Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-16
STATE JOTTINGS.
Nebraska.

NeDfaSka.
A baseball club has been organized at
Chadron.
The Baptists of Fremont are raising funds
to build parsonage.
The Hubbell prospectors expect to reach
the coal stratum by June 10.
The new camp of Sons of Veterans at
Ulysses has organized with about thirty men,
bers.
Charles c. Carrig and Miss Kittie A. Park
inson, leaders of Platte Center society, have
been married
1t only took few hours to settle all the
cases on the docket of the district court for
Deuel. county.
Rev w. II. Brodt of Bird Island, Mimi,
has accepted "A call to the pastorate of the
.Juniata Baptist church
The Fifth district Women's Christian Tenn
perance union will hold its convention at
Superior June II and II.
During the two days. mad dog scare at
Grand Island about one hundred and fifty
CANNES gave up their lives.
Fire destroyed the barn of Joe McI'adden a
farmer near Fairmont and four horses and
farm implements were consumed.
Wells, the Logan county murderer, was
convicted in the district court at Candy of
murder in the second degree and sentenced to
eleven years in the penitcntiary
While Mr., Cone of Guide Rock was trying
to release COW that had become entangled in
some wire, the animal kicked and Cones
finger was caught between the wire and IA
board and was smoothly amputated.
The Republican Valley immigration asso
citation held very successful meeting at Or
leans and appointed committee to thoroughly
advertise that fertile section The next meet
ing will be held at McCoOk May ~.
Two Peru lads, aged eleven and twelve,
ran away and started west to grow up with
the country, but after twenty-four hours of
trying to exist on wind they sent word to
their parents to come and bring them home,
Ponca citizens are incensed at a recent at
tack in newspaper on the management OF
the postoftice by the new postmaster, j. Fl.
Logan The article i'll question is character
lied as misrepresentation of facts and the
assertion is made that never in the history of
Ponca has the mail been handled so satisfac-
torily as now.
A sod court house with walls about three
feet thick is being built on the new county
seat site in Mcpherson county. There has
been some talk going the rounds that an
effort would be made to have the commission
ers abandon the sod building being built and
erect frame one This Is all bosh," says
the Mcpherson News. 1.-THE members of the
board are too level headed to pay any atten-
tion to anything so absurd as such PROPOSE
tion at the present time, and are heartily in
accord with the resolution of the mass con
ventiOn to the effect that so long as the people
of the county live in sod quarters the officers
should be content with like quarters. When
an officer feels above the people they should
take drOp ON MN,
Iowa Items.
Peter Nolan has pleaded guilty to five
charges of forgery at Marengo aud will be
sentenced later
According to the report of the secretary of
the state board of agriculture there are no.
54i dogs in Iowa
The farmers in the vicinity of Eldridge
win build an elevator of $4,000 bushels ca
pacity at IA cost of 5000
Benton county has asked for bids for the
construction of an iron bridge across the
Cedar river north of Shellsburg.
Mrs, Roty Kenoge and her daughter, Anna
Clara KenOge, believed to be residents of
Iowa, have been left fortune by the death
of A. T., Kessecker rich banker of Green
vile, Miss
The case of Myron Il. Billings, charged
with the murder Of County Attorney Kings
ley at Wavcrly over two years and a half
ago will come up at an early day at the
present term of the supreme court The de- 1
fendant who is in the peuitcntiary has
asked permission to be present and speak in
his own behalf, but this has not yet been
passed upon by the court.
Garden Grove puts forth strong claim 10
the prize family in Iowa. The family is
named Mantz, and consists Of twenty-One
persons. The father is seventy years of age
and the mother fifty eight. OF the nineteen
children ten are boys and nine girls, the