The Red Cloud chief., 1898-01-14
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.

liz supreme court mas afiirmCd til,
decision of the lower court in the cas-,
of ex-Treasurer BARLEY, who wa sen
fenced to twenty years in the pcniten
tiary.
Lou Il. Hamlin. of Omaha, first wifi,
OF Hon. John c. Watson, of Nebraska
City, who separated from him ten wear.
ago, died last December. She left {,
MI. watson real estate valued at SO.
600, and life insurance of 81. 500.
There was no forinality about th,
entrance of Judge Sullivan to the of.
flee of Judge of the supreme court. Tic
arrived, filed his oath of Office with tho
secretary of state and was received by
the other judges in the courts con.
~sultation room.
A Mrs. Benson, formerly an employc
at the Grand hotel in Lincoln, has in.
stituted proceedings against the city
OF Omaha for damages sustained some
time ago by her little daughter. who
fell into n coal hole while running
along the street, and received injuries
That may cripple her for "a long time.
State Treasurer Meservc has issued a
call for warrants drawn on the uni
versity fund amounting to $4,000. The
call Will TAX effect January H.. After
these warrants are taken up there will
be warrants outstanding on the fund
amounting to SIS, sG4. II the fund is
not drawn on very heavily for a few
months the state treasurer expects to
catch up and keep it a cash fund.
A Cuban relief committee has been
appointed by Governor Holcomb. He
appointed Rev. II. O. Rowlands. Gen.
p. II. Barry and NJ. ID. Welch of Lin
coin and j. +. UT and w. n. Mason of
Omaha This action was taken in
response to a telegram from Stephen
T.. Barton. chairman Of the Central
Cuban relief commission appointed by
the president.
Newton Burrows, of Beatrice, was
waylaid by three men as he was cross
ing the South Sixth street bridge. He
had nothing of value so he was left
unframed. The police were notified
and one of the parties was overtaken.
who gives the name of Ira Kimball.
Judge Callison bound him over to the
district court. His bond was fixed at
$500 and he languishes in the county
jail. lie has pcached on his pals and
the officers are looking for them.
A. o. Harrison of Nebraska City has
filed u complaint with the board of ed
ucation alleging that his sister Nellie,
twelve years Of age. was compelled by
ii. Morgan, principal Of the Sixth
ward school, to climb stairs an excess
sive number of times as punishment.
The girl was taken sick a few days af-
ter the punishment is stated TO have
been inflicted. and died after two or
three days illness of inflammation of
the bowels. The board has ordered an
investigation of the affair.
Ex-County Treasurer Ezra S. Whit
ney of Harlan county, and Banker
Benjamin ID. Mills of Alma, are now in
the state penitentiary. Both have
been found guilty of embezzlement of
public funds. The cX-county treasurer
is short in his accounts over sI1 200.
He received a sentence of two years
and a half. Mills got 8 5000 of county
funds and was sentenced to five years.
The decision in the Whitney ease con-
tains a ruling which clears up matters
on which there has been much spccula-
ton by disintercsted parties in the
BARLEY case. II is held that il public
funds are embezzled and afterwards
recovered the embezzlcr is not relieved
from criminal liability any more than
a person who steals a horse and re-
turns it is exempt from criminal prose-
cution. This is the illustration used
by the court.
George Baker and his wife, living
miles southwest of Fairbury, were
brutally murdered in their home be-
tween 0 and q o'clock a. IN. The muir
derer fired two charges from a gun
the window while they were
dressing, N load taking effect in the
head of each of the victims. Two hired
men were on the place at the time and
heard the shots, but the murderer
his escape in the darkness. A
brother of the murdered man Is charged
with being the guilty party. He left
Nv piuSc WhcTe Hc WIS WORKING, III IL
claimed, neal there, at ~ o'clock in the
night with a shotgun and has not been
seen since. The trail is being guarded
and b~loodhounds are on the trail.
Baker, the man suspected of
the crime, has not been found, and
evidence is developing which points
strongly to his guilt. A feud has ex-
isted, IL is said, between him and his
brother for the past twenty years, and
1t Is alleged he remarked about a year
ago that sometime he intended to kill
the whole Baker family. 1t is said he
was at n time a rejected sutton of
The murdered m
Later-Wm. Baker, the murde err of
brother. was traced by the blood
to u barn on the farm of an
uucle three and q half miles from the
of the crime. He was found dead