The Red Cloud chief., 1909-02-04
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit.
ieal and other Matters Given
Due Consideration.

A new Catholic church is to be built
ut Crab Orchard
In a debating contest between At
kinson and O'Neill the former won.
Four new rooms have been fitted
up in Fairbury to accommodate In.
creased Achool attendance.
Petitions have been freely signed
In Grand Island for paving the
streets.
A Made in Lincoln" exposition
will be held in the Capital city in
March
Legislators visited Beatrice to look
over the conditions Of the feeble
minded institute
Hastings school facilities are made.
quate an steps will be taken to pro
vide more room.
An effort will be made to land the
annual encampment of the Nebraska
G. A. r. in Fairbury for 1910.
The Odd Fellows of Chappell are
putting up substantial building with
hall above and stores below.
The last vestige of the c. L. De-
III VIA oNoi z Olt vi tIt lduu-
marks Of York, was razed and re-
moved, handsome brick block re.
placing the old frame.
William Roller and A. Ingstrom.
two members of the soldiers home
at Grand Island, have reported to the
police authorities that they were held
up and robbed
Miss Bennie Talbot. of Omaha, 22
years old, ended her life with a pis.
tol few days 1870. She had been dis
appointed in a love affair.
A Merrick County lie legislator blew
out the gas in Lincoln lodging house
and would have been asphyxiated had
the discovery not been made.
While two soldiers at FIT. Robinson
were engaged in friendly scuffle,
when by some means one of them
was fatally shot.
The Furnas County Teachers asso.
citation meeting was the largest ever
held, 121 teachers being in attend
ance.
During cold weather ice havesting
was vigorously prosecuted, though in
few instances was a full crop Sc
cured.
William Carr & Sons of Tecumseh
have been awarded the contract for
about $4,000 worth Of grading on the
tracks of the Otoe county speed as.
sociation at Nebraska City.
The committee appointed to solicit
subscriptions to the stock of the pro.
posed canning factory at West Point
have completed their canvass with
very satisfactory results.
Robbers entered the Swartz &
Egelston general store in Alma and
made a gateway with several over
coats and suits, leaving clothing
scattered about the store.
Sheriff McCleery has offered a per-
sonal reward of $50 each for the ar
rest Of John Kaffer and Charles An
derson, who broke out Of the Adams
county jail two weeks ago.
e. F. Marshall had about sixty-five
cottonwood trees on his farm west
of Plattsmouth, and had them cut
down and sawed into lumber. They
were large trees and made 3S,009 feet.
Fifty Hungarian partridges were
received at Valentine an dare kept in
M. v. Nicholson's yard until warm
weather when they will be turned
loose along the banks of the Mime.
chaduza to propagate.
The Grain-Alfalfa milling company
has been Incorporated, at Nebraska
City, with a capital stock of 100000.
The incorporators are II. H. Hanks,
Walter Mcnamara, Gilbert Hanks,
John Johnson and L. F. Jackson.
The Sutton Electric Light and Pow
er Co. has been purchased and en-
larged by the Jacob Sack Lumber Co.,
besides being reorganized and incor-
porated. The capital stock Is $4,000.
1t is housed in a new building.
The Cass County Commissioners
are making trip over the roads and
examining the bridges in the western
and central portion of the county to
ascertain the amount of work neces-
sary to be done this spring.
During the last year the building
improvements In Alma amounted to
$65 1000. Eleven residences were built,
a fine Catholic church, one cement
block Office building and implement
warehouse and a large cement auto
garage.
At David City Jane White was
bound over to the district court to
answer to the charge OF manslaugh.
ter. Miss White had been arrested
on the charge of infanticide for drop.
ping a baby from Burlington pass.
enger train on the morning of Decem.
ber 23, 1903.
Bert Taylor, the Minden murderer,
is now in the penitentiary at Lin,
coin for safe keeping until his trial
At Grand Island the other day
Fred p. Walgrew ended his troubles
and thirst for drink by adding
two-ounce vial of carbolic acid to