Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-08
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Jottings.

York wants downtown telegraph Office.
There is talk of converting the old court
house at Madison into an opera house.
Two hundred tons of hay are beng held at
Ewing for shipment to eastern markets.
The officials of Brown county have moved
into the new court house at Ainsworth.
Judge Gaslin is making the Adams county
lawyers hustle while he is holding district
court at Hastings.
Nebraska has a new lady attorney in the
person of Miss Jennie Davis, who was ad-
mitted TO the bar by Judge Gaslin at Hol-
drege
A move was made toward starting a
gymnasium at Kearney, but it has suddenly
come to halt, the treasurer having skipped
with the funds already collected.
County Judge Kenaston, of Brown county,
has resigned, and H. r. Bisbee, editor of the
Ainsworth News, has been appointed to fill
the vacancy. Bisbee is democrat.
Frank King who has been respected
resident of Paxton for two years, was caught
stealing hay from minister and forced to
pay for the stolen property several times
what il was worth.
Whisky and cards caused Butcher Bussen
to neglect his business at North Loup, but
he raised the money he needed by mortgaging
property he didn't own. Now he is missing
and his creditors mourn
The Ewing Democrat reports a case of
railroad robbery as follows: Two months
shipped carload of coal from Bloomington,
H., to Ewing. The coal arrived on time, but
when Drayton went to receive 1t he was in
formed that the freight amounted to the
enormous sum of Sl34 50 for twenty tons of
coal How's that' 1913 per ton freight.
Drayton refused to take the coal, and it then
LAID on the track here for over two months,
when last week the railroad company ordered
their agent to sell the coal for the freight. IL
was sold. and did not bring enough to settle
the freight bill by over S45, and yet this Fire.
mont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley is no
monopoly! Where is your republican rail
road commission!
School teachers are very scarce in Cal
houn county.
There are said to be fifty-two empty iails
in the state.
Policeman Donahue, of Creston, has re-
ceived an anonymous letter telling him to
leave town or no wall be dead man.
About thirty persons were seriously pois.
Oned recently at Bush Creek by eating head
cheese, All were recovering at last ac-
counts.
The scheme for the disposal of the Aborn
house at Des Moines by lottery has not
fallen through, but is going through at
Helena, Mont.
George p. Rose, of Dubuque, has invented
an electrical dial by which all the clocks in
the different parts OF any large establishment
may keep exactly the same uine, al smaL
expense.
The Orange City Herald says the placid
surface OF Calliope society il again disturbed
by rumOr that a young gentleman of that
town must either marry his lady love or bury
himself in an obscurity so deep that the
sheriff of Sioux county can't find him.
Clark Andrews, college student who in
jured his thumb with the point OF an ink
rusted pen last week, is lying in a very crit
ical condition at his home in Otho. Blood
poisoning has set in and his whole arm is
badly swollen. Fatal results are anticipated.
Dakota.
They are still talking base ball at Aber-
deem.
Saloons have been refused license at
Columbia.
There will probably be no court held at
Rapid City until next March.
There are 240 cases ON the docket Of the
court now in session al Fargo.
1t is expected the plans for the system Of
sewers ut Yankton will soon be Completed.
Milbank is agitating the question Of
public library, that there may be place