Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-01
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska lettings.


members has been instituted at Platte Cen.
ter.
The Dixon County Agricultural society is
in the hole $1,000, but IT hopes to extricatd
itself.
The postmastership at Ulysses has been
man.
DIR. Thomas S, Franklin, one Of tha
pioneers Of Gering is dead, He leaves
family of ten children.
Every stallion In Nemaha county is OK
pccted to be present at q horse show to be
given at Auburn April @.
DIR, and Mrs. S. A. Bonesteel, formerly OF
Columbus are now in Denver, each trying
to secure divorce from the other.
The question of erecting new court house
will not bo submitted TO the voters of Sew
ard county until the regular November cleo
ton.
The Hastings Jail contains sick prisoner
by the name of James Beauregard. who
claims to be relative OF the famous con.
federate general.
White Caps have notified II. G.. Lotfeltcr,
proprietor of the temperance" billiard sa-
loon at Ulysses, to jump the country or take
the consequences.
The junior exhibition given Mt the closing
oil the winter term of Doane college at Crete
was one of the most successful events in the
history of the institution.
The patent chicken incubator of A. Sults
baugh, of Auburn, exploded with disastrous
results the other day, blowing 1876 unmatched
chickens into eternity.
Rev. j. c. Freeman, who has been pastor
of the Catholic church at Auburn for several
years, has been transferred to Wymore and
preached his farewell sermon Sunday.
A Columbus lad accidentally allowed
ham bone to slide part way down his throat,
and but for the prompt assistance of ply
sician the youth would have quickly passed
to the land where the hog is unknown.
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damage near Ponca in tho past few days and
several hundred tons of hay and miles of
fences have been destroyed. Among the
heaviest losers is Ed Arnold the fire entirely
consuming $50 tons of hay in stack. A fire
set by two small boys strayed into Major
Parters timber and burned for two days,
doing damage to the extent of $1,000.
A Grand Army post was mustered at Den-
mark last Friday.
Davenport man owns 250,0O0 acres Of
timber land in Arkansas.
Many Scott county people are emigrating
to Washington territory and Oregon,
Burlington small fruit growers are begin
ming to fear drouth although the prospects
were never so good
The unclaimed packages OF the American
express company in the state will be sold at
auction at Sioux City on the 18th.
While the dead wife of Dr. Lindou of Law
ler was awaiting burial the windows of his
house were broken in by roughs who disap-
proved of The DOCTORS temperance work.
The city authorities at Greene, having
given as their excuse for licensing billiard
halls, the fact that the needed the revenue
derived therefrom, the ladies of that place
have pledged themselves t. raise the amount
from this source and give 1t to the town.
The Merchants National bank Of Des
Moines, has raised the required sum of
money and opened its doors for the payment
| in full of all depositors. 1t viii thus go into
| liquidation and in u short time will be opened
| as the Hawkeye Savings bank
The Agassiz society of Fairfield Is doing
great deal toward promoting knowledge OF
| the practical sciences in that place The
| other evening eight ladies thereof engaged
in a wood saving contest. Two of the girls
broke the saws they were using three of
| them tore lovely new dresses--oh, the
| knuclSe on the saw buck and tainted when
| sawed off before the humane society inter-
| fered.
Scott county onions are up and doing
| nothing, says the Davenport Gazette. Hun
| dreds of bushels are lying on the fields just
as they were dug up and strung along last
| fall. The cost Of raising and digging them
| was dear enough without the added expense
of hauling them to market and giving them
away. However, the average success of the
| onion grower has been excellent, and though
| the acreage will probably be less this year
| than last, there will be no lack of them next
| fall.
| Dakota.