The Red Cloud chief., 1909-09-09
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS.
STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON.
DENsED FORM.

meet in Beatrice about October 90. 1
Is thought that most of the seyent,
Libraries of the state will be repre-
scented.
TWO hundred diseased COWS, con
demned and tagged, are, according tc
Health Commissioners Connell fur
nishing milk for Omaha consumption
and consumption" is the word he
used
Prof II. Albrecht of Chicago has
been appointed teacher of st. Paul's
Lutheran parochial school at West
Point. He will also officiate as organ
list and choir master at st. Paul's
church.
Lightning struck the barn of Enoch
Aurand at Chapman Friday evening
and burned it to the ground Ten
mead OF stock were safely removed
The barn was 30xS0, and was fully
| insured.
A new high mark has been made
at the Hastings pumping station,
l,4O9OOO gallons being pumped from
three wells. The previous high mark
was 1,282,000 gallons. This was made
in August last year.
The regular fall term of the district
court of Cunning county will open in
West Point September 13 with Judge
Guy I. Graves of Fender on the
bench. There are forty civil and
three criminal cases on the docket.
John +. Van Dorm of Omaha, a for
mer grain dealer, giving his occupa.
ton as a lawyer, has filed his volun.
tary petition in bankruptcy in the
United States district court. His total
Liabilities are scheduled at $685. SO
and his assets at $S,27596.
j. w. Bergman, the postmaster at
Odessa, has been placed in quarantine
on account of his son being afflicted
with spinal meningitis. The state
board of health has required this to
be done owing to the epidemic now
spreading over the state. This leaves
the little town of Odessa without a
postmaster.
The trial of the five men charged
with the robbery of the Overland Linn
tied mail will not begin until October
/. 1t is possible that Judge T. C.
Munger will preside at the trial, as
Judge w. II. Munger will leave soon
for Denver to sit as a member of the
United States circuit court of appeals
Tor the Eight district to convene there
about September TO-
Jacob Claassen, Jr., a young farmer
residing southwest Of Beatrice, was
badly scalded about the face Tuesday
afternoon while in the act of opening
the water tank on a gasoline engine.
The steam from the tank enveloped
his face, blistering it and also burn
ing his right arm. No serious results
are anticipated
while STOPPING over 10 recover an
ear of corn, Miss Emma Booten of
Sidney, Ia, who was attending a ma.
chine for cutting off the grain from
the ear at the canning factory at Ne.
braska City, was caught in a tasty.
revolving shaft and she was partially
Scalped before the machine could be
stopped.
The towns along the Red Cloud
branch of the Burlington between
Hastings and Red Cloud have petit
TONED the road for better train SER
vice. In their petition they ask
morning train 10 Hastings and one re.
turning in the evening. They also
ask better freight service along the
Republican valley line.
Tolf Hanson, for years one of the
leading restaurant men of Omaha, who
tailed in business early in July, died
by inhaling Illuminating gas at his
rooming house in New York Wednes.
day morning. The news was trans.
mitted to Sid Swanson, his brother-in.
law, in Omaha, in a telegram sent by
samuel Edgar, an old friend of the
family in New York.
Thirty'seven hundred dollars won
from c. w. Turner, a Des Moines,
Iowa, paving contractor, by the city
of Fremont in a lawsuit, finally set.
tied the other day in the city's favor
by decision of the United States
circuit court of st. Louis, Mo-, will be
apportioned among $50 property own.
ers who own lots in the Main street
and Broad street paving districts.
Turner was the lowest bidder for the
paving job, but refused afterwards to
lay the paving under the specifica-
tons. The city declared his guarantee
bond forfeited, and after fighting the
case through three courts succeeded
In obtaining final judgment
The Fremont foundry has bought |
eight lots west of it's present plant |
and will use them for a large new
building in which the molding ma.
chinery is to the installed. The foun.
dry intends to expend $4,000 in en-
larging its buildings and equipment.
Pro. IL. c. Feemster, of the chair
OF mathematics in York college, was
married Wednesday evening to Miss
Emma Groelz at the home of the
brides parents, a few miles south of |
Aurora, DR., William +. Schell oificiat-
ing.
Frank j. Moriarity, cashier of the
Packers National bank of South ON.