Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-08
STATE JOTTING5.
Wymore has been incorporated.

Doane college had lOI lspils enrolled
IN opening day.
There are nineteen people in the Cas-,
county poor house.
The Grafton Gazette has died for lack
OF proper support.
Another paper is to be started ct Min.
den-the Reporter.
1t costs Lincoln IS q day for fIel 10 run
che engine NJ its well.
The Pre,byt eriln church at Fullerton
will cost about a. ,OU0
The Presbyterian church at Wayne, will
be dedic ,ted on the lith.
a number ct children in Fremont are
Oiii ,cted with uiphtheria.
The Sterling Presbyterian church will
te dedlcat 4 On the 2lst.
Graui Island Is developing . war over
WHIT shall be postmaster.
The new Congregational church at No,k
was dedicated on the 3lst.
A Touring mill will DO erected in
Portsmouth in the spring
NJ. j. Hull has sold The Edgar Review
to Kaufman x Darlington.
There ia trouble in the Franklin post.
Office over y det.it OF $500.
There are q couple of cases of small pox
a mile north Of Cunning City.
A number of private telephone lines
have been put up In Steele Guy.
Congressman Laird xii ed a huge bear
during his recent visit in Colorado.
The Wood River Catholics plate
building q new church IN the spring.
The progress and improvements Of Ere.
mont in the past year cost $3.50, 100.
Tne old settlers of Otoe county have a
reunion at Nebraska City on the 10th.
The corner stone of the Glenyille Pres.
byterian church WAS laid New Years.
Phelps county is talking Of q canal to
connect the Platte with The Republican.
Fairfield had a New Years fire, the
dwelling If Il. p. Ryder being des .royed.
The ScoUchmen in Saline county will
celebrate Burns birthday ut Crete on the
25tn.
A Il, ston man is at Hastings, looking
over the held tor II Wholesale boot and shoe
house. 4.
The Grand Army folks of Fremont
deulcated their new hail on New Years
night.
The O'Neill baby, 80 months old, weight
Us pouuds, sill lanes tue cake on 'netGi
ness."
The new organ to be placed in the Holy
IrlniJy Episcopal church, Liucoln, cost
II, zoo.
Miss Vins Watts, of Grand Island, ha,
acc, pied the ptlIcipalship vi the st. Pau.
schOOls.
Custer county has forty-eight school
districts, an increase Of seventeen in the
past year.
The citizens of Osceola raised $500 tc
help the JOY brothers, VINO were recently
burned out.
A brass band has been organized at Shell
ton, with the editor OF The Clipper for
drum major.
Hubbell is bothered by a number OF
Kansas roughs who come over the border
and get drunk.
The supreme court sustained tue Lin.
coin city law compelling the saloons &c
close at ~ p. nj.
Thayer county has q ghost. 1t has bepn
seen by reli A0le persons near Leians's mil!
on the Little Blue.
A small frame building known as Weeks
office IN FairDury, opposite the opera
house, burned on the "a.
The Clay county poor house is becoming
too expensive and Inere Is a great ''kick'
made ny the tax payers.
The Kearney Journal of the 81 had its
four pages devoted to reviews of the many
towns in Buff IIo county.
Fairbury shipped more grain and stock
10 1852 than any town on TIE st. Joseph &
Western between the ternini.
About twenty members of the PAwnee
City Methodist church are heing discis.
lined tor attending The theater Christmas
week.
j.. b. Silvis offers to donate q block &c
the town OF Waterloo for u park if the au.
thorities will set out trees and take care Of
them.
While loading mail at the Red Cloud
depot recently, "a sack fell ON the track un,
noticed, and was run over and badly
used UP.
The number of scholars at the Norfolk
pubic school was 50 large tn, trustee,
were obligett to lease a building to accom-
modate them.
w. Nj. Burns, of Dawson county, has s
7.montns old lamb that weighs 100 pounds,
A %nelghbor has one a few mouths oldeI
weighing 1913 pounds.
The Crete STANDARD, dated January /,
contains an ilIu strated review of the city
and is an excellent advertisement OF tn,
rapid progress If the place.
Wolves are getting numerous and very
bold IN parts OF Dawson county, and man,
sheep, turkeys and chickens have beef
taken IN the past few weeks.
Colorado coal shot up 81 80 o ton alonf
the Il. X Nj. last week. The Colorad,
Fuel company (made up of railroad men
has a monopoly Of the thing.
A 10.year old Nebraska City boy wa,
placed in the insane asylum last week. Ii,
has u vicious habit OF wanting to BIT,
everybody who goes near him.
Lara Hannibal, one of the pioneers .
Howard connty, died at Davenport, Iowa
rec ntly. He was there to be treated fol
The disease which caused his death.
While Smelling corn on a farm a few
mi.es south Of Hastings on the ID, WIN
Stewart caught his forearm In the cog
wheels and had it badly l~ssceratei.
William Whitcomh, a constable, wal
fatally shot at Friendville on the 81 inst
by Charles Gridley, whom he was trying
to arrest for running off mortgsged prop
erty.
Charles Miller. a well-known citizen oil
Yankee Hill, killed himself ON the Sd BY
the accidental discharge Of q gun, the shot
scattering his skull anu brains all over the
room.
Frank Tyrrell, aged z. OF Madison.
while playing with a Winchester on the
29th ult accidentally discharged it. The
ball went through his head, Instantly kill,
ing him.
s. Il. Hasson, employed In the b. & NJ.
shops at Plattsmoutb, got his right arm
caught In q planer GU Saturday and it waf
frightiurly iacerated. 1t will have to
come "a.
Bertha WelbN. the aotreAs. forgot her