The Red Cloud chief., 1913-09-11
GRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA

The Syracuse Commercial club has
been reorganized.
Hastings has leased ten acres Of
ground for school agriculture.
The state bankers association will
meet In Lincoln September rs and 26.
The Nebraska colony at Los Ange.
les now numbers more than 5000 peo-
pie.
Former York residents at Salem.
Ore, have organized a club OF over
sixty members.
The fortieth annual meeting OF the
YORK Baptist association was held in
Bellwood last week.
Crowds at the state fair last week
while not up to normal were much
larger than anticipated.
carl Christian, aged 81, a pioneer
OF Norfolk. was drowned in North
Fork river near that place.
Robert Meehan. one year old, at
iork. is In serious condition from
drinking a quantity Of kerosene.
William Murphy, thirty.ive years of
age, was killed by lightning on the
W. ''''s TNOuIS, near bTdI.
The elevator at Bartling caught fire
during high wind Monday and
burned down with loss of 10000
The Red Willow county fair at In.
dianola has just closed with a larger
daily attendance than in any previous
year
The Syracuse picnic by the CONNER
cial club will be held september ~
and preparations are being made for a
big time.
Anastorius Maurikos. member OF a
grading gang employed near Bay
state. was instantly killed by a Union
Pacific train
Robert Atkinson. ls.year.old York
boy. has constructed an aeroplane
with which he has made several ex.
hibition flights.
Mrs. Nancy Owen. aged SO, was
struck by train at Ltchtield and
died few hours later in Grand
Island hospital.
Dependency over crop failure is
thought to have been the reason for
the suicide OF Fay Taylor, "A Young
farmer near York.
Elmer Willis was instantly killed
when he fell thirty feet from a scaf.
fold on silO on which he was work.
ing near Central City.
Carl Buthman of Falls City. who
stepped on nail. has developed a
serious case of lackjaw, and alarm Is
felt over his condition
('iCfnrnS
and springs have gone dry in and
around Salem. Deer creek is dry for
the first time in its history.
5. b. Beck of Lincoln, Neb. a stu.
dent OF the University of Nebraska.
has been appointed physical director
In the Iowa City high school.
Columbus will have an agricultural
show and aviation meet. and the dates
selected are Wednesday. Thursday and
Friday, September "a. % ard &c.
Burr Bell. an employe Of the Beat
rice Electric company, came near los
Ing his life by coming in contact with
live wire carrying a 2.3OO voltage.
Harry McReynolds of Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa, was badly injured at the state
fair grounds at Lincoln when he was
thrown from sulky in a trOtting race.
Frank McGinnis, a we'll known rail.
road conductor, was found dead from
asphyNiation In his home at Omaha,
resulting from leak in a gas stove.
While trying to catch horse Rob-
ert Waite, an Albion boy, received a
kick from the horse which broke both
bones in the leg Just below the knee.
Search for the body of Paul Thomp-
son. the Grand Island man who disap-
peared al Kansas City few days ago,
supposedly the victim of foul play, has
been abandoned.
Sparks from the engine set fire to
the straw around "a separator while
threshing on the farm OF Mr. Wal |
brecht near York. and destroyed the
machine together with several stacks |
of grain.
The German day celebration 10 be |
held in Lincoln. October Is and 16, |
under the lspces of the German
American alliance, promises to eclipse |
all former efforts in the line OF dis.
play.
Large numbers of sios are being |
erected in Johnson county by farmers
who are desirous of saving all the
feed they can for the stock.
While attempting to board the en-.
Gine OF westbound freight, r. l..
bowling Of South Omaha, student
fireman. was thrown beneath the train
and had both feet and hands cut off at
Columbus.
Rev. w. NJ. Elledge OF Wellington,
Kas.. mas accepted "A call to become
pastor OF tn" Congregational church
At Weepne WateS. to fill the vacancy
made some months ago by Rev. j. II.
Andeess, who went to Sheridan, Wyo.
Mrs. {. II. Nichols OF Albion fell
down the cellar stairs, breaking her
wrist. nearly tearing her ear OF and
bruising herself generally.
Otto Schmidt. 6-year.old. son of