Omaha daily bee., 1890-02-25
A JOTTlNGs.
Nebraska.

NeDraSk1.
There are nine counties in the state with
out railroads. h
The York board of trade holds its annual
meeting March 49,
McCook citizens propose to have a sewer.
age system this summer.
A branch of the w. @. I. U. is to be or
ganized by the ladies Of Western.
The Young Mems Christian association at
Ashland now has tifty-one members.
Both elevators ut Nerdon are full of corn
and no cars can be secured to move 1t.
The new library building Of the Peru nor
NAL school is completed and ready for use.
A furniture factory and planning mill Is to
be started at Plattsmouth about March /.
The business. men of Haywood have or
Ranized for the purpose of advertising the
town.
The new knights Of Pythias hall at
Hebron has been completed and is now &C.
cupied.
There is a beaver dam within a mile of
Madison and u beaver was trapped there re-
cently.l
q The farmers institute held last week at
Columbus WAS a great success and more
will be held.
A party of boys from New York city will
arrive at Hebron March % to find homes
with farmers
Rev. A, w. Henry preached his farewell
sermon as pastor OF the Christian church at
Falls City Sunday.
hold a convention at Madison on Wednesday
and Thursday of this week.
The Washington's birthday supper given
by the Madison Woman's Relief corps was
attended py over three hundred people.
Thomas Klnnan, a Madison county
farmer, sustained a multiple fracture of the
leg by having his foot caught in the pole
used to break down corn stalks.
Four Fairbury boys, ranging in age from
eleven to fourteen years, were sentenced to
jail for terms ranging from twenty to thirty
days for malicious mischief in the shape of
breaking window lights out of houses.
The Fairbury butter and eggs company
has been closed up by the sheriff. They re-
cently shipped q cargo of eggs to Montana.
En- route the eggs we're frozen, entalling a
loss of some $1,000, which completely
wrecked the firm.
IN Ashland man has invented a tricycle.
for a legless cripple which is very ingenious.
The seat rests on a pivot, TO which Is at
tached the steering apparatus, enabling him
to guide 1t with his body, whilst his arms
furnish the motor power.
A family at Carlton named Kumpfer has
been afflicted for some time with a strange
disease, supposed to have been caused by
eating pork. Some of the meat of which
the afflicted had been eating was sent TO St.
Joseph for analysis, and found To contain
trlchlnae. W Or.
A movement is on foot at Friend to pur-
chase u piece Of artillery for the use Of the
town and the Grand Army OF the Republic.
Arrangements are already Deing made for
the county reunion TO be held there and it is
the intention to have one OF the best sham
battles ever seen outside OF a state re-
union.
The Nickel damage suit against the st.
Joe ~ Grand Island railroad has been com
promised by the company paying the admin
istrator $1,000. Niokeil fell into some sui
phuric acid which heIcompany had allowed
To callect on its depot platform at Steele
City, Neb., about Il year ago, resulting in
such serious injury That hs died.
The Tecumseh journal has just discovered
that Albert Edwards, living near Elk Creek,
is bald and that his badness was caused by
being scalped by Indians while fighting on
the plains many years ago. He exhibited
the scars to the editoriand told Of the severe
torture he was subjected TO by the red fiends
to ascertain II he was really dead. They
stuck spears into the bottom of his feet. yet
he withstood the ordeal and is now enjoying
reasonably good health.
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