Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-10
SEIYs or THE NORTH WEST



into Kearney and sold.
Keamey claims to have police force which
Is on hand when wanted.
A county Sunday school convention will bo
held at Wahoo Nov enber IL and IL.
Harry Harrison of Grand Island has been
appointed oil Inspector for that territory.
Township organization was defeated in
Madison county by a large majority, every
precinct in the county voting IL down.
The telegraph line between Beatrice and
Lincoln for the Rock Island branch is being
put in. A large gang Of men are at work.
John Pohman and James Clark of Au burn
got so hot on election day that each wore the
others overcoat home before they noticed the
mistake.
They are putting the metallic roof on the
new Union Pacific depot at Kearney. The
building, when completed will cost about
s20, 900.
Jay Helphrey Of Norfolk raised and shipped
to Grand Island Sj5 worth of sugar beets.
He raised them as an experiment and says
the business can be made successful.
On election day at Farbury a careful citi-
zen, who prepared his ticket before he went
to the polls, put his hand In the wrong pocket
when he got there, and voted a monthly state
ment instead of his ticket.
Johnnie Raitt Of Chester precinct, Saun-
ders county, is reported to have husked
eighty bushels OF corn per day for the past
three weeks and getting the last load un-
loaded each day before sundown.
Two little boys, not over ten years Of ago,
were taken to the police station in Kearney
the other day on the chargeof stealing. They
were kept in prison awhile as punishment,
despite the pleadings of their parents, and
then released with a reprimand.
A farmer residing north Of F'illey In Otoe
county, had the headache and rubbed horse
medicine on the back Of his head and fore
head. In few minutes he was crazy in
when he died The physicians say the medi-
cine poisoned him.
j. M. Smitts and wife of North Bend were
going to Fremont and while crossing the
track at Ames the horse took fright, and
kicking himself from the buggy, ran about
two miles and was caught. The horses heels
struch both Mir. and Mrs. Smith in the face,
cutting them severely. AS Mr.. Smith is very
feeble the injury and the excitement almost
prostrated him.
Iowa.
Avoca has decided to have electric lights.
Hamburgis is to have a new three story
hotel.
The Herald is the name of q new news
paper venture at Dunlap.
1heI. o. o. +. has increased its member
ship nearly 900 in the state the past year.
farmer noar Mapleton plowed up fifteen
blue racers the other day and killed all Of
them.
Ottumwa's new public building Is COM
petcd and was occupied by Pos tmas ter Tilton
Wednesday.
fourteen year-old boy named Claymore
was sentenced to the reform school for seven
years for stealing watch.
Butler county has town called Pillvie,
Howard has Busti, Winneshiek has Spill
vile and Johnson has Shochy.
Adam Smith, a farmer living near Nichols,
committed suicide last Saturday because
he had become surety for a 500 note and had
it to pay.
The Catholic fair just closed at Mason City
netted enough money to liquidate the indebt-
edness on the new parochial school, costing
$1,000, which was formally opened Monday.
Mrs. George Heilson, aged about fifty
years, hanged herself in her house near
Lyons Saturday night. She was under q
temporary fit Of insanity, brought on by dis
ease.
Abel E. Chase, one Of the oldest and best
known citizens of Leon, died suddenly at his
home Friday. He was dressing his little
daughter and dropped dead without an in
stant's warning and without any struggle or
| pain.
At vinton, Saturday, Clarence Blessing,
the thirteen-year-old son Of Deputy County
Treasurer Blessing, attempted to jump on to
freight train, but lost his hold and fell under
| the wheels. Both legs were horribly crushed,
and the unfortunate lad died soon after being
| taken to his home.
The warden of the AL amosa peniten tiary
| has made his report for October to the state
auditor. 1t shows the average number Of
| convicts to be 210 and the amount expended
for support to be 50, 100. The salaries of OIL
| GERS and guards is 81 2,0S7.50.
| The high school statistics Of Iowa, as CON-
| piled by Superintendent Sabin, show the
total number of girls graduated in 1890 to
have been 1880, and Of boys 594. The total
number of girls in attendance during the year
| was 10SS6, and Of boys 4,S55.
| Beyond the Rockies.
| Salem, Ore, boasts of a girl eight years old
| who weighs 140 pounds,
| The Olympia (Wash.) iron works burned
last Wednesday. The loss is 81, 200.
About three hundred cars of freight are
run out of the yards at Laramie, Wyo., every
day.
| Another hotel company has been organized
at Colorado Springs for the purpose Of erect
ing s300,0 900 structure.
Fifty cans Of prepared opium were seized
in Pullman car at Seattle Saturday. The
| opium was in two valises carried by man
and wife.
The fossilized remains of mastodon, four