Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-29
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.

Ulysses has voted to build a school.
With the opening of spring Stockholm
is preparing for boom.
Double-barrelled shotguns we'll loaded,
is the current remedy for the dog sur
plus in Grand Island.
The board of trade of Indianola is ne
gotiating for a number of industries.
Water works and electric light are
among the early certainties.
Tecumseh will tackle the water-works
question with special election on the
9th of April. 1t is proposed to issue
$2l 900 in bonds to purchase plant.
Mr.. G. E. Spear has hung out the Sig
nal in the journalistic pasture at st.
Edward The Signal is there to stay,
we are cheerfully informed, provided
there is bread and butter in it,"
A syndicate of Grand Island, Anselmo
and Broken Bow capitalists have pooled
and purchased a mineral spring in Gus
ter county. These waters are said to
possess rare mineral qualities and a
fragrant and far-reaching smell.
Knox county expects great benefit
from the railroad excursions planned by
the Elkhorn Valley road. There will
be seven of them, and hundreds of east
erners will be brought out to view and
locate on the fertile uplands OF north
Nebraska.
Miss Mary D. Leggett, of Beatrice,
was ordained a minister of the Uni
tartan denomination in Kansas City a
few days ago. She will have charge of
church in her own city and was given
a snug sum to aid in the erection of a
building.
George H. Powers, of the Beatrice
Free Lance, is again abroad, after a
bout of twenty-one weeks with an over
production of rheumatism. The attach
ment was so warm and vigorous that
the Free Lance was also temporarily
knocked out. Both man and weapon
are now in shape to do some political
skinning in the spring campaign.
Representative McShane is trying"
says the Knox county News, "to push u
bill through congress, providing for
another bridge across the Missouri river
at Omaha, and the Union Pacific, to
whom the present bridge belongs-and
they have coined money out of the
bridge ever since il was built-are en-
deavoring to defeat the bill through
their attorneys, who are in Washington
lobbying against it,"
Says the Hastings Democrat: "The
Omaha press is unit in prOnouncing
the business men of Hastings the most
press has said many kind words for
Hastings generally, for which we feel
duly grateful. Omaha and Hastings
have more interests in common than
| the casual observer imagines and this
season will develop some of them"
Mr.. William Patterson, of Central
City, writes that the report that Helen
| Anderson, domestic in that city. had
gone crazy on the subject of religion, is
untrue. The cause of her misfortune
was toe much confidence in an
Iowa scoundrel who promised to
make her his wife. The report
which stirred Mr.. Patterson TO unne-
| cessary Indignation and ungentlemanly
| assertions, was published in the tele-
| graph columns of several papers and in
| the local columns of the Grand Island
| Independent. The latter paper also
| gave the name of Mrs. Dowd who had
been driven insane by Rev. Browns
| sulphurOus religion.
The McCook Democrat pays a well
deserved compliment to the striking
| engineers. 'The struggle" says the
| Democrat, "between the Brotherhood
| of Engineers and Firemen and the 20
system has continued four weeks, and
| still the former have not made stam-
pede for their old positions, as many ex-
pected. To-day they present as solid
| and unbroken front as on the first day,
| and whether you are friendly TO them
or not, you cannot help but admire the
| pluck and determination displayed in
their struggle for what they consider
their rights. They conduct themselves
| in a quiet and gentlemanly manner, and
by SO doing are continually winning ad-
miration from the people"
Iowa Items.
Society in Newton clings to roller
skating.
The Central Iowa base ball league is
the latest.
The Salem postmaster assaulted a
patron and pounded him la Sullivan,
because they differed politically and in
regard to the conduct OF the Office.
The democratic girls of Iowa Falls
have been gathered into the Frances
Folsom Cleveland club. II they had the