The Red Cloud chief., 1898-04-15

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stroycd.
Prof. J. A. beatty was reelected
principal of the Peru Normal by the
state board of education. Very few
changes were made in the state nor
NAL faculty.
Captain Haze Of the Omaha police
force has been arrested for riding on
the street ears on u pass. The cause
Of his arrest is to test the validity Oi
the new anti-pass law passed by the
last Legislature.
Rchcaring in the case of the state
against Eugene Moore. cx-auditor Of
public accounts. was ovcrrulcd ut the
last sitting of the supreme court. An
other ease against Moore is pending in
the district court of Lancaster county
Governor Ilolromb will be required
To show cause in tho supreme court by
April 10 why he should not hear per-
s~onally the charges filed by DR.. Victor
Roscwatcr against three members OF
the Omaha fire and police commission.
Omaha Gcrlnan.Au crican survivors
of the Iranco-r russian war held IA
meeting recently 10 organize u rcgi-
mcnt To do battle with Spain. Seven
ty-iivc were present, and temporary
organization was effected 10y choosing
Peter rcnncr temporary colonel.
Albert Kitchen. the burlington rail-
road cmployc who was injured Satug
day morning, died at his home. De-"
was the result Of internal injuries re
ccivrd while working on u car in the
RAILROAD yards. lie leaves a wife ana
two children. He was Il member of
the Burlington relief department.
Collector lIoutH of the internal rev
enuc Office at Omaha says that the pas
sage Of the proposed war tax bin mn
der the provision putting an additiona.
tuX ON beer Of 81 per barrel, the re
cciptS Of the district comprising Ne
braska and South Dakota would be
increased upwards of $4,000 u year.
The total increase for the United
states would he S33. 900, 600.
4 new planning mill and box factory
is being erected by +. Erwin, north OF
the Union Pacific depot in Nebraska
City, and he will supply boxes for Che
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| mills and King Drill company. This
is Nebraska City's latest industry and
in time new features will DC added.
1t will give employment to Il large
force of men.
e. Hi>l"y, claiming to he the nephew
of Luther J. Briggs of Council Bluffs.
we'll known in Wholesale dry goods
| .;,.l.- a.. =, ,,A,;,,,t Nan, \.,l. t. ,
cling salesman, tried to induce an
Omaha party tn cash a check for S?u
drawn in his favor on II New York
bank, apparently signed by Briggs.
On advice from briggs that the man
was Il forger, Nislcy was arrested.
1t is expected that Acknowledgement
Smyth will go I % Washington in II
short time to make an application in
the supreme court for an order To per-
init of II showing being made in sup
port of Il motion to modify the decree
in the maximum rate case. The modi-
t~ication asked orwill be to permit the
board of transportation to make and
enforce rates which are shown to be
reasonable under the conditions which
now exist and which will be "A rcduc-
ton from the present local freight
rates.
VIM. u. Curtis writes from Washing
ton that the model Of the blttlcship
Maine, which has been IN exhibition
in the corridors of the navy depart
mcnt and has been surrounded by 70
crowd of tourists almost continually
since the explosion ut Havana, has
been removed to the basement of the
departmental DC packed for shipment
to Omaha. whereof will he exhibited
this summer at The exposition. n
of the messengers estimates that the
model has been inspected by al av-
cragc of 900 persons a day since the
18th of February.
4. Kitchen, a Burlington car repair.
cr. living at 2Oas South Nineteenth
street. Lincoln, was dangerously in
jurcd Saturday in the Lincoln yards
while engaged at his work. He was
standing on the end of IA way ear
through which he had gone, when u
string of ears bumped into it. lie lost
his balance by the collision aud fell
between the ears and was dragged for
some distance. Ii was II minute be
fore his cries attracted the attention
of the workncn and when they stopped
the ears he was found To have beer
badly crushed.
A formal application has been re
ccivcd at exposition headquarters foi
space on which to erect IA sod mouse,
, The Nebraska exposition commission
Is the sponsor for this undertaking
having voted $500 to Mrs. l.. Bowscr OF
, Norfolk, who will look after the cree
, tion OF this typical illustration of early
life in Nebraska and will take up her
ubCd. in the structure for the term ot
the exposition. Mrs. liowser speaks
with pride of the ten years of hei
Nebraska life which was spent in "a
D sod house and she says that all the de,
tail, of household economies of thu