Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-07
STATE AND TERRITORY,
Nebraska Jottings.

Broken Bows boon, is still booming.
Plattsmouth Sons OF Veterans have organ
lied a lodge. a.''
The Ulysses base ball club is the star team
of Butler county.
Nebraska City insists that she hereafter
be known by the name, "City OIL PARKS"
According to a royal edict from Mayor
Rolfe, the town COW must go from Neoraska
City.
In order to keep up with the towns boom,
the Norfolk News Is obliged to regularly
print q six page paper.
The Ewing Democrat is a new paper hurled
into space from Holt county. 1t starts on by
saying that Custom is a %tyrant."
The Hall county fair will be held at Grand
Island September is, 10, 20 and2i. Premiums
liberal and competition open to the world.
N. Ulrich, of Stuart, who had a team
drowned in the Elkhorn river during the high
water last week., lost o team in q similar
manner about a year ago.
The York Daily Times has proved such q
great success that the proprietors will build
an elegant building for the office. This speaks
both well for the town and paper.
The truthfulness of that beautiful sentence
| referring to the fact that in life we are in
death, is strengthened by the following item
from the Plattsmouth Journals: "Last night
about 10 o'clock as an engine in the yards
was passing the coal sheds, a coupling pin
was thrown through the window OF the cab,
and the fireman narrowly escaped being
struck in the head with it. No further in
jury was done than breaking the glass. No
clue has been obtained as to who the parties
were.n
In an interview with Mr.. Howe, he stated
to a Hastings Gazette-Journa reporter that
| the company had in view the construction of
an extension of the Missouri Pacific road
from its present terminus at Prosser in
Adams county to Kearney. They have
asked right of way and depot grounds along
| the route and into the city ofKearney. The
citizens of that town are heartily in favor of
this proposition, and it is probable that this
| kind of a deal will be carried out, and work
begin later this season.
The following society item is taken from
the North Platte Nebraskan: "a couple of
smooth talking cloth peddlers were in the
city yesterday. They succeeded in making
several sales of apparently pretty fair goods,
They claimed to have sold $1,000 worth OF
goods to the people of Buffalo county, and
discounted several notes at the banks in
Kearney. The writer informed the duet that
they would be promptly hanged by the far
mers of Lincoln county if they attempted
any skin games upon them. Last evening
they quietly packed their effects and left for
Sidney, in search of new victims"
The following account of the strange freak
of lightning in Madrid, Perkins county, will
be of interest. The electric shock struck the
house of H. Bogg. The current struck the
stove-pipe, and followed it down, completely
demolishing the stove. Tho occupants of the
house at the time were w. r. Vance, son-in,
law of Mr.. Boggs, and his wife and baby,
Mrs. Boggs and Mr.. Ed Hartman. After de
stroGing the stove the current passed to Mrs
Vance and she suffered a severe shock, hav
ing her shoes completely torn from her feet
and her baby thrown to the floor from hel
arms. Mr.. Vance, who was also severely in
jured and his boots torn from his feet, picked
the baby up and found it u%ninjured, Mr.
Hartman suffered the greatest from the light
ming, having been struck several times be
fore.