The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-28
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.

nineteen horses were consumed.
The Grand Island firemen have raised
about twelve thousand dollars to defray
the expenses of the next State tJurna-
ment.
MIRAGE FLATS is the name of a section
OF country near Rushville, in Sheridan
County, where the phenomenon is said to
be on deck four days in the week.
AT the late meeting of the homeopathic
doctors Of the State in Lincoln, F. 3.
Fighter, of Lincoln, was elected President
for the ensuing year; F. ". Winter, of
Wymore, Secretary.
j. Y. SMITH, late of North Bend, who
| skipped with some $4,000 in cash, is not;-
fled to appear and answer the attachment
proceedings instituted by George R. Lyon,
| of Waukeegan, ILL.,, of whom he borrowed
$4,000 on forged, fraudulent and worthless
promissory notes and mortgages" Smith
will take due notice.
THE faculty of the State University will
hold entrance examinations at the follow
ing places and dates: Omaha, Tuesday,
June 16 Falls City, Wednesday, June l.;
| Tekamah, Thursday, June Is; Kearney,
Saturday, June 30; Red Cloud, Monday,
June -. Each of these local examinations
will afford opportunity to the youth of a
| large section to test the question of their
| fitness to enter the Latin school of the Un-
! iversity without the expense of a journey
! to Lincoln
| A PARTY of roughs recently attached the
| post-office at Cooleridge, firing a number
of shots through the windows. w. o.
Pollock, the postmaster, and his wife were
in the building at the time, and Mrs. Pol
lock received a fright which it was feared
would be fatal. 1t is said the trouble grew
out of the failure of man named Breden-
baugh to secure the appointment as post
master. Pollock resigned March 3 in favor
of his deputy, man by the name of John
J. Moore. Bredenbaugh made a bitter
fight for the position, but Moore was ap-
pointed, and this excited his wrath beyond
peaceful endurance, SO he organized his
friends into mob to clean out the eStab-
lishment. Warrants were placed in the
hands of the United States Marshal for the
arrest of the party.
RUMORS are current in Platte County
that the B. & NJ. Railroad will soon be ex-
tended from Columbus north through the
county.
HOlScS oIbnOCth mugs "OAO
cremated at barn burning at Burnett re-
Gently. The stock and barn belonged to
Asa Stevens. A glass bottle focused
the SUMS heat on the hay and started the
fire.
THE Secretary of War and staff recently
visited Fort Omaha ON tour of inspec-
tion.
THOMAS E. DoTY, late delivery clerk at
the Lincoln Post-office, was arrested few
days since upon theJcharge of opening a
letter addressed to c. H. Batterton and
containing a lottery ticket valued at $50.
Upon being arrested Doty made clean
confession, stating that he had taken the |
ticket, and also that he had taken sums OF
money from letters several times, but |
always small amounts. He felt very bad |
over the affair on account of his wife, who |
is said to be very estimable lady, and his |
little child. Doty had been in the office |
about year and was considered one of the |
most competent and trustworthy among |
the employees.
WILDER THOMAS while recently chasing
a Texas steer on his pony, in a western
county, met with a serious accident. The
pony and steer came violently together
and the young man was thrown and his
back broken.
MARK TULLY, of Fremont, held a claim
for week near the new town of Rushvile,
and sold it for 81 900.
IT is stated that the daily arrivals at
Valentine, Gordon and Chardron are enor-
nous.
HUGH LINN'S residence il Dawson County
was destroyed by fire the other night.
C. MORGAN, of the Courier, has been
appointed Postmaster at kearney.
THE eighteenth annual council of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, for the dio-
cese of Nebraska, convened at omaha on
the 20th. The attendance was large.
AT the late annual meeting of the Ne
braska State Eclectic Medical Association
at Omaha, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: j. W. Nc
Casland, of Pawnee City, President; G. $.
Sturdivant, of Atkinson, Vice President:
j. NJ. Kevs, OF Pawnee City, Secretary;
Van Camp, of Omaha, Corresponding Sec
retarv, f. S. Grimes, of Lincoln; Treas
urer. Board of Censors, Drs. Guild Wood
ward and Nichols. The following dele
gates were elected to the National Conven-
I
IoS5: Alex. Colman, W. S. Latta, r. S.
Grimes, r. B. Crawford, II. g. Bates, ".
H. Babcock, j. w. Keys.
J. S. REED, a brakeman on the Laramie
Division of the Union Pacific, fell between
the cars while the train was going through
a shed near Dale Creek recently and wa.
killed. Hewas standing on a car
when the train entered the she'd and was
struck by one of the timbers. Reed was =
single man, and had been in the company's
service two years.
a. G. COLEMAN, employed in the yards
of the st. Paul, Minneapolis 6 Omaha
Railroad at Ponca was found in q freight
car the other morning. A bullet had passed
through his heart and a pistol lay at his
side. The sUpposition was that he commit
ted suicide, but no cause could be assigned
for such an act.
THE young man Bridendaugh, who is ac-
cused of completely in the criminal assaul;
upon Postmaster Pollock, of Cooleridge,
has been arrested and denies in toto tie
serious charges which are preferred agains;
him. His version of the trouble is entirely ;
different from that first published, and he
declares that he had nothing to do with it
himself.
FLOUR mill is being built at Wayne. :
4 LADY at Friend, having a desire to
quietly lay aside some pin money, recently
put thirteen dollars in the drawer o.
the coffee mill. A day or two =
later the hired girl put some coffee in the ,
mill, ground it and emptied cash and ali :
into the coffee pot where it received .