The Red Cloud chief., 1912-05-02
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

take hike" to Milford. June 3. to 60
INTO camp for ten days.
G. l.. Hall Of Harrington, 20 years
81 age. was kicked by a horse and his
leg broken in three places.
MIN Norris. a popular Lincoln
travelling man, was found dead In bts
at Gothenburg. Wednesday.
Mrs. Frank Wilson of Beatrice fell
dead from heart disease as she was
feeding the chickens In the barnyard.
The stakes were driven at Syracuse
Tuesday afternoon for the Eagles
home, that will cost between $4,000
and $1,000.
Farmers Of the Bancroft vicinity are
very busy in the fields plowing for
corn, as the seeding Of small grain has
been completed.
NJ. l.. Barnette. a prominent retired
farmer of Holbrook. died Monday as
a result of injuries received In run
away the day before.
The Elks fair at Alliance netted
nearly $4,000, which will be applied to
the building fund of the new $25,00O
home for that order.
Crete, Neb., has been chosen as the
place for the annual encampment OF
the state university cadet regiment.
to be held May IA to IS.
Editor Rogers of the Giltner Gazette
was seriously injured when hot ball
struck him on the head during the
progress of game recently.
Six-year.old John Ubben. at Howe,
was badly bruised up when he
stepped in the way of the maui his
father was using making rails.
Mrs Sarah McCarl. who fell down
cellar at her home at McCook. and
whose skull was fractured as result
died before regaining consciousness
J. II. Overman has been reappointet
postmaster at Stella for term o,
four years. MIR. Overman has served
in that capacity for over fourteen
years.
Samuel p. Hughes, q prominen
farmer near Howe, was picked up BY
. small tornado last week, carried sew
eral rods and dropped in a field un
scathed.
Butchers say that the price Of bee
Il higher this spring than for severa
years. They claim that this Is due tt
the high price of feed and the scarcit!
Of cattle.
Miss Mary Emerson died at thu
Jones hotel in Tecumseh. Sunday
morning, death being at her OWL
hand. Dependency is supposed to h
the cause.
known figure in Lincoln politics, dice
Thursday evening. April IS. on the
eve Of his certain nomination as q
candidate for the state legislature.
A large number Of the district
schools in Jefferson county have
closed for the summer and the teach
ers are preparing to enter the STATE
normal at Peru for summers course
Tom Fahey of Fremont was serious
ly injured when he fell twenty feet
striking on his back on a branch HI
had Just cut of tree. The branch II
falling knocked q ladder out from un
der him.
WOlh VI tuc VVCSPih6 VutCl
fire department saved the public
school building from destruction
when it caught fire in the basemen
near the furnace Just as school het
been dismissed.
Andrew Finney, janitor Of the Hol
brook school, was stricken with apo
plexy and fell down the basemen
stairs. He lay in an unconscious con
dition more than an hour before h
was discovered.
John NJ. Cotton, county attorney
and late editor and publisher of th'
Ainsworth StarJournal, has bough
the law practice. library and Office fix
lures Of P. d. McAndrew, the oldes
lawyer in Brown county.
The little son of J. H. Davis, livini
In Glenover a suburb Of Beatrice. wa
attacked and bitten on the leg by ,
mad dog. Wednesday. A cash abou
three inches long was inflicted in tn
log Just above the knee.
The county commissioners Of Ne
maha. at Auburn. have given permia
sion to the school board to hold schoo
In the district court room SO that th'
old high school can be turned over I,
the contractors for dismantling o.
that work may proceed on the nev
building.
While a force of men engaged II
road work were blowing up the roat
opposite the gate to cemetery nea
Auburn, they plowed up the skeleton
Of q human being. The bones wer'
found under three feet Of soil. It 4
thought they were the remains Of a,
Indian who had been buried Their
many years ago.
Joe Lemke, working for Theodor
Schultz, near Lawrence. was In
stantly killed Saturday morning whel
team he was driving became fright
,ened and ran away. upsetting heav,
manure spreader on him.
The Church Of the Holy Trinity q
IincOln vaa crOwdod SUNDAY rn0rnin