The Red Cloud chief., 1901-05-03
HERE AND THERE.
Telegrnphic Information Briefly Covered
Wide world whisperings.


Robbers looted the Office OF the Bad.
ger Lumber company at Norwich,
Kas, securing considerable money.
The bank at Pioneer. o., was bur
glarized, the vault being wrecked by
dynamite The sum of 81 900 is miss.
ing
The Smith National bank of ST. Ed
wards, Neb, has been authorized to
commence business with capital
stock of s25, 900.
A dispatch from Amsterdam reiter-
ates the statement that Kruger will
leave for the United States at the com
mencement Of June.
The first serious forest fire Of the
season occurred recently near Mellen,
Wis, when 1000, 900 feet of hemlock
logs were consumed.
Fire at Fondulac, Wis, completely
gutted the plant Of the Gurney refrig-
orator manufacturing company. Loss
500, 900; fully covered.
The grain elevator owned by John
J. Badenock, Chicago, was destroyed
by fire, together with its contents.
Loss will approximate 100000
1t is understood that at the end of
June Herr Bramsen. the present Dan
ish minister OF interior will be APP
pointed Danish minister to Washing
ton.
News has been received at Cody.
Wyo., Of the killing of Jim McPeck,
a noted cattle rustler, by Stock De-
tective w. ID. Smith of Miles City,
Mont.
Joseph A. Glenning OF Chicago, a
veteran of the civil war, committed
suicide by throwing himself in front of
u freight train in the Lake Shore
yards.
The Cuban constitutional conven.
tion delegation. having completed its
labors, has left for Cuba. The mem
bers were we'll pleased with tn cir visit.
General Wood has also returned.
The eleventh annual convention Of
the travellers protective association of
Illinois, in session at Canton, H., af-
ter a somewhat heated session, chose
Peoria as the next meeting place.
At Kansas City, Mo-, Mrs. Mary
Manning, aged SO. was brutally struck
down near her home, receiving injur-
les which proved fatal. There is no
cause assigned and no clue to the per-
pc traitor.
G. w. Laudis has leased his Osborn
Farmer in order to become the cashier
Of a bank at Osborne. His friends are
afraid good newspaper man has been
spoiled in an effort to make a middle
grade plutocrat.
Job Coping, a Houston. Tex, florist
his wife, and three children were
| burned to death in fire which de-
stroyed his home. A negro, who was
recently discharged, is under arrest
charged with having set fire to the
building.
| Because she believed that her hus-
band was paying attention to another
woman, Mrs. Fannie Frieburg, wife of
n medical student at st. Louis com
nitted suicide by taking dose OF
whisky and cocaine. She gave the
same dose to her 5-year-old daughter
| Alma.
The board OF directors of the pan
| American exposition at Buffalo, have
compromised on the Sunday closing
matter. The exposition will be opened
from to IL p. m. The midway ant
all amusement features will be CLOSED
from midnight Saturday to midnigh
Sunday.
Oliver Norris Humphrey, Of the old
pioneer Lincoln, Neb., firm OF Hum
phrey Bros. Hardware company. com
mitted suicide in the barn on the real
of his premises at 1902 NJ street b,
shooting himself in the head with
revolver. Recent litigation with tn
heirs of his brother is thought to hav
been partly responsible.
In the district court at Des Moines
Iowa. Judge Holmes held that n bill
for 50, 900 worth of liquors billed to
local agent by the Mountain Distillin
company of Ohio could not be collect
ed, as the goods had been shipped int
the state in violation of the state Law
The case will be appealed.
The vestibuled Chicago flyer over tn
Pcre Marquette western division, wa
wrecked near Sunfield, Mich, Th
train was going at the rate of fift
miles an hour. Fireman Gossett wa
probably fatally hurt. The enginee
and several passengers were more
Tess injured The wreck was cause
by spreading rail.
Theodore Moore, held in the Dund
county Jail at Benkleman, Neb., on
,, charge of burglary, shot the sheri
and escaped. The sheriff was bad
wounded but will not die. Moore wa
receptured about forty miles fro
BenlSleman bv j. c. Mcpherson an
James Grady He had stolen hor'
from Judge Israel at Benkleman Al
was making good progress towa'
. freedom when Mcpherson, an expe
with Mauser rifle, and Grady halle
him and persuaded him TO stop