Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-27
STATE AND TERRITORY.
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The Howells Journal refers to Omaha as
"the PRIDE of our state"
An Omaha firm is putting up a beer depot
and ice house at Humphrey.
Nebraska City expects to have free mail
delivery service next month.
The glare of the electric light will be seen
in Madison within sixty days.
Philip Boyle, a well known farmer living
near Jackson, dropped dead in his buggy
from heart disease.
Ravenna wants to be county seat of a new
county to be formed by taking a slice Of
Buffalo and She rman.
1t is reported that large quantities. of tim
Der are being removed from school lands in
Blaine county in defiance of law.
Governor Thayer dined on a one-pound
brook trout Christmas, captured at Bazile
mills. The stream was stocked with brook
fry in 1884.
n. M. Kline, a Cheyenne county well dig
ger, kicked the bucket last week. \ rope
broke, the unfortunate man fell a distance of
lis feet and never knew what hurt him..
1t is said that the famous land mark on the
old overland trail, Chimney rock, in Chey-
enne county, has been so badly undermined
by the action of the elements that it will
soon take a tumble
Ar interesting meeting of the women of
Beatrice who took part in the crusade against
the saloons in 1874 was held at the Methodist
Episcopal church at Beatrice last Sunday
evening. The church was filed. The origi-
nal number of crusaders was about twenty
five, of whom about ten were present.
The new paper mill at Waterloo will soon
be in operation.
The latest enterprise at Muscatine is a
shelter company.
There are 43O students enrolled at Drake
university, Des Moines.
The improvements at Dubuque for 1885
amounted to S1,G1S, 200.
Rust from a stove which he was backing
destroyed one of John Utter's eyes at Clinton
last week.
Capitalists at Boone are offering induce.
ments for the location there OF a boot and
shoe factory.
The Atlantic starch factory turns out 5000
pounds of stiffening every day and furnishes
employment to twenty men.
The first ~artesian well ever struck at Fort
Dodge spouted last week when the diggers
had reached a depth OF twelve feet.
A Scranton young mar bought a present
for his best girl and had the amount put on
the books, but finally refused to pay for it.
So the storekeeper .swore out a writ of re-
plevin, sent the constable after the present
and returned it to his store. When the young
man heard what was done he paid for the
present and had it sent back TO the girl.
An old man appeared az the police station
III hcOhuh u lew uug ue4 WIN al oNCIiOhl
over his head and the blood running down
his face from his forehead. He refused to
have the blood washed from his face until
the physician could see 1t. He said his wife
had hit him with a cup. 1t is thought that he
wanted the physician's testimony in a divorce
case.
Dakota.
The new Touring mill at Armour has
begun operations.
There is talk of establishing a sugar fac
tory at Bismarck.
There is again talk Of building a mann
moth hotel at Deadwood.
Dell Rapids has Incorporated and the first
village election will be held January z.
The erection of AN extensive cold storage
house for butter and eggs is hoped for at
YanktOn.
A number of Turner county grangers liy-
ing near Hurry, have gone to Chicago and
have taken with them twelve cars of cattle
to pay the bill for sightseeing.