The Red Cloud chief., 1898-01-07

I THUGS held up Jane Butter, n Ne
u. aka City commission man. Butler
drew "a revolver and fred. The thugs
fed.
The twcnty-sixth annual meeting OF
the Nebraska press association will be
held at the Lincoln hotel. Tuesday and
Wednesday. January II and L., 1893.
Governor Holcomb has appointed !.
n. Alberts of Columbus to fill the va
cancy in the district judgeship caused
by the resignation of Judge j. j. Sulli-
van, supreme-district -judge-elcct. The
a~ppointec is an old time populist.
Martin +. Kelly, a trusted driver of
n laundry wagon for the Clarkson
Laundry company of Lincoln. who left
the city rather hurridly u few days
ago, has been apprehendcd in Peoria,
Ill. He Is wanted for embczzling $3.50
of his employers money.
Captain John L. Carson, president of
the First National bank of Lincoln,
and one of the oldest residents of the
state. died suddenly at his rooms in
the Lincoln hotel. Mr.. Carson had
been sick about six weeks. A compli-
cation of diseases resulted in death.
The laborers and mechanics of FIRE.
court house to talk over the beet sugar
factory matter. There were present
about fifty men who pledged $3.50 and
promised to raise more. They were
awake to the fact that they would be
benefited.
Carl Skoot, n German farmer resid-
ing ON the reservation northeast OF
Bancroft was instantly killed while
engaged in digging a well. lie was
working in the bottom of a ninety
foot well when one of the buckets used
to haul up the dirt, when about forty
feet from the top, slipped of the wind
lass hook and fell to the bottom, strik'
ing him on the head.
The state board of agriculture will
hold its annual meeting in the uni
versity chapel on January Is. This is
the principal meeting of the year. II
is held according to the statute govern
ing the society. II is predicted that II
will be an exceedingly lively session
on account of the unhappiness thai
has been accumulated since the fai,
was located near Omaha.
The laundry at the state institution
for feeble minded was burned down re
Gently. The fire started in the roo,
and presumably from a defective fue
With no apparatus but n bucket brig
adc in which the inmates did good
work, all efforts were turned TOWARD
saving the engine house, which STOOD
within four feet of the laundry ant
which was saved with great difficulty
The clothing in the laundry vas tn,
only effects saved, the machinery be
ing bolted to the floor. The loss i
about l,5OO. The building was III
old frame and worth but little. Thu
institution will be greatly %inconven
fenced for some time. There is an ap
. preparation of $4,000 for a new laun
I dry.
! The consolidated annual report O
: state banks, compiled by Secretary I
l.. Hall of the state banking board
shows an increase Of about $4,000, 90
in deposits and n corresponding in
crease in loans and discounts. This !
4 in face of a decrease in the number o
banks and in the combined capita
stock. The report shows the condition
of incorporated state and private bank
= at the close of business November &c
o 1897, with a comparison of asimilar re
port for the year ending December 81
;. 1896. There are now 39s banks. TIL
o number at the close OF $50
c was Ala. Loans and discounts nave In
C creased over 81 600, 600, cash and sigh
exchange about So, 00O. 900 and deposit
have increased over SO, 800, 600. Bill
y payable and rediscounts are 50 pc
I cent less than ut the close of bushes
C at the end of 1896. The total cash re
serve as shown by the report is 80 pc
cent. The minimum allowed by la,
c fer any one bank Is IL per cent. TIL
comparative statement is as follows
the first column of figures being fC
d 1896 and the last the report for ls9