Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-29
STATE AND TERRITORY.

NeDrdSka JOtt1nQS.
Wymore taxes street fakirs $50 day.
lightning has struck nine houses in Lex
ington recently.
Rev. Mr.. Teitsworth, pastor of the Pres
byterian church at Hardy, has resigned.
The First National bank of Exeter has
changed hands anG will be reorganizeu Aug
ust 1.
The republican county convention of
Furnas county will be held at Beaver City
August 2i
Thomas Forley. bachelor living on q
ranch near Whitman, committed suicide by
taking poison.
The Grand View Presbyterian church in
Grant precinct, Colfax county, will be dedi-
Gated next Sunday.
Hemingford, Box Butte county, Is now
connected with the outside world by both
railroad and telegraph.
The b. & M. oil house at Oxford was en-
tirely destroyed by fire Thursday mornings-
causing a loss of 81, 600.
Old man Webber, who has been on trial at
Fremont on indictments found in 1876, has
been granted new trial.
A disgusting smell arises to heaven from
| unclean pig -stys at Wahoo, and the people
want the nuisance abated
G. w. Dement, of Crab Orchard, Johnson
county, will harvest a crop of 1000 bushels
of onions from two and half acre patch
this year.
covered on the Big Blue, seven miles north
of Crete, and steps are being taken to ex-
hume them.
James II. Riggs, editor Of the O'Neill
Frontier. was married on the 25th inst to
Miss Henrietta Kimball, O teacher In the
| O'Neill public schools
Amenda Barrett, wife of the man who
murdered Thornhill, near Aurora, has been
| arrested, charged with aiding and abetting
the murder of her husband.
The Kearney gambling houses were raided
by the police Friday night and a number of
| prominent citizens who were found bucking
| the tiger were placed under arrest.
An old man named SchIlling has mysteri.
| ously disappeared from his home near Cam
| bridge, and foul play is feared, as he had
| considerable sum Of money in the house.
| Mr. Mcdonald, living near Deloit, will be 1903
| years old in August He is hale and hearty
| and In the last forty years has not missed
dozen meals. His father lived to be III years
| old.
Mrs. Julia Richardson, of Gering, has
admitted to the bar by Judge Church. She
is the first lady lawyer in Western Me-
braska.
| The fve-year-old daughter OF J. p. Bas-
I teau, of Sheston, fell from an elevated plat
| form tho other day and mangled her arm 80
badly that 1t is feared amputatiOn will be
| necessary.
Pawnee City has one barber who is a
| nephew of John Brown, whose soul is still
| marching on, and another who Is nephew
| of Joseph Cook, the famous Boston lecturer.
| Both are artists IN their line.
Claims amounting to over 81, 900 have been
filed with the board OF supervisors of Ante
| lope county for the pursuit and capture of
| Nick Foley, the murderer who met his death
at the hands of a mob, but the matter has
| been laid over until the next meeting.
The premium list of the tenth annual fair
of the Pawnee County Agricultural and
| Mechanical association has been issued from
the Office Of the Pawnee City Press, and Is
both extensive and creditable. The fair is
| to be held at Pawnee City September 25, 20
and 27.
Fred Hill, an old man living near Oakdale,
| is languishing In Jail at Neigh for forging
a receipt for goods purchased OF Lehr IL
| Holmes. The work was bnnglingly per-
| formed the two members OF the firm having
| apparently signed as individuals, and both
| names being misspelled.
The Plattsmouth Journal, which has been
| in the hands of the sheriff for several days,
has been placed on its feet again with the
l assistance of friends the mortgage having
been paid off. Both the publisher and the
people of Plattsmouth are to be congratu-
lated on the turn affairs have taken.
CB. Wilson, OF Waco. has been arrested
for cruel treatment OF his children, it being
| learned that he tied rope around his boy
| and suspended him In we'll TO arrange dis
| placed board When the boy was hauled up
he was completely exhausted and II was
some time before he could be revived.
The programme Of the third annual re-
| union OF the Central Nebraska District Vet
eran association, 10 be held at Broken Row
August 0. Z, 8, o and 10, has been issued
The exercises will be interesting and varied,
| a number OF prizes are offered, aud eminent
speakers from abroad Will be present.
| The Two Dakotas.
Beer has come down TO cents glass at
| Deadwood.
Workmen were engaged all Sunday iatn.
| inc and naintin0 a neVy church being built