Omaha daily bee., 1885-07-18
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The paper mill at West Point is prospering
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The paper mill at West Point is prospering.
Cedar county paid $4,000 state taxes this
year.
Cherry county is valued st S6i0,OO0 and
owes only $4,000.
The new city directory for Fremont beats
the state census by LEGO.
A building fund association is helping
home builders at Dakota City.
Twenty-Five men are Mt work on the Swed-
ish Lutheran church at Wakefield.
Dakota City has ordained that shade trees
must be planted along the sidewalks.
The journal thinks Plattsmouth has been
bled numerically by foreign attorneys.
Fortune telling gypsles are gathering up
quarters from the weaklings of Wakefield.
Mrs. Mary Gilmore, the mother of Patrick
S. Gilmore, the we'll known of
Boston, died on Saturday at Plattsmouth.
The editor of the Gage county democrat has
q libel suit and a ten-pound boy baby on his
hands. There are joys oven in the country
editors life.
John Lindsey, formerly of ~Plattsmouth, has
been arrested, charged with inflicting the in
iuries which resulted in the death of kehoe,
at Weeping Water.
The attorney of Nebraska City claims the
city is not regularly organized as one of the
| second class, ana C0aD q new eleCJlOD 1nuSG De
held to comply with the law.
Jack Davis, the Nebraska City tough who
assaulted Andrew Heinrich, has skipped the
country. One of Heinrich's arms was COM
pletely paralyzed bya blow with a chair.
The Nebraska Clam Bake association will
hold the annual feast on the Blue river near
Crete, to-day. A rubber waist band and a
cork screw are the insignia Of membership.
StacIa Fontaine, from Omaha, put up at a
hotel ini Columbus Monday night and wa
found dead in bed the next morning. -Four
empty laudanum walls furnished the basis of
the cofoners verdict.
IS. j. Jones and lady of Culbartson, Neb., -
registered and occupied one room at a hotel in
Crete the other night. 1t turned out that
Jones is a prominent bloat of Lincoln, an ex-
editor, and a married man, and Mrs.
Jones" a fast and fly female who circulates
between Hastings and McCook. They were
bounced.
A Grand Island physician attempted to
tame q backing broncho and show off his
horsemanship in the presence of q young lady
to wi ON he was paying court. The animal
did not appreciate the pill man, and sud
denly elevated his headquarters, sending the
doctor headforemost to grass. 1t was a fatal
fall to his pride.
A mutual insurance agent Induced
Mrs. O'Keefe of Tecumseh, to
invest so IN a policy. She gave her
note for the money, but wnen the
examiner reported against her the company
refused to issue the policy and kept the note,
which has since turned up in the hands of a
third party. Mrs, O'Keefe proposes to prose
cute the swindlers.
"Plattsmouth.' says the journal, sis not
heavily in debt. Shs yves probably, all told,
Sl25, 900. and has property worth at q fair
valuation, three million dollors to pay 1t with.
Improvements are going up on every hilltop
and in every valley, Her men of business are
doing well; manufactures are springing up
and the hum of industry, the sound of the
hammer and saw and the song of machinery
is heard on every hand"
Hans Rosshman, q farm hand, made an in
decent exhibition of his person before the
family of Robert Waugh, a farmer near
Grand Island, and when Waugh objected
Hans knocked him down with a rock and de-
molished seven teeth. This stirred Waugh's
dander and he turned himself loose. When
Hans was gathered up he looked as it q mules
trip hammers had fallen on him, Rosshlnan
is a green Russian, but he does not f eel AZ
fresh as he did ten days ago. He is in Jail.