The Red Cloud chief., 1898-03-25

Wymorc, was burned to death. Her
clothes caught while building n fire.
q. w. Southwick, living south Of
Harrington was nearly killed in n run
away the other day. Several ribs
were broken, and he was otherwise
injured.
The Citizens Gas company of South
Omaha has been incorporated by Will
liam A.. Schrci. Afford II. Noyes,
Thomas Kelly, Chitty c. Kycs and Ed
ward Il. Duflic. The capital stock Is
S1jO,OOO.
The Sovereign Chemical company,
with a capital stock Of 500, 600. and
the Calicntc Coal company, with n
capital stock of sl50,OOo, both of Oma-
ha, recently filled articles of incor-
poration with the secretary Of state.
Mrs. Jensen. living near the corner
Of First and Main streets, Fremont.
was the victim of an attempted rape.
but succeeded in fighting of her as
s%ailant, whom II is charged was JAS.
Hatcher. The police was notified but
the offender had jumped the town.
At Franklin u small boy ten years
old. son of Ben Rcams, met with n
horrible accident recently which took
his life. lie had been cutting corn
stalks all day and was just finishing
up cutting u large field when in some
way the horses becoming ~uninanagc-
able, he was thrown to the ground in
front of the stalk cutter. which passed
over his entire body. lie was dead in
n few minutes and horribly manglcd.
Gilbert I. Clark, of Tckamah. who
was arrested IA few weeks ago charged
with attempted rape or his thirteen
ycar-old daughter and Incest with his
cightccn-ycar-old daughter, was ar
ranged in the district court at Tcka-
nah, pleading guilty To the last charge.
| Judge Baker, after commenting on the
cnormity of the crime with which the
prisoner was charged, sentenced him
to seventeen years in the state pcni-
tertiary at hard labor.
G.. l.. Gruycr, n farmer living three
miles west of harrington, vas taken
before the commissioners of insanity
and adiudgcd To be insane. Gruyer
imagincs that the departed spirit of
his sister returns at stated periods to
torment him and that she appears
above his knee in his right leg. If he
catches her at n certain point he can
communicate with her. During the
examination by the board he would
grab his limb so hard that his hands
had nearly To be pulled apart.
Charles Rivctt, of Elmwood. n broth
or of James Rivctt of the b. & NJ,
at Lincoln, has just received n letter
from India containing an account o,
the death of his son Albert, who wa
engaged in war in India. Young Rivet'
was on n tour around the world. II,
stopped tn engage in war in India
fighting for England. He was wound
ed in battle and died later. lie be
longcd to Is. q. Yorkshire Light In
fantry, Fourth Brigade, Second Divis
ion.
A bad wreck occurred in the Il. &
NJ. yards at Nebraska City the othc'
bdN. Inc btulTl't lTNlplJ WIS sunni
ing on the side track when the kansa
City train arrived from Nebraska Cit,
junction across the river. The switcl
had been left open and the engine
came together with a terrible crash
Both were badly wrecked. Fortunate
" no one was killed. Conductor vii
linms has n bad cut over the eye an,
n,1, S.1;.l. ,,,. tI,, 4,
the ground and had his ankle badl
spraincd.
a part Of the government exhibit q
the exposition will he a stamping ma
chine which has been in use in tn,
Philadelphia mint for over fifty years
1t is used for stamping the silver do
lar. In the coming of each dollar
strikes II blow equal to 100 tons an
has II capacity of 500, 900 an hour. TIL
treasury department will also includ
in its exhibit n complete set of all tn
currency issued by the government
from the shinplastcr to the gold CO,
tifcates of the highest denomination
$4,000, and complete sets of currcr
, coins of seventy of the leading nation
Of the earth AMI n full set of all II;
tional medals authorized by congress!
|, There is again n prospect that IL
| Grand Island sugar factory will he
. operation this year and that bect-rai
ing will he one of the industries !
Z Hall and adjoining counties. The 70
Y lowing telegram has been receive
. from Mr.. OXnard: MY investigate
q convinccs me that, although not of
cially withdrawn. Hawaiian annex
|, ton cannot prevail. In view Of II
I certainty of this it seems to me u
necessary to complicatc our Ncbrasl,
n beet contracts with the IIawaiia
| clause any longer and | authorize !
withdrawal Contracts with tn
4 clause eliminated arc now in the han
n of the printers and some of them wi
Il he distributed 1t Is stated {
Y good authority. too, that the bet
r~aisers' organization will have a NEE