Nebraska advertiser., 1882-03-02

A TRAGIC death is reported from osnAburE.
stark County, o. A telegraph operator named
LlDcoln Murphy. aged twenty-one years,
boassfully barred his breast and invited Daniel
Rice 10 strike him. Rice did so, and soon aft
er Murphy sank 10 the ground and died
A SLICE half mile square has fallen from
the peak Of Bald Mountain, in North Carolina
10 the fertile valley below.
The report Of the State Secretary OF Inter
nal Affairs shows that there are /, l72, 100 taxa
bles IN Pennsylvania: value OF taxable real
estate property last year, 81, 50, ,G9s,27S There
was $40, $40 594 worth Of property exempt.
THREE students Of Wiljston Seminary.
Easthampton, Mass, were recently suspended
for hazing, and the two upper classes refuse
10 attend recitat.ons until the suspended
students are reiustated.
JAcon GEssERT, lately Superintendent OF
Police 1T Cincinnati, killed himself with n re
volver on the 18th, leaving a wife and nine
children
The report Of the Commission on the cattle
plague. which was seui 20 the Senate by the
Secretary OF the Treasury ON the 18th, showed
that no lung disease existed ia the Western
centers of livestock traffic
THE steamship Bahama WIS lost ON the 10th
ON her trip from Porto Rico TO New York.
Twenty-Five persons were drowned, and thir-
teen escaped in u small boat and were picked
up and brought TO New York on the 18th by
the Glenmorag
THE town Of Columbia. Tex, ON the 18th
was inundated from the Brazos River. The
Inhabitants bad gathered in the churches and
/ .,-.,ra avvuItad NTH Tod hx boate
FAILURES were anDoune d In Chicago on the
18th Of II. o. Kenyon & Co, Board Of Trade
firm, for S2JO,OO0. and =. A. Dix d Co, fish
merchants, for 10000.
ROBINSON, Kan, had $4,000 ERE on the
18th which destroyed the business portion Of
the town, including two hotels, the Masonic
aud Odd FeIlows' Halls, the Post-ofiiee and a
dozen stores.
AT Macon, No. on the 10th, the City Saw.
ings Bank and the Fsrmers' and Traders
Bank suspended payment.
SINCE the decision of the New York Courts
against the immigrant head money law, the
steamship companies have withdrawn their
offer 20 pay fifty cents for each passenger
landed, and the Comm ssioners of Castle Gar
den are left without adequate funds TO sup
port the immigrant institutions.
ACCORDING 20 the estimates Of the Depart.
ment Of Agriculture, the cereal products OF
1881 win show a reduction of twenty-four per
cent. ~ compared with 1880. The total value
in 1881 h estimated Ht 81, ,4G5 000, 900, against
81 1851 ,O00, ,000 in 1880.
THERE were 81, ,7l3 arrests made by the
police of Chicago last year
! NIAGARA RIVER just below the Falls, could
boast on the 10th Of the largest ice-bridge
extending from the Horseshoe Falls to point
below the swift drift.
FEW DAYS ago the County Treasurer at
Detroit wac robbed OF $40 H. sneak-thef
and his confederate.
| AT Brooklyn, n. Y, by the explosion on the
10th of two boilers at Jewels mills adjoining
Fulton Ferry, one man was killed and several
injured.
A FIRE in Louisville on the 10th destroyed
over hundred thousand dollars worth of
property.
II was announced on the 10th that negoti-
ations were pending In New York City for the
consolidation Of the American and United
States Express Companies.
THE Military Academy at Chester, Pa, con-
Quoted by Colonel Hyatt, was destroyed by
fire on the 10Th. Loss, 1926, 900.
OK the 10th Enos Sylvester, of Providence,
X. l., had an "insplration" which told him To
offer uphis sir-year-oh boyas burnt-oferng g
TO the Lord. Nelghbors intcrfered in time to
prevent the consummation OF the sacrifice.