Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-03
Mess you shut that door.
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebra SIX n .Dottin %.

tOuT boys nave Deen aVrSSUeu ub schuyler
for playing bail on Sunday.
Eighty thousand barrels of native apples
have been shipped from Nebraska City.
Lewis Herbert, the new postmaster at
Scotia, has taken possession of tho office.
The city council of Broken Bow elected a
new marshal and ordered street lamps at Que
sitting
Fred Roger raised 219 bushels of wheat
on nine acres of ground among the sand hills
northwest of Kenesaw.
Samuel Carpenter, of Syracuse, carried
his gun by the muazle while out hunting aud
now has u hole in his right hand.
The union labor convention of Red Willow
county nominated Alex Campbell for sheriff,
and Thomas Bales for treasurer.
Mrs. T.. G. Kriechbaum has sued the keep
ers of two saloons at Loup City for s., 900
each for selling liquor TO her husband.
Mrs James Hardinger was helping her
husband haul hay near Davenport when the
team started to run away. She jumped from
the load and broke her leg.
There were taken in Nebraska during the
past year 25 533 homesteads and 26,063 en-
tries under timber culture and pre-emptiou
acts, leading all other states.
An Exeter young man bought a pair Of
boxing gloves and gave his wife Instructions
in the manly art. She proved an apt pupil
and became so efficient that recently she
knocked her husband out. There is serious
trouble in the family now.
Adeibers Shimtan, a sixteeh-yoar-o Ben
nett boy, was thrown from his horse a half
mile from homo aud laiG by the road side un-
conscious for twelve hours before he was
discovered. One arm ls broken and it is
feared he will not recover.
A peculiar accident is reported from
Phelps county. Andrew Erickson and West
Johnson were loading hay i'll a header box
when Suddenlya whirlwind lifted the box
clear of tue wagon, turning IT upside down
and dropping it on Johnson's shoulder, break
ing his collar bone.
A farmer of Buffalo county, aided by his
wife and daughters, recently cut and stacked
sixty tons of hay. The wife and mother
drove the mower, a daughter of fifteen rake
the hay and drew it to the rick, the father
pitched the nay upon the rick, and daughter
of eleven stacked it.
According to a North Platte correspondent,
j. r. Wellington, editor and proprietor OF
the Sidney Democrat, visited North Platte
last May with scheme to dispose OF his
paper. He canvassed the town and secured
II number of siX-month subscribers at 81
each, with the understanding that the plant
of the Democrat should be ratified off to the
holders of the subscription tickets at the eX-
piration of six months. About month
ago the Democrat ceased to exist and in its
place came sample COPY OF the same sheet
under new heading. The subscribers have
the experience and Wellington the money.
Iowa Items.
Sixty buildings have been erected in
Estherville the past year.
A dose of concentrated lye cut short the
career of a child of John Ozier, of West
Si0e.
Fort Dodge wants an insane asylum il one
is to be located in the northwestern part of
the state.
William Clay, a Keol1uk saiOonkeepcr, had
to pay $500 for selling liquor to Perry john
sons MINOR son.
A grape seed lodged in the abdomen of
Oakley G.. Norton, of Muscatine, and killed
him in spite of the efforts of three physicians
to save his life.
Isaac Painter, a sixty-year.old resident OF
Hubbard, left town very unceremoniously.
He assaulted a lady named Johnson, and she
pulled revolver and gave him ten minutes
TO get out.
The citizens OF Ireton want the Northwest
ern Iowa seminary located at that place. and
ten public-spirted residents have contrib
uted 81, ,00J each to secure the institution. 1t
will take $50, 600 to secure the plum.
John Smith was up before a Cedar Rapids
judge for stealing a pair OF pants. lie was
convicted and ordered sent to Jail. Deputy
Swern asked the prisoner TO give up the
pants, which he had worn during the trial
but this he refused to do and the officer was
compelled to take them off himself" When
he got through there wasn't enough pants
left to sew button on.
Ole Lewis, for many years resident of
Fort Dodge, went TO Oklahoma during the
boom and secured a claim three miles from
Guthrie, taking his mother and sister with
him. A short time after their arrival his
mother was taken sick, and he went to Guth-
rie to get medicine for her He got on a
spree while there, and on his return home,
five days later, found his mother dead on the
floor and his sister wandering about the
neighborhood raving maniac.
Wyoming and Colorado.
The Wyoming fair association paid out "a, :
1888 in premiums.
There are 439 convicts in the Colorado
penltentiary at Canon City.
John Landenberg, well-known Rock
Springs, Wyo., merchant, committed suicide
by taking arsenic business trouble caused
the deed.
S G. Jeiferes, of Burdett. Col, has a
Holstein COW that has to be milked regularly
three times day. He says 500 wouldn't
huV her