The Columbus journal., 1889-05-01

lumOOlot0ly O0000GQ was . mole W00t0
the electric current had gone through
tho ground. In one corner Of the room
Mrs. Schofield and three children were
found huddled together. in q demented
condition. The side of the house had
been knocked out.
NEBRASKA NOTES.
Thursday night at Omaha Frank Ber-
get died OF lockjaw, caused by nail
wound in the foot which he sustained
about a week before.
Herbert Powers tells the Schuyler Sun
that he will plant forty acres to sorghum
this year. Last year he had thirty acres
and made 5000 gallons Of syrup.
Washington county is to have a new
court house, to cost some $4,000, Of
which Blair proposes to give $1,000, be-
sides her proportionate share Of the re-
mainder.
The Dakota City Argus says that John
Orr shipped car load of hogs to Sioux
City that averaged sos pounds, and on
the following day two car loads that
averaged 448 pounds.
The North Platte Tribune says that
the area sown to grain this season is
about double that Of last year: With a
continued favorable season the farmers
will have large excess to dispose of.
H. g. Wolcott, it seems, is to be ap-
pointed postmaster at Fremont. He
was republican nominee for state sena-
tor in that district last fall, and it il
said he will make very excellent post
master.
Thomas Cash. foreman of the brick
yard at Weeping Water, was thrown
down an embankment Thursday, strik-
ing against tree and breaking his neck.
He leaves q wife and three grown up
daughters.
John Dresch, . well-to-do farmer, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed,
at Z a. m. Friday, while plowing in his
field north Of David City. He was sixty
four years Of age, and leaves q wife and
seven grown up children.
The Guide says that J. H. Craig is
having 800 acres Of breaking done on
his farm near Hemingford. That 10 the
way to enhance tho value Of farm land,
for land in . good state Of cultivation il
worth double what raw land il.
A fire Saturday night destroyed two
barns belonging to Fritz Kropf and ].
Brouletta. Kropf's contained horse,
COW, calf aud buggy, which were burned.
Supposed to be the work Of an incen.
diary. Schuyler should buy shot guns.
A lad II years old was locked into .
box car at O'Neill by some of his mis-
ohievous comrades, and he was q day and
half without food. After three days
he landed in Omaha. Jimmie Mitchell
will remember the box car hereafter to
keep out Of it.
The voting Of bonds for the Yankton
& Norfolk railroad, which took place
Tuesday at Norfolk, il showing already
by an advance on real estate, and several
more new business houses are to be
erected soon by parties who had not in
tended 10 start until next year.
An incendiary tried to get in his devil
ish work on the beautiful brick block
owned by DR.. Richards, at Norfolk, by
pouring kerosene on the first landing
and throwing lighted match on it, but
luckily the attempt proved a failure,
and the building and adjoining business
houses escaped.
George Watson is q candidate for a
railway clerkship and has several good
recommenda Schuyler is we'll stocked
with postal clerk timber, having already
four men in the service and several more
candidates. Messrs. N. B. Woods, Will
Van Housen, A. II. Fuller and NJ. L.
Dunlap are the ones in the service
(Schuyler Quill.
At nearly midnight, Tuesday of last
week, Bob" Woods, an aged colored
man living in the part of Lincoln known
as the bottoms" was murdered while
asleep in bed. He was shot, and, al
though his little boy was in the house
and sleeping by his side, and the neigh
borhood in which the crime was com
nitted is q populous one, nothing was
known Of the murder until Mrs. Woods,
the wife, returned home very late in tho
evening. The coroner's jury after . half
hours delberation, returned q verdict
to the effect that Robert Woods had
died from the effect Of gunshot wounds
inflicted by John Taylor, and that Mrs.
Amanda Woods and Charles Curtiss
were accessories before tho fact. It il
supposed that Curtiss was intimate with
Mrs. Woods and hired Taylor to Hill tho
husband.
Considerable Of . sensation and much
moro indignation was developed by the
city school board Of Fremont upon
learning thst several disgustingly OBJ
scene literature had been distributed
among the pupils Of both sexes at the
different school buildings. An investi-
CATION resulted in tho arrest Of . Lad
named Simmons, who plead guilty to
having distributed tho filth and also i'm
plicsted Dennis Hei&, Leo Atwood and
others, - being associates in the bui-
mesa Tho above parties, together With
Charles Scha6ss, editor and publisher Of
the Platte River Zsitung, and Harry
Hotel, ono Of his job hands, were ~
rsigned before Police Justice Kween and
Scha6er was held in bonds Of $1,000 to
snxnae Ane trial &oe n.;nxsun, H. H.