Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-17
TIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. AUGUST IL. 1888

prohibitionists at Columbus the other even
ing he declared that he was republican
out on a strike Someone in the audience,
doubtless having in mind the fact that the
third party movement is virtually an ally OF
the democracy, seiled-out on foul.
A number ofSNymore sinners learned that
the Rev. j. V. Dimon was about TO leave the
city on account Of the scarcity of funds
among the church, members, so they Clipped
in and raised the preachers salary. They
knew him to be;as diamond who sheds his
light upon the just and unjust alike, and con-
cluded he was the,kind of man to keep in a
town for the towns good.
John o. Sullivan was shot at Gothenburg
one night last week by Frank Wier and dan
gerously wounded. Sullivan was intoxi-
Gated at the time, and was pounding on the
door of stove where Wier was sleeping.
The latter took him for a burglar and emp
tied the barrel of shotgun into Sullivan 8
carcass. Wier has been arrested and held
for trial. Sullivan will recover.
Iowa.
There Is talk Of "shooting'' the artesian
well at KeolSuk with a nitro-g ycerine tor
pedo to increase Its flow.
A boy turned up at Dubuque surgeons
Office the other day with fish hook through
his upper lip He had been swinging it
over his head at the end of a line.
Paul Donald, fifteen years old, whose home
is in Davenport, was riding horse near
Muscatine when the animal reared up and
fell backward on the boy, hurting him so
badly that 1t was thought he could not live.
Samuel Robinson, a Poweshiek county
farmer, fell from stack Of grain the other
day, a distance of sixteen or eighteen feet,
striking on his neck and shoulders and frac-
| turing his spinal column. He was picked up
as dead. In the past week he has improved
a little, but his sufferings are great Ii he
| lives he will be cripple for life.
Baldwn's balloon ascension has given the
| Keokuk small boy the parachute fever.
| Some of the more daring ones are making
daring leaps from barns and fences with
| open umbrellas for parachutes. So far no
| broken bones arc reported, but it is simply
| because boys from eight to fourteen years OF
| age live under special providence.
Dakota.
Huron has no tramps now that she has q
| law making them work on the streets.
The Iroquos Chief tells of a boy in that
| town who broke the ''internal condyle" OF
| his arm.
The city marshal of Yankton is having q
| dip net constructed to be used in catching un-
| tagged dogs.
Sully county is making great record on
twin babies this year, there having been
| something like a dozen pairs so far.
| The department of public instruction has
| issued circular to the effect that the second
| territorial examination will be held stimuli
| taneously at Fargo, Huron and Spearfish
| from August 20 to 81 inclusive.
| The Sheridan Enterprise says there is a
| dog in town called Dick which performed the
remarkable feat of travelling alone from Mis-
| souri, this summer back to Sheridan He was
| owned by man who formerly lived here
but returned to his home in the east last fall
| taking the dog with him, and great was the
| surprise of the people when he put in an ap
pearance short time ago. He is evidently
| stuck on the country,