Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-14
STATE JOTTINGS.

Corn in Thayer county is in silk and
tassel.
Farmers are cutting wheat in Kearney
county.
Pierce has good prospect of a grain
elevator.
Two arrests have been made at Albion
for arson.
Oakdale's new bank building is in course
of erection.
The Ashland Platte River bridge will he
completed in September.
A fire at Albion on the 4th destroyed
S3, 600 worth of property.
The total assessed valuation of Nemaha
county is s2,172,524.5O.
Five thousand people attended the cele-
bration at Sheridan on the Fourth.
A church picnic at O'Neil on the 4th of
July realized between $500 and 5000.
The surveyors of the Missouri Pacific
will reach Sheridan or vicinity this week.
boyers packing house in Lincoln was
destroyed by fire on Saturday. Loss 81,
200
The amount Of money required to run the
municipality of North Platte for the next
year is 1850.
Twenty-Five hundred dollars worth of a
poultry house went up in blaze at Syra-
cuse on the Fourth.
Journals in southern Nebraska are de-
nouncing the Grand Circus Royal as an
unmitigated fraud.
A young man named George Curry was
fatally sunstruck in a cornfield near Blue
Springs, on the 9th.
A division headquarters and round house
OF the b. & M. has been located ut Wy
more, Gage county.
The new town of Wymore, Gage county,
is booming Fifty new houses have been
erected in ninety days.
Manager Touzalin, of the BAN. donated
500 toward the establishment of the Y.
M. 9. A. library at Hastings.
Theson of Mr.. Wolfe, of Berlin precinct,
Otoe county, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed last Saturday.
Adams county farmers are going to run
Allan ce ticket next fall. The vote on
this proposition in convention stood AZ to
q.
Ralf Wyckman, aged %, was drowned
while bathing in the Elkhorn river, near
Hooper, on Thursday evening about s
o'clock.
A North Platte robber, who jumped his
bail bond about two years ago, was recent
ly captured in Leavenworth, and is now
on his way back to his old quarters.
The Odd Fellows of Firth assisted by
FIVE or six of the neighboring lodges will
lay the corner stone of the First rresbyte-
rian church on Saturday, the 10Th inst, at
4 o'clock, with appropriate exercises.
A forger attempted to pass raised
draft at the First National bank at Platts.
mouth last week The name of the en-
dorser was forged and the amount raised
from s. to $500. The sheriff embraced
him.
The B. & Nj. managers will endeavor to
checkmate jaw Gould's west side line to
Omaha by building branch from Falls
City, Richardson county, to Kansas City.
The surveying corps are laying out the
route.
The son of Mr.. J. P. Stricklett, of Blair
precinct, aged eight years, accidentally
stepped in front of a mower on Saturday
afternoon last, cutting his foot through
the instep SO that it only adhered by the
lower ligaments.
The G. B. l. G., railroad company have
$1,000 worth of material lying at East
| Nebraska City, with which to construct a
permanent transfer landing as sson as the
government engineer succeeded in keeping
the river from cutting the bank at East
Nebraska City.
AS we go to press we learn that light
ming struck the New Posen store, owned by
Frank Waseleski, about 10 o'clock Tues
day night and burned the store, goods and
| all, to the ground. The hired man, whose
name we did not learn, was killed.-[St.
Paul Phonograph.
The returns of the assessors of Butler
county make the following showing:
Horses, 459S; cattle, 911O; mules, 81;
sheep, 1915; hogs, 10254; fire and burglar
proof safes, 81; billiard tables, IL; car.
riages and wagons 1924; watches and clocks,
456; sewing machines, GAO; pianoforts, IL;
melodeons and organs, 60. Number of
acres of improved lands, 118, ,2S6. Number
of acres of unimproved lands, 217, 129.
Total number of acres, 1885, ,416.
The headquarters of the Republican
division of the b. 4 NJ were moved from
Hastings to Red Cloud on the 3Oth ult-,
| and the whole business of this line and the
Hastings line will be operated in Mr..
Campbell's name as superintendent. 1t is
now thought. that by the 10Th inst, trains
will so straight through to Chicago via
Beatrice and LIncoln. This move indi.
Gates that the time for this changeis draw
ing nearer at any rate Hardy Herald.
Manager Touzalin is negotiating for ten
acres of land adjoining the town of Endi-
colt. The price offered, S75 per acre, was
not accepted He was offered it at 800
an acre. The trade will probably be COM
pleted, in which event Mr.. Touzalin will
probably make some improvements. Mr..
Touzalin is now erecting in town, store
| building that will be of stone and brick,
22x60, and two stories.
A young man by the name of White,
| working for Sheriff Groner at his ranch
eight miles southwest of town, met with q
| serious accident last Sunday morning
Rising early White decided to ride some
distance after fresh water, and rounded up
young horse that had never been broken
to the saddle, and mounting him started
off at a full run. The horse became fran
tic and dashed against barbed wire fence
with great force, cutting itself and rider in
horrible manner. The right thigh and
leg of White were fearfully lacerated, and
large pieces of flesh torn out by the jagged
wire. DIR. Donaldson was sent for and at
tended the injuries. Young White fortu-
nately had no bones broken, but was badly
lacerated in flesh and muscles. He was
able to travel, and left Tuesday for his
home in Clinton, Iowa. The horse is Sc
riously injured. Platte Nebras-
kan.