Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-08
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska JOttings.

O'Connor, in Greeley county, pro-
posed TO celebrate ST.. Patrick's day.
Hon. NJ. Y. Cannon, Of Omaha, is booked
for an grafton. ..
The Union Pacific fireman injured In
the wreck at Cotton was taken to the
company's hospital in Denver and was
doing well at last report. ..
The imported engine men at Platts-
mouth are herded like cattle when off
duty. They are quar- tered in cars in the
shops and guarded by constables.
Benkelman has sure thing on n
g., 900 school house, a new court house
and several thousand dollars worth Of
new residences during the coming sum-
mer.
The Wahoo Wasp has issued an illus
trated spring edition of the city's loca-
tion, size, enterprise, business, facilities
and advantages-what she already has
and what she is needing.
The commissioners. of Otoe county
propose tosue for the privilege. of pay
ing the county's honest debts. The
officials should be quarantined lest the
.contagion spread among dolinquents.
The publishers of Webster's diction-
ary are about to present to Miss Loie
Royce handsomely bound volume OF
the unabridged edition. It will have
Miss Royce's name on it, together with
a proper inscriptions.
Mrs. Tomek, wife of farmer living
near Prague, in a At of temporary in
sanity jumped into q we'll. The unfor-
tunate woman was pulled out alive. She
has been suffering from brain trouble
ever since the great blizzard of January.
One of the first-class engine black
smiths imported by the Burlington ran
switch engine into the round house in
Hastings, tearing down the doors and
battering the foundation of the building
at the end of the stall. The thickness
OF the wall alone prevented him from
skipping across lots to Grand Island.
George Mcmillan, an old engineer
who had retired to farm near Beatrice,
was brought out by the Burlington with
liberal fee after the strike. He made
few runs between Lincoln and Beat
rice, but the strikers bought him off.
from both he is said to have scooped in
.'The surveillance of the telegraph IN
this city by b; & M.buldozers," says the
Plattsmouth Journal, sis nn outrage on
the freedom OF private correspondence.
NO plmp OF any corporation has any
more right to handle or see messages
sent over the. wires than he would have
to open the letters OF citizens at the
postoffice before they sent them away -
The Denver News says "Nebraska
men appear to think that state should
be able to enforce its own laws, without
relnforcements. of private detectives,
employed by corporations or individuals,
without license and illegitimate1y. This
class OF hlrelings are mischievous and
breed trouble, because it makes business
for their kind. The Nebraska move
ment should be. followed in other
states" -.
Iowa Items.
Cedar Falls will put in q system of
waterworks to cost $4,000.
1t cost Dubuque S75,444.O3 to maintain
her fire departmentthe past year.
Ackley has good reason to crow over
the fact that the town is out of debt and
has surplus in the treasury.
The congregational churches of Iowa
will hold their annual state association
meeting at Grinnell in May. instead of
at Davenport as asintended.
The body of Mrs. Posekamy was found
in q well near Williams Saturday.
Whether she was murdered or commit
ted suicide cannot be determined.
Quite a sensation was caused few
days ago near Winterset by the marriage
OF well-tO-do widow, fair, fat and forty
to her negro employe, aged twenty-six.
Dakota.
There are cut 1,199 acres of vacant
land in Cass county.
ProspectOrs report rich find Of gold
in the Squaw creek country.
The Chicago, Milwaukee g. st. Paul
have formally located division head
quarters at Madison.
The council OF Canton have decided
to submit the question of bonding the
city in the sum of $4,000 for water
works.
While sinking a we'll at Broadland
last week the workmen struck Il four
inch vein of Ignite at depth OF twelve
feet from the surface.
A Kimball woman spoke disparag-
ingly of her grocer salt Goldfish. The
grocer said they were not like boards
and offered to let her hit him on the
head with one for % cents. She plan ked
down the money, slapped him with the
fish and broke his jaw.
An Aberdeen hotel has conspicuously
posted in its Office a sign which reads
as Iollows: ANY tenderfoOt who calls
suet of rooms sweet, or a spitbox a
cuspitdor, or looking-glass mirror,
cannot stop in this house and will find
the climit helthier further east"
The directors OF the Deadwood Re-
duction Works company have appointed
a committee to solicit subscriptions TO
the stock of the corporation. Canvass
ing is to commence at once and sub
scriptions will be taken on the basis of
one-fourth cash, and the other three
fourths In sixty, ninety and 120 days.
The amount needed is $50, 900.
Wyoming.
An overall and shirt factory is to be
planted in Laramie.
The assessed valuation OF all property
In the territory for 1887 will net 500, $40.
The bill to legalize the ''motherless
BARN" known as the Maverick bill,
failed to pass over the governors veto.
The territorial Legislators, and their
wives and sweetheafts, were given a
free excursion to Denver Saturday by
the Union Pacific.
The Department of Colorado G. A. r..
encampmtnt, to be held in Cheyenne
the 18th inst, promises to be the grand
est affair of the character ever Occurrin o.