Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-15

Jayne " Wilson arc tho publishers.
The electors of Sheridan county will vote
on proposition 10 issue $40, 900 in bonds to
build a court house at the general election.
A gray eagle measuring seven feet from
tip TO tip and pelican Just foot larger
were killed by residents OF Nemaha county
last week.
The place OF publication of Mrs. Colby's
Womans Tribune is to be changed from BE
atrice to the national capital for tho next SIX
months at least.
Cass Davis, the notorious colored ex-king
Of Sioux City's "Soudan," but who is now
running saloon in Coviugton, has been
tried and acquitted OF robbery.
The Chadron city council advertised for
some Que to put in an electric light plant,
but no one responded and the city will prob
ably remain in darkness for some timo to
come.
Elmwood has social sensation which IL
was Intended should never have been
sprung. Emma, the daughter of Captain j. Nj
Creamer, had been the victim of Tom At.
kinson's lust and her father dscovero1 the
situation of affairs. Tom who resides at
Cozad, was visited by Emma's enraged
parent and willingly accompanied the cap.
tain to Emwood, saying he would make
reparation by marrying the girl. Tom
played the roll so well that he was permitted
to go alono to Plattsmouth, the county seat,
to procure the necessary documents for mar
riaCe, and 1t now occurs to the honest old
captain and his wayward daughter that they
have twice been betrayed.
Iowa Items.
There are ego students at the state uni
verslty
An electric light plant is to be placed in
the industrial school at Mitchellville.
An Auburn thief carried off the posts Of
the fence surrounding w. A. CarToll's farm.
A meeting of the Fourth division, First
corps, Iowa G.. A. r., will be held in Kco-
kuk, October II.
Otto Readberg, of Burlington, while in
toxicated fell down stairs and received in-
iuries from which he died.
The ten year-old son of Frank Shottmller,
of Fremont, was kicked in the face by D
vicious horse and died shortly afterward.
p. M. McDermott, wealthy Newell
| farmer, chased neighbor with razor
| while insane, and was locked up for safe
| keeping.
A Centervile man recently shipped four
| cars of live chickens to San Francisco. Very
| few OF the 20, 600 in the consignment died on
| the road.
A seven-year.old Keokuk girl named
| schmidt stubbed her toe on the sidewalk
| and lockiaw has resulted, with prospects
| that she will die.
Fourteen hundred chickens shipped from
| Milton to Keokuk in q box car were found
| dead when the car was opened. The car was
| closed tight and the chickens were smoth-
| cred
ST Simpson, a colored bootblack of Keo-
| kuk, tried to steal n ride on the "blind bag
| gage'' of Rock Island passenger train. In
| some way he fell off between the tracks, and
| the entire train passed over him. He was
| picked up unconscious, but sustained no Sc
| riouS injury
Under the statute a public officer cannot
hold two positions. Squire Burlingame, Of
| Emmetsburg, has been acting as deputy
| county clerk and recently married three
| couples as justice of the peace. The ques-
| tiOn came up in court and the probabilities
| are that the marriages were not valid and
| will have to be erformed over again.
| The Great Northwest.
| Ogden, Utah, wants q large wholesale
| hardware house.
| Anaconda, Mont, has voted S25, 900 bonds
| for the construction OF sewers.
Two horse thieves, William Darrow and
| Charles Sellinger, escaped from jail at
| Douglas, Wyo, and are still at liberty.
| Tommy Duffy who drove the Deadwood
coach in Buffalo Bills show in Paris, has
tired of the mimic wild west life, and has
| returned to Cheyenne, Wyo.
Rev. ID. r. Lands has resigned the pas
| torate of the Baptist church at Laramie,
| Wyo., having accepted a call to Pierre, the
new capital of South Dakota.
| Edith Holmes, nineteen years old has
| been admitted to the Oregon penitentiary.
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| there. and is the only one there now out of
| 800 prisoners.
| MIR. Tyron, of Ballston, Ore, celebrated
| his hundredth birthday recently. He went
! to Oregon in 1852. and has ten children and
| seventy-eight grandchildren and great
| grandchildren.
A man named Moody. member of the
| Salvation Army ut Helena, Mont, and who
| claims to be relative of the great evange.
list, attempted to commit suicide to avoid
| sin but was frustrated and will have to con-
| tinue the battle on earth.
| A lineal descendant of Daniel Boone, of
| Kentucky, died at Truckee, Cal, last week
| There were three brothers. descendants of
the famous border Indian fighter, residing
| near Truckee two of whom are dead, and
| the other IS about to return to his former
home in Missouri with his brothers. remains.
Harris Strattou. a prominent Colorado
| competitor for the American AgrcuJurist
| prize of $500 for the best acre of potatoes,
| has just dug the tubers from his patch. The
| weld was BIOL bushels. The CHEYENNE
| 1Wyo.) Leader says that Frank Isham's acre
| grown at his ranch on Horse creek, will
| yield not less than 600 bushels, and the pros
| poets for "a Wyoming man capturing the
| prize are splendid.
The destructive forest fires in the Sierras,
| says the Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle, have
| alarmed the wild beasts that rendezvoused
| there and forced them to flee to the plains
and valleys to escape being cremated alive.
| Their alarm has apparently tanned the terri
| fled animals, and bears, timber wolves and
deer, that sought inhabited regions from the
| blazing forests, betray no tmldity at the
approach of human beings and domestic ami
| mails.
Governor Shaup. OF Idaho, was inter
| viewed by reporter of the Boise States
| man, who elected the information that the
reports from the various mining centers of
| the territory warrant the conclusion that
Idahos contribution to the output of gold
| and silver bullion this year will be at least
$l5.00O,000. The governor also said approxi'
mate estimates based upon information re-
| ceiyed from various sources makes it appear
that between one-half and two-thirds of the
enUlre timbered area of the territory has
| been burned over by the forest fires. All
the timber within this burnt area has moi
been destroyed, as many of the larger trees
would naturally escape with slight scorch-
ing, but the statement sufices to show the
| extent of the damage.