Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-18
STATE JOTTINGS.

Ord is to have = new paper.
1t cost Humboldt $500 to celebrate.
Osceola has got the incorporation fever.
Utica is to have q new Methodist church.
A new hotel is be ing erected in Stan
ton.
Fremont no longer boasts of a brass
band.
Polk county's court house will cost S.
1888. so.
North Bends new school house will cost
$4,000.
The spire of Wahoo's new NJ. +. courch
is completed.
1t will cost North Bend $4,000 toreplace
her bridges.
The iron bridge south of Wahoo will be
put in again soon.
Hooper has organized a choir and liter
airy association.
Fall City BARRIERS have struck for higher
wages on Sunday.
West Points match factory will soon be
in active operation.
The corn crop in Burt and Washington
counties is immense.
Thirty nine and a half mills is the levy
Of Cunning county.
A movement is On foot to organize q
militia company in Grafton.
The number OF saloons in Crete has di.
minished from thirteen to four.
Ralph Welchman, residing near Hooper,
was drowned in the Elkhorn last week.
The Mormons of Nebraska City have
been holding their quarterly conference.
Herds of Texas ponies are now inyad-
ing the state, mostly via the Republican
valley.
Pawnee county has 60 school districts,
&c school houses and 2,779 children OF
school age. .t.
| In point of assessed valuation Saline
county retains the seventh place in the
state, 80, $50, 1868 rs.
Lincoln will vote on the 22nd upon the
proposition to issue $50, 900 in bonds for a
system of waterworks. m
Charlie Swan, q sixteen year old boy,
was drowned in Beaver creek, Dawson
county, last week while bathing.
The residence of Mr.. Schneider, OF
Nickerson, was struck by lightning last
week. Mr.. Schneider was rendered un.
conscious. ar
York county has accepted the PROPOSE
ton of Nobes q Stout to furnish rooms in
their new brick building at York, for the
use of the county officials.
The Ponca Indians will have $40, O0C
distributed among them this week, being
about $50 for ever man, woman and child,
One family will get about $1,000.
Andrew Youngman, living near Chap
man, Merrick county, suicided last weel
by shooting himself with a shot gun. Cause
family trouble and financial difficulty.
Steel rails are being laid between Colum
bus and Central City. By the end of thi
year the u. p. will have almost o continu
Gus line of steel track from Omaha to Og
den.
At Tecumseh last week the two sons o
John Waldermouth attempted to kindle
fire with kesosene. The eldest died from
injuriesj the younger is in . fair way Il
recover.
Mr.. Norris, the founder of Elm City
Cedar county, has offered ten acres o
ground, and $1,000 in cash, to any o N
who will build an institution of learning
at that place.
The government engineers are busily en-
gagged in building a large pile driver ant
making wire mating, with which to max,
the necessary change in the course Of tn,
river above this city. They will use thei
every means to turn the river down tn
slough. -INebraska City News.
Fall wheat that was not winter killed |
well filed and will yield well, though no
heavy on the ground. Spring wheat !
badly damaged by rust and bugs and |
not worth much: Corn is coming GU
splendidly, andwil make a big crop. Dat
are unusually good.-fPawnee City Repub
lican.
Since August 1875, one hundred an
eleven foreigners, residents of ShanktoI
comfy, have taken out final papers Q
naturalization and sworn allegiance to tn
United States. OF this number seventy
siI are Germans, fifteen Canadians an
r English, three Irish, four Norwegiani
nine Swedes, three French and on