The Red Cloud chief., 1914-05-07
Brief NEWS OF Nebraska

III Johnson county snow q IalllnB On
for last year over former years.
Six head of cattle owned by Samuel
Small, a farmer living southwest Of
Tecumseh. we're killed by lightning.
A bond election will be held at
Cedar Bluffs to secure 81. 900 for the
erection of q new high school build
ing.
Mayor lngraham drove a mule team
to n Of the city wagons taking part
in the cleanup" campaign in Hast
ings. y
Porforio del Gado, a Mexican labor
er, was severely wounded In the leg
when he struck a track torpedo while
at work In the Rock Island yards at
Lincoln.
Twenty-four saloonkeepers Of Lin
coin were granted new licenses May 1
by the excise board, only n license
being held up.
A. w. Reimenschneider, a lineman.
was instantly killed at Alliance when
he grasped a wire carrying 1900 volts
Of electricity.
Many ONE at Grand Island are
behind the movement for the estab.
lishment of an association opposed to
equal suffrage.
Hounds belonging to- H. Scott Of
Shubert killed a grown wolf and found
twelve young ones. The bounty
amounted to $39.
The Lincoln county fair will be held
on September 1, 2 and 8. The county
agricultural society Is preparing for
exhibits at the state fair. =
The Gage county board Of supervis
ors has confirmed the appointment OF
Miss Josephine McQuinn as deputy
clerk OF the district court.
/. o. o. F.. lodges Of Lincoln, Uni.
versity Place and Havelock united
in the celebration of the n~inety.ffth
anniversary Of the founding OF the
order.
Superior celebrated the closing Of
Its saloons with a band concert on
Main street. the first time the town
has been dry in over twenty-five
years.
With but few exceptions reports
from v Johnson county indicate
that all kinds Of fruit promises fine
crops. and that no damage by frost is
evident.
Alvin Willis, IS years old, died at q
hospital Saturday night from injuries
received when he fell down a freight
elevator shaft in the Herpolsheimer
store at Lincoln.
Farmers near Nichols are sowing
alfalfa with wheat. barley and oats.
They believe that the alfalfa growing
In the same field with the small grain
will keep out weeds.
Fire which started from q defective
iue in the drug store owned by G. M.
Lyrick destroyed fourb uildings in the
business section Of Clatonia and
caused loss Of about $22, 900.
A picked team of Omaha soccer
players administered a defeat to the
Lincoln aggregation Friday by a
score Of 4 to 2 in whit was probably
the first real soccer game ever played
in Lincoln.
Howard Meeker. the missing Level
len young man, for whom a search has
been unsuccessfully conducted for sew.
eral months following his strange dis.
appearance in Chicago, Is said to have
been located in Seattle.
County Superintendent John Mat
zen has started a fly swatting cam.
paign among the rural schools OF
Dodge county. Literature dealing
with the deadly proclivities Of the
house fly is being sent to teachers and
patrons urging their cooperation.
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War department to- transfer ex-Gov-
ernor Shallenberger's son to the Ne
braska National guard.
A nugget Of virgin gold as large as
a flbert was found in the craw Of a
rooster being prepared for the Sunday
dinner for the family OF Thomas
O'Neal at Lincoln.
The ~two-year.old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Coping, living near
Nebraska City. was seriously injured
when she fell into a pail of boiling
water. Her face and the upper por.
ton Of her body were badly scalded
and her condition Is critical.
Louis Becker, who shot Harry Kiln.
ga at Fremont, has been bound over
to the district court on a charge 0f
shooting with intent to wound. He
waived preliminary hearing.
William Wicke Of Aurora has given
q farm Of eighty acres In Hamilton
county, worth $4,000. to York college.
The donor Of the farm is 70 years Of
age.
A meeting Of the executive officers
OF tho state suffragist association has
been called to meet in Lincoln on
May 10 to decide on the form to be
used In the pamphlet which the state
allows petitioners to send out.
Petitions are being circulated at
Beatrice for the issuance OF bonds for
four miles OF paving.
Mrs. Daniel George. aged n, a
pioneer resident of York, dropped
dead OF heart disease, while eating
breakfast. She had been living In
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