Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-19
STATE JoLTINGS.

On Tuesday, while John was working
about the mill, his slotbing caught on the
shaft, and he was wound around II, break.
ing bis arms and legs in several places and
bruising his body. He died In q few min
utes. When he found bimself caught, he
shouted Co his wits, who was In her house
close by, and she shut of the power, but
not soon enough.
j. M. DJugherty was shot In the mouth
by Ben Riddle in o Wahoo gunshop last
Monday. Riddle wanted to buy o revolver
and had Mr.. Sage, the proprietor, put
three cartridges into one to try. He fred
two of them in the yard and on re-euter.
ing playfully pointed the weapon at
in the shop. When It was
pointed at Dougherty II went of, and the
young man had q very close call. AS it
Is he will be laid up for some time to
come.
A young man named Roberts, at Lyons,
ia crazy and imagines himself to be Frank
James. He was in the state asylum some
time ago and was returned cured, but has
broken out again and goes around armed
o Jorge knife terrOrizing everybody.
He Is now in custody and will probably 60
to the asylum.
NlIHB w ALtUu, JUG VI buc lNlblDk OiLH
teachers, will leave for the old world in q
ing school in Asiatic Turkey, being sent
out by the Women's Foreign Missionary
TO be gone five years, and will
a journey across the continent Of
Europe.
r. s. Manning, OF Custer county, has
not been heard from for come time. and is
supposed to have persisted to death on the
between Grand Island and his
home. He had been in York county (his
former home) on business, and started
during the severe period.
Joseph Spatch, living near Barada,
Richs rdson county, was watching beside
mother, who was very sick, on the
Of the 18th. She fell asleep and
she awoke he wal lying dead on the
floor, having fallen from o chair in which
hs vas sitting.
The wife Of DR.. George Stewart, one Of
the South Bend men arrested for selling
liquor without a license, took her hus.
arrest to heart and tried to poison
herself and two-year.old baby, on the 18Th,
but medical help seved both.
w. II. Higgins. of Blair, was fined 800
and put under 5000 bonds for better be-
for inhuman treatment Of his
son last week. The little boy
mad been cruelty neglected by his father
and step-mother.
X. H. Macklin, living near Jnniata, had
4 calf that was recently bitten by Q dog,
its death. He skinned the ami.
and threw the CARCASS to his hogs.
The hogs ate 1t, and thirteen died from the
Soren Anderson, recently from Den.
mark, wa fatally shot near Richland,
county, on the 9th. The con.
;ents of q shot gun were a%ccidently dis.
and took effect in Anderson's
Alma is trying to get up q sensation,
md blossoms out with a story about q five.
lollar nugget of gold being found 500 feet
Town the hole they are boz ing for coal.
The nugget probably fell out of some ones
.ooth.
A Madison county paper, in its country
correspondence says: "A little circum-
stance has stopped the Deer Creek dis.
school for the winter" It is q mys.
item, without the sex and weight.
Father Gage, q Methodist pioneer who
the Missouri t~wenty-four years ago
and carried light into the wilderness. is
,ow at Syracuse in q hard way. The
of Gage was named after him.
A Fullerton man carried bis cartridges
md tobacco in the same pocket, and when
,s filed and lighted his pipe, the other
lay, one Of the former went of, soaring
Ills beard out of three years growth.
A number of people narrowly escaped
browning in the Loup, on the crossing be-
ween Central City and Fullerton. The
ce vas covered with running water.
making going across very perilous.
A team belonging to Mr.. Piper, of Sun.
light, Cass county, was frozen to death
Turing the cold spell. Piper was in Iowa,
nd left the team in care Of o young man
vho never went near the animals.
Prof. Mercer, of the Howard public
chool, Is ill, and rather than put q stran.
or in his place until he recovers, the
authorities last week ordered the school
losed for the rest of the month.
Blue Springs has q number of boys who
re growing into bad men. They make
light hideous with their mischief and
aroussls. They are ably assisted by a
Ike element OF Wymore.
A two-yeer old child of Charles Wander.
enter, of Platt mouth, found a can of
oncentrated lye last Wednesday and
wallowed some, nearly killing Itself. 1t
) now getting better.
Fremont's two Cinnamon celebrated this
New Year, on the 18th, with q
rand display of fireworks that taught o
ing or two to the 1,00l U. s. small boys
rho watched it.
Several parties In different parts of Iowa
nd Illinois have written to Nebraska
riends for seed corn, stating that saved in
heir localities has been tested and found
'orthless.
The Weeping Water base ball club was
the contest at the CAss county fair last
All, and the boys are now 'kickipg" be-
they have not received the $50 prize
fersd.
Mrs. Thomas Bawdou, of Plattsmouth,
ipped on the sidewalk, last Thursday
light, and fell, seriously injuring her
,ur.months.old baby, which she was carry.
IL.
The wife Of Frank Babbitt, Of Tekamah,
'as buried on Monday. The week before
9 lost two children, and now the two re.
lsinining are not expected to live.
The first b. & M. passenger coach ever
uilt from the ground up in the Platts-
louth shops was turned out last Wednes.
by and Is said to be q beauty.
Louis Bisang, Jr., Of Fremont fell from
step-ladder while washing windows last
tuesday, and remained unconscious until
when he died.
1t Is probable Plum Creek will have q
rick yard this season, q couple of practi.
,ble men being ready to begin II orders
,ough are received.
The DIV cling of CLARK Young, Of Col.
was nearly destroyed by q FIRE
hich originated in o lamp explosion last
Wednesday night.
Nelson, an employee of the insane asy-
nm, who testified before the investigating
I'm nittee, WAS b uncsd on the 11th by
'r M~sthewsop.
Goldsberry & Bakers slaughter house at
alls City, was burned OF the l4tb. This
the second time they have been burned
Nc this winter.