Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-25
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.


Exeter has the champion croquet club of
the state, 1t having recently defeated the
crack players Of Plattsmouth.
A district convention of the Christian
churches of southwestern Nebraska is to be
held ut Arapahoe, October . and 3.
Frank Houser, of Hastings, attempted to
Jump on moving passenger tram, and is
now minus his left leg just below the knee
Mrs. Henry Schneyer, of StraJton tried to
cut Off the head of q chicken with an AK, but
instead she clipped off about an inch of her
thumb.
The efforts of the Falls City board Of trade
to secure the meeting of the State Dairy
mems association in December have proved
successful.
Rev. A. r. Fox, pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Red Cloud, has gone to Washing
ton territory TO accept position as teacher
in an academy.
The Grundy Star says that many Logan
county farmers are sowing fall wheat, they
having discovered that it pays great deal
better than spring wheat.
Jones and Turner, the burglars who were
captured while blowing safe at Ainswortb,
have been sentenced to four and three years
in the penitentiary respectively.
The city marshal of Norfolk has offered 10
cents apiece for unlicensed dogs, and the
boys around town are making n nice little
spec capturing CANNES for slaughter.
The Fairfield correspondent of an Omaha
paper sent out q dispatch announcing the
failure of w. l.. Wilson, restaurant keep
er but it was only point blank lie.
Pah-Son Fremont, an Omaha Indian, has
concluded that marriage is IA failure and has
filed petition in the Thurston county dis
trlct court for divorce from his wife, Tah-
Da-Wi Fremont.
John Fastenow, of Cornlea. Platte county,
owns COW which recently, gave birth to
srX-legged calf, which is alive and healthy.
John is ready to receive offers for the curl
osity from some enterprising Snowman.
The body Of man supposed to be
James Larrity has been found in corn field
near Albion. 1t is supposed that the man
had been dead three or four weeks, as the
last time he was seen he was on spree at
Newmans Grove, about month ago. Lar
fity was an old soldier
The Kearney county republican conven
tion has instructed its delegates to the con
gressional convention to vote for Hon, John
L. McPheeley. The following ticket was
nominated l.. M. Copeland, clerk; S. j.
johnson, treasurer; John Barnes, Judge; L.
j. Courtner, sheriff; ]. II. Sears, superin-
tendent and G. w. Gillette coroner.
Iowa itcrs.
A baby carriage mandatory is the latest
bit of enterprise at Anamosa.
Thieves stole all the potatoes from field
belonging TO an O'Brien county farmer.
Funds are being raised at Sibley to sink
an artesian we'll to supply the city with
water.
An electric car broke loose on hill at
Davenport and crashed into freight car. but
lady, the only passenger, was not injured.
A small-sized whirlwind at Northwood
scattered Mr.. Forbas barn all around town.
1t also blew the front door off his residence
and picked up his little girl baby and car
raied her from the parlor into the back room
A tramp who was filled up with good things
by Mrs. Stickles, of Creston. showed his ap-
probation by stealing her husbands over
coat. He was captured and Will spend the
winter where he will have no need of extra
wraps to break the force of the wind.
A thief at Rolfe threw stone through the
window of jewelry store and reached in
and took six Waterbury watches If caught
and made to serve sentence as long as it
will take HIM TO wind up the watches he will
undoubtedly have been punished enough.
G. G. Hubbard, living near Pleasantville,
was "called on" by party of masked citi.
zens of that locality and hung up to a tree by
the neck two or three times. He was then
compelled to take his coat of, and his cap;ors
tied him up by the thumbs and gave him an
uumerciful floggng. He was then notified
to leave the country. Hubbard was an all
around tough and was suspected of being
implicated in numerous fires which occurred
in that vicinity lately
A three-cornered scrap took place in the
Grail family, of Pleasant Valley, in which
Mrs, Grail and her two sons were the prIn-
cipals. The two sons, John and Will, got
into dispute and the mother took hand
in the game. Her son Will was getting tho
worst of it and she tried to restore peace by
knocking her son John senseless with u
club. This she did not succeed in doing and
her son John knocked her down and BACKED
her eye. The wives of the two sons were
present and acted as referees for their re-
spective champions. The fight was awarded
TO John, but he has had his mother arrested
for breaking into the ring and taking undue
advantage of him.