Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-06
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska JOttings.


The contract has been let for building two
bridges over the Republican river near
McCook.
An Uncle Toms Cabin company Is making
the residents of interior towns very weary
these days.
August Koeler an Aurora saloon keeper,
has been fined 500 for selling liquor to an
habitual drunkard
Eli Rouse, the old Dakota City lecher, has
sold out his property and will HE himself
away to some more suitable cline.
A number of families at Fullerton have
been very sick, caused by eating pressed
beef. None of the attacks proved fatal.
The Cunning county agricultural society
proposes TO make an effort to capture the
prize offered by the state fair for county ex-
hibits.
Louie Stander, an old soldier and for
twelve years an inmate of the Thayer county
poor farm, has been sent to the state soldiers
home at Grand Island.
A cow belonging to George Smith, of Long
Pine, discovered box of paris green in "a
potato patch and ate it up, box and all. The
next morning she was corpse.
The unlicensed dogs of Aurora are not
being annihilated very rapidly. The city
marshal had to shoot seven times at q cur
tied to a tree before he could hit it.
One of the remarkable things about the
residents of Campbell is the amount of vine
gar that they use and the peculiar casks that
1t is shipped in. There is no saloon in the
town.
The last "round-up" has been made in
Cheyenne county. Less than four years ago
the county was given up entirely to range
cattle, but now the cattlemen have left and
have been superseded by the farmers.
Ed Haight, resident of Pierce, is playing
the Job act, sitting in sack cloth and ashes
and refusing to be comforted on account of
the numerous boils which make the present
hot weather unusually uncomfortable.
The Gage county agricultural association
will hold its seventeenth annual fair at
Beatrice September to Z, inclusive Three
thousand dollars in premiums, $1,000 for
speed, special attractions each day, Roman
chariot races and balloon ascensions will be
some of the features.
An Iowa lady named Good, who for five
years has been searching for her little son,
found the missing boy at the residence of
Simon Kirk near Creighton last week. Kirk
had been given the custody of the child by
its father, who had separated from his wife
and had later been sent to states prison.
Mrs. Good secured possession of the bov but
Kirk will contest her claims to him in the
courts.
According to the Rising City Independent,
DR.. George II. Dunnelly, who is making anti
prohibition speeches in various towns in the
state, has had quite varied career. He is
known as Antelope Dick,o and it is said
that a few years ago he started out from
Grand Island as a temperance orator, at the
same time jumping board bill of about $50,
besides several small whisky bills about the
city. AT one time he was editor ST the Osceola
| Herald, and with the record left behind
| him everywhere he has been it is not likely
| that he will become power in the land in
| any cause At his birthplace, Independence,
| Mo-, things are entirely too hot for him. A
| few years ago he bObbed UP in Kansas
| town as IL minister Of the gospel, and after
creating great excitement in the religious
! circles and getting IN debt to all the unsus-
| pecting, he imported woman of easy virtue
| to the town and played such high game of
disgrace and vIllainy that the natives fired
him out of the country, He afterwards
turned up in Denver, where he opened up a
game of chance in violation of the law,
and was compelled to skip out to avoid being
arrested.