Omaha daily bee., 1884-12-29

has been released by judge Morgan on S6,OUC
bail.
Petitions for the erection o. city scales and
= town clock are being circulated in West
Point
The commissioners OF Dodge county PROPOSE
to plank and pile tho principal roads in the
county.
1t is reported that a FIVE foot vein Of coal
has been found on tbs Nerdigris in Knox
county.
\ farmer near Stromsburg, sold this fall
Sl50 worth of apples borne on his orchard in
Polk county.
AT the last term of the Cass coanty district
court three defendants charged with felonies
were found guilty.
Fender is the name Of n new town on the
Omaha reservation and is said to be growing
hike q mushroom.
The Baptist church at Fairfield was con
s~ecrated yesterday, Rev. Harris, of Omaha,
delivering the dedicatory sermon.
The Lincoln street railway company wnrms
its cars this bitter cold weather by mears of
small stoves, an innovation In the west.
The work Of removingthe w: u. wires from
the north to the south side of the U. =. track
has been completed west from Omaha to Gem
trail City
Logan Hunting, q half breed Indian, was
found in a stuPefed condition in the streets
OF Grand Island and claims to have been
robbed Of $500.
A memorial to the state Legislature Ia being
circulated in Nance county asking for the sub.
mission OF q prohibitory amendment to the
state constitution.
Sheriff Hamlin, of York county, last week
arrested in Stromsburg, q man named Charles
johnson on q warrant charging him with q
murder committed In Missorri,
A few miles southwest OF Red Cloud unmis.
taxable signs of petroleum have been found
and great hopes are entertained that Webster
county will be able b furnish its own bur Aing
fluid.
DIR. Afford G.. Powell, of Long Pine, left
his house on the night of the Goth in q sup
posed fit OF insanity and his frozen body was
found the next morning not far from his
home.
The Injunction granted by Judge Post
against the Merrick county commissioner was
made perpetual, in so far as 1t Restraints the de.
livery of warrants until ninety days after
their issue.
Several ..ot the western counties believing
that the county commissioners are unable to
perform the duties imposed upon them are in
favo OF the passage of atownship organiza-
zion law.
Charles Wherry, clerk of an implement firm
at Seward, embeszled $40 from his employer
and after being confronted by the evidence of
his guilt, made an unsuccessful attempt to
end his life by the arsenic route.
The residents of Stella and Verdon are
Justly indignant over the refusal of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway to allow passengers to
ride on No. 35-the train passing through
those villages late in the evening.
Ehe new method of computing time will,go
into eject over the Union Pacific and its
IEn M n m ~ ~ nNA OOS MI
putation is simply numbering the hours from
one to twenty four, the last mentioned being
midnight.
The barn of Mr.. ID. Fulmer, just east of
Gibbon, was totally destroyed by fire Monday
night. One thousand bushels of wheat, one
Thousand of corn and fifteen hundred of oats
were made fuel for the flames. The loss was
partially covered by insurance.
Diphtheria has made its appearance in Full
lerton and has saddened the holidays for many
happy homes in that beautiful ebrasta town.
The village council was petitioaed to, at once,
appoint o board of health and investigate
the cause and adopt measures FOR relief.
Mr.. ~. W. Libby, a farmer. near Elk Creek
last week lost ten head of cattle. They were
alta cked BY stiffness and q bleeding from the
nose and are supposed to have contracted
their disease from eating smut from corn
stalks upon which they had been feeding.
On Thursday of last week, when the mer-
curry was lac below zero, two women drove
to Grand Island with q load Of wheat each,
from within IL miles of Loup City. The next
morning after selling their grain for Al cents
a buslIel, they started for home through the
bitter cold.
Thertriai Of the case of Mrs, Levina Cal
houn against DIR. ~Schildknecht, of Platts-
mouth, for $40 900 alleged damages by injury
to her jaw in the pulling Of a tooth, came to
a close a few days ago. The jury. after being
out between two and three hours brought in .
verdictfor the defendant
Ashooi7g affray, resulting from an over
dose of the ardent took place last week six
miles north of Hardy. Two men named
Dillon and McClelland, not participants, re-
ceived pistol shot wounds from o revolver in
the handso! one Johnston. a warrant was
sworn out iOs the latter's arrest but owing to
some legal techincality the complaint was dis
missed.
The Indian industrial school at Genoa now
numbers 16T pupils. OF these twsnty-four arc
Winnebagos, eight Poncas,. one Omaha and
the remainder SiouNs from tho Xankton, Pint
Ridge and Rosebud agencies. Seven boys are
taught carpenter work, a regular detail of boys
work the farm of 800 acre.. The girls are
and laundry. besides keeping
the dining room, kitchen, dormitories and halls
in order, The products of the sarm last year
was 100 bushels of vegetables, 1900 of oats and
5000 Of ooyn.
TIE pale faces Of Seward last week wit.
nessedtthe curious ceremony of the burial Of a
papoose, The box containing the corpse was
wrapped in blankets and Skins. The mourn
ers then danced around the pail uttering
plaintive cries and low walls. The impro.
vised osGan was then placed pom a pony and
an Indian maiden astride of another led the
copss bearee. The procession ending with a
footmsn started for the reser Vation, where the
remains of this young childict the forest will
find! their last resting place.