Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-07
STATE JOTTINGS.

Norfolk is negotiating for a tele-
phone.
North Bend will work the cork-screw
in the shadows of the door.
A district fair association has been
organized in Gosper county.
The Fairmont creamery has been
sold to Charles Human and Bert
Brewer.
Pawnee City elected Will B. Bum for
mayor on the anti saloon ticket. 1t is
believed he has reformed.
The business of the Lincoln postoffice
for the past quarter exceeded by 20 per
cent the same period last year.
DThe plans of an Omaha architect for
the high school building in Crete have
been accepted. The building will cost
$20, 900.
Schooners cannot safely cross the
bars at North Bend. The recent rise of
the Platte gave the residents a strong
attachment for water.
1t will cost s., 900 to put the Lincoln
base ball club on its feet. A better and
cheaper remedy would be TO give the
members a chance to sleep it off.
Blair is crowded with tramps of all
grades of tilthiness and devilment. A
vigorous round up and route of the var
minis is contemplated. The coroner
hungers for a job.
A deposit at Norfolk was struck at q
depth Of 140 feet Of a blue clay full of
iron pyrites, in size from a pin head to
"A mimic ball. Samples have been sent
to Denver to be assayed.
John Brown, jr., son of the aboli-
zionist, is discussing the national sur
plus and other evils and increasing his
| nvrp onr,1t,C In thn tnuunS Of thn gtnta
He is said to be IA superb natural gas
well on parade.
The Arapahoe Mirror prints IA sensa-
tional story alleging that a Union
Pacific engineer refused to pull his train
out Of Denver n few days ago, because
two Cinnamon were passengers. The
brotherhood man did not propose under
any circumstance to render assistance
to the queue.
Steve O'Neill has received "A dis
patch from OMAHA says the Sioux
City Times, ~''stating that he had been
awarded the contract for ~eXcavating
for the new Armour Il Cudahy beef
plant. The job will amount to 10000.
1t is reported the firm will eXpend $780,
900 at the Omaha stock yards this sea-
son in improvements"
The Dust & Williams minstrel troupe,
a chain gang of native mOkes, stormed
Blue Spring for a few dollars recently.
They did not raise enough to pay hall
rent or board and silently walked out of
town enveloped in borrowed overcOats.
They proved too fleet of foot to be over
taken by a Burlington train and are
now beating their way through Iowa.
Everything is humping along
smoothly ON the Burlington. Two en-
gines came together near Burchard a
few days ago and rolled into the ditch
in one eloquent mass of junk. A rear
end collision occurred near Bellevue
Thursday night, demolishing the en-
CINE and several cars. The capacity OF
the repair shops is overwhelmed these
mellow striking days.
The Lincoln journalist whose wife
surprised him recently with ii pair OF
handsome girl babies, has been rudely
hustled into obscurity by the wife OF
Soren Johnson, of Lincoln, who on
Wednesday presented her husband
with a pair of girls with a boy as escort;
The newspaper fraternity had hoped
that its honored member would main
tain a leading position among the
fathers of the land, but his fall, though
temporary, is a trihe discouraging;
However, there is 10 such word 'as iali
| in Henry's unabridged. ~.