The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-02
NEBRASKA.

W4tu 0A ottCuuUuCC VI SUks
John Haney, near Columbus, has lost nearly
400 chickens from cholera.
A good deal of corn about Fremont will Weld
about seventy five bushels to the acre.
Cherry county will poll five times as many
votes this fall as they did one year ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Parcel, of Fremont.
have just celebrated their golden wedding.
A Congregational church building, costing
$4,000, has just been dedicated at Arlington.
The north Nebraska Methodist conference
will probably establish college at Fuller
ton.
One hundred and forty Germans took out
the Esd.
ADetroit firm has the contract for furniture
for the new courthouse at Omaha, on its bid
of Sl3,S75.
! Grand Island has just passed an ordinance
prohibiting hitching posts in the business part
of the city.
A bachelor club has been formed at Blair.
The penalty for marrying is an oyster supper
for the members.
The barn of DR.. Dunn, postmaster at Dunn's
| station, near Lincoln, was burned on Monday
night. Loss, $500; insurance, $1,000.
John Burns, a laborer, was killed by light
Ming in Omaha Tuesday afternoon. He was
one of group of five men. The others were
stunned.
| Plans have been made for new Catholic
| b,,i 1,,
is to be 40 by 80 feet in size, two stories and
basement high.
The express and railroad office at Tekamall
was burglarized last Friday night, and an in
vcstigation is demanded. The amount of the
loss is not stated.
The stage running between Harrington and
Yankton came near capsizing the other day,
when N. l. StancliH, of Extra, TO-, was thrown
out and severely injured.
The Seventh day Adycntists pitched their
They have 120 tents pitched, and accommo-
dations for 200 worshipers.
The electors of Dodge county will vote on q
proposition to issue 1000 in twenty year 6
per cent bonds, the proceeds Is be used to
build a courthouse at Fremont.
| The colored people of Omaha celebrated the
twenty-second anniversary of the issuance OF
the proclamation of emancp ,tion by an elabor-
ate entertainment Monday night.
Cheyenne county has PSI ,92O acres of school
land, which is more than is embraced within
the limits of any other one county in the state
| a.
| Woods faro bank in Omaha is busted The
| losses of the bank last week amounted to
$1,000, and Tom Fisher, directly responsible
for the banks collapse, won fully half of the
amount.
Col. Sumner, commanding Fort Niobrara,
| left the fort the other day, accompanied by his
brother-in-law, Mr.. Brent, of Harrisburg, Pa,
squad Of cavalry, two provision wagons and
an ambulance, for a big hunt on White river
| At Omaha the postmaster refuses to allow
the Commercial Age, published by Prof. wy
man, in the interests Of his business college, to
60 through the postoffices as second class
matter, holding that it is an advertising sheet
only. 1t is said that the proprietor will
| appeal.
| Mrs. r. j. Earl last week got lost in what is
known as the sand hills near Neigh. party
OF twenty searched all night for her, and not
until the next day was she found. The grass
was so tall that it hid her from view, and at
the same time prevented her from taking OBJ
scrvatons.
| On Wednesday evening John Sewaid, far
mer living near Wayne, Neb., quarreled with
his wife. John left the house and spent the
night with friend. Returning in the morning
he found the door locked and no sign of life
within. He kicked the door open, and found
his wife dead, hanging to rafter.
An Omaha Bohemian named Kassler went
out to a pasture to catch his horse. The horse
refused to be caught even after the whole
Kassler family had beer called to the old mans
help. Becoming exasperatcd, Kasslcr got a
gun and shot the animal in the heal. The
horse was then caught and died few minutes
afterwards.
On the 18th inst. Mrs. Samuel Huffman, liv-
! ing fifteen miles northwest Of Bradshaw, while
kindlng fire with coal oil, was horribly burned
and at last reports was in dying condition
Mrs. Sapp, wife OF Elder Sapp, who was with
her at the time, was also fatally burned, dying
at 2 o'clock last Friday morning. Mrs. huff
man is a daughter of NJ. Mitchell, of Brad
shaw.
The Wisner water-works, which have been
contracted at $4,000, will consist of big well
from which water will be pumped by wind
mill into two reservoirs of 1880 barrels each
which are located on hill which gives 1l3 fce1
fall There will BE- 5000 feet of mains, will
hydrants, and it is supposed that the fall viii
be sufficient to throw 2-inch stream far above
the tallcst building. The capacity of the work.
is rated at 1000 gallons per hour.
Fremont Herald, %: A twe-ycar-o!d child O.
Mr.. Whitemorc of Valley, was drowned few
days ago in the watering trough near the house
1t is large tank supplied by windmill ant
with a lid to cover it up when not in use. On'
of the men in watering a team had left thu
cover raised, and the child climbed over int.
the trough without anyone seeing it. Til,
cover was afterwards put down without motto
ing the child and some time later when tn
tank was opened, it was discovered. Ever
effort was made to rcsuscitate the child, b,l
without avail.
Nellie Quacenbush, who lived with her par
cnts near Columbus, was lurcd from her hom
under false prctenses to a prominent clerk
room in one of the stores, where he, with f1v
or six Others, gratfcd their helish lusts, keep
ing the girl in the room from Sunday til
Wednesday. She died on Friday at the hom
of her sister, Mrs. Wells, at Columbus, ant
was buried, but the body was exhumcd on &C
count of the suspicious circumstances of he
death. She is described as having been yer
pretty, was about Is years OF age, and not ex
sctly of sound mind. Columbus is rent i
twain over the matter, and three or fou
of the young men have spirited thcmsclvc
away.
Tekamah special, 20: Upon the complain
of Mrs. Belle Brookings, of Tekamah, Mr. w
H. Clark was bound over to the district cour
on the charge of bastardy This is the lad
who was arrested at Council Bluffs abou
three weeks ago for abandoning her child