The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-23
NEBRASKA.

Harvey Atkinson, Wsverly merchant, has
failed.
The Odd Fellows grand lodge meets in Oma
hs on the 21st.
Ell Perkins is announced for a lecture 1t
Oakdale, November II.
North Bend is to have . new school house,
the contract price of which is $3.50.
Coleridge Is rather out of the usual order of
things with two parsonages aud no church.
Omaha banks have adopted the clearing
house system for exchanging daily business.
There are sixty-one cases on the docket for
the November term Of the district court at
Fremont.
The Omaha people have asked for an inspec-
tor, who will see that ton of coal weighs ton
this season.
The late state fair did not pay expenses, and
draft has to be made on last years surplus
to square everything
1t was only by the most vigorous action that
aprairie fire was prevented from sweeping into
Colcridgc the other night.
!
er county last week and taken to the West
Point Jail for safe keeping.
Davis & Aliens livery barn, with six horses,
burned at Juniata on the 18th. Loss, 5000.
building insured for $1,000
The Grand Army post at Oakdale held a
campfire and barbecue on the 18th, and a large
crowd of citizens participated.
The Women's Indian association met at
Omaha on Monday to discuss 1.-THE Wrongs
and the Needs of the Poncas."
The cornerstone for the new Methodist
church In Omaha, corner Twenty and
Seward streets, was laid Sunday.
Branch is the name of new postoffice in
Cedar county, between Harrington and St.
James. Theo. Dresser is postmaster.
Bids for the location of the state fair for the
next five years will be received up to the an
nual meeting of the board in January.
In Antelope county Thos. w. Means has be-
gun suit for divorce from bis wife. Viola T.
Means, whom he charges with adultery.
Dan Mechanical, who owns an 500 acre farm
in Wayne county, lost four horses in the burn
ing of livery stable at West Point the other
night.
| Geo. Rice, living near Riverton and recently
from Iowa, pulled gun toward him out of a
wagon the other day, dscharging the contents
into his abdomen and killing him instantly.
Near Fremont last Saturday Miss Stewart
was thrown from wagon by runaway team,
into wire fence, where one of her arms was
literally torn to pieces, and had to be ampu-
tated.
Judge Dundy, A1essrs Elmer D. Frank and
E. s. Dundy, jr., of the United States court,
have returned to Omaha from three weeks
hunting in the Laramie peak country of
Wyoming.
At West Point two boys, named Sidel and
Dill, each about IL years of age, and the sons
OF respectable parents, have been sent to Jail
for twenty days for stealing cigars from the ex-
press office.
On the night of the 10th, near Papillion, T.
L. Harrison while drunk, either fell or Jumped
from passenger train and was instantly killed
His home was in Springfield where his wife
and several children reside.
Near Culbertson, on the 18th, Frank Criddlc-
bon, aged 20, and married only one week, fell
from freight train and had both legs cut off
below the knees. He was also mangled in other
ways, and died in few hours
Large numbers of hogs are dying in
Washington county and are be-
ing left unburied. Grave fears
are felt that their decaying remains will poison
the air to an extent which will be likely to
cause general epidemic.
At Grand Island on the night of the 10th,
Isaac Jcwctt committed suicide by taking NOR
phne. He was unmarried, SO years of age,
vas superintendent of creamery, and no
v:ausc is known for his self-dcstruction, save
that he had been drinking hard for three days.
A greeney giving the name of John W. Par
NELL from Mahomct, ILL.,, was confdcnccd out
OF $21O at Lincoln on the 18th by the freight
bill racket. The victim is poor man, and was
on his way somewhere west either to enter or
buy some cheap land, leaving a wife and a
crippled child back in Illinois to await his re-
turn and report.
West Point was visited by q destructive fire
oAA VIZ LluE VI CAC 1OCil, WHICH DFOkC out IN
j. A. Carrither's livery stable, completely de-
stroying it and its contents, among which were
sixteen horses, five buggies, two COWS, besides
harness, feed, etc. The fire spread to the ag-
ricultural implement warehouse of NJ. Thom-
sen, consuming it and large portion of the
contents, and to the hardware warehouse of
Lee g. Chubbuck, totally destroying it and
most of the contents. The origin of the fire is
not known. The loss is about S., 900, partially
covered by insurance.
Information is wanted of David Sherman,
who disappeared from Lincoln on the 9th ult.
He is described thus: Age, about 80 years;
height, a little below medium; weight, about
$50 pounds; light complexion, blue eyes, light
auburn lair, little thin on top, sandy chin
whiskers, high forehead, scar on forefinger of
his left hand and same finger little crooked.
When last seen was dressed in gray suit with
dark stripe, black felt soft hat, coarse, heavy
boots, nearly new, black and gray checked
wooden shirt No cause is known for his dis
appearance, and it is feared that he has been
foully dealt with, or becoming dcmented has
wandered away. Report to chief of police,
Lincoln.
A Dead Duke.
BERLIN, Oct. 2O-Wilhelm l., Duke of
Brunswick, died on the 18th. He was IS years
old, and his reign began in 1881. He was the
successor of his brother, Charles Frederick Au-
gustus William, who was deposed by the in
surrectiOn. The dead monarch's full name was
Augustus William Macmillan Frederick. A
majority Of the German newspapers express
the opinion that the Duke of Cumberland will
not succeed the Duke of Brunswick, as Prince
Bismarck desires the absorption of the duke
dom by Prussia.
A Queer" Story.
San Francisco Post: There is cheap
clothing dealer on Kearny, near Cali
fornia, whose confidence in mankind
has received a severe set back. The
other Ga: an honest IOOkinr co,,ntr,,