Omaha daily bee., 1885-07-06
STATE JOTTINGS.

The Falls City Observer has croaked.
The village of Grafton j populates at AIT.
The new school house &C Oakdale will cost
Sc, 600.
The Methobists of Ponca are building q
church.
The census returns give Hastings a popula-
ton of 5000.
Sheridan county is in the vortex of an i'm
migration boom.
A building and loan association has been
formed at Scotia.
The David City tiger dens were assessed
500 q head. last week.
A company has been formed in Sutton to
build a $4,000 hotel.
Hog cholera has broken out again among
the porkers about Scribner.
Work will commence this week on o new
Congregational church at Neigh.
A state bank with a capital of $25, COO has
hung out its sign at Republican City.
Weeping Water has organized a manufac-
turing company with $4,000 capital.
DIR. Coleburg, one of the pioneers of Otoe
county, died on the morning Of the Fourth.
Detective Pound, of Lincoln treasury no
toriety, is In constant receipt of threatening
letters.
Liz bedLTlCe canning factory curing the
year just closed turned out SIS, 4S0 worth of
product.
Substantial new residences, barns and grana-
ries are the evidences of steady growth visible
in Thayer county.
Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of
freight were received at Chadron, within
two weeks, lately.
The representative OF a stove factory at
Irontou, Ohio, is skirmishing for a location
in Nebraska City.
The new town of Dawes City is located on
White river, at the mouth Of Ash creek, ten
miles west of ChadrOn.
Don Rochon, a ten year.old, dropped into
a corn bin in the elevator at Bellwood and
narrowly escaped sutfocation.
A braying of patriotic mule ushered in the
glorious morn of the Fourth at Grand Island.
A salute of thirteen brays was fred.
JOHNNY Benson. a Superior boy, while play.
ing, run against q barb wire fence and nearly
cut his ~windpipe. He was stitched up.
A number of wealthy Swedss of Kearney
county, have organized a mutual fire insur-
ance company, with headquarters at Axtell.
The Nebraska Chatauqua assembly opened
at Crete on Wednesday. Some $50 people
were in attendance at the first days session.
John Young, recently from Illinois, and
ShbAAO oilhboIlg q 1bhpH %
while bathing in the river near Culbertson,
Friday.
Plattsmouth will vote on the 18th instant
on the proposition to fund the $50, 600 high
school debt into twenty year six and q halt
per cent bonds.
Fremont furnished 100 kegs of enthusiasm
for the celebration at Hooper and Scribner.
There were several parched throats on the
Sabbath morning.
Some Of the far sighted citizens of Ponca
are thinking of building caves for the purpose
of having O safe place OF retreat when the tor.
nado comes along.
u Shed, q former Fremont man, lost Sl5,-
900 worth of goods by the burning of his store
In Denver last week. The insurance, how
ever, will cover the amount,
At the election in Blair, on the proposition
for the issuance of bonds for the construction
of a water works system, the question was
carried by a large majority.
Wheat Ia heading finely and the prospects
for oats were never better in Antelope county.
A short period of good weather wall now as
sure immense crops of both.
Six Of the Colby gang arrested at Central
City some time ago, have been sent to the
pe~nitentiary. This gang has been a holy
terror to Central City for years.
A sad accident marrsd the festivities at
Roca on the Fourth. Mr., Smith, a school
teacher from Bennett, was drowned while
swimming in the mill pond near town.
1t has been discovered that a half-witted
girl In Ainsworth is to become a mother, the
prospective father being one of the popular"
moral young men of that town.
Edward Boyle, OF Crete, took bath In the
Blue river last Sunday. Being unable to
swim he went beyond his depth and tank TO
lao No mara The hodu Uaa rasOvaVad |
Il A Hight aipg'rod!man, q slick tslker, iona up
DoitioRs OF Saline county by the us pal note
One farmer contracted for a rod at
but VII -the bill was rendered 1t reached
As long armeTs enter iuto contracts !