The Red Cloud chief., 1898-03-04

nun '''h'N sugar b''b alN'I wv
clare they will raise no beets until the
obnoxious Hawaiian clause is stricken
out of the contracts by the Oxnard
company.
The jury in the case of tn state
against the bondSmcn of eX-TreasurrI
BARLEY. which has been in ogr 10
Omaha for the past several weeks,
found for the defendant bondsmcr.
This means that the state cannot re-
cover the amount OF Bartlcy'S shortage.
The encouragement will move for -
new trial. and as Judge Powell saws
he will let the verdict stand, the ease
Will at once 60 to the supreme court.
Nels Lund, a workman on the new
Omaha union depot, while standing
astride an iron girdcr on the third
story of the structure. fell forty feet.
striking face downward upon a pile OF
structural iron and was instantly kill
ed. His neck was broken and his face
and head crushed. 1t is not known
whether his feet slipped or he was
struck by some of the heavy irons
being swung into place. 1t is believed
N'''' ~ '"N " x . aA'A
that place has been wired.
Chairman stephen Il. Barton Of the
central Cuban relief committee has
written tn Secretary =. II. Barry of
the Nebraska committee to inform him
that supplies from Nebraska can be
shipped free TO New York at which
place they will he transferred to the
Ward line or the Spanish-Amcricap
line and sent without cost to Consul
General Lee. or some of the other con
suls in Cuba. Free transportation
will be furnished from Chicago auG
st. Louis. and the Chicago, Milwaukee
~ 81. Paul railroad has given the
same privilege from Omaha to Chicago.
Other roads have done likewise.
At Teltamlh. the team of w. T..
Thomas ran away with Il. j. Pierce. So
severely ~injuring him hat he died
about thirty minutes after the acci-
dent. Mr.. Pierce has been working
for Mr.. Thomas for a number of years
and was hauling wood to IA farm south
of town. When below the Brouliling.
hotel something became wrong with
N of the lines and the old gentleman
got out of the front end of the wagon
onto the tongue to fix il, when tn,
horses became frightened and started,
throwing him down between them.
The wheels passed over him, breaking
his back and SCATTERING his ribs. The
deceased was well along in years and
has lived in this county for sixteen or
seventeen years. lie leaves Il wife and
three soaS.
james Rivctt. superintendent OF
buildings ON the Burlington was 81,
Atlanta, II small station just west Of
lloldrcgc in Phelps county, recently.
In company with the Burlington sta
ton agent he took u surveyors tape
line and measured the corn cribs built
adjacent 10 the company's track ard
of the regulation width. lie founG
that the cribs measured n mile and
400 feet in length and all were brim
Sill of the yellow shining corn. Two
large elevators close by were full to
the point Of almost overlooking of
shcllcd corn and wheat. Atlanta has
Il population Of less than n hundred
people. but its importance as n grain
center can he judged from Mr.. Rivett's
statement that 1000 bushels of grain
are being hauled into it for shipment
or storage every day.
A most distressing tragedy occurred
at Nebraska City the other day which
resulted in the killing of william Ku-
witzky by his seventeen-ycar-old
daughter Mary. Kuwitzky came home
drunk and threatened to kill his wife
and other members of the family. lie
was quoted after Il time by Mary, who
was his ~favoritc daughter, and went
to bed about | Il. m, warning the fam
lily that there would be at least two
dead in the house before morning. At
about 4 o'clock the family were awak-
cncd by a shot, tn find Mary standing
with II shot gun in her hand and the
husband and father dead with the
front of his head nearly blown Off.
The girl tool all the blame. The cor
oncr's jury, after hearing the testi-
mony, came To the conclusion that the
act was committed while the girl was
laboring under emotional insanity,
caused by repeated threats Of the
father to take the mothers life. and
that she was not responsible for the
act at the time il was committed.
Insurance agents have sent n protest
to Auditor Cornell against insurance
companies doing business by mail. i,
is understood that the protest is headed
by Ed Howell, state senator from
Omaha. Large business interests,
such as wholesale houses and the
South Omaha Stock yards and packing
houses have been in the habit of deal
ing direct with insurance headquarters
located in other states. 1t is claimed
cheaper rates are obtained in this way,
but Nebraska agents are thereby cut
ont OF commissions. Auditor Cornell
is prepared to say that insurance com
panies cannot solicit business by mail,
but he is not prepared to hold that