Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-09

central committee OF Benton county.
Disciples OF Tom Paine at Fort Dodge will
celebrate the birthday Of the great infdei
January 30 with a literary entertainment.
Twenty-four head OF cattle belonging 10
John Snyder Of Storm Lake walked out on
the ice TO drink and broke into the lake, ali
being drowned.
The monthly pay roll of the state, includ-
ing supreme and district judges, all state Of
GERS and clerks, is about s5i, 001 as shown by
the auditors books.
: There arc eighteen prisoners now con-
fined in the Mills county Jail, fifteen of
whom are awaiting trial for applying a coat
of tar and feathers to a school teacher near
Bartlett,
The school census-all between ive ana
Neutrality-suspicious. the following in the larg-
est counties Polk. 1919; Pottawattamie,
1924; Dubuque, 1S,0Sl; Scott, 10, los; Linn,
l4,7ri; Woodbury., 1884,; Clinton, 1885;
Des Moines, 12,SlS; Lee, 12,243. The others
are all below 10, 900.
A Keokuk niau named Peter Tigue has be-
come insane from the too free use of prohibit
tion whisky. He was arrested last week,
and while confined in Jail was taken with the
that the authorities were preparing to hang
HIM. He is a young man, and has u wife
and child dependent upon hun.
George Walker, who has just completed a
sentence Of eighteen months in the peniten-
tiary for robbery, arrived in Marshallt0wn
the other day and went TO the house of
Policeman Clark in search of his wife.
Clark shut the door in his face, telling HIM
she was not there, whereupon Walker
klckod the door in and WAS arrested for
destroying property, with chances of taking
another trip to the PEN
"Uncle jimmy Cannon, the old scout and
Indian interpreter, who tor some time has
been an inmate of the Marshalltown SOL
dier's home, got tired Of the monotony of
that institution and New Years skipped out
for the west on a thirty days furlough. He
has been writing q series OF sketches of
events in his varied career for the Times
Republican,, and much to the chagrin Of tho
editor of that paper, skipped out right in the
middle of his story.
Miss Minnie Brownlee, a Scott county
teacher, has been arrested for Furnishing a
refractory pupil. A party of boys banded
together with the determination to run
things, and when the teacher tried to call a
halt by birching one of their number the
others made a united effort to rescue him.
The plucky teacher held on, however, and
trounced the urchin in fine style. The boy
claims the teacher used the stove poker, but
Miss rownlee denies the charge. The
county superintendent upholds the teacher
in her action.
The Two Dnkotas.
The Manitoba road has closed its stations
at Plana and Geneseo on account of dull
times.
Sioux Falls parties are in the east IN the
interest of a S250,000 hotel TO be built the
coming season.
Five thousand copies of Susan b. Antho-
ny's pamphlet on woman suffrage are to be
distributed throughout South Dakota.
A Black Hills member of the legislature
will introduce a bill providing that nine iur-
ors may agree upon a verdict i'll civil cases.
There were eighty-nine marriages in Law
renee county during the past year. The Did
est groom was sixty-four and the Oldest
BRIDE the same age, while the lounges
groom was eighteen and the youngest bride
twelve.
The members of the State Fair association
will meet at Pierre January II to elect off,
GERS for the ensuing year aud decide upon
the location for the next fair. Sioux Fails,
Mitchell, Huron, Aberdeen and Watertown
are all in the race for location.
John Carey is under arrest at Rapid City
for stealing a horse from b. Il. Holman of
| Hill City and q saddle from James Clinton of
the same place. He borrowed them with
the intention of going to Niggerville, but
changed his mind aud went to Rapid City,
where he tried to sell the property and was
arrested. On the way from Hill City to
Rapid City one of Carey's feet was frozen.
The Glendale mining company will be the
first company to put Black Hills tin upon the
market. The large stamp mill is now in con-
slant operation and a large quantity Of con-
centrates will be shipped to Chicago this
week for smelling, the company having not
as yet added a smelter to their plant. The
product will be placed on the market before
tine end OF the month.
A correspondent at the Pine Ridge agency
writes: There have been two cattle thiev es
arrested at this place by Indian police. The
stockmen in this section are determined to
put a stop to the cattle killing which has
been carried on secretly for several years
past. The perpetrators are Sioux half breeds
and are now in confinement until the return
of tina agent, when they will be taken to
Deadwood and be given a hearing before the
United Staten court.