The Red Cloud chief., 1901-05-24
HERE AND THERE.
Wide World Events of More or Less
interest to the Reader.

k'fNlNs |
Harry White, aged II. was drowned
while bathing in the river near Shell
Rock, la.
Edgar, Nch., reports good rains. cN-
cellcnt crop conditions. and splendid
fruit prospects.
Henry MiugcrS shot aud killed his
hrothcr.in.law Frank Grcipcl, at 81.
Paul. MINI. They had quarrclcd.
A san Francisco dispatch SAYS signs
are apparent Of the consolidation OF
the powder companies of the west.
Fir" AZ Kansas city. Kan, partly de-
struyrd the Armour Packing company
elevator. cntailing n damage Of $50, 600.
\ small fire in the Paxton hotel at
Omaha created excitement for n few
ing.
II is believed in Trenton, Ncb., that
Ben Ncifcrt cannot recover from in
~jurics received by being thrown from a
horse.
The striking stcvcdorcs and lighter
men at Havana. Cuba. have returned To
work. Their grievances will he settled
by arbitration.
Hon. Edwin +. TIL. former ambas.
sador to Germany died AT his home in
Grand Rapids. Mich, and the funeral
was held Tuesday.
W. u. Stcrncr, a Madison, Ncb.,
painter. fell from u scafoldiug and
received severe injury. He will not he
able to work for some time.
Oscar Roberts and Robert Shrader,
alleged %postoitice sa~feblowers, were
captured near Ringgold, La, after a
fight in which both were wounded.
Pat Quiglcy, IA pioneer OF Sioux
county. la. was found dead in the road
four miles north Of Lcmars. His team
and buggy were found tangled in q
barbed wire fence.
Edward Green, a ST. Louis fireman,
slipped from "A line Of hose upon which
he was sliding from IA roof to n ladder,
and was dashed to death on the stone
pavement sixty feet below.
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Mr.. and Mrs. August Corridor of Platts-
mouth, swallowed several poisonous
pills for candy. The timely arrival of
II physician saved the boys life.
The members of the Christian church
at Table Rock recently had the salts
faction of burning n mortgage for sew
eral hundred dollars which had been
L.. .. .l.... lnl. 600 .,,
time.
Bccmcr. Ncb.. citizens treated Eph-
rian Wentworth To "A coat of tar and
feathers. and ordered him To leave
town. lie had offended them by elop-
ing with and marrying t~hirteen-ycar-
old Margaret kuckelser.
Robert Gibbs, fifty-two years old,
superindent of an iron moulding works
in p%ittsburg, Pa, and "A man of con.
siderable wealth, was found dead In
New York, having been asphyxiatct
by gas.
Josephine Heron and Carrie Shelf
field, Topeka, Kansas, postofficc EN-
ployes, were frightfully injured by ex
ploding gas. They had gone into tn,
vault to get packages and lit "A match
Gas had escaped. Miss Heron Is not
expected to live.
At Luddington, Mich, Mrs. Eliza
beth Wilson, alias Madame Iargari
c~lairvoyant. was found guilty of swind
ling Miss Ethlyn Quimby, daughter OF
"A wealthy lumberman. out of $500
She was sentenced to five years in the
Detroit house of correction.
Severe storms have visited parts OF
oklahoma, and a dozen or more house,
have been demolished. At Kerry, tn,
twelve-ycar-old daughter Of Ben Bouch
or was killed by lightning. NcaI
Guthrie, Mrs. Andrews, wife of u farm
or, was killed in the wreck of a house
William Fairfax and his wife ''Blacl
FL" narrowly escaped lynching at Nc
Conncllsvillc, Pa, for the murder o
william Moore, assistant yardmaster
A mob formed but the sheriff succeed
ed in preventing a lynching, and late
removed the prisoners tn a place O
safety.
nt luThiSn tuNJDnS oIlttTS nav
refused entrance to 200 typewriters
1t is claimed hat because of thei
style of printing authorship could no
he traced, and that seditious article
could he written and the author be no
learned. The embassies have take
the matter up.
The Morgan-IIill and the Harrima
interests have effected settlement G
control Of the Northern Pacific, an
both parties will he represented in tn
= directorate. The Great Northern an
Northern Pacific, having control Of til
&. Il. Il O., the latter has stopped a
contemplated western extension worl
; Clinton c. Norris, late Of the Thirt.
: second regiment directly from the Phi
E ippincs, has arrived at his home i
Table Rock. He looks stout an
hearty, as though military life agree
with him. His companions from I'll
same regiment, Corporal George Su'
= ton aud Arthur Iupwell. left him q