Omaha daily bee., 1885-08-24
STATE 10 cTINGs.

81; Nance county will have its first fair thi
Wolf hunters are harvesting in Thaye
county.
Hastings is crying for more hotel accommo,
dations. fr5
Sod Town is the racing metropolis of Buff
falo county.
Steam plows are being introduced in tn,
Republican valley.
Fifteen companies participated in the Crane
Island tournament.
Fair J~uniata cries out for q capitalist t,
build cottages to rent.
The Kearney base ballers have retired from
the field in disgust.
Potatoes are rottlng in the ground in somt
parts of Hamilton county.
Freight traffic is picking up earlier thar
usual on the b, & M.
Hastings has been officially proclaimed q
city of the second class.
Sod corn is suffering for want of rain in the
nejghborhood of Hay Springs.
The treasury of Osoe county had a cash sur
plus of $32,056. 67 on July 9th.
The corn stories of to-day discount the best
efforts of the ''oldest inhabitant."
Henry MacMaken, of Plattsmouth, was
LllEOHH " u " SaIIidSo db SEcLS duu Dduly
hurt.
The lightning.rod man is making himself
numerous and odorous in several sections of
the state.
The Northwest News, by Verify brothers,
recently of Valentine, has appeared at Hay
Springs.
Five glandered horses OF Greenwood, Cass
county, were ordered killed by the state vet
erinarian.
The Hastings city council has decided to
submit the waterworks question to O vote of
the people.
Judge w. H. Blaine, of Geneva, ex-repre-
sentative of Fillmore county, died at his homo
on the 10th.
The Columbus Democrat sports q new
heading with q Cleveland back slope and re-
form trimmings.
George ii. Johnson Is in all at Beatrice for
holding up two men at West Liberty and re-
liz wing them OF 50, OO.
Lars Peterson, The Bennett beast, who was
recently arrested for incest, was bMled in $3.50,
and Immediately jumped tho town.
The Masons of Missouri Valley excurtsd to
Fremont last Wednesday and cavorted around
City park like youngsters on @ frolic.
Sarpy county prohibs will dilute and dilate
at Springfield, September 8ih. A full"
county ticket will be hurled at the voters.
Agitator Montague is credited with having
ing induced III Fairburyans to sign the
pledge during his recent campaign there.
Emery Muggoy,. a Sterling boy of six,
undo the wheels of a loaded wagon
last Wednesday, and was crushed to death.
The Methodist conference has generously
offered to locate an academy at Ara pahoe IL
the citizens put up $4,000 cash ard forty
acres of land.
The body of Charles +. Downing, who died |
of consumption In Colorado, was brought
back to his late home In Geneva, last We does |
day, for burial.
Another delegation of eight Indian chill
dren, four girls and an equal number of boyP,
left Fort Tosten, Oak, a few days ago for
the Nebraska Indian school.
There is no clus as yet to the tramps who
held up Mr.. w. Dsnt, of Hastings, and re-
him of S35 after giving their victim an |
beating.
A stranger fell from the cannon ball" train
IN the Republican Valley division of the B L
between Hardy and Byron last Wednes-
lay, and broke his neck.
A fifteen y~esr.old boy started out as q horse
hief at Nelson, NuokolIs county, last week.
lie was soon captured together with O revolver
md a "Wild Bill" novel.
Thieves broke into q freight car at CowleI
tation, on the b. q NJ, and were Juggling
way sacks of flour, when the station agent
lulled his gun and made them stand and
john Ecton, a former railroad hand. while
ryipg to board the Denver freight, while 10
between Holdrege and Axtel last {