Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-16
-Dannebrog has sunk a town

will be 65xS5, two stories.
A Irish colony is making ar
rangements to settle in Clay county.
Grand Island has organized a
fire company.
Hamilton is to be the county
seat of Hamilton county at no dis
tant day.
"A company has been incorpora-
ted for the purpose of erecting an
elevator at Grand Island. -
Beaver, Cedar and Plum creek
valleys are rapidly filling up with
well-to-do, industrious people.
Bloomington has triumphed in
the contest for the county seat e
Franklin.
Fourteen Hungarian families
are expected to reinforce Salem
county this week. Inward
Grading on the southern end of
the Grand Island & Hastings road
is progressing very briskly.
Work on the Beatrice artesian
well has been temporarily suspen-
ded at a depth of 1850 feet. cd
Portsmouth Is to have a skiff
race on the Fourth, for fifty dollars
a side.
The German Lutheran Church
at Stanton, was considerably dam
aged by lightning last week.
The people of Saunders county
are beginning to wrestle with the
railroad problem.
The First Agricultural Fair of
jefferson county will be held near
Fairbury, Sept. 9th, 10th and 18th.
The Platte river bridge a Schuy-
Ter will be in crossing order within
three weeks.
Fifteen hundred head of cattle
passed through st. Paul into the up
per Loup country last week.
George s. Harris, Land Com
missioner of the b. & NJ. r. R., died
at Lincoln Friday.
Work on the 5000 Court House
at WahOo is to be commenced i'm.
mediately.
Seward ia organizing q brass
band and building a $1,000 school
house.
MFR. Alexander, postmaster at
WahOO, died suddenly last week
Friday, and forty applications for
his place are already ON file at
Washington.
The question of providing a
dormitOry for the University will
be discussed by the Regents at the
meeting on the 22d inst.
Lone Tree wants the Union
Pacific to bridge the Platte river at
that point with a view of drawing
traffic from the south side.
The rise i'm the Missouri river
has SO backed the water in the Ne
maha that grinding cannot be done
at Benefits mill.
Eighty men are employed in
the construction of the Platte river
bridge at Kearney, and the work is
being rapidly pushed to completion.
Ex-Governor Butler has sold
his Lincoln residence, and will move
at an early day, to his farm in Paw
nee county, where no will engage
in stock raising.
"A German, who recently pur-
chased a section of railroad land
near Sutton, Is running Is breaking
teams, which would indicate that
he means business.
Taylor Tucedell, a Beatrice
burglar, and John Coates, q Thayer
county horse thief, made their es-
cape from TIE Gage county Jail last
Week,
Seven hundred BOhemians met
at LinwOod, Burt county, last week
for the purpose of organizing aud
procuring funds to build a Catholic
church.
The OtOes are becoming civil
lzed. Some of the pious members
Of the tribe burglarized the store of
Agent Barnes last week and appro-
priated an assortment of dry goods
md the loose currency in his money c
1rawer.
Political farmers organized a !
lew party last week to be known as G
he Farmers and Laborers' indie p
PENDENT party. The call for a dele- :
rate convention at Lincoln on the ,
bird Tuesday in July.
The Commissioner of the Gen.
raj Land Office has issued orders to Y
he Grand Island Land Office to re- =
erve from entry sections 9 and 10.
own 20, range Is, west, on the r.
North Loup, which is supposed to
.e The site of the proposed fort on 7
he Loup.
Oscar T. FOOte, Master of Elm
Stand Grange, Hall county, had
hree god horses killed by light +
ing last week. This leaves him n
q team and his brother
rangers are quietly working up a r.
INSCRIPTION for his relief.
The contract for carving the
nail on mail route No. S4,0IS, run. F.
ing from Lone Tree via Albion to
liobrara, l25 miles north of Lone II
rec on the Missouri river, has been
warded to Michael Welch, of Co.
The term of the contract
for four years, commencing on
ne LIST of July next.
York contains about 200 inhabi- i
ants. The town consists of a court
ouSe, school house, two churches,
hotel, five general stores, two 8
arness shops, two hardware stores.
livery stable, one lumber ward. Y,
meat market, two shoe shops. v
NO Photographic galleries, one adj
rinting office and two dozen dwell is
ng houses. in
all
LAST week the party engaged in d.
knowing the bodies Of soldiers from III
ID Fort Kearney came upon one HI
lame unknOwn) which had turned :,
ito stone. The form and features Fl
7 the dead man were well pre-
rived, and the hair looked "a r,
atural as life The body was very
.avy, and it is estimated that its n
eight was more than five times as
reat as when alive. :