Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16

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The Estherville Broad-Axe has been
sold to Peter Johnson, an Estherville
attorney, and II. l. WATSON, for some
time principal of the Spirit Lake public
schools, and Frank Davey, for some
time past the editor of the paper for
Tough Il Co., the proprietors, %retires.
Ida Grove Pioneer, .: The coal pros.
pecting continues from day to day. The
drill is now about loo feet in the earth,
and the strata they are now passing
through looks very much like slate.
Some miserable scamp ono night threw r
lot of fine coal in the hole, probably
thinking he could awaken excitement.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette figures out
that the trains leaving Cedar Rapids and
running eight hours, together with all
the connections made, will reach 800
stations, while trains leaving on all the
roads from Des Moines and counting all
the points reached by the connections
also IN the same time, would reach but
Sol stations.
E. ii Wheeler, a real estate dealer of
Creston, has been arrested to answer a
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses. His victim is q young WON.
an who lent him her savings, amounting
to $500, and took his note, which she
supposed, upon his representations, was
secured by mortgage. The young wom-
ans loss, it is said, has rendered her in.
sane.
Sioux County Herald: Tho old bond
cd debt of this county is being rapidly
wiped out. Last Friday Treasurer
Lewis paid off Sl3, 900 of the bonded
debt, with interest due; amounting to
Sl3,449.33. This leaves bonds to the
amount of $4,000 yet to be paid. Mr..
Lewis informs us hat he expects to pay
$4,000 more of the outstanding bonds on
June L, and before the expiration of the
present year it is hoped hat this debt,
which has hung over the people of
Sioux county for so many years, will be
entirely extinguished.
Says the Des Moincs Leader: Yester-
day afternoon Mr.. u. nj. Hubbell com
pleted negotiations with Hon. B.. +. AL
len, by which he becomes the owner of
Terrace Hill, paying therefor $50, 900.
The property includes the house and nine
acres OF ground. This splendid estate
was begun by Mr.. Allen about twenty
years ago, the mansion being completed
not far from the time tho war closed.
Originally there were thirty-seven acres
in the tract, but by the bankruptcy pro-
ceedings a portion was taken off and be-
came the property of Polk Il Hubbell,
by their purchase of the Allen assets.
MIR. Hubbell buys the place for his W
residence.
Vinton society has been greatly excl
ted over the death of Miss Minnie Good
win, a school girl of II, while premature.
ly giving birth to a child. She was of
prepossessing appearance, and no one sus-
pected her until quite recently of any
indiscretion. Her condition becoming
manifest, the authorities requested her
to quit school, and soon after she was
taken to Fonda, Pocahontas county,
where she died. Her remains were ia
ken back to Vinton for burial. Since
the death of her mother, eight years ago,
she had been living with her aunt, a
Mrs. Martin, in Vinton. Her seducer is
said to be a Montana cattle nan, who
was in Vinton last September, but whose
name is not made public.
A Vinton special says: Jesse Mower,
aged %, and Mrs. Alexander Belsinger,
his aunt, aged 30, were arrested near Mt.
Auburn, this county, yesterday, charged
with shooting Alex. Belsinger, the wom-
ans husband. The woman waived exam
nation, and was bound over on 81, 900
bonds. Mower had an examination to-
day, but there Was no evidence to con-
meet him with the shooting, He was
then arrested on a charge of threaten
ing to shoot Belsinger and isheld in $500
bonds. Neither will get bail. The best
information now in hand indicates a con-
spiracy between the wife and nephew to
get the old mans property, and rid them
selves of him by soaring him away or
killing him. The first step in the plot
was taken nearly two years ago, when he
was induced to deed his ~forty-acre farm
to his nephew supposing he was signing
a will, to take effect at the death of him
self and wife. The second step was
taken yesterday, when the wife fired a
32-calibre ball into the old mans body,
passing through near the shoulder blade.
The wound is not likely to be fatal.
A DIES MoINE DIVINE DEAD DRUNK
Says the Des Moines Leader: At a
quarter past one this morning Mr.. Sto-
ney, night clerk of the Morgan, detected
an odor of burning cotton in
the air of the office. He Immediately
fastened up stairs, and along the differ
ent Railways, and found smoke issuing
from room thirty-two, which was occu-
pied by a quite well.known reverend gen.
tleman. Upon gaining entrance, Mr..
Stoney found the room filled with smoke
while upon the bed which was found to
be on fire, lay the divine, partially I'M
dressed and dead drunk. AS Mr.. Stoney
instantly saw that he could alone extin-
guish the fire, which had not as yet made
much Roadway, he did 30 without max
ing an alarm. Two holes, each about
a quarter of a yard square. were burned
through the b~edspread and mattresses.
After extinguishing the fire, Mr.. Stoney
found the drunken divine wholly beyond
all consciousness of his perilous situa-
ton, and 30 left him for the remainder
of the morning. The only plausible sup
position regarding the origin of the fire
is that the man had been smoking, and
being drunk, had fallen back upon the
bed with a lighted cigar in his hand, al
though it could not be found.
The full name of this man who has 30
basely disgraced himself and the high
calling which he had taken solemn vows
to prominently honor and defend, was
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