Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-14
STATE AND TERRITORY.
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| O. p. Billings has retired from the editor
ship OF the Norden Boreais.
| Canned beef poisoned the family OF J.
smith, colored, of Syracuse, but all of thom
| will recover.
| Large quantities OF potatoes are being re-
ceivod at Arapahoe, the market price beIng20
| cents a bushel.
| The Fairfield creamery has made 3 %, 900
pounds of butter this season and is still in
| active operation.
A thief and a team OF horses stolen Ia
Dixon county were captured in u Grand
Island livery stable.
e. IL. Benson, who left Sargent for parts
unknown, has been left legacy of 81, 900 by
| the death OF his father
Martin Tighe's billiard hall at Valparaiso
was enterod by burglars, who secured some
loose change and 3OJ cigars. No clue.
The voters of Sarpy county will decide at
the coming election whether the old court
house at Bellevue shall be sold or not.
The west end OF the city pump house at
Fremont cavcd in Saturday, caused by work
men excavating too close 10 the foundation.
misstop by l.. l.. Ames while feeding
threshing machine in Hamilton county cost
him two fingers and badly lacerated hand.
Adelbert Schoenthal the Bennett lad who
was injured week ago by being thrown
from horse died Friday without having re.
gained consciousness.
Rev. G. Peters and wife, Of York were
surprised by their friends on the occasion of
their silver wedding anniversary and were
remembered by many valuable presents.
Over eight hundred tons of broom corn
have been bought IN Phelps county this fall
at an average price of Si5 per ton, thus
spreading S36, 900 in cash among the farmers.
David Huntington. of Nemaha City, is tho
oldest man in Nomaha county. He is nearly
ninety five, was soldier in the war of 1919
and is still in the possession of all his facul-
ties.
A leg broken by tho kick OF horse, hand
crushed in can mill and badly torn palr of
pants, the result OF runaway, constitute
the casualties at Gothenburg in the past
week.
LEV" May, the well known state fish
commissioner, of Fremont, has withdrawn
from the firm of Nav Brothers. aud the bust.
ness will be continued by the three younger
members.
Prof. w. b. Baclsus, superintendent OF the
Genoa Indian school, has gone to the Wind
River agency in Wyoming, with six Indian
children who were taken sick at school, and
IT was found necessary to send them to their
homes.
A Chautauqua circle has been established
at the state penitentiary with twenty-five
members, ana an effort is being made to
raise the necessary funds for the purchase of
the books and magazines required in the
course of reading.
The Ulysses Dispatch says little mora
light has been thrown on the murder of the
Leavitt children by the recent finding of
lot of bloody clothes buried in the field 1t
is not at all improbable but that the guilty
parties to that awful murder will be found
and punished.
Says the Norden Borealis: The band Of
Brule Indians who passed south to the sand
hills for their annual fall hunt about two
months ago returned last Friday and Satur-
day. 1t seems that Chief Whrling Hawk,
somewhere on his travels, got bottle of
whisky and drank so much that he died and
his friends were taking HIM home. They
had hauled him four days in the bottom of a
lumber wagon.