The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-16
NEBRASKA.

genuine sod house.
The contract has been let for building q
school house at Valentine.
The first dirt was thown on the 9th in putting
in water works at Lincoln.
Fremont now ranks as third city in the state.
Its population is about 6, 900.
A Mr.. Clark, of Tama county, To-, is arrang
ing to start bank at Colcridge.
Deer hunters in the western part of the state
report fair luck, and venison is plenty.
Knox county has just held its first fair, al
Creighton, and the show was satisfactory.
The loss by the Alma fire on the 9th is placed
at $50 GOO, partially covered by insurance.
Over twenty families have moved on to taeir
land adjacent to Coleridgc within the last two
weeks.
A company has been formed in Omaha to-
the purpose of introducing cable line of stree
cars in that city.
The wife and daughter of Father Martin, O.
the Dakota City Argus, have gone Oh a pleas
ure trip to Colorado.
The valuation of Omaha is shown to b,
Sc, 525, 696.S6. With tax OF IS mills til,
amount OF tax is 1851, 79l.73.
Madison is proud of Stuarts new banl
hui! Sing and opera house combined, which il
just approaching completion.
Martin hurry, laborcr, fell from a heayiI,
loaded wagon near Valentine recently, whc1
he was run over and instantly killed.
Prof. Samuel Aughcy, of Lincoln, is pre-
pairing for Cooper institute report trcatin;
Of the mining and oil regions of the north
west.
The governor has authorized the organiza
ton Of Garfield county. 1t will be formed from
portion of what has heretofore been know
as Wheeler county.
Three little children, the youngest 4 year
and the oldest I, have Travelled all alone fro;,
New York to Albion, where they arc to find
home with an uncle.
The firm of Shrcvc, Jarvis & Co., at Omaha
jobbcrs of mems furnishin, goods, has mad
an assignment. Assets rcckoncd at $50, OOC
and liabilities at $4,000.
The Bancroft Journal says that an immcns
number of buildings are in course of erection
OH the reservation, which has lately bee,
thrown open to white settlement.
A syndicate of North Platte capitalists ha
purchased 1l3, 600 acres of Union Pacific lam
in Cove and Sheridan counties, Kansas, wit
the intention of again selling the same.
A family of Austrians, consisting of mar
wife and two children, on their way to Dakot;
were at Omaha on the 9th, dead broke, an
unable to proceed further without help
following is recommended as a preventative
Equal parts of salts, sulphcr, coppclas, WOO
or cob ashes, and SALT thoroughly mixed. Pu
in trough where the hogs can run to it,
The report Of the statistical agent of the 4,
partment of agriculture for October has bee
completed, and shows the following: Whca
II, 7G2, fG2 bushels; average per acre, Ills
barley, S,6lS, 524 bushels; average, q. &c; oat
A,295,742; average, 40.1S.
At Ashland, last week, James An,!crs and
man named Moran got into saloon q,arre
when the latter followed Andcrs to his hon,
and shot him in the back, inflictinga probabl
fatal wound. Moran fled, but was capture
near Fremont and is now in jail
The committee appointed by the north Mel
raska conference of the Methodist church, t
select location for a seminary, met in Frcmo,
on the 18th. The principal business transactc
was to make preliminary arrangements for I,
ceiving proposals for the location.
Geo. Stevenson, the young man who wa
lately shot at Madison by Mrs. NJ E. Morri1
because he would not leave her premises aft.
she had ordered him to do so, is improvn. an
fool around that ranch again.
Near Blair, recently, two boys were hunting
when one of them, VIM. Schcnck, received
charge of bird shot in the back of his hcat
eight Of the lcadcn pellets from the boys hca
and neck, and no doubt regarding his recover
was felt. The shot had fattcncd out agains
his skull, but had not penetrated it.
At Ainsworth barber trincd with the affc.
tions of young girl of that place and acccr
plishcd her ruin. For four days last week sh
was willing prisoner in the back room OF hi
building and victim of his lust. The citizen
learning Of the proceedings broke into the ROOF
and there had revealed to them the worst {
their anticipations. The barber and the Gil
have dccampcd.
In Lincoln, on the 9th, G. f. Hinc droppc
dead on the street in an epilcptic fit, som
thing he had been subject to for years. II
was one-armcd soldier and we'll know
throughout the state, he having served as (oo
keeper of the state Senate for fourteen col
secutivc years. He was widower, about i
years of age, and leaves three children, tic ole
est boy of II.
AT Lincoln, on the Sth, r. +. Cobb had hi
preliminary examination on the charge Of c,i
bezzling $4,000, preferred by Davenport Bros
for whom Cobb was handling money as agtn
He waived examination and was bound over i
the sum OF $4,000 to appear and answer III
brothcr-in-law offered to 60 on lis bond b.,
Cobb refused, saying that he would rather g
to jail than to stand the importunings of othe
creditors who arc badly left.
A Cass county farmer named Sherman, We,
to Lincoln on the eth of last month to attcn
Barnum's circus, and has not been heard {
since. He was sober and upright man, an
foul play is suspected. His wife and thrc
children arc in a state of agonzcd suspense
The missing man settled in Cass county abou
one year ago, having moved there from nca
Mendoza, Ill. He is described as of mcdiur
height, heavy set and weighs about $50 pounds
Hair and chin whiskcrs of light color. For.
head high and inclined to badness. Eye
blue.
Fort Robinson special 8: A shooting affra
occurred last night at the saloon of And
Tabor, or "Frcnch Andy" which resulted j;
the death of Ed Williams, a butcher at til:
post. Williams had been qlarrc!ing with tn
barkcepcr, but finally quoted down after dis
charging his pistol through the roof of th
building. A few moments later he was a1
preached by Joe Crane, young man of abo,,
Is years, who, making the remark, care yo'
going to stop that shooting!" pulled Colt
revolver and shot Williams through the lief
breast directly over the heart. Crane the1