The Red Cloud chief., 1915-02-18
sRIeF NEWS OF NEBRASKA,

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The baseball board has decided that
there will be no league ball in York
this season.
According to the new city directory
just issued. Omaha claims a popula-
ton OF 213,O12.
L.. NJ. Thomas will succeed II. b..
Smith as president of the University
Place Commercial club.
Sewer bonds were defeated at the
election at Broken Bow last week by
u majority of l4l votes.
Rev. Henry Ball Of Clatonia has
been transferred to the LaSalle Meth
odist church at West Beatrice.
A car load of fine horses was ship
ped from Broken Bow to a horse
firm In huntsville. n. ". by express.
Palmyra's waterworks system Is
now completed. and the Items says
that Palmyra really owns something
now.
II. A. Yost, an Auburn merchant on
a business trip to Chicago, was beaten
up and robbed by highwaymen in that
city
The Marion Enterprise says that
travelling shows take more money u
Of that town than all the mail order
houses combined.
Carl Eckhart. fifteen years old, at
Campbell. was accidentally shot
through his hand by an elder brother
who vas shooting at birds.
The Hastings Country club, having
outgrown the limits Of its present
quarters. is considering a project fol-
q new thoroughly modern home.
Thirteen horses were burned to
death when fire destroyed the Palace
livery barn at S%cottsbluF. The fire
originated from defective wiring.
The highest price ever paid for
wheat in Brock was received by Fred
Nieman last week, when he sold 1000
bushels of the cereal to the Brock
Roy Roberts of North Platte has en-
tered the ~penitentiary, probably never
to emerge, as he is condemned to die
June 4 for the murder OF Vernon Con.
nett.
The schoolhouse at Stratton was
badly damaged by fire starting from
an overheated furnace, and which had
gotten under good Roadway before its
discovery.
The record price for Hampshire
hogs in Nebraska was reached when
forty-five sows averaged nearly $65
each at the Manly sale near Lyons
last week.
s. r. Marty Of Columbus was elect.
ed as postmaster Of that place at an
election held there last week. many
rural patrons taking an active interest
in the vote.
The hardware store Of J. T. Garner
at Craig was burglarized last week
and a large quantity OF cutlery taken.
This makes the fifth burglary there In
less than three months.
A pet wolf at the home Of Harry
Doty. near Weeping Water. attacked
his young son Leonard. who received
a number Of bites and scratches be.
fore 1t was finally beaten of.
Principal Hildreth OF Filley was
compelled to dismiss school and con-
suit a physician because he attempted
to subdue an unruly pupil and
emerged from the fray with a broken
hand.
Harry, the three-months-ol son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Staehs Of Bea-
trice, was found dead in the cradle
Sunday by his mother. Coroner Reed
is Of the opinion that the child had
%smothered to death.
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Little Bernice Manning. eighteen
months old. of Omaha. sat down In a
bucket OF scalding I've water with
which her mother was about to scrub
the floor. and died shortly afterward
from injuries received.
At the convention OF the Nebraska
hardware men at Omaha recently, 1t
was stated that eastern mail order
houses, through the medium Of the
parcel post, take business from local
merchants which, in taxes to the COM
munity, is in excess OF $150,000 a year.
More than $50 Norfolk men braved
the wors blizzard Of the year to at
tend the annual banquet of the com.
mercial club of that place last week.
J. X. Cain, ST., president OF the
State Bank of Stella, has entered up.
on his thirtieth year with that insti.
tuition, having taken the position Of
cashier on January 1, 1886.
Former Governor George l.. Shell.
don, now operating a Mississippi
plantation, was In Lincoln for a few
days last week renewing old ~acquaint.
ances and visiting around the state
house with old colleagues Of former
days.
Everett Delzell, sixteen year old son
Of former State Superintendent j. f.
Delzell, is dead at Stevens Point, Wis.
where Mr.. Delzell is at the head OF
the state normal school.
Rev. II. c. Young Of Table Rock was
awarded first prize by the American
Sunday school union at its sessions in
Philadelphia for the best essay on
christianity and amusements.
The condition Of DR.. c. K. Bessey.
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