The Red Cloud chief., 1898-01-14

"rs' Dculah V. wakefield of Waver-
~. aged sixty years, wife of Orson
Wakefield, was found dead in bed re-
Gently. Heart trouble was IL, cause.
State Treasurer Mcscrve has issucd
q call for general fund warrants from
nos. $500 to 3G.021, amounting to
$4,000. The call takes effect January
IL.
The authorities at the Douglas coun-
W jail are keeping closer watch on ex-
treasurer BARLEY since the confrma-
uon OF his sentence. 1t is understood
mat the door of his cell, which was
formerly left unlocked, is now kept
locked.
i. Il. Hill, n stock man from Wayne.
VINO vent to Omaha recently with a
car load OF cattle and sold them at
oouth omaha, made n persistent at.
tempt to end his checkcred career bv
the gas jet route. A clerk i'm the hotel
discovered the escaping gas in time to
save Hills life.
Willard Baker, cashier OF the Albion
National bank. shot himself. lie is
still alive but little hope is entertained
OF his recovery. He has been in poor
health for n number of years and the
last week has been much worse. No
motive can be assigned for the deed
as his business affairs, so far as known
are in good condition and his domes-
tic affairs were pleasant.
The stockholders of the Platte coun.
W fair and agricultural society held a
meeting at the Office of Secretary
Becher and concluded to 20 out of
business. They will offer the grounds
with all improvements for sale and
will try and close the business out bv
the LIST of March if possible. This
means no more fairs for Platte county
in the future.
Attorney-Gcncral Smyth has ex.
pressed his conviction that the Douglas
county refunding bonds are valid, and
said that the suit to test the validity
of the issue of exposition bonds was
brought simply to protect the state
school fund which 1t is proposed to in
vest in them. lie believed il was
better to have the question settled
now than to have the validity of the
bonds disputed when their time has
III and they have become due.
Acknowledgement Barry has returned
from Illinois and Ohio. lie visited
Adjutant-ticncral Rcccc of Illinois and
Acknowledgement Axlinc of Ohio. Cen
cral Barry went to further the pro-
position of mobilization of the national
guard at the trans-Mississippi EXPOSE
ton. In case congress does not pass
act for this purpose il is proposed
to induce authorities of many states 10
a large representation of the
to cncamp at the exposition.
Wesley Johns. a young man who has
gotten himself into a great deal of no.
toriety during the last few years in
Lincoln police court, recently either
suicide or was murdered.
The facts surrounding the case are
very mysterious. to say the least, and
at "a late hour the police seemed to
think he had not taken his own life.
The police are of the opinion that the
the matter was "a direct result of a
brawl. No arrests have been
made.
Mrs. Alice Johnson, aged about
thirty-fve, who has been living alone
with her little daughter at ll4O South
Seventeenth street, Omaha, was found
dead by a young man, Oscar Sanstrom
a hasher in a restaurant, who called ut
her home. lie is held for invcstiga-
of the case. The absence of her
and the fact that she had rea-
on to expect to become a mother in q
lew months is supposed to have led
The woman To commit suicide. II is
supposed she poisoned herself, but no
evidences OF poison were found. An
iunt of the dead woman says that San
'trom Is the cause of the woman's con
iition.
A post mortcm examination Of the
body OF Mrs. Alice Johnson, who was
dead at her home in Omaha.
'ound that death was not due to dis
'asc mol injury. Two bottles Of medi-
inc OF a character not determined
we're found in the house, which will
DC submitted to chemical ANALYSIS.
oscar SanstrOm, the hasher who has
'een keeping company with the
woman and who was held pending
investigation, says that If it is true
hat the dead woman was about to be-
'ome a mother, he vas probably the
ause Of 1t, but he, denies all know
edge OF how she came to her death
aging that he last saw her in life last
Thursday.
h encouragement has given Au-
litor Cornell an opinion in relation to
heriffs' fees. Instead of allowing Toe
day for the keeping of prisoners be-
ore bringing them to the pcnitentiary
hcriffs will only be allowed that for
he first six days. II kept longer than
TX days they arc only allowed soc per
lay. Under this ruling If a sheriff
ieeps a prisoner six days he may draw