Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-22
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottines.

Nebraska Jottings
Tho Chautauqua circle at Schuyler has
about forty members.
A thief at Kencsaw carried of hive and
swarm of bees the other night
A Benkelman man has had orders for $50
tons OF broom corn at $50 per ton.
A Gresham farmer has harvested over two
hundred bushels OF onions for which he is
receiving so cents per bushel.
A general wolf hunt is TO be held in Sher-
man county October 25, and Loup City
will turn out about fifty mounted men.
Sneak thieves tapped the till Of Fremont
store in broad daylight Saturday while the
proprietor was waiting on customer and
secured S3f.
spark from an engine caused the total
destruction OF sixty tons OF hay and twenty
acres of corn belonging to farmers living
north OF Dakota City.
Dick Laverty, of McCook, had n struggle
with his brocho for supremacy, and came on
with a leg broken in two places, while the
victor was unscathed
The long standing dispute which arose
from the separation OF Dundy from Hitch
cock county has been settled at last by the
latter paying $500 to the former.
Two Red Cloud young men who were ar
rested and fined for drunkenness and fast
driving were let off scot free for "peachlpg'
on the parties who sold them the liquor
The barn of Cyrus Halliger, a Nuclolls
county farmer, was destroyed by fire and
three valuable Clydesdale stations were
burned to DEATH entailing loss Of $4,000.
A large force OF men is at work at Fuller
ton repairing the damage done by the late
flood, riprapping the river for several hun
dred feet above aud below the dam, and the
mill will soon be in running order.
j. l.. Hawk, who was under arrest ut
Plainview on u charge Of basturdy, pre-
ferred by Miss Anna Bound, escaped from
laa af and to att
at large, although diligeut search has been
made for him.
w. b. zimmerman, the deputy marshal at
Covington who arrested the Salvation army
rs it was passing through town and threw
the members into Jail, has been acquitted Of
the charge of assault and battery, which
was preferred against him.
Howard C. Little, n travelling man repre-
senting New York house, has been ad-
judged insane at Seward The men is crazy
on the subject OF religion, believing himself
to be supernatural being. with power to
break the iron bars and come out of his cell,
though he claimed that 1t was an off day
when the board examined him, and for that
reason he was unable to give an exhibition of
his powers.
At o'clock Sunday morning w. G.. Gooden
and Miss Bessie Blackmore OF Friend, were
married at Sutton by Rev. nj. Barger, of the
Methodist church. 1t was runaway match.
The couple had eloped once before, but were
captured by the girls father. This time,
however, Miss Bessie escaped by throwing
her wedding outfit from the window Of her
room and lnttiug herself down from the sec
ond story BY twisted sheet. The groom
was IN waiting with "A fast team and they
drove to Sutton and were married before the
Old man was awake.
Iowa lteus.
Work has been commenced on the new
depot ut Maicom.
There are /, 500 patients IN the two insane
asylums of the state.
Charles Dass has been sentenced at Osce-
ola to seven years in the penitentiary for
arson
There are $50 boys In the Eldora industrial
school and LII girls in the Mitchellville in
sttution.
There are IL, 100 children of school age IN
Scott county. but only 1874 are enrolled in
the schools.
Ed Porter, of Woodbine, was thrown from
horse and received injuries from which he
died in few hours.
The Cedar river above the dam at Cedar
Rapids has been stocked with car load of
young bass and perch by the United States
fish commissioner
DIR. Albert Shaw, formerly of Griunell
now employed on the Minneapolis Tribune.
has been rendered the chair of political
economy in Cornell University, Ithaca,
N. Y.
Chester Craft the young man who was
stabbed in tho back with q pocketknife near
Emmctsourg week ago, is in danger of dy-
ing from blood poisoning, 1t is claimed that
the physician who attended Craft IS guilty of
malpractice and did not understand hs bus-
ness. He sewed the wound in such way
as to leave no chance for drainage, which
has resulted as above.
Derrick Hodge a fifty -year-old widower, of
Rockford ILL.,, advertised for wife, and out
of bushel basket full of photographs Sc
lected Cedar Rapids charmer named Matte
L. Strang, aged thirty. In her letters Matte
intlmated that her father was wealthy
farmer but stingy. She didn't care for the
disparity in their ages. All she wanted was
a man, and she didn't care if he was one hun
dred years old She then struck him for
enough lucre to go to Rockford and become
Mrs Hodge. He sent her 81 for railroad fare
and he now sits on the depot platform at
Rockford waiting for the Cedar Rapids girl
that never comes.