Omaha daily bee., 1885-05-18

| years,
Three hundred and fifty more names have
been added to the sober list at Fremont The
saloons are drying up.
Weeping Water sports will not tolerate
fakirs unless they explain the combination to
make sure Of winning.
The engaging young ladies of Creighton
offer extra inducements for the establishment
OF an ice cream parlor there.
TIL Grand Island fremen have raised about
twelve thousand dollars to defray the expenses
Of the next state tournament.
The editor of the Nebraska City Press con-
fesses that he perfected himeelf in the art Of
ling by composing circus bills.
After a protracted sitting through four
nights, the city council of Blue Springs
granted one license to sell liquor.
An insurance company has been incorpO
rated in Lincoln, with John Fitzgerald az
the head and 81 Alexander, scribe.
Rumors are current in Platte county that
the b Il NJ. railroad will soon be extended
from Columbus north through the county.
Contracts have been let for the furnishing
OF the lumber for the new stock yards at Lin
coin. A town will be planted adjacent to
the yards.
Nanny Cline, the 11.year. old daughter of
Peter Cline, q Webster county farmer, was
burned to death while feeding q cornstock
fire, on the 9th.
Plattsn outh added two more to It's list of
, borders in the penitentiAry last week. Frank
Williams, robber; John w. Ehlers, forVer.
, Five years each.
. Mirage flats is the name of o section of
, country near Nashville, in Sheridan county,
. where the phenomenon is said to be on deck
D four days in the week.
, Hastings can have the proposed Scsndina-
Wan theological seminary If proper substan-
D tial encouragement Is given the promoters.
v The question will be settled this week.
7. G. Foxworthy, of Lincoln, fell from a
scaffold twenty feet from the ground. An
j. inventory of his effects showed q dislocated
ankle, sprained shoulder and bruised hips.
N. ID. Hsrds, q former resident of Scribner,
from which point he suddenly emigrated Some
U two years ago, has been arrested for hi
n crooked ways at Granite Falls, Minn
John Florida, who was sent to the county
Jail at Madison from Norfolk, succeeded II
d making his escape Tuesday mic hit, At last
reports no trace of the fugitive had been dis
covered.
j. Martin, democratic postmaster at Mar.
At tinsburg, Dixon county, was successful il
his fifteenth attempt to resign his office
II few days ago, John Shultz being appointed
Ia his successor.
Mike Healy of Lincoln, and John Driscol
, of Chicago, have signed articles of agreemen
ic to spar six rounds With ordinary boxinI
a gloves, the match to be fought in Lincoll
thirty days from May II.
A water spout burst over a family of emf
ID grants named Scott, while camped two mile
=, from Kearney, Friday night, drowning two Q
their children. The father, mother, and on
le boy had 3 narrow escape.
at Three horses and eighteen hogs were ere
:. mated at a barn burning at Burnett on tn
Is 10th. The stock and barn belonged to AS
w Stevens. A glass bottle focused the sun
heat on the hay and started the fire.
The golden opportunity is anchored at Wy
SO more. A freck.ed, bald headed bachelor Q
=, two score years, whose bunions are encase
20 in No. 9s, offers 800 reward for a wife
xt Girls with cold feet need not apply.
6 Mrs. Mike Warga collided with her hus
band while loaded with Plattsmouth fort
% rod, and came out of the wreck with a blac.
eye, a cnt forehead, a split lip, and number
:, mains into a divorce court.
III The homeopathic doctors of the state he'll
8 a two days discussion and banquet in Lincol
=, last week ard adjourned to meet in Hasting
l next May. +. b. Fighter, of Lincoln, wa
ee elected president for the ensuing year; /
al w. Winter, of Mymore, secretary.
:, James Wingate is nursing q timber clair
ID near Indianols. Joe Murphy adjoins hin
ra and pastures his stock on the claim. Tame
!, kicked, and cussed the whole Murphy famil
10 and threatened to draw blood, whfn a youn
IS, Murphy drew a gun and scalped Wingate
nose. ~.e
Mrs. j. H. Yandermark, of Hasting
sportively mounted a bucking pony at HI
a husbands rancho. The high:heeled plug r.
lr. bounded high in the air. came down on q
va fours, and sent Mrs. Y. to grass with
., sprained wrist.
III Hank johnson, o CARPENTER, invaded Il
Ise peaceful home of John Nordyke near Dako
City, shipgled the shanty and hammered lo'
" into the willing ear of Mrs. Nordyke. I'll
tickle wife sickeued, induced the old man
mortgage his farm Cor $1,000, and decampt
with Hank and the cash.
VIC Patrons Of the OMAHA DAILY BEE in tn
iay locality have been much surprlsed.and graf
fed during the past few days at ~receivir
'fu their morning papers in the forenoon. "
len believe they are forwarded by the mornil
fast freight. 1t is quite a stroke of ente
uei prise on the BEES part.-[Central CT
Courier.
B Two tramp burglars scaled the battlemen
of the Castle dry goods store in Blue Sprin
one night last week, and carried away enoul
feminiue garments and ornaments to stock
bureau, together with notes for 500. Y
to with all this wealth in goods and paper, t
burglars were captured while snoring in
y freight car.
~, lClhiut3 ldL6 vi ANOTbl beuu, w
tile TX 'pped with the light of the last moon a
some 800, 600 in cash, is notified to appear q
.ter answer the attachment proceedings ~institut
by George r. Lyon, Of Waukeegan, It,,
whom he borrowed $33, 600 on forged, frar
ulent and worthless promissory notes a
cat mortgages" Smith will take due notice q
de- keep shady.
The preliminary examination of Mrs. Jol
son on the charge of killing her husband,
ne Lincoln, resulted in her discharge from CT
tody. There was absolutely no testimony
show that she did the killing bayond
wild statement at the tins that she xii
both her husband and Long, which she
'Eue tracted lmost at once. and the fact that
lion revolver that did the shooting was hers q
was in her possession almost lmmediat
OF after the shooting.
The faculty of the state university will h
entrance examinations at the following pla
and dates: Omaha, Tuesday, June 10; Fl
City, Wednesday, June II; T~ekamah, Thu
day, June IS; Kearney, Saturday il
20; Red Cloud, Monday, June
lnty Each Of these local examinations will aft
opportunity to the youth of a large section
ty Is test the question of their fitness to enter
latin school Of the university without the
Blue penss of q journey to Lincoln.
The noted Blacklaw-B Booker case, tried
IIeoe Pawnee City, terminated last week. :
e jury failed to agree. This was the sect
trial, both of which resulted in o disagr