Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-14
The Willow Islanders are going

The Willow Islanders are going
into the diary business.
-Juniatta will not have a$15,OO
court house for the present. Judge
CAN'T has enjoined the hasty con-
tract.
The Methodist camp meeting
near Bennett Station, is in full
blast. The average attendance last
week was 1000 per day.
-Brownvilie is preparing to re-
sist the effort of certain agitators to
remove the county seat to some
more central locality.
Between three and four thOus-
and people attended the Grange
celebration at Bissel's (Saunders
Co.. on the Fourth.
"A proposition to extend the
time of the Omaha and Northwest
ern railroad, for completing their
road, will probably be submitted to
the people of burt county.
"A petition is being signed at
Grand Island, asking the Postmas-
ter General for q tri-weekly mail
between that place and st. Paul,
Howard county.
Barclay Jones, the Norfolk
miller, met with al accident last
week, while cleaning up his mill,
that resulted in his losing his right
leg, and fracturing the bone of the
left one.
"A railroad meeting of prOmi-
nent Saunders county farmers was
held at Bissels last week and passed
resolutions in favor Of issuing bonds
to secure q railroad through the
centre of the county.
The wind on Wednesday night
bowed down the railroad wind
mill at Elkhorn, and lifted the
north roof of the depot up about two
feet. 1t fell back in its place. The
chimney was destroyed. No other
harm done.
Mr.. ]. W. LaMunyon, of North
Platte, has returned from an ex-
ploration Of the Black Hills, and
brings very fine collection of min
eral specimens, including gold and
silver quartz, also some brillia, If
stones, rubies, moss agate, DC.
"A committee has been investi-
eating the manufacturing resources
of OtOe county. They recommend
the erection of an oil mill, fruit
canning establishment, cheese fac
tory, and an agricultural implement
factory.
"A meeting was held at Bell
Creek last week for the purpose OF
devising means to defray the ex'
penses of Henry Sprill and others
in prosecuting their suit flor Wash
ington County, against the Omaha
& Northwestern Railroad.
"A ten year old son Of Andrew
Heitzman, who resides i've miles
from West Point, was bitten on the
finger by a snake last Saturday,
while playing in the grass. The
| boys hand and arm commenced
swelling rapidly, indicating that il
was bitten by q very poisonous rep.
, tile, and had 1t not been for prompt
remedies administered, death would
have probably ensued.
The Union Pacific railroad com.
pany have decided to put in exten.
sive stock yards at Kearney, as
soon as possible, for the accommo.
dalton of shippers of Texas cattle,
thousands of which are now feeding
on the prairie near this city. Here
!. tOfOre drovers have been compelled
to drive their stock to Lowell, on
the Burlington and Missouri rail-
road, or to some station east of here
on the Union Pacific railroad, fol
shipment.
Another petrified man has been
exhumed in removing the bodies
from the cemetery at old Fl. Kear.
ney. At the celebration of the
Fourth, at that place, they made q
very attractive side-shOw of the
body, but IN exposure to the air
awhile it began crumbling like
chalk, which is accounted for by
the fact that the subject, while ston
the surface" was a strictly temper.
ance man. The body when first
taken from the ground was esti.
mated to weigh six hundred pounds,
but exposure soon reduced its spe.
cific gravity to the weight of a liv-
ing person. The petrefaction will
be recommitted to the earth by the
officers in charge Of the work.
A horrible and murderOus as
sault vas made upon q Polander
named Jacob Matzkabetz and his
wife near Lowell last Friday. The
couple had arrived from oland some
two weeks ago,
In coming from the old country,
they paid the fare Of q young man
twenty years Of age, who Is said to
be no relative Of theirs, but who
wished to come to America, and
agreed to work for them until he
repaid them for the money spent In
bringing him over. They were
living about a mile and q half from
Lowell, and had bargained for some
railroad land, for which they were
to pay to-day. They had in their
possession some 5000 In cash.
Just after daylight Tuesday morn
ing, while they were asleep in bed,
the murderer crept up to them with
an axe and cut q long and terrible
cash in the fOreheads of each. They
did not die Immediately from the
wounds, but were alive at last &C.
counts, although there was no pos.
sibility Of their recovery.
A little boy from a neighboring
house was q witness to the horrible
iced, and gave the alarm. The
citizens assembled and began search
for the murderer, finally capturing
him near the b. 4 NJ. depot. II
was with great difficulty that the
people could be restrained from
taking the law into their own
hands, and giving the fellow the
benefit Of a telegraph pole, but bet
ter counsel finally prevailed, and he
was lodged in Jail at GibbOn. He
Is represented as being q man OF
that very idiotic appearance, which
SO often ch~aracterizes many of our
most brutal murderers.
A Preliminary examination shows
that the DriSOnersS name Il August