The Red Cloud chief., 1915-06-24

Inc captain Harris mouse, AT ORC.
valued at $4,000, was badly damaged
by fire, caused by lightning.
The Plymouth school board has en-.
gagged John Ashton OF Giltner for
principal during the coming year.
The state convention of the p. f. o.
met at Fullerton last week with over
q hundred delegates in attendance.
Oscar Hornyak fell down the ele.
vator shaft of a building at Fremont
and received possibly fatal injuries.
Seven head OF horses belonging to
+. Myer at Oak were killed by light
ming during a severe electrical storm
last week.
A local labor bureau has been in.
stituted at Humboldt for the purpose
OF conserving the time Of employer
and laborer.
More than 900 members OF tho
State Travelling Mems Association at
tended the annual convention at Oma-
ha last week.
The cold, damp weather has cut the
prospective watermelon crop to an
alarming degree. and growers look for
. big shortage.
A stratum of the rare earth forming
the basis Of Denver mud" has been
discovered by laborers digging sewer
trenches at Lincoln.
Rev. r. W. Taylor. pastor Of the
Presbyterian church at Osceola, has
accepted a call to the Parkvale Pres.
byterian church at Omaha.
Fanny Gerelick, Il 14.year-old Oma.
ha girl. has the distinction of being
the best writer out Of $4,000 children
who took the test in that department.
Seven hundred automobile receipts
have been issued already by the u
~ treasurer Of Polk county. 1t Is es-
timated that there are over 900 cars.
Mrs. A. c. Bell wal perhaps fatally
injured and a number of people were
hurt when a circus tent blew down in
Q rain and wind storm at Erickson.
Glen Welton, 1S years old, sustained
. compound fracture of the right leg
and minor injuries when he fell from
q Burlington train as It was pulling
into the Lincoln yards.
The village OF Johnson is without
adequate fire protection and for this
reason and several others the citizens
there are agitating the question of in
stalling a waterworks system.
The Dempster Manufacturing com.
pany of Beatrice, has turned down an
order from European allies, refusing
to consider q proposition to furnish
them with arms and shrapnel.
The mill dam of S. F. Gilman at
Valentine was swept out in a cloud.
burst early last Sunday morning. The
electric light and pumping stations
we're wrecked and the city left with.
out water or light.
Marguerite Tharpe, a 1~6-year-old
Omaha girl, is under arrest charged
with attempting the life Of her father.
Eli Tharpe. by closing the doors and
windows and turning on the gas while
he was sleeping in his room.
The National Mail Carriers associ-
alton will hold its sessions at Omaha
in September.
Mrs. Nina Workman, whose hus-
band was ~electrocuted by a live cleo.
trio wire at Lincoln some months ago.
has been granted a mothers pension.
She has four children. the youngest
being but Is months cid.
Prominent educators in the Sew
enth Day Adventist church from
Washington, d. c., and elsewhere and
church workers from the central and
western parts of the United States
and Canada will meet in convention
at College View July o to II.
Frank Hedge, a young man living
rear Seward was seriously wounded
when a rife he was cleaning was ac-
c~identally discharged. The bullet
passed through his wrist and entered
his right lung.
A police officer at York, who shot
three times at Frank Elliott, a young
man Of that place wounding him in
the leg. will be prosecuted by Coun-
ty Attorney o. S. Gilmore OF York
county, on the advice OF the state
legal department.
Over 1000 tennis experts are ex.
pected to attend the state meet at
Lincoln during the week of July 26.
DR.. James r. Haggard, for several
years one of I.incoln's prominent ply
s~icians, was found dead in his bed at
the Central hotel.
After two years of labor and ex-
penditure Of some 100000 the drain
age ditch along the Nemaha river
IN Johnson county has been COM
pleted.
One hundred and seventy-two
young men and young women, repres'
enting the largest class ever turned
out by the Lincoln high school, re-
oeived diplomas at the forty'second
annual commencement exercises OF
the school last week