The Red Cloud chief., 1900-07-13

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fatal eases number niucty-ninc.
4 special train of tw~cnty-four car
loads of cattle aud two of hogs left
Holdre1gc recently for Chicago. The
cattle were fed 10y various farmers in
the vicinity of Loomis.
The temperature that has tortured
Chicago for the past two days did not
vary today. Tonight five deaths and
thirteen prostrations had been re
ported.
The residence of II. +. Austin OF
Hcndlcv. Neb., was struck by light
ming out of an almost cloudlcss sky.
Two young ladies' in the house were
badly shocked, otherwise no damage
done.
The Coon case. which was on trial in
the district court in Wahoo was given
TO the jury, which brought in a YER
diet of not guilty. The plea was that
Coon was not responsible when he fired
ut his divorced wife. and the jury
seemed to be Of that opinion.
The drug store of George Christoph
was entered at Norfolk, evidently
through the trausom over the back
door, the safe opened and $50 taken
from it, So of the money belonging 10
the American Express company. There
is no clew so far to the burglars.
A fatal accident occurred near Up
land. Neb. James Norman. in COM
pany with his father in-law, Il. Aowcll,
was shooting ratsabout the farm build
ings when that which Norman was
shooting exploded ncar the breach,
the load entering his side. causing
almost instant death.
w. w. Crowns barber shop ut Crcigh-
ton. Neb., was broken into and be-
tween S35 and $50 taken. The burg
lar entered by breaking through the
back window of the shop and effect
ually making away with the above
amount of money. which was mostly
in nickels and small change.
Ben Karas. an Elk Creek, Neb., lad,
was walking on a picket fence when
he fell onto the same. An ugly wound
was inflicted in his side, which re-
quired half a dozen stitches to draw it
together. Fortunately the picket did
not enter q more vital portion of his
anatomy than the flesh of his side,
Eugene Schneider. a carpenter, who
has the contract for building the Gcr-
man Lutheran church three miles west
Of Sterling, fell from the ~scafolding,
striking his head on a rock. His skull
was crushed and his body badly
bruised. 1t is thought that it will not
prove fatal, although a very close call
, from being killed.
Frank Blado. reported to the police
| that his big bay horse had been stolen
t from his barn. The officers were asked
| to keep a sharp lookout for the nimal
The sheriff of Dodge county t~elephoned
l the Lincoln police hat a had
5 been stolen at Fremont and was head
$ ed toward Lincoln. A description OF
: the team VISA given.
Rev. j.. ID. Wyckoff of the Pilgrims
Congregational church at Omaha, Neb,'
o has virtually Abandoned all hope that
X his sisters. Miss Gertrude and Miss
e Grace Wyckof. have been able TO es
G cape the fury of the boxers. The
b.. Young women "tTt NldNloii'' w . "'S
Chaung. ?40 miles south of Pckin, ant
e were engaged in mission work undel
d direction of the American misSionar,
board. The Misses Wyckoff gradu
d ated from Knox college, Galesburg
d H., in 1856, and went at once to tn
,, foreign mission field.
4 The Dorchester. Neb., state banl
e was tempered with the other night
Al Two citizens were going down stree
when a dark lantern vas flashed Il
one Of their faces by some one on tn
- bank T. They got another cit
zen and approached. when they coul
plainly near the burglar alarm on IN
:, inside of the bank which was goin
NJ. continually. One stood guard ana tn
+. other awakened the marshal and se'
~, eral other citizens, who formed n she
Nv gun brigade and marched to h banl
IL but the burglars had left and no trac
III of them was to be found.
re A heavy and much needed rain storl
~ visited Broken Bow. The preciplt;
VI ton was 2.O5 inches. While this com
a." in ample time for the corn, which WI
u" never better in the county, 1t Is tt
-" late to help "A large part OF the slna
nd grain. In some localities which ha
cr not been favored by local showers II
ut small grain never got so far as headin
ar and has been In condition to burn II
ie- two or three weeks, while in other
Ter c~alities wheat will still make part of
, n crop. The pastures are still in fair
III good condition and the hay crop n
ais not been materially injured.
m As a result of an accident To the e
lst cursion steamer Dan Mink, during Il
KS. celebration at Lake Manawa, ne
le' Omaha, Neb., Fred Mayne OF Pa
ais emu Council Bluffs, Ia, wilt pro
I'M ably die. The boat was making
ma usual rounds of the lake with abo
led 100 people on board when the hi
ide wind drove it On "A shoal OIL the ialal
vas on the side of the lake. The passe
nrG I'll F.. A., bout 40 "a mi