The Red Cloud chief., 1900-03-23

Congressman Mercer has introduced
u bill to establish a s~ul-trcasury at
Omaha.
The senate devoted u portion Of its
session to %culogics of the late senator
Hayward.
The Nebraska horticultural society
decided to hold It's GUNNER meeting at
North Platte, July \.
At Portsmouth. Ncb.. II fellow Civ
ing his name rs rlunkctt, attempted
to shoot n young cigarmakcr named q.
Wells, but was prevented from 80 do
ing by Wells, who grabbed the strang-
cr's gun. The trouble. for which there
was no provocation whatever, took
place in Nai'.a's saloon.
The odd Fellows of Hayes Center
are building u commodious hall.
That the Horlockcr ease will como
mp for trial at the regular term OF tho
district court at Hastings is now an
accepted fact. Both the prosecution
and defense have been extremely busy
in making every preparation. Fifty
seven witnesses have been subpocnacd.
!. Nichol, Columbus resident for sew
eral years, wns arrested at Humphrey
and put in Jail ON II charge OF bigamy
preferred by Mrs. A. J.. laughln,
whose daughter, Miss Lottic, he mar
ricd in Columbus in November, 1898,
alleging u marriage in Lancaster coun-
" in 1894. His first wife, II IL alleged,
is still living and not divorced.
A Cincinnati, o., March Is dispatch
saws: Tonight Charles Adams, u pas.
scngcr agent for the Union Pacific,
with Offices in the Carew building,
| who came here with his wife from
Omaha last October. with their two
Young children, was shot and killed
| by HIS wife Jessie. The only person
pres, Mt was Gcrtic Thurman, the sis
ter OF the wife. who is i'm actress nm
der the name of Gcrtic Hayes.
Miss Viola IIorlockcr, the defendant
in the sensational llorlocker-Morey
poisoning east. has arrived at Hast
ings. Ncb., from jacksonville, III. She
was accompanied by her sister Fora,
now Mrs. II. Durant Cheevor Of New
York.
A dftcen-ycar-old son OF w. A. Group,
who lives south Of Nebraska City,
Ncb.. was out hunting when the shot
gun ne had exploded ut the breech and
so badly shattered his left hand that
il was found necessary to %amputate
the member.
Miss Stella Craig (colorcd) carried off
the honors in the Hastings, Neb., high
school oratorical contest. Thosc con
testing were Mabel liallcck, ninth
grade: Stella Craig, tenth grade: Alex
Dunlap, eleventh grade, II Archie
Hopper, twelfth grade.
The northwestern association OF
> congregational churches in Nebraska
Is called in annual convention ut Hay
Springs on May 1915, ii being the
twelfth yearly meeting. A program
has been arranged, which shows that
the leading spirits will attend from
] Chadrou.
n sensation was luTb'Nll'" Ei'h"y
evening in connection with the Dins-
y more murder trial at Lexington, Neb.,
over what is alleged to have been an
: attempt to kill the prisoner, and as a
!. result sheriff Hays has arrested Is. F.
j, Tussong aud lodged him in the county
, Jail. According to the stories told,
: Tussong, who is "A member Of the
board of supervisors Of buffalo county
made threats against Dinsnore and
I lay in wait for him in the corridor
I Of the Jail with a loaded revolver. He
is charged with refusing To give NJ
I the Weapon and with resisting the
< sheriff and his deputies before he wal
z ovcrpowcred and placed in "a cell. Tus'
q song is well known in Odessa, hi'
!, home, in Buffalo county. and his stand
ing among his ~neighbors is good. Thu
incident for the time being has alb
sorbed all interest.