Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-26
STATE .yoTTIyGs.



The Dakota City Argus is ten years old.
The ladies of Whitney have formed q
branch OF the w. G. T. u.
The Atkinson high school graduated one
man and two ladies last week.
Newport's butter and cheese factory han
dies 5000 pounds of milk daily.
There are 149 cases on the docket of the
Clay county court, the largest the county
ever had.
NJ Welsh, an Oakland timer, was badly
burned the other day by the explosion of
gasoline stove.
MIR. Jack Ehman of Louisville has escaped
a term in jail by marrying Miss Edna Ander-
son of the same place.
During a storm at Seward the tent in which
troup was playing Uncle TOMS Cabin was
blown down, but nobody was seriously in
iured.
There will be somewhere between /, 800 and
1000 acres of wheat oats and flax put in on
the table land ding Harrison, Sioux
county.
Over $500 has already been raised at Geneva
for Fourth of July celebration. Van Wyck
and Leese will be invited TO deliver ad-
dresses.
1t is now an assured fact that there will be
a $4,000 brick hotel erected in Madison this
season. The present proprietor of the Prince
hotel will build it,
The Union Pacific has settled the case of
little Willie Lauer of Columbus, who de-
manded $4,000 damages for injuries received,
by agreeing to pay the lad $1,000.
Madison man has discovered process for
manufacturing both soft and hard soap from
corn at onc-third the cost of other soaps.
stock company is about to be formed for its
manufacture.
Richard Conway, farmer near Seward,
while under the influence of liquor assaulted
his hired man, James Whitworth, with
curry comb and inflicted number of wounds
Conway was arrested.
Reduced rates of one and one-third fare
have been secured for the state Sunday school
convention, which meets at Hastings June A.
D and q. 1t is expected that this will be the
largest and best convention of the kind ever
held in Nebraska. Five hundred persons are
expected to attend.
The number of hogs raised in Lincoln
county in 1889 trebled those of 1885, and pres
ent indications are that this years product
will more than double that of last says the
North Platte Tribune. Corn will continue to
reign king of Lincoln county, his consort will
be the hog, and North Platte his commercial
city.
Says the Gresham Review: People in the
east who think we don't grow much corn out
this way are respectfully invited to cogitate
the following item: George Fl. Jacobson
sbelled on four sections of land, near McCool,
10000 bushels of corn, all raised on the land.
He has sheled within radius of five miles
10000 bushels in the past two months. This
with one shelter only Indicates some corn.
The city council of Seward ordered out the
street lights, leaving nearly five miles of dead
wire strung around town. A representative
of the light company says the original eX-
pense of putting in the poles, wires, posts,
lamps, etc, necessary to light the streets was
nearly 81 500, which are now practically use
less. The object of discontinuing the use of
the lights is to save money to help complete
the water works.
r. c. Lamberton, the ex-cashier of the
broken bank of Humboldt, some time ago left
the state and went to Harrisburg, Pa, Re-
Gently the grand jury indicted Lam
and Governor Thayer issued requisition
papers for him. Governor Beaver of Penn
sylvania, however, declined to give up the
prisoner on the ground that the indictment
was defective, and the Nebraska officer was
obliged to return without his man.