The Red Cloud chief., 1909-07-15
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, PoIit
ical and other Matters Given
Due Consideration.

s. F. Clark, a pioneer OF Polk coun
ty hanged himself last week.
Betty. the 11.year-old daughter of
+. NJ. George of St Paul, was severely
kicked by vicious horse she was try.
ing to lead. Her skull was fractured
and she is in a serious condition.
Fire starting in Michael's restaurant
at Sterling destroyed five business
buildings, causing a loss of about
$4,000. The flames were checked
just In time to save large two-story
brick building on Main street.
At Fremont one Fletcher felled his
wife with an alarm clock. The woman
grabbed pistol and he double.
quicked from her presence. Now she
has left him. and gone back to her
folks at Cullinville, Wash.
A telegram was received in Ne.
braska City telling of the sudden
death of Charles NJ. Hicklin at Den.
yer, Colo. The deceased was born
and reared in Nebraska City and was
aged AZ years.
Orville Sloggett the 12.year-old son
OF Alfred Sloggett well-known
farmer living five miles east of Broken
| Bow. is dead from the effects of in.
juries received by a horse falling on
him.
Seven farmers in Rockford town
ship. Gage county, living along Mud
| creek. lost over 100 acres of wheat
owing to the high water. The grain
had been cut and was in the shock
when the high water carried 1t away.
Sheriff Mencke of Blair went to
Herman. where he searched the resi-.
dence of J. A.. West for liquor and
found five large boxes, containing 1876
pint bottles full Of whisky, which were
seized and stored to be used as evil
dence.
Reports from the southern part of
Gage county are to the effect that
hundreds of acres of corn and wheat
are standing in water and will be a
total loss. Thousands of bundles of
wheat have been seen floating down
stream
Stevenson (Wash) dispatch: Pros
per Marion, wanted at Boiling Springs,
Neb., on a charge of having killed
John Murphy in 1884, was arrested
here this afternoon, and is being held
awaiting instructions from officers in
Cherry county, Nebraska.
Peter Unruh, former postmaster at
Tyndall, S. d., after languishing in
Jail at Madison, Neb. for over year
awaiting trial at the fall term of the
district court, was released on $4,000
hni1 anH hn Ipff io hDn
family at Tyndall.
A young man by the name of Mar
lott, of Long Pine. was run over by a
train between Long Pine and Bassett
and was literally cut to pieces. 1t is
not known how the accident happened
but II Is supposed he was riding on
the rods under a car of the east-bound
passenger train and fell off.
Due to the negligence of the en-
gineer or fireman at the Hastings asy-
lum, so DR.. Baxter, superintendent,
has written to the state board, the
boiler exploded there. and 1t will cost
$500 or $500 to make repairs. The
letter said the water was permitted to
get too low in the boiler.
n. G. Abbott, superintendent of the
institute for the blind at Nebraska
City, is making campaign for more
pupils for his school. He has written
letters to all the junior normal schools
and to the ministers he knows and to
school teachers. asking them to send
him the name and address of any
blind child they may know.
Some Of the farmers in Gage county
have equipped their harvesters with a
small gasoline engine, which is at.
tached to the gear of the machine.
for the purpose of assisting them in
cutting their wheat in muddy weather.
The idea Is to operate the harvesting
mechanism by power from the engine.
thus relieving the team of the extra
work Of furnishing power for driving
the machinery.
Plans are being formulated to com.
bine the next boys and girls agricul.
tural contest for Adams county with
the projected county institute and
have the two held in Hastings in DC.
tober, in connection with stock show
and exhibition of grains. The scheme
contemplates a county fair on n some
what miniature though intensified
scale. with the institute as the chief
feature.
Dr. j. G, Neff, "A dentist of Sterling.
was brought into the county court at
Tecumseh on statutory charge, his
l7-year-old daughter, Lora Neff. sign
ing the complaint. The case was
heard before Judge James Livingston,
j. c. Moore appearing for the state
and Il, r, Hitchcock for the defend.
ant, DR., Neff refused to plead. He
was placed under bond in the sum of
$1,000 to appear for trial at the dis.
trict court.
For years Mrs. Minnie Green has
been trusted employee in the store OF
Miller 4 Paine at Lincoln She was
ambitious and thrifty and was allowed
to buy stock in the enterprise. Now
she is in Jail, and will have to account
for about $500 worth of purloined
goods.