Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-15
STATE JOTTINGS.

Alma is enjoying a building boom.
Hastings has now q city weighmaster.
Wymore now boasts of n Y. NJ. G. A.
Neigh has another paper, The Advo.
cate.
Firth was raided by burglars last
week.
A new lumber yard has been opened at
Wymore.
A large addition is to be built to Ulys-
ses hotel.
Pawnee City is rebuilding with brick
and stone.
Fairfeld's new schoolhousc will cost
$1,000.
Oats in Nance county are splendid.
Wheat is light.
Wahoo's new Methodist church was dedi-
Gated last Sunday.
Red Clouds new bank building is in
process of erection.
Twenty-Five old soldiers will form a part
of the e.. A. r. at Ulysses.
Crops in K%earney and Phelps counties
are looking very finely.
FWaterloo opened her new Presbyterian
church week ago Sunday.
The passenger depot at Blair is rapidly
approaching completion.
The s. C. & p. road will run cars
through to long Pine this fall.
Nonce county holds its republican con-
v~ention at Fullerton on October Sth.
Over five thousand tons of hay are being
put in stack in the vicinity of Fremont.
The republican river is aboutas low
now as at any time during the past two
years.
A party of st. Paul fishermen caught
one hundred and eight fish last week near
Neigh.
Jonathan Ireland, of Cambridge, COM
mitted suicide last week by shooting him
self in the head.
A steam sugar cane mill at Fairfield is
nearly completed, and will soon be in
operation.
The York county farmers convention
will be held at York on August goth, at l
o'clock.
Colfax county has another mill which
will shortly go into operation on Shell
creek.
The L. =. railway are erecting a tank
and windmill at Kearney which will cost
nearly 81 600.
s.. ID. Green, one of the Butler county's
oldest pioneers, died last week. He was
nearly so years old.
The Congregational college has been To-
Gated at Neigh. that thriving town bid
ding 1000 for the location.
Nemaha is enjoying n boom. Every
dwelling house is occupied, IND there are
constant inquirers for more.
Whore goods were shipped into Ulysses
last month than in any one month since
the completion of the road.
At a meeting held last week in Beatrice
II was determined to organize The Old Set
tiers Club of Gage County.
Republican valley stock raisers saw that
their stock never looked better at this sea-
son Of the year than they do now.
An elegant album was presented to Rev.
Schaif, at Hastings, by his Pensioners
upon his departure from that city.
The house of Mr.. l.. II. Suter, at Me-
ligh, caught fire last week and was burned
to the ground, with all its contents.
Norfolk lumber merchants find them
selves almost unable to supply the demand
madeon them for building material.
Lind h Cooper offer to build a $40, 600
steam mill at Humboldt, If the people Of
that place will give a bonus of $500.
The house of !. Z. Shivey, two miles
north of Fremont, was burned To the
ground ON Friday last. Loss about ST.
800.
y petition is soon TO becirculated along
the mail ronte between st. Paul and Loup
City, asking for daily service between the
places.
A party of st. Paul hunters ON the
North Loup ran across several herds of
antelope, black tailed deer and some fine
elk.
The loss by the fire at Pawnee Citv was
$40, 900, on which there was an in%SiYranee
Of only 80, 500. Twenty-seyen business
houses We're destroyed.
MIR. Lindsey, living near Riyerton,
harbored a young man who plead poverty
ana was rewarded by the scoundrel run
ming off one of his best horses,
The Omaha & Republican valley road
Will Rnce be extended TO Fort Hartsuff.
Twe live miles of railroad will at once
be graded in Howard county.
There has been quite an increase of
travel through Pleasant Valley from the
ierdigris and Walnut Grove Settlements
since the arrival Of the ears at Creighton.
A well,to-do German farmer named
oarsten lngwersen, residing ten miles
week 10y shooting himself in the head with
a revolver.
man named Joseph Wade shot him.
sell, accidentally, in the leg, one week AGO
saturday evening, about twenty miles