Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-21
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska n lettings.

The West Union Gazette has been loased
from Il. q. Carr, aud Ham kautzman has
assumed editorial control.
Farmer Church Howe is III hard luck Out
OF his herd of $50 hogs 600 have died OF
cholera in the past six weeks.
The formers Of Custer county are making
preparatio ms for farmers institute to be
held at Broken Bow in December
The remonstrance against saloon Mt Nc
Cool junction was not sustained, and tho
"drys" will appeal tho case to tho district
court,
Rev. c. T. Phinuey, who has been pas.
TOR at Utica for sixteen years. has accepted a
call to Holdtcge and taken up his residence
there.
For not being on hand when the district
court convened at Auourn. County Attorney
Cornell and one of the jurors were brought
into court on writ of attachment and fined.
The York canning factory has closed for
the season after successful run, and the
stockholders will realize agood profit in spite
OF the unfavorablo condition of the market.
Miss Edna Rawnauscr, of Herman, is in
laii NJ BLAIR, waiting to be sent to the Nor
tolk insane asylum. Too much religious
fervor at "a camp meeting is the cause of her
ucranged mind.
Mrs. Alice Young, wife of the late Rev.
d. M Young, pioneer of the state and a
resident OF Lancaster county for twenty-five
years, died at Lincoln Saturday, aged sew
enty-nine years.
The Springfield Monitor says the farmers
OF that part Of Sarpy county are experiencing
"a great deal of trouble on account of wells
gong dry, it being necessary IN some in
stances to SINK old wells to the depth of
from 100 TO 150 feet to secure an adequate
supply of water.
Three years ago C. T.. Adams placed 200
carp in two small lakes of clear, fresh spring
water near Superior. Last week when the
smaller lake was drained hundreds of thou.
sands OF fish of all Sizes some weighing
elght and ten pounds, were exposed to view.
Several bushels were sold in the market and
the company now owning tho lakes proposes
going into the business on a larger scale.
A peculiar accident occurred on the farm
OF Gust Falk in Phelps county. While
threshlng machine was running ut full
speed an explosion occurred IN the mouth of
the machine, throwing the feeder to the
ground and setting fire to three stacks of
grain and the separator. All were con-
sumed, entailing a loss of $500 1t is sup
posed that u cartridge had been lost by
hunters and was stacked with the grain.
Iowa Items.
Eldora people have raised money to secure
q new depot
Davenporrs parks will be ornameuted
$1,000 worth
Jackson county farmers are again stocking
up heavily with sheep.
There are $50 active members of the Mus.
catue Horse Thief association
DR.. NJ. T.. S. Murdy, who killed Silas Tip
ton at Centerville, has been held for trial
without bail
The Waterloo paper mill is running night
and day, and turns out 5000 pounds of paper
every twenty four hours.
James Harney will be tried in Mahaslsa
county this week for the murder of his wife
at Muchiklnock last spring.
The Grinuell carriage factory turned out
800 vehicles the past year and will moro
than double the output the coming season.
Henry Mccoy, a blind man seventy-elght
years of age was sentenced to two years in
the pententiary at Anamosa from Dubuque.
Two employees of the Marshalltown glu-
cose works fought a duel with bricKoats.
and after being badly wounded were pulled
in by the police and settled their difficulties
in the city jail.
A Waterloo justice filled a bottle with pure
water and asked party of prohibition ex-
perts to pass an opinion as TO what the bottle
contained. After testing and smelling of the
liquid they finally acknowledged that they
didn't know what it was.
An Iowa man has a theory that sunshine
can be bottled up or imprisoned in such q
wav that ii can be utilized on gloomy days.
He has built a great tank for storing it, but
1T looks little queer TO see him cropping
about with lantern to ascertain how his
sunshine is getting on.
In the criminal court at Montezuma, Ham
ilton was sentenced to one year in the peni
tentiary for perjury, Parker, the colored
man from Marshalltown. TO three years for
burglary, and the Flora Lock charivari mur-
der case was postponed until the December
term on account of the Illness of one of the
chief witnesses to the tragedy.
Two Dubuque society girls thought they
would investigate the begging business. and
dressed themselves up in rags and started on
the ropuds. At the house of rich man of
their acquaintance, who is noted for his
strong religious fervor, they were gruffiy re.
pulsed. AT the house of woman who ac-
knowledged that 25 cents was all the money
she possessed they were offered 10 cents of
the quarter. The girls went home disguised
with charity