Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-01
"a JOTTINGS.


Table Rock is sure Of a
McCoOk wants to incorporate this fall.
The McCook water works are nearly com
pleted.
The schools of Columbus have 325 children
enrolled.
Columbus is talking of experimenting with
an artesiGn well.
The b. & NJ. railroad is building u fine de-
pot Mt Nebraska City.
The Baptists of Kenesaw have raised $40, COO
for u new church.
The average daily attendance at the Be
atricc schools liz 500.
Tn four-year-old son of George Cramer, of
Hamilton county, was killed 10y n runaway
team.
The merry burglar blasted the safe of John
Hill, Of Hastings, and gathered $500 in the
haul.
A painter at Emerson, named Walters. has
disappeared, and his friends are apXious about
him. '-Af''tJ d 'az1. -rt- osAhoiSf.-'s. ea.sr lczzap
= McCook experienced n little flour famine
last week, both groceries and -four being en-
tirely out.
Work on a Presbyterian, and also on a
Methodist church, has been commenced at
O'Neill City.
Between county fairs and politics it would
IttlllG u DlASCl bSN'It W itllA III lUtIIl u news
in the country papers.
The Beatrice Express consoled itself when it
heard Of Colby's nomination, with the remark,
The voice of the people is the voice OF God. -
Eight prisoners in the Kearney Jail made II
break for liberty in the Jail wall, but the hole
was not big enough when the sheriff plugged it
The amount of h%ilarity induced by McCoek
bulge isn't n circumstance compared with the
wild horsemanship of cow boys under its in
fiuence.
North Platte had "a $4,000 blaze on the
morning of the 2lst. Babb Il Church and
Park & Van Doran were the principal suf-
ferers.
An east bound passenger train on the u. u.
Saturday week, ran into n flock of sheep a
short distance west of Grand Island and killed
one hundred of them.
Burglars followed the crowd to the fair ut
Fairbury, and fingered long enough to blow
up two safes and rifle the depot ticket case.
They did not find enough money to pay for
the powder.
The new town Of Harrington will soon have
a paper, to be called The Herald. 1t will be
published by Attorney General Powers, of
Dakota City, and William Hure Of The Ponca
journal.
A man giving his name as William Mccoy
stole n fine team of horses from Arthur Spear
man, of Springfield, Sarpy county, last week,
was captured at Blair and lodged in Jail at
Omaha to await trial.
+. ID. Hobbs, Special Commissioner of the
United States Land Department, has given
the cattle men and others Of Custer county
notice to remove all wire and other fences en-.
closing any of Uncle Sans public domain, the
fences to be removed within 10 days.
Seven thousand sheep, the property of Har-
man 4 Turner, of Fremont, passed through
Columbus last Thursday morning, They hay
ing been driven overland from Utah, starting
the first of May last and averaging twelve
miles u day. .
FsThe Grand Island Times says; "A few
months ago q man by the name of Noah
Blough, residing in Mt, Carroll, Ill.,, fraudu-
lently placed his father-in-law's signature to
negotiable instruments, amounting in the ag-
gregate to $4,000, Having accomplished his
purpose, the guilty party left for parts I'M
known. Deputy Jensen found - young man
working in the harness shop of j. Beyner, in
this city, answering the description, and he
promptly arrested him. He at first denied
the crime, but finally acknowledged it.