The Red Cloud chief., 1898-01-21
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.

anu duNdnceJneuU.
Herman Vessels, a verdant youth
from hear Waverly, was the other day
buncoed out Of $3.50 in Lincoln. He
met a "friend" who wanted to pay a
bill but had nothing but a "check."
The twenty-second annual encamp-
ment OF the department Of Nebraska
grand army of the republic, will be
held ut Norfolk, commencing on We'd
nesday, February o, at 4 o'clock p. IN.
Mrs. Anna Husa, wife OF Frank
Husa, a wealthy Bohemian farmer neal
B%arncston, committed suicide by jump
ing into a well and drowning herself.
Family trouble was the cause. Her
husband, it is charged, got drunk and
and abused her.
A daring street car hold up was per-
petrated in Omaha. Two men heavily
disguised, entered a car at the end of
the Thirteenth street line and COM
PEELED the conductor and motorman to
disgorge at the points of revolvers.
Their haul amounted to $25.
While the two boys of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Maurreller of Utica, Neb., were
playing with a rifle, Victor, aged 8,
shot and killed his brother Jess, aged
l2. The children's parents were away
from home, and the boys seized'the OPP
%portunity TO get the rifle to use in a
game.
Will Bartels Of Dakota City, pur-
chased forty. five head of stock cattle
at the Sioux City stock yards, and while
crossing the river on the ice with the
bunch, the ice gave way, and all but
three head went into the Missouri
river. Prompt work with a horse and
rope succeeded in saving all but thir-
teen head.
Carl Knudson of Dakota City, a
BROTHER of Knute and Hans Knudson,
the two brothrs who were sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary for ut
tempting TO hold up a Union Pacific
train in Lincoln county, is seeking sig
natures to a petition for Il pardon for
the boys, asking for such on account
of the boys youth and previous good
character.
Secretaries of the state board of
transportation have returned from To-
peka, where they met with Kansas
railroad commissioners to consider the
question of live stock rates. The meet
ing was without result. The Kansas
commissioners favor continuation OF
car load rates, while the Nebraska
secretaries favor rates based On hun
drcd weight. The secretaries will
probably try to agree upon a scedule
based on cents per hundred pounds if
such a schedule does not increase the
ear 10 rates o in force.
Hon. John II. Manning Of Carroll,
, one Of the most prominent and well-to-
do men in Wayne county, met with a
terrible accident recently. His right
arm was cut off inch by inch to the
shoulder in Il cornstalk cutter, the
help starting up the machinery before
!, he knew IL. All but one artery was
severed and the flesh torn down his
{ side. At this time he is in a critical
condition, and it is not expected that
he will live. Mr.. Manning was a
. member of the Legislature in 1889. rep
!, r~esenting the Eleventh senatorial dis
trict.
The other evening at Utica an acct
} dent occurred at the home Of Mr.. and
, Mrs. Joseph Maurreiler. Their two
, little boys, jess and Victor, were IN
the house playing with n 32-calibre
rifle and in some unknown man
, ner the youngest boy, Victor, aged SIX
years, got hold Of the gun and shot
Y his older brother, aged twelve, through
the heart. The boy ran a distance OF
about thirty feet and fell dead.
Neither of the the parents of the chill
/. dren were at home when the accident
! happened,
: The Legislative investigating com
: mittee has reported shortage of about
: 81, 900 against Professor VIM. Ebright
!. formerly superintendent Of the insti
: tuition for the blind at Nebraska City
The report was placed in the hands o
:. the encouragement who sent a letter
= TO Mr.. Ebright Immediately. In thi'
: letter IL vas stated that 1t was bu'
a fair that Mr.. Ebright should have no
lice of the situation, so that he nigh
:, explain before action at law was com
mcnced, IL such action is deemed neces
a sary. Mr.. Ebright is principal of tn
!, schools at North Platte. According 4
the committee report Mr.. Ebright i
n held responsible for money draw
from the state treasury in the name O
inmates of the institution and 70
druggists claims, which were not val
N i'd claims against the state.
Fred Bergman, ar aged farmer liy
is ing in the vicinity of Denton, VIII
went to Lincoln Friday, died the da,
following at st. Elizabeth's hospital
While in the city his desire for liquo
% got the better of him to such u degrcv
!" that by night he was unable to contrC
y his actions. Death resulted from
~ blood clot on the brain.
Osceola is now enjoying electric
ID lights. The new plant gives satisfac
. tiOn.