The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-30
NEBRASKA.

been requested to continue in the discharge of
his duties.
NEBRASKA,
A fire company has been organized at Wake
field.
The new school house at Wayne is ready for
occupancy.
The Wisncr watcr-works are in course of
construction.
Oakland is to have an opera house, 20 by so
feet, costing $4,000.
Concord has just completed new school
house at cost of about sl,4OO.
Mr.. Storey, of Webster City, Iowa, is going
to start 5000 creamery at Norfolk.
The commissioners of Douglas county have
invested 81 900 in grading machines.
James G. Clark will give the people of Hart
inSton an evening of song on the eth
Wakefield is building one of the best school
houses in the northern part of the state.
Public lands in cthc vicinity of Brewster.
Blaine county, are being takc1. up rapidly
! to about per cent on the dollar valuation.
1t is only seventeen years since the first
newspaper was printed in the interior of the
state.
At Lincoln the other day Mrs. Samuel Leland
was badly burned by the explosion of a gaso-
line stove.
a Blair man sends to the New Orleans cx-
position beet three feet long and weighing
49, pounds.
Lightning rod fcnds have been victimizinc
Pierce county farmers from $50 to 800 each on
$40 estimates.
! Calves arc dying in Nemaha county with a
! disease which is of the nature of lung fever. It
! is not contagious.
! Representatives of syndicate of eastern men
are in Omaha for the purpose of leasing the
packing house at the union stock yards.
Waldo Lyon, founder of the town of Lyons,
in Burt county, died on the 18th, aged a. He
was Il model man in all the walks of life.
Instead of monument it is proposed to erect
a chapel over the remains of Rev Father Horn,
the deceased pastor of the Catholic church at
West Point.
The body of Mrs. John Pug1 was few DAYS
since found by some Indians floating in creek
in Pierce county. In fit of insanity the wo-
man had left home over month ago.
Hon. e. P. Matthewson, of Norfolk, has re-
Gently completed Sl2 600 residence. 1t is a
two-story frame with a basement and attic,
fashioned in the Queen Anne style of archi-
lecture.
The general association for Congregational
churches which meets at Norfolk this week, is
expected to bring to that place l52 delegates,
and several clcrgymen from New York. Boston,
and elsewhere.
Thos Cooper, aged y years, convict in the
state pcnitentiary at Lincoln, sent up from
Douglas county at the June term of court, for
six years, for burglary, committed suicide on
the 18th, by hanging.
Lowenstein, the agent of the Nebraska and
Iowa Insurance company, accused of swind-
ling farmer in Cunning county by selling him
a mortgaged horse, has been taken from Omaha
to West Point for trial.
A safe in the store of John s. Minnick, at
Ncmaha, was blown open by burglars the
other night, and small amount Of money
taken. A large number of notes were in the
safe, but they were left undisturbed.
A young man named 1Ialworth representing
thc hardware house of 1libbard Spencer & Co.,
of Chicago, was arrested at North Bend the
other day because he had mada collections
which he failed to report. He had been on a
spree.
Regarding the recent Nance county horror,
the Fremont Herald says: ''Thc general opin-
ion is now that Furnival and Mair quarrclcd,
the former shot the latter in the heat of pas
sion, and then murdered the balance to cover
up the first tragedy
Wayne Herald Tribune, II: L. Benedict,
from Cherokee county, Iowa, stopped off here
! to visit friends while on his way to southeast
crn Nebraska. On Sunday morning, while
overhauling his gun, he lost the index finger of
his right hand by the premature discharge of
the weapon.
Answorth News: The Indian agent at Rose
Bud agency, and lot of bucks from the same
place, recently made the rounds of the rcserva-
ton border collecting Is cents per head for
each animal on the same belonging to non
residents Of the reservation. This amount was
willingly paid by the settlers and cattlcmen as
was also bonus of 25 cents per ton for hay cut
on reservation.
couple of young fellows were accccd out
OF 500: all the money they had, at Omaha the
other day. They obliged stranger by holding
a $500 bill as security, while he took their
small bills and went to pay freight account.
OF course he didn't return, and then the YER
dants discovered that their security was one
dollar bill with the figures 500, cut from cigar
stamp, pasted On it.
Jonathan Butler has been arrested in Iowa
and returned to Fairmont, charged with the
transfer of property to defraud his creditors.
The Law is one passed in 1883, and this is the
first arrest and will be the case under the new
law. The sum involved is about $500. Butler
having bought goods to that amount and then,
1t is claimed, leaving the state without paving
therefor. The case is of interest from the fact
that it is rather test of the new law. The
penalty is the same as for larceny sf the same
! property.