Omaha daily bee., 1889-12-19

STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska LOffin "a.

~ luUNc mas Deeu maue Dy Nellgn citizens
TO secure the erection OF a beet sugar fac.
tory at that place.
Darwin Boyd, n former resident of Hast
ings, was killed in a railroad accident near
Denver Tuesday.
A revival is in progress at Benkelman, the
meetings being conducted in the court house
by Rev. j. A. Armstrong.
The Valentine fire company deyotos sew.
eral hours n week to practiciug and keeping
In trim to tight coming confiagratiOns.
Ed ID. Lunt has assumed control of the At
kinsop Graphic and proposes to improve the
paper, which he is aoundantly able to do.
j. T.. Field of Odell, Fred Lynde of Beat
rice and C.. L. White have purchased Il pat
ent corn husker and propose TO manufacture
the machine in Beatrice.
a peculiar wedding was solemnized at
Odell the other day, Rev. MIR. Abbott unit
ing in marriage a deaf and dumb bride TO a
talking and hearing groom whose parents
were both deaf and dumb. The parties were
from Waterville, Kan.
Andrew Mast of Dixon. Ia, who Is visiting
his father four miles west of Lyons, while
handling a revolver Of 3S caliber, not know.
ing it was loaded. accidently shot himself,
the ball passing through mis- lung. The doc
tor does not think he will live.
Miss Coleman, a teacher employed in the
Ulysses high school,, was taken with
cramps and when a physician made an
examination he found that a girl baby had
oOch DOIu NlOlUul Jit hHOWlcuge OF Tue DeO-
pie who were in the room with the young
woman. Miss Coleman has only been in
Ulysses four months, coming there from
PENNSYLVANIA.
A claim involving a one-eighth interest
in the original town site of Hastings is now
being pushed in that city which the
property owners have combined to
contest. The claim is known as the
Elizabeth kinnan claim. In 1876, when
the town site company was dissolved, a
nrnnhF nf IN N ~ ypne r,alA e
the various owners. Ed Hurlbut of Lincoln
has been looking up the records and dis
covers that while Mrs. kinnan, one of the
owners In the town site company, was fully
unidentified, no formal transfer was ever
made of her one-eighth interest. Hurlbut
has purchased the supposed right and Is
now endeavoring to exact from property
owners S25 per lot for a quit CLAIM deed.
Iowa Items.
There are SAT registered dentists in the
state,
Counterfeit money is being circulated
freely in several sections of the state.
Gold Water" Jack Mcdonald of Des
MONIES has been fined $50 for selling liquor.
Byron Peer has been sentenced from
Scranton to nine months in the penitentiary
for bigamy.
There are thirty-seven government
licenses to sell liquor at Marshalltown,
seven of which are for drug stores.
Governor Larrabee has pardoned S. A.
B~roadweil, who was sentenced at Logan to
four years in the penitentiary for obtaining
money under false pretenses.
Tho city of Davenport has sued an OK
street commissioner to recover 81, 040 claimed
to have been lost to the city through gross
carelessness on the part of that official.
a Dubuque man named Wilson demanded
money from his wife to buy liquor, and
during the argument that ensued his STEP
son, John Utter. stabbed him in the back.
Utter is under arrest.
N. Hengens, a farmer living near Prairie
City, while driving to town the other day,
was asked for a ride by three men. He con-
scented and was chloroIormed and robbed of
500, a gold watch and a promissory note.
Last Friday the little eighteen-months.old
baby of Mr.. andFMrs. Il. S. Arnold, Da
venport, died Of diphtheritic Group; Satur-
day, their four-ycar-old son died of the same
disease, and Sunday their other baby, a
twin sister of the first victim, also passed
away, making three deaths in ono family in
as many days.
During the progress of the Greek tragedy
by the students of Iowa college at Grinnell,
as Miss Bertha Booth was preparing to go
on the stage to perform her part IN q tab
leau, she received a telegerm announcing the
death OF her mother at Anamosa. The young
lady was completely Frustrated at the news,
and the sympathy of her fellow students
somewhat marred the production of the play.
Two young men named Mcdonald and a
young man named Broochee living near Bay.
ard are held IN 81 900 bonds each for ac-
complishlng a brutal criminal assault on a
young girl employed as a domestic in tho
Mcdonald family. The girl was on her way
nome from church with one of the McDun-
aids when the assault occurred, and in her
struggles with the three young brutes she
was seriously injured.
n Two Dakotas.
A business mems association has been or
ganized at Bookings.
A box of plug hats has been received from
the east by the drought sufferers.
A daily mail service mas been established
between Rapid City and Hill City.
A firm OF Waterfowl millers has contrib
uted a carload Of -four TO the Miner county
sufferers.
An autopsy has revealed the fact that the
death OF a Lead City man named Valid was
caused by his lungs growing around his ribs.
The farmers of Hughes and Suliy counties
were still engaged in making hay last week,
which they hauled TO Pierre for 50 to 81 a
ton.
At a ranch near Tllford fourteen men were
poisoned by meat which was cooked In a
brass kettle, but all of them recovered with
the timely aid OF a physician.
ID. w. Kennedy, manager of the Trail
county creamery company, has been ar
rested at Fargo on n charge of forgery pre-
ferred by the stockholders of the company.
The people of Spearfish Witnessed a mir
age one morning last week which lasted over
an hour. Although the objects in the picture
were over twenty miles away they did not
appear to the gazers to DO more than a mile
distant.
Frank Gould Field, a relative of Jay Gould
and Cyrus w. Field, committed suicide at
Custer City by taking an overdose of NOR
phine. He was only thirty-slx years OF age
and a mar OF more than ordinary ability.
Drink is the alleged cause OF the rash act.
The White LAX Times has discovered the
meanest man in the new state. Has name is
Mos. Last spring Mos wife lost her life
fighting lire in trying TO save her husbands
property. Last week tho man from whom
he bought the lot in which she was buried
brought SUIT for payment of the lot and lost
the SUIT, the justice deciding that no legal
papers were made out when the lot was
bought, aud that the sale was not proven.
Mos still owes for the CONN in which his
wife was buried, and last, but PROBABLY the
meanest thing OF all, he has recently married
another woman.
While digging q we'll near Roselield last
week at a depth OF 100 feet a roaring noise
was heard. The diggers scrambled out as
fast as they could. while the noise kept in
creasing. A lighted paper was thrown into
the well, when an explosion followed that
shook the ground for a considerable dis
tance and a sheet Of flame shot up into the
air to a height OF thirty feet, endangering