Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-26
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska.

A forty-acre addition has been made TO the
Galloway town site.
Fifty gulible Wymore people have formed
a club TO buck lottery.
The city marshal of Norfolk has ordered
lot owners to cut their weeds.
The Ulysses school house has been sold,
and will be converted into hotel.
Two cars of patients will be sent to the
Hastings insane asylum August L.
A Neigh man who tried to ship box of
prairie chickens only escaped by flight.
A stock company is being formed to operate
the Norfolk foundry to its full capacity.
The fax crop around Sterling is being
threshed and yields from eleven to fourteen
bushels an acre.
Prof. ID. f. Reese, of Ashland, has been
engaged as principal Of the Ponca school for
the coming year.
a brick store, s0xl2O feet, is to be erected
at York this season. 1t will be the largest
block in the city.
A Stratton firm is generously giving cane
and millet seed free to farmers who lost
their crops by hail.
Chase county has no bonded indebtedness
and the farmers are almost unit against
bonding the county for any purpose.
j. M. Roderlck, we'll known citizen OF
Gage county, died at his home near Holmes
vile of brain fever, aged fifty years
The Blue Springs Motor has changed
hands and has passed into the control of w.
ID. Clark, a former attache of the Wymore
Union.
A Fremont boy named Frahm stubbed his
toe week ago, injuriug his foot so severely
that lockiaw resulted, from which he has
just died.
The Ewing Democrat says that little Bert
Gordon, a boy eleven years old, living three
miles from that place, whose father commit
ted suicide last spring, ls probably the
youngest farmer in the state. He has put in
and cultivated thirty acres OF corn, which is
looking fine, doing all the work himself.
Iowa Items.
A fire department has been organizedsat
Eagle Grove.
Fooling with soap press cost Walter
Mitchell, of Dubuque, three fingers.
The prospective wagon bridge at Musca-
tine furnishes an excuse for landlords to
raise their rents.
A Clinton saloonkeeper who paid 81 for
directions how to sell more beer, received in
return, Don't sell so much froth."
A Muscatlne man Is popcorn monopolist,
having three stands in burlington, two in
keokuk and number in other Iowa towns.
The Jefferson Bce which is publishing the
essays of the high school graduates one at a
time, has enough on hand to last all summer.
Davenrorts saw mills have on hand
10000, 900 feet of lumber Of which BIB. 0O0, 900
feet have been cut this year. About seven
hundred men are employed in the mills.
There IS on exhibition in the office of the
treasurer of tho state collection of paper
fractional currency which embraces sample
of every issue since the formation of the
government.
Perry johnson, of KeoKuk, has brought
two suits in the superior court for 81 500
damages against William Clay and Felix
Gremminger and Caroline Black. The plain
tiff claims that Clay sold Johnson's eleven
year-old son liquor on Gremmingers prop
erty, and Caroline Black sold liquor to the
same minor.
Wyoming
building association has been incor-
porated at Evanston with capital stock of
S2O0,0O
Mrs Curley Coleman, wife Of the we'll
known Cheyenne pioneer freighter, has lost
her reason.
Judge Corn has ordered the commissioners
OF Fremont county to declare the town of
Lander Incorporated.
A prominent cattle man came to Rock
Springs from his ranch few DAYS ago and
declared that he had not heard of the Johns
town disaster.
Stevenson, the man who killed one
Frenchy with neck-yoke, near Otto five
years ago, has been discharged from Joliet
and is again in Cheyenne.
Wyoming has 1850 miles of bitches with an
aggregate length of 8, S52 miles and covering
bitches have been completed within the past
five years.
Rev. Reginald Plant, archdeacon of the
| Episcopal diocese of Wyoming and Idaho,
| will resign his position September /, to be-
| come principal Of the Eplscopaian schools Of
| Salt Lake City.
The Cheyenne land office was s17, 900 richer
| Wednesday by the payment made by the
| Union Pacific for 16, 900 acres of coal lands,
which it has purchased in the vicinity Of
| Chimney Springs.
| eldest daughter Of 0. G. Smith, was thrown
out of her carriage and run over by the horse
| and vehicle, and died in half an hour after
| receiving the injuries
Mrs. James Amcter, of Boulder, recently
| died from the effects of an accident III North
| Park. Riding on a heavily loaded wagon,
| she lost her balance trying to hold her fall
| ing child and herself fell under the wheels
! The wagon passed over her hips and the
| injury inflicted caused her death.
| The Boutwell, Chief reports a novel and
strictly Wyoming feature of the celebration
of the Fourth at that place. 1t was the
| agreement OF the young ladies, who were TO
| race for the premium, that they would ride
unknown horses that were to be caught out
| of bunch of horses from the II ranch that
were on the road to the roundup. Ac-
| cordingly three horses were roped and the
| race made
| been in the habit of maltreating his delicate
wife. The other day party Of women Sc
| verely chastsed the brute with blacksnake
| whips and threatened TO hang him. Lewis
| friends camo to his assistance and several
| shots were fired One man had q shoulder
| shattered, another was wounded in the arm,
| and bullet passed through the high cD!fure
| of m A Afnu 10