Nebraska advertiser., 1877-08-02
NEWS SUMMARY.

A man named VIM. MalOn5y was
thrown from a third story window
and killed in Boston on the oath. by {
man with whom he had been quarrel.
ing, named Finnegan.
At TT. Dodge. Iowa, on the Goth
fifty tramps boarded passenger train
and refused to pay fare. The engi-
neer stopped the engine, when the
tramps ordered him to go on
threatening to shoot. He then
took them to Ackley, where they
peaceably left.
Thirty-three cars ran into New York
on the 27th. ult. loaded with peaches
from Dviu -~eso-
The depot and water tank of the N
Y. & Midland railroad at Morriston n.
Y. were burned on the 9th.
A general order dismissing all the
troops in the State ofNew York called
out by the recent Disturbances, was
made on the 27th. ult.
As James ]. White, a respected
member of the Chicago board oftrade,
was partrolling his beat at Lawndale,
a suburban village, he discovered
a suspicious character, and at once ar
rested him. He had taken his pris-
oner some distance when the tramp
began to resist and suddenly drew a
revolver from his pocket. placed it to
Mr.. Whites forehead, fired and instan-
tly killed his captor. and escaped.
\ family in Easton, Pa, was recent
ly found starving to death. Three of
the family had recently died of star
Yation.
At Chicago railroad employees pro-
pose to organize to help put down the
communists of whose riOtous acts they
disapproye.
Among the most cowardly incidents
connected with the riots at Pittsburg,
was the stacking of arms and deser-
ton of the Philadelphia soldiery, by
the Pittsburg militia.
The Colorado potato bug has gone
to Ireland.
A great improvement in Texas eat
tie. has been made by the use of short
horn males.
The wheat crop of Ohio is estimated
this year by good judges, at thirty
million bushels.
At Monroevill, Ind, Jacob Frielbee
was shot by tramp in house of i'll
fame, on the Goth. ult.
A young man named Hubbard
Bowen of Brookhaven Miss, last
week was shot dead by drunken ne
gro.
Minneapolis handled 5 $50, 600 bush
els of wheat the past year, but sent
abroad only 48, 600 bushels of the grain
The rest of 1t came down to the sea-
coast in the form of barrels of flour,
branded Gilt Edge, Sea Foam, Red
Letter. Old Glory, and the other i'm
aginary titles in which the millers
there take delight. and Minneapolis
was accordingly $4,000, 900 the richer
for having manufactured her raw,
material, instead of having exported
IL direct.
a sheep farmer in California drove
a flock of 900 pure blOoded merino
sheep to Colorado. He was sixteen
months on the way, and brought in
bis merinos in good order 1t is stat
ed that number of sheep ralsers in
California have g, 900 sheep on these
ranges, contemplate driving them to
Texas, on account of the splendid pas
turage to be obtained in that State.
From great number Of infested dis
tricts of Southern Minnesota it is
earned that the 'hoppers are rising |
and flying with the wind to the North |
west. While crops in some localities
have been badly hurt by the 'hoppers,
he reports generally indicate that not
much damage has been done as yet.
An English sheep breeder sheared
% Lincolnshire sheep this Spring,
III under fourteen months of age.
which produced 2257 pounds of wool
ixty CT their teeoes weighed 1901