Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-02
STATE JOTTINGS.

Gene Rogers, the seventeen-year old son of
a Fremont banker weighs $40 pounds.
The foreman and the master mechanic of the
U. p. shops at Grand Island paid out five hun.
dred feet of line into a lake that had always
been rumored bottomless. They finally dis
covered that the rope had been coiling up on
the bottom, eighteen feet below.
Wolves are desperate south of Lincoln.
The b. & NJ. ran a special train Saturday
from Lincoln to the Sunday school convention
at Crete.
They still have roller skating at Brownville-
Miss Mollie Barada has been declared the best
lady skater.
The storms have been doing great damage
down in Nemaha.
Tramps are audacious and troublesome in
the neighborhood of North Platte. Twenty
eight Of them banded together and attempted
to capture a freight train, but were beaten of,
and peppered with shot.
Bishop Clarkson preached at North Platte
Sunday.
lincoln doesn't seem to have been very we'll
pleased with the Thomas concert. Lincoln is
too factidious.
A large number of Omaha merchants have
been making donations to the home for the
Friendless at Lincoln.
Five thousand dollars IL the mount of dam.
age claimed by Emma Yelkin of BtOwnville
from Henry Steinman for slanderously accus-
ing her publicly of being a prostitute.
John Nelson, a Swede twenty-one years old
was killed by lightning near Syracuse Friday
evening.
Four hundred bushels of wheat were des-
troyed by rain OH the farm of Geo. Fish near
Helena last week.
A strike occurred on Mr.. Cassidy's construc-
ton train, near Syracuse, on Friday Road
master Leechy allowed the demands Of the
strikers, but discharged the leaders.
The people of Culbertson complain because
the b. Il NJ. "~cannon-balr' train does not stop
there.
Messers. Cotton, Duff & Co., bankers of
Syracuse have organized their firm into a nat
ional bank under the name of the First Nat
ional Bank of Syracuse, with n. A. Duff
Pres't., w. A. Cotton Vice Pres't., and G. Il.
Cotton cashier. Capital $4,000.
Mrs. John Grubb and four little children
were drowned in the food Of Sunday the 18th
inst, at South Fork, Richardson county. They
were attempting to escape from.their water
logged home to the high lands ON the bluffs.
There are twelve thousand head Of cattle
at Ogalalla.
Miss Matte Douglass was shot in the back
one day last week by a spent ball from "a shoot
ing gallery at Hardy. The wound is not dan.
gerous.
Charles Love is the new editor Of the Gull
bertson Sun.
While Albert Wagdam's wife and two chill
dren were crossing a bridge near Norfolk, thu
bridge slid off its abutments into the water
fifteen feet below. Not a scratch was received
by anyone.
The play Of "Esmeralda" was gwen by
home talent in Hebron last week, an Twill be
repeated on the Fourth.
W. s. Sawyer of Lincoln offered, last SprinI
a Webster's Dictionary or twelve dollars wortl
Of flowers from their Lincoln conservatory foi
the best specimen of penmanship by children
In the state schools. A committee of Lincoll
gentlemen have awarded this to james Gellat
ly Of Sutton, Prizes were also given to Nelli
Fay, North Platte; Theodore Berth, Grant
Island; Elite Chafin, Oakland; Delma Hol
comb, Hebron, Ethlena Barton, Aurora; Net
tie Hall, Ayr; Nettie Forehand, Kearney
Walter Il. Rowe, oNConner; james Barge