Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-28

Hastings expects to build an ell
evator this season. N
buffalo county will hold an ag-1
ricultural fair this fall.
-Tecumseh expects to establish
an agricultural implement factory.
The Ashland fax mill is pre-
pairing for active operations.
,4-Beatrice lis to have a tanning
mill factory. -
Corner lots have riz in Bloom
ington. 81
-Nemaha county will build a
$500 poor house.
t4AB1ffalo hunting is allthe rage
in the neighborhood of North Platte.
Fremont is building another
elevator. ~
st. Paul wants a hardware
store. HI
on the new plcw factory
at Crete is progressing finely. 81
WILDER is constructing a 10000
bushel grain elevator. Iii,
Bell Creek exports one car load
of brick per day to Fremont. 81
Lincoln tannery promises
70 pe u b4I
Lincoln proposes to organize a
$4,000 hotel stock company. ~
-PIattsmouth is trying to estab-
lish a church and parlor organ fac
tory,2 90 rfsrcnED 81,
SAASewand county has over $4,000
back pay due her in taxes from the
B. Il M. railroad company. hti
A3Clarksville is in a flourishing
condition in spite of the grasshopper
s. q
The Columbus foundry will
commence active operations in two
weeks. 9l
st. Helena has a sprightly
newspaper-the Cedar county i'd
.vocate. V ~ =.
s-St. Helena will establish a
steam ferry across the Missouri by
September list. 80
-Tekamah wants the Omaha &
Northwestern Railroad to move for
ward and extend. So,
3e5A daily mail bet tween Ashland
and Wahoo is now being agitated
in Saunders county.!S4O0
-Beatrice has q second weekly
paper, the Gage county Herald,
Emory Higley editor and publisher.
The saw mill at Arapahoe, Fur
mas county, was accidentally de-
stroyed by fire last week. 'h5
IA dead man was pulled out of
the Missouri river at Brownville last
week, but he was not identified.
1.-The new Touring mill at VIII
Der, Saline, Co., will be in operation
by October LIST.
Red. Cloud, Webster county,
contains between 900 and 500 in
habitants.
Boone county peat is rep
resented as q f~irst-class substitute
for fuel-N
The Mennonites that arrived in
this State last week are said to have |
brought about $500, 900 in money |
with tffein.
An extensive bed of mineral
clay or potmeta which Is, expected
to make first class stoneware, has
been, discovered near Beatrice. ~ !
THE commissioners Of Howard
county refuse to appropriate $3.50 for
the survey of the proposed Sioux
City 4 Kearnsy road.
There are fortylfour streams
emptying into the Republican river:
nine saw mills in operation, two
Touring mills in running order and
nine in contemplation.
"A party of Ottumwa capitalists |
have purchased q SECTION Of land
near Wood river, on which they
propose to erect q substantial grist
MIL. THsJ0T 3Iy4a
The Seward elevator Is now
completed. "A twelYe-horse power
engine supplies Its motive power,
and a separator that will clean from
500 to 600 bushels of grain per hour
is being placed in the cupola. -
Q@The south fork of the Platte
river is nearly dry, where the two
forks Of that stream come together
at North Platte. The water has
not been known to be so low for
over six years. s5ni ~ A. zsAs bds
THE special term of the District
Court for the trial of George Waldo
and Mrs. Celestia Randall, for the
murder of George Randall, will COM
.ence IN Pawnee City on the 11th
Of August. Sheriff Taylor has been
Commanded to have thirty-two wit
nesses present from Johnson COUNTY,,
Just to begin the trial.
lBetween Red Cloud, Webster
county, and Arapahoe, GFurnas
there are, by actual count, seven
hundred houses Tbs INCLUDES the
dwellings, In the different towns in
he counties of Franklin, Harlan
md Furnas.X The number Of claims
aiken on which the dwellings are
not visible, is eighteen hundred.
La Platte, Sarpy county, was
J scene jpt the murder Of a child
light weeks old by its parents on
heIl8th inst The deed was com.
in the presence. of several :,
'ersons, and as the child was of lille
Ultimate origin, the verdict Of the
'efoner'sj aTyyWhich lie substantial
y as follows, tells the story: sThe
ury find that the child came to its
leath at the ha1ds Of Ge~0rgianna i
VhitungtQn andGeoEgeR ango, who !
hnsx che child Into. a2Well and /
.rowned it. Ringo aud the mother l
we're together NEARLY all the fore 4
Ioon, and Ringa though he denied
his oath that be was the father
f the child, Admitted that he fur :
ished the mother money before :
he child was 1bdrn to leave the !
ountry, because abe threatened to I
xpose him as the father. The {
heriff arrested both Georgianna +
Vhittington and George Rtngo. Z
Lsttssy vanosssd, q