The Red Cloud chief., 1915-04-29
CONDENSED NEWS
OF TO ALL.

VI tnt INtIIdhhd u. l.. n.
Seven blocks of paving will be laid
In Kearney this season.
Thirty-siY cases of smallpox have
been reported In Hastings.
Work has commenced on the new
Carnegie library at Harvard.
Pierce went dry by thirty votes.
Mayor Duff was reelected.
Fire destroyed the livery barn OF
A. j. Hutchinson at Diller.
The Kearney baseall team will not
play Sunday ball this year.
Jitney cars have been started at
North Platte by a local garage.
Sterling has voted in favor of
bonds to build a water plant.
Alfred Pont, editor of the Stanton
Register, died at his home in that
city.
200 acres of orchard have been set
out In the vicinity of Shubert this
year.
The odd Fellows of Polk will soon
erect a new building at that place to
ost S12,O 900.
Mayor KILLER of Kearney vetoed
the ordinance raising the salaries of
the city councilmen and himself.
Eugene V. Debs Is to speak In
North Platte on June 2. He has been
secured through the efforts of local
socialists.
Nebraska Eagles will hold their
annual convention at South Omaha,
June 15-16.17. An elaborate program
Is being planned.
Gle for the Lowry Moody e~vangelistic
meetings to he held at North Platte,
beginning May 2.
$4,000 mules will be assembled at
Grand Island by a Kansas City dealer
Tor use In h British army. They will
be shipped to Canada from that point.
Farmers in the vicinity of Grand Is.
land have been husking corn. They
report the corn in good condition in
spite OF staying In the fields all win.
ter.
Suggestion OF Crawford Kennedy of
Lincoln that the republican national
convention be held at Omaha in 1916
Is meeting with support over the
state.
Mrs. Mary Francis Humphrey of
Obert committed suicide by hanging.
The deed was done with a skipping
rope used by the children of DIR.
Field.
h contract for the new Carnegie
library at Gothenburg was awrded TO
Daniel Fauble of Grand Island. He
VIII begin the erection of the e
$4,000 building at once.
Fire of unknown origin DESTROYED
four frame buildings at Chapman, and
the contents, and partly damaged the
brick building OF the Chapman State
bank. ~rhe total loss amounts to
SIG, ZOO.
Among the Giving wax figures" pro.
vided by teachers in a special enter.
tatnment at the Longfellow school at
Hastings was a striking impersona-
ton of John O'Connor, dead more
than n year, but yet unburied.
Lighting bonds OF the village of
Maxwell have been registered with
state Auditor Smith in the sun of
$4,000. The village Of Lyons has reg.
istered $4,000 worth of bonds, also.
for an electric lighting plant.
Alvah Street, a ~16-yearold boy liv.
ing south of Merna, died in a mys.
ferrous manner. He DOL a dose O;
e~ffcrvescent salts of n standard
brand. and II few minutes later went
into commissions. dying a short time
after.
The grain elevator belonging toll
Seefus Il Deerson at Elkhorn, was
completely destroyed by fire. About
1000 bushels of grain were destroy,
ed. The total loss Is estimated be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. the ele.
vator being worth about $4,000.
Atlas Smith was instantly killed by
electrocution on the transmission
wires of the bridge between SCOTS.
blur and Gering. The boy was fish.
Ing and undertook tn untangle his
line from the live wires. His body,
when recovered from the stream. was
burned blue.
h abstract of the condition of the
national banks Of Nebraska, exclusive
w ''S'lNN 'llltS at the CLOSE OF huSl. |
ness on March 4 as reported to the
comptroller of the currency, shows
the reserve held at 27.l5 per cent:
loans and discounts, S5i,5Si,S50; gold
coin, $l,04S,Sl3; lawful money re-
serve, s2.765,S23; deposits, $52, 909,A34
Richardson county is claiming.
with many other sections of the coun.
try, an interest in the preliminary
training of the present champion of
fistic circles. 1t is asserted that Jess
Willard, a few years ago, was a cham. |
pion corn shucker in the vicinity O,
Barada, and is quite well remembered
by many OF the people OF that vicinity. |
Catching her skirt In a chair from
which she was arising, Mrs. W. IL
Lynn, wife of the former city physi,
clan of Hastings, fell, breaking her
left wrist