Omaha daily bee., 1890-02-19

An iron boundary is to be built at Schaller.
An electric light proposition is being con-
sidered at Spencer.
Mapleton will offer special inducements to
secure a canning factory.
Sanborn IS to have a $4,000 creamery
operated by a stock company.
Dubuque will vote in April on a PROPOSE
tion to build sanew court house.
The farmers institute will be held at
Jewell February %, 26 and 81.
or the $50 inmates of the Marshalltow n
soldiers home 200 were sick at the same
time with influenza.
While counting out the money to pay a
note at the bank a farmer near Cushing be.
came violently insane.
For attempting to kidnap the little Barr
girl at Dewitt, Kelley has been sentenced
to four years in the Anamosa penitentiary.
Senator Harlan has contributed an inter-
esting and historic document to the Aldrich
autograph collection at the state capitol. II
is a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to
Horace Greeley, of the date of July 10, 1854.
A Hartley couple applied for a mar
rage license at the county clerks office in
Spencer one day last week. They were re.
fused because the prospective bride was net
of legal age. The would-be bridegroom was
also the legal guardian of his intended and
he staggered the clerk by writing out and
placing on file his free consent to the cere.
mony.
At Logan Phineas Caldwell was sentenced
to thirty days Imprisonment and to pay o
fine of $500, and his son, w. G. Caldwell, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for eighteen
months. They were engaged in the banking
business at Logan for many years and
about a year ago were tried and convicted of
fraudulent banking. They appealed to the
supreme court, but the decision was against
them. Much interest was taken In the case
on account of il being the first case tried
I1n6pr the nav In ~ which mnlxaa fraudulent
banking a felony.
The Two Dakotas.
A republican league has been organized at
Pierre.
During the past year Plankinton buyers
shipped II, 1000 hogs, 200 cattle and 500 sheep.
Thu president of the Young Mems Chris.
tian association at Redheld is A. Boozer.
The chief amusement at Woonsocket just
now consists of ice boat races on the arte-
sian lake.
E. L. Abel of Bridgewater succeeds O. S
Pendar as trustee of the Sioux Falls peni.
Tertiary.
The farmers alliance of Potter county
has been organized into q branch of the ma
tional organization.
An effort ID being made to secure the par.
don of Christian Sorensen, who was sen.
fenced to twenty-four years I'm the peniten-
| tiary from Moody county for killing Il neigh
Dor IN a dispute over some property. Sor-
ensen has become insane, and his friends
want HIM transferred to the Yankton
asylum.
The Minnesota Star says reports from
stockmen along the Belle Fourche and Lit
tie Missouri rivers Is that the calf and colt
crop for 1890 will be 90 per cent or better.
This is encouraging indeed for those inter.
ested in the stock business, and taken to
gether with other fine prospects showing up
at this date, it makes the stayers feel more
confident than ever in the future of western
South Dakota.
The city OF Steele some years ago ISSUED
SIS, 900 worth of bonds bearing 10 per cen
interest, SAYS the Mandan Pioneer. With
the defaulted interest the amount now due
is something over $50, 600. The holders o
the bonds offered to IA $50, 900 IN new
bonds at 4 per cent interest, payable in TWEEN
ty-tve years. This would make the yearly
interest $500 instead Of 81, 800, as Mt present
But the citizens realize that they can't rais,
even $500 a year for interest, and the matte
is TO be left in its present bad shape,