Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-13
NEBRASKA NEWS.

West Point has levied an occupation
tax.
The Episcopalians of Ashland con
template the erection of a new church.
The board Of trade of Indianola is
negotiating for water works and electric
light.
The knights of Labor of Norfolk
have put city and school board ticket
in the field.
Booth and Barrett viii appear in
Julius Caesar" at FUnke's opera house
In Lincoln, April u.
Each family in Cunning county is al
lowed one dog free, and is taxed . a
year for every additional one.
Kearney expects to have a new daily
paper soon. Interested parties are
already negotiating for press and ma
terial.
A syndicate of Grand Island, Anselmo
and Broken Bow capitalists have pooled
and purchased a mineral spring in
Custer county.
At the Chautauqua assembly for 1888,
which opens in June at Crete, one of
the attractions viii be the Rev. T
Dewitt Talmage.
The Hastings board of trade has
closed a contract for wooden mill to
cost $25, 900. The manager is W. w.
Clay, of Paris, Canada.
@. E. Spear, editor of the Signal,
new daily paper at st. Edwards, says
he is there to stay, provided there is
bread and butter in it. "
T. M. Pearce has made a change of
base by moving his paper from Endi-
colt to Diller. His new paper is the
Jefferson County Record
Fairfield News: James Bradford,
county treasurer of Harlan county, we
learn, is in trouble. We sincerely hope
he may be able to clear himself.
A n, Childs, an attorney, brother Of
A. P Childs, of the Wayne Gazette,
died on Monday of consumption, and
was taken to New York for burial on
Tuesday.
Representative McShane has secured
an allowance of $4,000 for additional
clerks in the Omaha postoffice, to be
expended during the balance of the
present year.
Governor Thayer delivered his pleas
ing and instructive lecture on ''Icono-
clasts" to an appreciative audience at
the Congregational church at WahoO
Tuesday night.
The state university has opened for
the spring term after a vacation of two
weeks. A large number of new stu
dents have entered for the closing term
of the new year.
Mrs. Mary d. Leggett of Beatrice,
was ordained a minister of the Unitarian
denomination In Kansas City few
days ago. She viii have charge of a
church IN her own city.
The w. @. T. U. Convention held
at Geneva Tuesday and Wednesday
was a decided success. Nearly two
hundred delegates from all over the
state were in attendance.
At meeting of Foster assembly,
knights of Labor, at Nebraska City,
resolutions were passed condemning
the Omaha Republican for articles con
tanned derOgatOry to 1abOring mems in
terests.
The committee at North Platte who
have for distribution seed wheat for
farmers whose last years crops were
Improbable, have received orders for
nearly 500 bushels from farmers in the
county.
A lodge of Elks was recently organ
lied in Lincoln. 1t is composed of a
large number of the best business men
In the city. The lodge rooms viii be
in the Shaberg block, opposite the
Windsor hotel
The Pinkerton detectives are in bad
repute at Lincoln for alleged unpro-
voked assaults ON citizens. Mr.. Dean
of Lincoln, and Mr.. ThOs. Jones of
McCook are among those who have
been roughly handled.
William Green, a former laborer on
the wrecking car of the Burlington &
Missouri, has sued the company for
81, 999. 80 as damages received 10y him
from the falling of a derrick while he
was employed by the company.
The bali from gun fired by a
drunken fellow at Long Pine passed
through a window of a residence,
barely missing a woman in the room /;
then ploughed across the top of a table
and lodged in the family bible.
S. H. Overholser of Norfolk, while
taking some prunes out of cask,
found a murderous looking dirk among
them. The weapon is supposed to
have belonged to some Turk who lost