Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-03
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska lettings

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Nebraska Jottings.
Superior has two parks.
Pawnee City is keeping up the slack in her
boom.
Otoe county's corn crop is all in, with fair
prospects.
A mad dog is the latest curiosity at Ne.
braska City.
Fremont's Masonic temple will cost from
81 5000 to $4,000.
The Norfalk Daily News is a year old and
shows evidence of prosperity.
L. G.. Roat, secretary of the state grange,
is speaking at various towns in the state.
Rev. Joseph Cook is lecturing throughout
the state on the question, "Does Death Enc
All?n
There is an unusual amount Of blue grass
making its appearance on the prairies this
spring.
w. j. Comley, n mail agent, who had two
ribs broken in the Alma wreck, reports that
100 letters were lost.
Believing in the maxim that if she does
not blow her own horn no one will blow it
for her, Fairbury prints boom editions of her
papers.
DR.. Billings, who has just returned from
the east, is getting ready to make some Won
derful developments in the science of hog
culture.
Several Nebraska papers warn farmers of
the danger of blowing up roads for the pur-
pose of polishing their piows, and refer them
to the law prohibiting II.
With eighty-two glandered horses killed
during the month of April, a paper in the
southwestern part of the state insists that
the diseased horses are brought over from
Iowa.
Mrs. Bridget Hanlon, Of Fremont, has
begun suit in the district court against the
Union Pacific railroad to recover Sl,976 for
damages for trespass, which consists in the
laying of their sidetracks on her lots near
the Union Pacific depot.
Ben Albin, a popular farmer living south
of Plattsmouth, appeared before the proper
magistrate and charged his son with being
incorrigible. After carefully listening to the
evidence which went to prove the boy a
worthless do-nothing, and an obstinate, self
willed 81 don't have to" the Judge sentenced
him to become a prisoner in the kearney re-
form school until he had quit wanting to have
his w way about everything, or, otherwise,
remain till he became twenty-one years Of
age.
A Springfield paper says: 1.-THE CONNER
cial travellers of Omaha intend locating in a
body, with their families, in some desirable
locality within easy reach of Omaha. j. ID.
;Spearman has, through one of their repre-
sentatives, made them an offer Of a large lot
free to each one who will locate in this place,
Springfield is situated on the Missouri Pa
cific twenty miles from Omaha, in the midst
of a splendid farming country: The locality
is one Of the most healthy in the state. We
have splendid school facilities and the trains
run in such a manner that one can reach
Omaha early in the morning and return the
same day. Besides the officials of the road
will in a short time replace their Lincoln
train, thus adding to the travelling faculties.
We venture to say that the commercial men
will find no place with SO desirable adyan-
tages for a location for themselves and fami-
lies and where they would receive such a
hearty welcome"
Scarlet fever has made its appearance in
Fairfield.
The Fairfield wooden mills will soon be in
running order.
A Knights Of Pyythias lodge has been instl-
On the coming Fourth of July Keokul1
will celebrate her fiftieth birthday as a city.
The annual convention of the Roman Cath
Ollie Mutual Protective society will be held at
Waterloo June 2.
Dennis Dugan fell from his engine at
Sioux City, on the incoming S. G.. & p. road,
and will probably die.
The second annual meeting of the Iowa
Bankers association will be held at Hotel
Orleans, Spirit Lake, June 2b, ~ and IS.
Des Moines has altogether thirteen miles
of paved streets, and over eighteen miles OF
%curbing, which have cost nearly 100000.
, The Natural Gas and Land company, of
Herndon, will go TO work at once to develop
the gas fields and other interests of the city.
Prof. w. r. Perkins, of Iowa City, will at
! tend the S00th anniversary OF the university
at bologna, Italy, as inc representative Oh inc
Iowa state university.
The Talmage coal find has stimulated the
citizens of Alton to action, and a paper is in
} circulation soliciting funds to sink a shaft on
the land of Mr.. Beebe, near the Diagonal's
? well.
The Chicago, ST. Paul, Minneapolis g.
Omaha railroad company write that the corn
palace shall receive space in all the adver-
Using matter hereafter sent out by the com
. pany.
Friday evening a few students in attend
!, ance at Western college, Toledo, were out
shooting at a target with a rifle, when by an
accidental discharge of the gun John Riggs,
one Of their number, was dangerously
wounded,
At Muscatine the river is four miles wide
and the ferry there is doing nothing. The
: road in Illinois which leads TO the Muscatine
D landing in many places is washed over, and
worst of all, the slough bridge is down. The
Drury Landing road is also in no condition TT
to be used, Many estimate that IT VIII be
) two months before the slough bridge will be
T repaired and travel can be resumed.
Dakota.
? The Catholics are about TO erect a new
l church building at Menlo.
5 The land office at Buffalo, Wyoming terri
tory, will be opened on Tuesday, May !.
A fine monument, erected TO the memory
= of the soldiers who fell In the late war, Is 10
be unveiled at Lisbon on Decoration day.
> II is feared that the proposed fremen's
: tournament at Spcarfsh in July may not be
2 as successful as the liberality Of the people OF
that town merits.
1t is impossible at the present time to state
, when the sale of the tin property OF the Har-
: ney Peak company to the English syndicate
will be contaminated.
i Lead City hose company No. 2, intends
r giving q grand ball on FRIDAY evening. May
ii, the proceeds of which will be used IN the
purchase of a cart and hose.
nat Huron a thirty-seyen inch vein OF coal
was struck after drilling through 1877 feet oil
! soft soapstone rock similar TO that which has
5 been found in the waterworks well.
The Briar Hill coal company, OF Lead
City, has struck another vein Of coal SIX Feet
thick 1000 feet west Of the first tunnel. They
know II is fully as good, if not better, than
that taken from the first one.
) County Attorney Spencer obtained twenty
nine injunctions restraining saloonkeepers IN
4 Walsh county from selling Intoxicating
liquors. The evidence was obtained by one
II. Il. Hore, who represented himself 70 ne
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