Omaha daily bee., 1884-07-21
STATE JoTTINGs.
The Grand Island Times has suspended.

rive Cleveland flags are tiuttering in Tn
breezes of Wilbur.
The Pswnee Press, tDeml calls it "a splen
did ticket to defeat.
.Albion's new school house will be 40S7O, di
vided into four rooms.
Ellsworth has decided to issue $1,000 ii
bonds to build a new school.
The corner stone Of tho Trinity scandinavian
Lutheran church at Kearney wsslaid lastiSun
day.
The Burt county Herald Is the do mocratiC
fog horn OF the North. 1t Is young and a lit
tie toot too.
TIL Crete Globe favors the denomination OIL
Governor Dawes. The Globe %revolves ut the
home of Dawes.
Frank Moody, a brakeman, fell from the
top OF q box car at Oakland on the 10Th and
was seriously injured.
The Lincoln city council has let the con.
tract Tor water works, to oJst S9O,OO. The
Holly system will be used.
The Crete Vedette is the only paper In the
state without q presidential candidate. Ra.
Their cold day for independents.
The Wahoo Independent beats the base
drum and calls upon the faithful to rSlly
around j. O. Gown for congress.
The West Point brickyard turns out $4,000
bricks daily, for which q ready market is
found ut home and noighborng towns.
Sheriff Melick, of Lancaster county, has
csptured Will Baird, charged with embezzling
Sl,0Oo, and lodged him in the county pen.
The young mems republican club of Platts.
mouth has purchased torches, plumes and
other regalia. The boys are red hot for dis
play.
Beatrice has a painted white elephant on its
hands in the shape of q 1913, 900 school building,
which is denounced as a fraud and on insult to
the people.
The Republican reports the business outlook
at West Point was never better than ut the
! present time. An abundan harvest ~brightens
the times wonderfully.
A Central City man pulled n loaded gun
muzzle foremost out of q wagon at Albion on
Thursday. He went nome the next day with
q badly shattered arm in a sling.
The first shipment of tin ore from the Black
Hills was received by the Niobrara Transpor-
tation company at Valentine week before last
1t was shipped to New York to be smelted.
The Central City Courier thinks the dem.
ocratio ticket the strongest that could have
been made, in that it represents that reform
Tor which the better element in politics have
been striving for sixteen years"
A heavy storm struck North Platte Friday
afternoon. The wind bowled so miles and
rain fell In wet blankets. Lightning struck
the Nebraskan office, heavy hail fell and
hundred OF window lights were broken.
1It is a close race between the Omaha Bee
and the Lincoln journal to see which can first
accustom itself to q full dish of Blaine crow
without reaching. -[Crete Videtse, 1t will
enable both to do some tall Growing in Novem-
Der.
The North Platte Nebraska changed from
o republican to q democratic paper ten days
ago, aud was struck by lightning last Friday.
This Is o providential pointer to the ungodly
to seek shelter under the banners of Blaine and
Logan.
The b. & NJ. has a largely increased force
OF section hands at work putting their road in
tirst-class condition between Omaha and Lin.
coin. A large force is empiopsd ia putting In
the stone ballast between Omaha and Platts.
mouth, another gang putting in gravel ballast
between Greenwood and Ashland, and q third
laying steel rails between Wayerly and Lin.
coin.
A popularity OF the recent destructive hail
storm in Saline county is the fact that a sim;.
lar storm visited the same region one year
ago-the first on the 18th of July and the
last on the 18th of July. The width of the
hail storm WAS about four miles DESTROYING
all kinds OF grain for q scope of about two
miles in width and partially damaging corn
"iu VI MT OuJer elSes.
The Rusicka brothers, Frank and joseph.
sons of the proprietor of the Wilbur opera
house, quArreled over their cupsS and Frank to
iemphasize bis argument, pulledh isrevolver and
shot at his brother. The latter lodged he
hind the bar and saved himself. Thinking he
had killed his brother, Frank put the pistol to
his breast and sent q bullet iuto the Hesbtnear
the shoulder blade. The doctors may pull
him through.
Horse thieves are still operating In Sarpy
county. Two horses were stolen FRIDAY
night Ed. Baroness pasture near Papillio1.
Several other farmers in that vicinity report
horses missing. There seems to be o well
organized gang of thieves in the county, A
dozen horses have heen stolen in the past
three months and not one of the thieves cap.
tured, although the sheriff has worked dill
gently on all the cases. Extensive prepare.
tions are making to organize an anti.horse
thief association.
The G.. A. r. reunion committee held n
meeting at Fremont to further arrangement
tor the annual reunion. Bids were received
and opened for booth privileges on the grounds
and made some awards, but in no case grant.
ing the exclusive privilege to any party. The
committee considered the question of tents
and urge upon all posts to furnish q requisite
amount Tor their own accommodation. A plot
OF the camp was submitted by T.. G.. Parcell
and it was adoptoi as the plan. The grounds
proper will be thirteen hundred feet in length,
north and south, and one thousand feet
wide.
That was n cruel put-up job of the repub,i.
cans OF Pi.ttsmoEth during the recent demo.
cratic ratification meeting. Less than one
hundred yards from whore tho orators thund-
eringly wagged their jaws, an apparently love.
1ick swain was enjoying the caNasses Of his
girl in a we'll lighted room with the curtains
up. The matinee" was 80 affectionats and
interesting that the crowd soon tumbled and
lett Mr.. Moriarity and the grand old demo.
cratic party" to the mercy of the band and tina
small COY. THE charming young lady" and
her lover proved to be member OF the Blaine
and Logan club, who arranged the side show
t, spice the occasion. 1t took the starch of
Mort.
The completion of the Kenesaw cutoff
pronises several important advantages to
Hastings. The Democrat says: There is no
denying the fact that Hastings is destined to
be the loading city between Omaha and Den.
yer: The b & NJ. people, who have never
added materially to her prosperity, are sud
denly being convinced that they cannot long
or neglect the Queen city, and are beginning
to give her some attention, and, il we mistake
not, they will do by us ns they would be dons
by. The company are now building stock
yards In the west part of the city, the accom-
modstions of which will be fifty cars of stock,
anu AZ soon as they are completed all stock
shipped from the west or east will be fed at
this place"
The famous North Nebraska novelist still
lives, and the story which revealed the tender
symp,thies and ~rivalries of Lawyer Howe and
Marshal Bierbowor for the heire,s has reached
tho 2B9th chapter, ito be continued" The
heirees has struck n new "shine" and struck
him bad. He seems to have popped the vital
question and appears to have received "a favor.
ahle answer, as will be seen from this para.
graph. 30, what unspeAkable joy / now feel!