Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-20
STATE AND TLRRIToRY.
Nebraska ,Jottinps.

The village of Bancroft is out of debt and
has S2I14 to loan.
Red Cloud is very proud of her excellent
waterworks aud efficient fire department.
The Anheuser-Busch brewing company is
to erect large storage warehouse at Crete,
TO cost 5000.
The coming session of the Boone county
district court will try sixty civil and two
criminal cases.
Cunning county corn was planted two weeks
earlier than usual this year and much
larger acreage was put In.
The court at Madison has granted a change
OF venue in the case against Drs. Kelly and
Hasson to Wayne county.
Robert Barber, u farmer near Exeter was
bitten by mad dog last week, but no bad
effects have yet appeared.
In the past six months Burt county has
sent an average of one insane person per
month to the state hospitals.
The machinery for the Ewing creamery is
ready to be placed in position, and will be
started up as soon as possible.
A fatal runaway occurred at Stella, last
Thursday, Mrs, w. L. Veach being the
victim. Her husband was also severely in
jured.
Oxford suffered from hail storm last
week, the stones, as usual, being "as large
as goose eggs and hens eggs.n But little
damage was done.
During a storm at Osceola last week. the
creek rose two feet IN forty minutes, and
two horses in the barn of d. b. Hakis were
killed by lightning.
One of the best ranges in the state Is that
of Atkinson & Murray, eight miles south of
Brainard, on which there are now 500 head
of cattle feeding.
M. j. Fem is in Jail at Auburn because he
left town while justice of the peace before
resgning his office aud accounting for
moneys collected.
DIR. G. w. johnson and John Barsby, we'll
known Citizpns pf E,ntrmopt haun ai fn
Liverpool on an extended trip through
England, Ireland and the continent.
A German farmer named Miller living
near David City, was kicked by a two-weeks-
old colt fourteen days ago, inflcting injuries
from which he died last Thursday.
H. w. Potter, A. A. Martin and Zach
Leftwich, of st. Paul, have purchased the
Fullerton Touring mill and have removed to
the latter place with their families.
Central City will have saloons, Councilman
Hays, who at first defeated saloon ordi-
nance, having changed his mind and voted
for it at the last meeting of the city council.
Nebraska Cty's chief of police has run
down and captured George Mapes and Jim
Roney, who have for q long time lived on
the proceeds of raids made on the chicken
coops of that place.
The Eagle says that a Dakota City man
keeps his children out of school because he
thinks the world is coming to an end, and
for that reason 1t is not advisable to spend
money to educate them.
A man named Hadley, living on Snake
Creek in SCOTS Bluffs county, had big
chunk taken out of his arm and hole put
through his breast by the accidental dis
charge of both barrels of shot gun, but at
last accounts he was doing well.
A blacksmith at Bertrand dropped red
hot plow lay on his foot the other day, the
point cutting and burning it's way through to
the floor, severlng an artery and iuficting
wound which wich will disable the unfor-
tunate man for life.
A. b. Vennum, an Exeter citizen, shot the
dog of a neighbor named Ford the other day,
believing it to be suffering from hydrophobia.
The owner of the canine became very mad,
ana threatened to shoot Vennum, when the
latter drew revolver. The town marshal,
however, arrived just In time TO prevent
bloodshed, and ran in MIR. Ford.
A streak of lightning played queer freak
at Schuyler recently. Edward Zeleny was
sitting on the porch on the east side of his
house when the flash came, which tore
splinter two feet long from the bottom of
the screen door, chipped a piece from the
siding over the door, and split the ceiling
over the porch. A cottonwood tree standing
on the north side of the house was badly
shattered from the ground up, and small
sprout in the next yard had tha leaves
sCorched on top while the bottom was un-
touched. Mr.. Zeleny was not over four feet
from the door when the shock came, and
while he says it seemed to him that every
thidg was atire for a time he was not in
iureQ.