlemcnt. They join l..
Richards as defendant and state tn;
q Cobb withheld cash received for sal
IS amounting to 81, 200 and has %convcrtt
,, 1t into chattcls and real property an
q gold in amounts they are unable
70 specify. They claim that when NJ
Richards gave bond for $1,000 for Cob
70 TO get him out of Jail pending u
!" ~nearing of his case. Cobb ga
:. Mr.. Richards chattel property wor'
!, 1000 to indemnify him. This pro
!. erty the plaintiffs claim was part
n the money w~rongfully taken fro
- them and hence they ask that Il
T., court require Cobb and Richards
disclose and account for such mono
and chattel property.