The Red Cloud chief., 1913-10-16
ORiEe NEWS OF NeeRAsKA

been instituted at York.
The Missouri synod Of the Lutheran
church is In session at Waco.
The Commercial hotel at Greenwood
was destroyed by fire Saturday morn.
Ing.
Stewards musical festival last week
was well attended and otherwise sue.
cessful.
The Nebraska. Minnesota football
game will take place at Lincoln Oc.
tober IS.
Rev. r. A. Worthley is the new
Methodist student pastor at the state
university.
The Nebraska. Minnesota football
game will take place next Saturday
at Lincoln.
Beatrice may flood her new athletic
park this winter and utilize 1t as q
skating rink.
Apple picking Is about completed at
Shubert, and seventy.fve car loads
will be shipped.
The state conference OF Congrega.
tional churches will be held at Omaha
October II to 20.
The southeastern Nebraska horse
show at Auburn was attended by sew.
eral thousand people.
The Home Day" at Hyannis was
the biggest thing of the kind ever
held In Grant county.
George Workman was electrocuted
at Lincoln when he attempted to re.
move a live wire from the street.
The Elks lodge of Plattsmouth has
purchased a building which they will
soon make into O home for the order.
Bishop Then of Lincoln has re.
turned from Rome in excellent health
and much refreshed from his vacation.
Chicken fanciers OF Fremont are
planning on holding the biggest county
show ever held In Nebraska in Decem.
Der.
Kearney Y. NJ. C. A. has purchased
a lot and is making preparations for
the erection of home for its mem
bers.
A. T. Bosley, q prominent Jefferson
county farmer, Is in precarious con.
dition as result Of falling OF q load
of lumber.
Nineteen to nothing was the result
Of the Nebraska. .Washburn game on
the Lincoln field Saturday, the visit.
ors being outclassed.
George Maxwell, an Omaha man.
was killed when he got caught beneath
the CONFERENCE.-The Of an elevator
which he was adjusting.
Mrs. Flerence Seidel. the avatrix,
who fell with her hydroaeroplane into
the bay at San Diego, CAL. recently,
formerly lived at Humboldt.
Marion Kilgore Of Fairbury w:s
caught between two cars and SO badly
crushed that he may lose both legs.
He Is a Rock Island engineer.
John Noble. a farmer near Albion,
sustained a fractured collar bone and
arm and numerous other injuries In a
runaway while gathering corn.
Auburn has voted bonds for 81, 900
for the extension Of the present water
works system and the installation OF
municipal electric light plant.
John Tyson OF Nemaha county. in a
baseball game fractured his right leg
while sliding into home plate. The
ligaments Of the leg also were badly
torn.
A chocolate percolator at the Riggs
soda fountain in Lincoln blew up and
sent most Of its contents into the face
Of Nate Wilson. an employe. His eyes
were badly burned.
A tornado which struck Broken Bow
Thursday afternoon about 6 o'clock
wrecked the fair grounds. demolished
Q number of buildings in the country
and injured number Of people.
The shipment Of stock last weeh
from Harrison was twenty.four cars
Of cattle. one of horses and thirteen
cars Of cattle from Coffee siding. near
the state line. west Of Harrison.
Charles Portrey OF Falls City Il
building houseboat, in which. accom-
panied by Henry Timber. Louis Herb
ster and Charles Putnam. all Of that
city. he will make q trip to tho Gull
Of Mexico.
p. Meehan, who has been secretary
Of the Beatrice Commercial club foI
the past year, has rendered his resig
nation to take effect November I.
A main drainage ditch and lateral
bitches along the Nemaha river will
necessitate the building by Johnson
county OF nineteen steel bridges.
The Nebraska Federation OF Wo
mems clubs held their eighteenth an
nual session at York last week, over
200 delegates being in attendance.
o. NJ. Tharp, one of the leading citi
stns Of that place. is dead at Wahoo
as the result of injuries received In
an automobile accident month ago.
Charles Benson of Exeter probably
will lose his right hand as the result
Of getting 1t caught in cement mixer
Nearly all Of the fingers were crushed
Zerelda Rough, II years old. Is the
champion girl baker Of Omaha, and In
fact Of Douglas county. the fair asso
| citation conducting a contest during the