The Red Cloud chief., 1912-07-11
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

hO OtutS wiz
convene in annual meeting in York
tune 81.
Nearly zoo students have enrolled
or the University Summer School
Iessioo.
North Bend as a school district finds
tseF with deficit Of $4,000 at the
md Of the school year.
Work will be started within a few
lays on the new $4,000 school build.
ny OF be erected at Dodge.
The Order Of the Eastern Star Of
Uuthwest Nebraska held successful
icnic at oxford recently.
Ellis Parks pawned his leg to get
,ut of Omaha. II was q wooden one
md he got five dollars On 1t.
Charles Steinbruener. aged so. was
drowned while fishing in the Platte
river near Plattsmouth Saturday.
After an illness of three months OF
typhoid fever, Mrs. william Horner
died Sunday morning at her home in
Beatrice.
Omaha now owns its waterworks
Possession Of the plant was given to
the city Monday by the Omaha Water
company.
Mrs. j. NJ. Ankeny, who lives near
York, has done large business this
spring in Matching and shipping day
old chicks.
j. l.. Steinbach. we'll known resi-
lent Of Fremont. died at local hos
pital after suffering for two years
with cancer.
The ten days campmeeting Of the
Seventh Day Adventists. which has
been going on at Scottsbluff, closed
Sunday night.
Mrs. E. Wirshbo. residing at Ere.
mont, was painfully and perhaps fatal
ly burned by an explosion Of gasoline
can Wednesday.
A big celebration was held at Dame.
brog Wednesday over the voting OF
200 In bonds to build a new court
house in Howard county.
Burglars entered the drug store of
w. c. Socher, at Benedict, and got
away with nearly $1,000 in money,
checks, watches and jewelry.
The city commissioners Of Beatrice,
have passed an ordinance regulating
the speed Of motorcycles to not more
than eight miles an hour within the
city limits.
Jules Fritz. carpenter at Talmage
took shotgun and going into bed.
room, blew off the top of his head. He
had been drinking of late and became
quite respondent.
s. A. Kinney, farmer living In the
southern part Of Gage county. reports
that army worms are working on his
farm, although no serious damage has
resulted as yet.
Nearly $14,0OO,OO0 was paid by peo.
pie Of this state last year as pre-.
miums on all classes of insurance. &C.
cording to the report OF the state in.
surance department just issued.
Word has been received from
Buenos Ayres. Argentine Republic.
stating that c. r. Walker. a former
Beatrice resident, was killed at that
city recently in boiler explosion.
Clyde Patton. nineteen.year-old
schoA boy of Rochester Wash,
passed through Lincoln last week on
walking trip from Seattle to New
York. Patton is making the trip on
wager.
But one passenger was killed
through derailment or collision on the
Union Pacific during the last three
years and four months. according to
statistics Of the interstate commerce
commission.
Miss Louise Mears, head Of the de.
partment Of geography at Peru. has
been elected to a similar position in
the state normal school at Milwaukee
and will take up her work at the lat
ter school in September.
Aldrich wing, the new addition to
the Kearney state normal main build.
Ing, was dedicated Friday with appro-
pirate ceremonies. the evening being
taken up with reception to the pub.
lie attended by over 5000 people.
A window full of fireworks at Mil
lers bakery at Tecumseh was ex.
Soded Sunday afternoon. 1t Is
the window when fire from a cigar
was communicated to tine explosives.
August % and "a have been deter
mined or as the dates for the annual
gathering of the Nebraska division of
the National German bund which Is
to be held in Fremont. It is expected
300 Germans will be in attendance.
Harvest time Is at hand in Ne
braska wheat fields. During the last
week few farmers in the southeast.
ern section of the state began reap
ing their grain. and the movement
will gradually advance north and
west. Along the Platte valley har.
vestlng Is expected Immediately after
July 1.
while playing automobile with a
| lawn mower Harry DIVER n yOung