The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-18
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.

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Crooks and confidence men hold nightly
matinees in Valentine.
RECENTLY George Sanner was sufocated
by the smoke of powder blast in well
near Valentine.
THE Fremont National Guard has just re-
ceieed handsome and costly silk banner
from Columbus, Ohio.
TwENTY-SIx thousand dollars worth of
new machinery has been added to the
plant in the B. & N. shops at Plattsmouth.
MERRICK County farmers are confident
of a bOuntiful harvest. The prospect at
the present time surpasses the record.
The Board of Assessors have completed
the railroad assessment of the State.
The total assessment is SIS, 534, 7S9.0S, an
increase over last year of - 233, SO4.65. The
average assessment per mile is %, 102.1S.
IT is reported that a peculiar fever has
become epidemic at Wayne and has
extended to Wakefield. 1t has already
carried of several couples, and others are
afflicted. 1t is called wedding fever.
EUGENE BIsBEE, son of Captain Bisbee,
post commander at Fort Niobrara, has re-
ceived the appointment of postal clerk
from Missouri Valley to Valentine, vice L.
L. Luntry, resigned.
THE Elkhorn Land & Town Lot Com
pany, capital 500, 200, has been incorpor-
ated by John l. Blair, William W. Walker,
Dewitt C. Blair, Clarence G. Mitchell and
Samuel P. Wisuer.
BESIDES the loss of life in the late cloud
burst at Indianola $3.50 in greenbacks in the
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gold in coffee pot, were carried away by
the flood. Only two of the bodies have been
found. 1t is supposed the balance are COW
cred up with dirt and rubbish and may
never be found.
THE Papillion Times says the statement
that hog cholera caused loss of SIS, 900 to
farmers in Sarpy County is borne out by the
Assessors returns. When the assessment
was taken last spring there were 14,261
hogs in the county, assessed at S29,O1O;
now there are s, 135 hogs, assessed at $12,-
AS. This gives a decrease of $4,000 in
valuation, as compared with last year.
Hogs are certainly not assessed at more
than one-fourth actual value, and at this
rate the loss in the county since last spring
foots up SIS, 900.
A FAITHLESS lover was the cause of Annie
Johnson trying to leave Omaha and the
rest of the world by the morphine route
recently. Although not successful it was
a close call.
THE other day William Gerkie, of
Omaha, babe his friends good bye and
started for the Missouri River declaring
he would drown himself. He changed his
mind upon contemplating the raging Big
Muddy and crossed over to an Iowa town
and sent word back that he was not dead
but dead broke.
IT is stated that Nebraska post offices
are being filed at the rate of four per
day.
MONTAGUE, the temperance lecturer,
worked week in the town of Schuyler for
the sum of 1896.
A KANSAS cattle company purchased
sixty carloads of cattle last month in the
counties of Platte and Stanton.
EIGHTY-FoUR citizens of Blair signed the
protest against the reading of the Scrip
lures and praying in the public schools.
NORFOLK has made preparations for
grand observance of the Fourth. Senator
Van Wyck will be the orator of the day.
THE Congregational Church at Fremont
has just been completely finished at a total
expense of $4,000.
In the Campbell Drayton defamation of
character suit at Neigh recently, the
plaintiff, Mr.. Campbell, was given judg
ment of one cent. The costs were taxed
against both parties equally.
THE other morning the six-year-old
daughter of Mr.. McVeigh, of Ohiotown,
was instantly killed by the accidental dis
charge of gun which she and a little
brother got hold of.
DURING the year ended June l there had
been received and forwarded over the
Union Pacific and st. Joe & Western Rail-
roads at Grand Island 16G, 033, 900 pounds of
freight, or S3,022 tons. At 10000 pounds to
the car this would make S,301 carloads re-
ceived. Freight forwarded up to the same
date, 66,039, 14, allowing 10000 to the car
would make total of 1902 cars forwarded.
Total number of cars received and for
warded, II ,603, which would make a con-
tinuouS train of cars &c miles in length, or
would be equal to $50 trains Of 20 cars each.
THE Attorney General, Secretary of
State and Auditor of State, constituting the
the act of the late Legislature, met re-
Gently and organized by the selection of
Hon. E. P. Roggen as Chairman for the
first six months. The following gentlemen
were named under the act as Secretaries:
First Congressional District, c. H. Gere, of
Lincoln; Second District, Charles Bus
chow, of Red Cloud; Third District, Ben
jamin X. Cowdrey, of Columbus. The Sec
retaries filed their bonds, approved by the
Governor and qualified according to the
act. All communications to the Commits
sion should be addressed to Board of Rail-
road Commissioners, Lincoln.
THE absconding forger, Beverage, who
was reported as having been captured at
Harper, Kan, has again been reported
captured at Detroit, Mich. He bids fair to
rival the notorious Bender family in ubiqui-
ty.
JAMES A. TEMPLAR, son of c. Templar
OF Omaha, was recently killed near Long
Valley, Cal, by being thrown from his
horse.
THE other evening the house and barn of
James Moore, who lives two and a half
miles east of Firth, were totally destroyed
by fire. His horses, together with large
amount of grain, burned. The loss will
amount to two or three times the amount
of insurance.
JOHN /. PAINTER, proprietor of the
Occidental Hotel at Omaha, aged sixty
four years and in feeble health, was at
tackled by roughs the other night and
seriously injured.
WAYNE is to have a new Jail.
AMONG the corporations whose articles
were fled with the Secretary of State, re-
no,,+Irr LIZA The Da r,-Snr, County Rr1ild-