Omaha daily bee., 1890-02-06
STATE AND TERRITORY.

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STATE AND TERRITORY.
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Nebraska Jottings.
A camp OF Sons of Veterans was organized
at Central City last week.
The gambling houses ut Wymore have been
closed by order of the mayor.
Tho total amount collected by the treasurer
OF Knox county last year was s3l, 9A.73.
The Grand Army post at Niobrara will
give a grand ball and fair February 81
and %.
Over half q million pounds OF flour have
been ordered from the st. Paul roller mills
by a firm in Georgia.
The lawyers of Falls City have organized
a bar association aud elected Il. w. Thomas
president of the society.
The Farmers alliance at Mount Glare,
Nuckolls county, has q membership of
twenty five, and is rapidly growing.
The T%ecumseh board of trade has adopted
resolutions favoring. tho passage by con
| gress of Senator Paddock's postohice build
ing bill.
Rev. Leslie Stevens OF Koarney will go as
a missionary TO Saukin, China, about April
L, under the auspices of the Methodist
church.
The citizens OF Osceola have raised a purse
OF 81 900 to help Theodore Beebe to erect a
$751; 900 hotel on tho site of the ono which was
recently destroyed.
The Grand Army committee on arrange
ments for the first reunion of Nebraska SOL
diers Mt Plattsmouth this month, have pro-
vided accommodations for 1000 visitors.
Fairbnry presents a good opening for a
1--we furniture dealer. Five thousand in
habitants, only enc man in the business,
and he doesn't advertise in any of the
papers.
Seventy-three of the G. A. r. posts have
reported delegates to be present at the state
encampment, February ~ aud 20, and the
TOTAL number from said posts is 352, says tho
Grand Island Independent. II this ratio be
Kept up IN the 800 posts, it will be seen that
the body will be the largest of the kind ever
held In the state.
According TO report, says the Plattsmouth
Herald. a very strange case of insanity ex-
t fasm IN EDWARD Post a young man, son of a
years ago he was sunstruck, and each
winter since then he has become insane, his
mind nearly rightiug with the return of
spring. Last week his insanity became most
violent, ana after threatening to kill Major
Fierce. a neighbor, and to do damage, he
LOOK a horse and came over near Weeping
water, where he was arrested.
Iowa Items.
A store will be started at Linn Grove by
| the alliance.
Francis Murphy will begin a temperance
revival at Red Oak next week.
Upton will have an electric light "plaut.in
operation inside of thirty days.
TIL school superintendent Of Montgom.
cry, Mills, Page and Fremont counties will
meet at Shenandoah March 8, for the pur-
pose OF forming an interstate ASSOCIATION.
The Gee college museum at Cedar RAPIDS
has received a present in the shape of a live
tarantula and a family of young ones which
were recently Matched from eggs found in a
bunch of bananas.
Thomas Peterson, a burglar, and John
schneoly, sentenced Tor Two years for at
tempted murder, escaped from the Charlton
Jail by saving the bars from the windows.
They are still at large.
Elias N. DelasEmutt, a much respected
citizen and a resident of Des Moines county
since 1884, died last week at the age of
ninety. He enlisted in the union army IN
1862 at the age of sixty, and served through
the war until he lost his eyesight in a heavy
sandstorm, when he returned to his home,
where he remained continuously till his
death.
Several years ago Jennie Nelson had
trouble with her wealthy father, IN the
southern part of the state, and left her
home, gong to Mason City, where she
changed her name to Mary Nelson, and went
to work as a waiter girl in the Park hotel.
Recently her father died and willed her the
bulk of his fortune, but without her knowl-
edge. The other day a stranger, who was
stopping at the hotel, recognized her and in
formed her of her fathers death and of the
fact that she was an heiress. She returned
10 her home with the stranger.
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The Two Dakotas.
Sturgis now has a Knights of Pythias
lodge.
Whitewood is moving for a system OF
waterworks.
Canton will vote on a proposition to reor.
ganize the city February "a.
There are 453'posto rices In North Dak ota,
sixteen OF which are presidential.
South Dakota has thirty-six and North
Dakota eight assemblies of the knights Of
Labor.
The houses of Aberdeen have Just been
numbered IN order 10 be ready for free mail
delivery. f
Lincoln county farmers have subscribed
$4,000 toward starting a paper wholly in the
interests of the alliance.
A census is being taken Of the Indians at
the Lower Brule and Crow Creek agencies
by the Indian department.
The dates for the state fair at Aberdeen |
have been fixed for a week earlier than last
year-September 10 to -.
Counterfeit quarters are SO numerous in
Deadwood that it is believed a private mint |
must be actively in operation.
Mrs. Peter Peterson, while insane, banged
herself to the timbers of a bridge near her
home in Rlchland county last week.
A four and one-half inch artesian well fur
nishes power enough to run the Hitchcock
roller mills, which have a capacity Of forty |
five barrels of -four per day, and TO Grind
feed and propel a dynamo for lighting the
mill with incandescent lamps. |
The farmers Of Hand county have re
uuosted the board Of county commissioners
to petition the legislature to secure the nee
essary seed wheat for the county by allows
ing the county to issue warrants instead Of
bonds of long standing, providing a market |
can be found for the warrants.
Pan:anta is the name of a new town just
started IN Ewing county. The town is 10
Gated on the Grand river, 10U miles north Of |
Minnesota and eighteen miles west of the
Cave hills, in an almost UNEMPLOYED country. |
There are large deposits Of Ignite coal In
the neighborhood. The survey of the Man |
dan railroad runs through the town.
o. l.. Carr of Gettysburg has a COW that
for some time past, with no apparent reason.
has been short in her accounls-Jhat is. in
the quantity of milk she was supposed to
furnish the family. The gentleman sus-
pected thieves and determined to keep a
watch. The other night he caught the
depredator 10 the act. In the same stable
with the COW was quartered a fun grown pig
and he discovered that the animal had been
in the habit of apDropriating the lions share
nf fhn mill upparautlu with the full Qauatfan |