Omaha daily bee., 1888-11-03
STATE AND TERRiToRY.
Nebraska Joftings

Nebraska Joftings.
Two brass bands, fully uniformed, ara
supported by the people Of Utica. 8.
The York county court house is TO be
lighted throughout by electricity.
wild geese have made themselves scarce
in the neighborhood Of kearney this fall.
The Catholics OF Schuyler are raising
funds TO build a residence for their priest. q
The till Of the depot Mt Dakota City was
tapped by an unknown thief the other night,
but only $50 was obtained. =
Since the rise in the price Of -four the Bap.
lists Of Weeping Water are raising funds by
giving mush and milk sociables.
Asa Berry, of seward, was given a YER
dict of $1,000 against the Burlington road for
injuries sustained by him last wiuter by
being Struck by an engine.
Another Nebraska editor has committed
matrimony. A. b.. Knots, Of tho Platts-
mouth Herald, was married at high noon
Thursday to Miss May Russell, daughter Of
Judge Russell.
During a Halloween celebration at Fair
| mont a young lad named Lisle Williams fell
under the wheels of a road scraper which
was being dragged around, and had one Of
his legs badly fractured above the knee.
The Fremont Tribune announces that 'if
the parties who tore down the Tribune's
transparencics with supporting posts and
| carried off the banners will report to this
office they will find the fighting editor in,
with his sleeves rolled up and clenched
teeth.n
There was a close call for a terrible acct.
dent at Fairmont last week. The Is. Il Nj.
flyer was standing on u side-track awaiting
the passage of q fast freight. Just as tho
latter train was approaching the switchman
discovered that the switch was set wrong,
but by u quick movement he managed To
| change it. Had he been thirty seconds later
the two trains would have come together
with a terrific crash and many lives would
| probably have been lost.
Iowa.
Keokuk registered 5A more votes this year
than last.
Rev. S. Pillsbury, a pioneer of Dickinson
county, is dead.
The harvest home celebration in Atlantic
| eclipsed anything of the kind of former
years.
Dubuque has 17,7S6 people between tho
ages of 5 and 81, according to its Just com
pleted school census.
The proprietors Of the oatmeal mill at
! Muscatine contemplate manufacturing buck
wheat flour at an early date.
A Des Moines travelling man was among
the robbed by highwaymen in the Arkansas
train a few days since. He lost S2.34, which
he had stuffed into his shoe.
The return Of J. T. Perdue, clerk Of the
courts, to the state board Of health, for tho
year ending October 1, shows that in Wapello
county there were 300 marriages, 366 births,
and 800 deaths.
Just as tho minister closed his remarks at
the funeral of the late Mrs. Bulger, at the
home Of Thomas Adams in Clinton, Wednes-
day afternoon, Mr.. Adams, who had been
quite i'll, expired in an adjoining room.
MIR. John Vannesse, a farmer, who lives
two miles northeast of Spirit Lake., was
fatally injured by his horses while blowing
with two young colts. The team became
tangled in the lines, whirling the man around,
stamping on him and tracturiug his skull in
two places.
Sioux Falls has secured o wooden mill,
which is to move in from Wisconsin.
A large force of mon have commenced
work on the Deadwood Central railroad
grade, and more are wanted. 1t is stated
the company will complete the road TO Lead
City this winter il possible. .
Green Todd, from the Bear Lodge country,
reports great devastation among colts by
wolves. Out Of a crop OF one hundred he
has only forty left. He killed three wolves,
including the most ferocious one that had
done the most damage.
Last year Fred Burger, of Yankton, Dak.,
captured a swarm Of wild bees and endeav-
ored to domesticate them. He went to bank
up their hive the other day, and bow tame
they were can be judged by his countenance.
1t is "speckled all over init schpots."
Jerry Krohrhtur, a threshing hand who
robbed the houses of several farmers In
Brainard township, Brown county, was ar
rested at Aberdeen as he was about to tako
the train. He had shaved clean and changed
his clothes, but his nervousness betrayed
him to the officer who followed him TO the
city.
A sensation was caused Mt Plankinton last
week by the report that Frank Andrews, a
well-to-do young farmer living two miles
east Of town, had attempted to suicide by
shooting himself. A doctor was called, and
after making an examination found that the
ball had struck q rib and glanced backward,
thus saving the young mans life.
William Sauitry mad a sultry time getting
married in Rapid City the other day. He
had the consent Of the brides parents, but a
big brother interfered aud a fist fight &C.
Cured. The big brother was whipped anu
marriage was consummated, but the bride
groom broke his hand in the fight. About 10
o'clock the party started home, but In tho
darkness the wagon was overturned and tho
right arm Of the young bride was broken
near the shoulder.