The Red Cloud chief., 1908-07-17
NEBRASKA POINTERS
STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON.
pENsEp FORM.
THEpRESS,p PULPIT ANOPuBL|C
What Is Going on Here and There
That is OF Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska.

from a bohemian farmer near Vir'
ginia.
The chautauqua at Geneva worked
under great disadvantage because OF
wet weather.
A number Of bridges In Seward
county were washed out by recent
heavy rains.
Miss Hazel Osgood, n Johnson coun.
ty teacher, was painfully Injured by
n giant fire cracker.
BY the collapse Of a platform at
Edison on the Fourth a number OF
people were severely hurt.
The Lang canning factory at Beat
rice has opened for the season with
a force of fifty hands. The prospects
are good for an enormous pack or
beans. corn, apples and pumpkins.
A petition has been filed In the Lin
coin division of the federal court ask
ing to have Nels Johnson OF Chester,
Thayer county, declared a bankrupt.
Johnson Is n merchant and the petit
ton states that he has not been seen
In his place OF business for ten days.
The fireworks In the store OF II. f..
Weldman at Plattsmouth caught fire
on the Fourth, causing an explosion
that wrecked the store and injuring
severely II. l.. Weidman. A large num-
Der Of people were in the store at the
time the accident occurred, but they
all escaped with slight burns.
At Chadron, w. ID. oCmbs was shot
twice with a double-barrelled shotgun
by his son while he was arguing with
him In an attempt to dissuade the boy
from leaving home. The injured man
was at once taken to a doctor who
extracted the shot which filled Combs
from the chin to the waistband. The
son Is fifteen years old.
An order has been issued by Judge
r. c. Munger from the United States
court transferring Thomas O'Brien
from the Lancaster county Jail to the
Dodge county Jail at Fremont. The
prisoner asked to be removed from
the Lancaster county Jail on rne
ground that his health was being in
jured by confinement there.
The first new wheat of the season
was marketed at Beatrice by Frank
Thornburg, living two miles east OF
the city. The grain Is of excellent
quality and tested a trile over sixty
pound to the bushel. 1t was sold for
80 cents a bushel. Mr.. Thornburg be-
lieves the grain will yield nearly thir
ty-fve bushels to the acre.
Emile Sandose, a prominent farmer
living on Pine creek, about seventeen
miles south of Rushville, was muir
dered by Ralph Neuman, a young man,
who has been in that section Of the
country for about one year. Neuman
came here from Kansas and taught
a term of school down In that neigh
borhood and has been circulating
around doing nothing in particular
since his school closed. The trouble
arose over a homestead filing.
w. T. Smell was drowned at Ash
land In the surging waters Of Salt
creek while trying to saw his chick
ems. The swollen waters of the creek
had backed up into his yard and were
washing the chickens. He started to
save them and while in the chicken
house, the swift current of the waters
struck the house carrying 1t away. Mr.
Smell remained on the top of the
house until it was carried down into
the Platte river where 1t was over
turned.
The eastbound Burlington train No
AZ had a narrow escape from a serious
accident at Birdsell, lei Alliance
that was only avoided by the engineer
being able to clearly see some ties an(
other obstruction that had been placed
on the track. The train was stopped
and an investigation was made. show
ing that a number of spikes had beer
pulled along n rail and a number o
ties and pinch bars piled on the tracl
with the evident intention of ditchinl
the train.
Few men In the country are more
interested In the outcome of the presi
dental election than Min Foster, re
siding in Bluff precinct, Hamilton
county. II Bryan is elected Mr.. Eos
ter will have his hair cut for the frs
time in twelve years. When Bryan
was nominated at Chicago in 1898 70
the first time Mr.. Foster enthusiast
cally expressed his confidence tina
the great commoner would win. Hi
friends bantered him, but not being
betting man, he refused to offer. o
receive odds. Instead he declared tina
he would not cut his hair until Bryal
was elected president. He thinks tina
after November next he can be shorI
of his locks.
The Lincoln gas works were shu
down two or three days on accoun
of high water.
Mrs. Grinstead, wife Of p. w. Grir
stead, a former superintendent of tn
Fremont schools, was bitten on tn
hand by a pet dog at her countr
home in Kentucky and was hurried I
Chicago for treatment at the Pasteu
institute. Mr.. Grinstead was |
Cleveland at the time and left hurried
ly for Chicago, reaching there in tim
to meet his wife, Chicago physician
gnxy that A1tIA,,l A.. - "