The Red Cloud chief., 1908-07-10
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items Of Greater or Lesser impor.
lance Over the State,

wedding.
Daniey Freeman. Nebraska's first
homesteader. has recovered from a
very serious illness.
The wagon bridge across the Blue
river between Beatrice and Holmes.
vile went out from high water.
Congressman G. w. Norris arrived
home last week from Washington and
has taken up affairs in his district.
Farmers have been working over.
time in the fields to make up for
rainy days when no man could work.
More than a hundred Nebraska ed.
u%cators yer TO Cleveland to attend
the meetings of the National Educa-
tional association.
Mrs. e. NJ. Munger, proprietor Of
the Leader general merchandise store
in Beaver city. fell down a flight of
stairs at her residence and sustained
serious injuries.
"Fitz," the police dog, who for neal
~ twenty years has done police duty
in company with the various officers
Of McCook, has been killed for biting
several children
Mrs. Marie Colby, wife of General
|" w. Colby. has purchased the Pad.
dock hotel and opera house at Beat
rice from John Telford and John Wat.
son of Chicago for $4,000.
The state railway commission has
granted the Missouri Pacific railroad
a further extension of time of one
week in the settlement of the Wa.
bash telegraph service complaint.
The death list as a result of the
Northwestern freight wreck near
Chadron now reaches ten. Three
trainmen and seven tramps were kill.
ed, and W trainmen and three
tramps injured.
A heavy hail storm struck north
of Schuyler and caused much damage
to the corn and small grain. II GOV.
cred IA strip more than two miles wide
and moved eastward.
Mrs. Jane ID. English Smith, a true
daughter of the revolution, died al
the home of her daughter Mrs. C. +
Seward, in Tecumseh. Had Mrs
Smith lived until winter she would
have been 80 years of age.
The greatest event in that part Of
the state during the summer will be
the second annual incoming and old
settlers picnic at Alexandria on Au
gust /. Base ball will be one of the
leading features of the sports.
Charles Burroughs. a well known
farmer residing north of Hastings
lost a valuable team of matched driv
ing horses from the streets in Don't
phan, and there Is evidence that they
were stolen by thieves who made
good their escape.
Ernest s. Kcnnison, sentenced Il
twenty-threc years in the penitentiary
for the murder of Sam Cox, has been
received al the penitentiary. His
Term, full time, will end May is. 1881
and If given good time he will have
served his sentence February Is
1924.
A cablegram from Prof. Delzell al
Liverpool, announces the safe arriva'
at that place or the Nebraska Euro
pean party which left Peru two weeks
ago. The cablegram states that al
are well and enjoying themselves
Prof. Delzell OF Peru Is In charge oil
the party.
In an address at the University o.
? Nebraska Chancellor +. Benjamin An
drews reaffirmed his allegiance to the
democratic party. He predicted tina
the election this year will turn on is
sues rather than men. the leaders o
the two parties being men without
%reproach.
, A stranger driving a automobile
passing throug West Point fright
ened the team of Louis Zeplin, a dray
man. who was in the act of loading
+ cream cans. The team ran away.
, with the result that one valuable
horse was killed and the cream spill
ed and lost.
, Rev. l., j. Medlin, for two years the
D., pastor of the Methodist church a
, North Platte, has resigned and re
moved to Lincoln where he has &C
cepted the position on superintendent
, of agencies for "A life insurance con
pany. Mr.. Medin retires from The
ministry because of throat affection.
| Newport Or ~ dispatch: Mrs
Henry VIM Of Maiden, Mass, whit
was injured by the ov%erturning OF
I, tallyho coach while on a pleasure eX
cursion here with delegates to thu
/, convention of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs in Boston, died o
!, her injuries. Mrs. Helen C.. Sundeal
: Of Lincoln, Neb,, who was injured n
, the same time will recover.
. Insurance Deputy Pierce has Jus
finished a tabulation Of farm mort
cages held by the old,line insurance
companies in Nebraska. The tota
q value of farm mortgages held in thu
state by twenty'three OF the forty
, two licensed to do business Is $29
, 600, 100. The Union Central of Gin
: cinnati has loaned $6.S52, 232 in Thu
=, state, and Is the largest owner o
Nebraska farm mortgages. Mex
comes the Mutual Benefit of Newarl