Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-15

the oil scattering in every direction. Ihe
people kept cool, however, and Win the
mating smothered the hames.
Clarence Maloney, aged 10, of Gibhon,
was thrown from o horse while herding
| c tile last week. His foot caught in a
stirrup and he was dragged to death
North Bend is getting alarmed at the
immense amount of ice formed in the
Platte and Loup rivers andlfears a repett-
ton of her experience two years ago.
VIM. Bozarth, living q couple OF miles
out of Fairfield, has a Berkshire SOW that
has raised 50 pigs in the last four years.
The animal now weighs aOout 800 pounds
The Western Uaion thinks II can skin
the grain dealers of Plattsmouth and has
put up the charges TO the four dealers Tor
market reports from $3.50 to 1910 per year,
A Welsh English paper is to he started
at Blue Springs pretty soon. The name
| OF it will be "Y Cimro Goilewinoi,' and
it gwill yundoubghtedli be u grrandd
scyuccess,
FL. Weltcn. n young Ia living near
Unadilla, WAS out hunting with n party on
the 3Osh ult., and aocideutly received the
contents of n shotgun in the neck, an oc'
currence that lays him up for awhile.
Conductor Charles Green, in charFe of
q b. & NJ. special, with T. j. Potter and
| Superin, eudent Holdrege on board, slipped
as he waB getting on the engine nj
Arapahoe and had a number OF toss
mashed.
A Norwegian,in Madison county was
kicked In the head by q horse n month
/, ago and his skull fractured. Recently a
surgeon drew out a piece OF the Uranium
an inch and a half long, and now the man
is getting well.
A Schuyler man received a carload OF
| coal from Pennsylvania OF the 10th, for
| which he paid one hundred dollars freight;
| for the /, 200 miles between Rea8ing and
| Omaha he paid S74; and'for the rs miles
between Omaha and Schuyler the Union
| Pacific knocked $3.50 out If his purse.
Madison county has had another acct
dental shooting. On the 7Gh, ; Doc" Bishon
| was visiting his brother, j. w. Bishop, OF
| Kalamazoo, and while showing him y re.
| volv r it went off, the ball hitting j W.
4-year-old son in the head, making a wound
that the attending surgeon thinks will be
fatal.
Levi Nedrow is one Of the pioneers OF
Richardson county, and a large party
gave him o surprise on the 9Th, his birth
day. A local paper says 1t was o great
surprise, indeed, to Uncle Levi, but he
''slipped out to the barn, where he turned
his shirt and smoothed his hair with q
cob" and re urned to the house and enjoyed
himself.
Tekamah had a shotgun accident recent
Y. MIR. Huppock, q merchant, was push
Ing a charge into a gun, the weap n lynn
on the counter pointing towards the oper
door, when it exploded just as a boy
named frankie Cieagon was passing
Three of the shot entered the boys bach
and it is feared one must have injured tn
spinal cord, as all below is paraly zed. The
boys death is only a matter of little time
M. Mohler went to Howard on Wednes
day Of last week and got trunk. Coins
home that night he fell off his horse, anC
didn't reach his domioile till midnight, an,
his family found his hands and feet frozen
His wife tried to get his feet into coll
water, Pbut heIinsisted upon putting the
in an oven, and did so. He had a livel,
time thawing out, and perhaps will know
better next time.