The Red Cloud chief., 1914-02-12
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA


Sixty.two conversions resulted from
the revival services just closed at the
First M. +. church at Fremont.
Two hundred carloads OF alfalfa and
| alfalfa meal have been shipped from
Shelton the past fall and winter.
The baseball association OF Kearney
has decided to hold fair to raise
funds to pay of the baseball deficit.
In a big wolf hunt near Fairbury
over 600 rabbits were bagged, but
every wolf sighted made its getaway.
w. +. Bailey. who for two years has
been president of the Kearney Com
mercial club, has resigned his posi-
ton.
A number Of cases Of diphtheria
have developed at Wymore and every
effort is being made to prevent It's
spread.
Hastings council has passed an or
dinance limiting the number OF ga.
looms in that place to thirteen after
May I.
More hay has been baled and
shipped from Albion this winter than
in all the years It has been shipping
station.
Robert McMurray OF Brady suffered
the loss Of a foot by the accidental
discharge OF his gun while on hunt.
ing trip.
Members of the baseball committee
are having good success in obtaining
money for baseball team in York
this year.
w. J. Hassner, who lost $1,000 In
the Superior bank failure. committed
suicide at his home at Lawrence by
stabbing himself.
Auburn proposes to have Fourth
Of July celebration the coming sum-
mer that will be, according to those In
charge, humdinger.
Miss Frances Wyckoff OF Hastings
has just recovered from an attack Of
hiccoughs which lasted continuously
for six days and nights.
It is thought by those in charge Of
the bank that failed at Superior re-
Gently that 1t will realize about fifty
per cent on its liabilities.
The village OF Cortland Is taking
steps towards protection from fire and
has appointed committee to pur.
chase the necessary apparatus.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Fairbury
are having trouble with gophers in
their alfalfa fields. The gophers have
destroyed the roots OF many plants.
Andy Lorentzen OF Hastings ban.
quoted his brother Eagles with the
money received from the lodge as sick
benefits, and which he declined to &C.
cept as such.
w. A. Fight. who was severely
burned In a gasoline explosion near
Plattsmouth short time ago. has SUI.
fered second misfortune by the de-
struction OF his home by fire.
The largest number Of applicants
for citizenship ever examined in Ian.
caster county appeared before Judge
Cornish at Lincoln one day last week,
and 143 prospective citizens took out
first papers.
Mrs. Henry Kemplin and two
daughters had narrow escape from
asphyxiation when the hard coal stove
at their home in Lincoln exploded dur.
ing the night and filed the house with
a deadly gas.
Game Warden Rutenbeck and W. J.
O'Brien, superintendent Of state fish
hatcheries, are investigating the effect
on fishes OF throwing refuse matter
from the Beatrice Gas company plant
into the Blue river.
A. A. Challburg Was caught in a
shafting at the Central Granaries at
Lincoln and hurled around It a half
dozen times before the machinery
could be stopped. but escaped with a
few more or less painful bruises.
Former Seward county students and
graduates Of the state university are
making tentative plans for their
twenty.second annual banquet to be
held in Seward some time in February
Chancellor Avery has indicated that
he will attend.
The next meeting OF the Nebraska
Boilers association will be held at
Hastings.
When Albert Vrooman. farmer liv.
Ing west OF Wymore. entered his cave
to get supply Of meat for breakfast,
he found that someone had beat him
to 1t and carried away all OF his choice
home-cured bacon. hams, etc.
The community around Big Springs,
an inland postofiice in Cherry county,
Is greatly stirred up over smallpox
epidemlt. A score of cases are re-
ported though no deaths have oc.
Cured and only very few are seri.
ously sick.
Orchardists OF southeastern Ne
braska have a new trouble to fight
known as Illinois canker. No one
knows from whence or how II came.
Eight wolves were sighted, but only
one was killed at big circle hunt
held In the vicinity OF Rockford.
About two hundred men and boys par.
ticipated.
william Arrison. living at the Owl
lodging house, at Omaha, walked into
| the police station and wanted IN kpow