The Red Cloud chief., 1904-08-05
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The Sure Hatch Incubator company
OF Clay Center Is thinking of moving
TO Nebraska City IL suitable arrange
ments can be made.
The first threshing OF the season
was done on r. H. Conant's farm. near
Benedict The yield was twenty bush
els OF wheat per acre, which sold for
70 cents.
The Kill!an Brothers company. OF
Wahoo. Neb.. has Incorporated and
will conduct q general merchandise
business at Wahoo and Cedar Bluffs.
The capital stock is S75.tJ0.
The Antelope County Mutual Tele-
phone company. with headquarters at
the town OF Elgin. has incorporated
with q capital stock OF 10000. @. w.
Mead II secretary Of the company.
A son Of Manager Clarence Ciag-
gett OF the Overland theater at Ne
braska City, while out riding on a
wheel was run down by a farm team
and severely injured.
While returning to his home in Pa
cific Junction on q freight train. John
keirsey fell between two cars and was
crushed to death. lie was recently
married and had been firing on .
switch engine.
Louis Zimpfer, the Ravenna mer-
chant who fell from second-story
window Of the Lobell hotel at Fre-
mont. died. He leaves a wife and four
children in favorable circumstances.
He carried an insurance policy for
5000 In the Royal Mystic Legion.
Otoe Poultry company, OF Nebraska
City, has fled its articles OF incprpora-
ton with the county clerk. The COM
pany Is incorporated for $4,000. The
company has purchased large number
Of incubators and will 60 to raising
chickens, ducks and geese on large
scale.
Lamoin Young. q farmer who lives
southwest of Tecumseh, broke one OF
the bones OF his left leg and dislocated
tie other. He was running after a
loose horse when he caught his foot
on an obstacle and wrenched IL in such
. way as to cause the fracture and dis
location.
p. e. MCGUIRE was severely injured
In q runaway at Nebraska City. Hs
was trying to break colt, which be.
came unmanageable. He was knocked
down and the wheels OF the wagor
passed over his head and lower limbs
No bones were broken, but the injurie,
10 his head are serious and may prov,
fatal.
Mrs. Minnie Hews. the wife OF t.,
farmer near Humboldt. was badl!
crippled as the result OF a kick from
one Of q team OF mules which she VIZ
unhitching from the rack preparator!
to driving home. The hoof of the ami
NAL struck the woman on the knee
knocking her down, but she arose an,
insisted on driving home. II Is no
known whether or not the bone wa
broken.
Jacob Eggest died at Ashland afte
lingering nearly twenty-four hour
with a deep cash in his throat IL
was 3S years of age and was born IL
Illinois. He came to Nebraska will
his parents when years old. Will
plowing corn in a field near his horrD
he cut his throat with razor. maxim.
a wound five inches long and exposin nj
the bone. He had recently been ua
dergoing treatment at an insane hos
pital at Council Bluffs. Ia. but Ia;
been discharged as cured.
An accident occurred In the vicinit.
of Swallow Hill. Neb. which came nna
resulting In the death OF bridgemai
named Johnson, In the employ o
Bridge Foreman Holmberg. The maj
was on his way to the Platte rive
bridge, riding on a railroad velocipede
While he was rounding the curve h
did not see nor hear the approach o
train No. q until II was almost upol
him. He barely had time to juml
when the engine collided with the We
locipede while going about twent,
miles an hour.
Coroner Elmore reports the death b,
suicide OF William Boness OF Alliance
The body was found about six mile
west Of Chadron in a drew with tn
clothes on fire. He had tied n cord :,
tie trigger OF a shotgun and ptll,u
Il shot himself in the breast. sett!nt
hi sshirt on hrn. Being near 3 ficl,
belonging to William Simmons. th
smoke was seen. but no one had hear,
any report of the gun. Hc had a tear
and wagon, containing provisions
Relatives at Alliance were telegraph,
TO and a son-in-law. G.. w. Bower
came Immediately. but allowed In
body 10 be buried at Chadron. sayinl
William Boness and his wife hal late
iy separated, selling and dividing thei
property.
A thief entered the barn OF John II
Shook, who resides just outsii, of H.
corporate limits of Auburn, and stol
Q team Of horses. From thence h.
drove the horses to town and went Il
the stable Of Joseph Lettellia-. livirI
In tho west part of Auburn, and tie
the stolen horses to his fence and har
messed up Lettelliar's gray team. lc
them out of the barn and was bridlIn
them when Lettelliar was awakened b.
tie neighing OF the horses. u
Jumped out of bed and ran to the barn
when the man who had the horses fed
leaving Ill the horses. The sherii
vas called, but no clue to the THE
vas obtained.
Saturday Otto Mutz, son OF A.
Mutz, q nurseryman OF Auburn. had
marrow escape from being run over b.