The Columbus journal., 1898-11-23

Sioux Indians came down upon the
Pawnee reservation and killed one sqaaw.
jacob Schram had broke ground for q
cellar to his dwelling house to be erected
on the corner OF Ninth and North streets.
w. A. NARROW of Fremont was demo.
cratic candidate for district Judge.
Judge Maxwell was judge Of the district.
It was said that Mr. Deitrichs received
three votes in this county at the election
held that year for county wedding com.
missioner.
A post Office was established at New.
man center in this county called Nebo,
and Clarence A. Newman appointed
postmaster.
Philip Metz Of Omaha was accidentally
killed while hunting, September II, near
Andrew Mathis farm, on Shell creek.
His death was almost instantaneous.
Died, October IA, Of palsy, Mrs. Mary
Draper, wife Of William Draper, aged 81
years. She was daughter OF James and
Ann Galley, and was born in Cheshire,
England.
VIM. McAllister ,.:Hrned from his
surveying engagement between the two
Platte rivers near Sidney. and brought
back curiosities, and high opinion OF
the country.
Married, October 1S. 1875, at the resi-
dence Of the brides sister, Mrs. J. r.
West, by Rev. Starbuck, J. p. Easton Of
Owatonna, Minnesota. and Miss Anna NJ.
Magoon Of Wattsville. =
Mastodon were probably numerous
hereabouts in the long ago. On Franz
HenRgleris farm on Shell creek, also at
e. G. McDonsld's in Bntler county were
found petriied specimens. rs,
Married, Tuesday, September Z, 1876,
in Chicago, at the residence of the brides
parents, by Rev. Doctor Messing, Mr..
Israel Gluck of Columbus, Nebraska, and
Miss Fanny Phillips. Of Chicago, Illinois.
Judge Dnndy presided over the first
court ever held in Lincoln, in November,
1864. He tells us that he stood in the
door Of the court room with shot gun
and killed prairie chicken enough to feed
q conference Globe Journal.
The JOURNAL printed a daily called
'The Fair Record" during the county
fair OF 1875, on an improved Gordon job
press, Charles A. Stephenson, the irre-
pressible job printer of The JOURNAL
Office, being in charge Of the press, cases,
etc., at the grounds.
The buildings and portion of the
corral fence at Jacob Lewis east of the
city were saved by citizens from the fire
that destroyed hundred tons Of hay,
and threatened everything. When nearly
there. the truck broke down, but the
men rushed forward with buckets.
Died, October Is, of pneumonia, Hugh
Compton. He had resided in Columbus
for nine years, serving as postmaster q
good part of the time. The JOURNAL
closed an obituary: HE was true as
gold tried in the fire in all his relations
as q man and q citizen, and has given the
world many an illustration of the poets
line that an honest man is the noblest
work of God."
Died, Sept. "a, 1875, of inflammation
Of the bladder, Lester w. Platte, aged
sixty-one years. For thirty-two years
he had been the steadfast friend and
helper in time of trouble, of the Pawnee
Indians, with whom he traded, and a
host of them called to see him before
his death. The funeral services we're
conductAd by Raw @. O. 6tsrbuck Aud
his remains taken to Tabor, Iowa, at
tended by Mrs. Platt, Mr.. and Mre.
Geo. Lehman and Miss Anna Gilbert.
Jonas Hedman said of him that he had
lived side by side with him for thirteen
years, and they had never had an angry
word. -.
The republican county ticket was: I.
N. Taylor for probate judge; John Ham,
mond, commissioner; J. g. Routson,
county clerk; Barclay Jones, treasurer;
Ben. Spielman, sheriff; e. G. Pinckney,
coroner; Charles L. Hill, superintendent
of public instruction. The democracy
later along elected J. g. Higgins, judge;
r. H. Henry, commissioner; F. G. Becher,
clerk; c. A. Speice, superintendent; A..
Heintz, coroner. Ben. Spielman was
elected sheriff, and v. Hummer, running
Independent, was elected treasurer. By
the way, it was almost an impossibility
to defeat Mr.. Hummer for treasurer, and
it was actually said that after being
treasurer for ten terms or SO, the legis-
lsture actually passed the two-term limit
law in order to work him ont of ofice.]
That first exhibition of the Platte
county agricultural society was a grand
success.. John Tannahill was there;
John Eisenmann, Andrew Mathis, G. w.
Stevens, Franz Henggler, A. Stull, w. N.
McCandlish, L. Gerard, E. A. Gerard,
A. J. Arnold, Jacob Ernst and host OF
others were among the exhibitors. There
ware m monev nremiums maid. exceDt IN