The Columbus journal., 1898-11-30
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Our account this week begins with
October q, 1875 and closes with May
8, 1876.
Died. February Is. 1876, Mrs. J. n.
Kelley.
Vice President Wilson died November
n, 1875
Charles Wake narrowly escaped death
from . runaway horse.
A sudden ice surge took out several
spans OF the Loup bridge.
W. N. Henslsy disposed Of his interest
in the Era to W. N. Leach.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Murray left Febru-
sry 16, 1876, for Gslva, Illinois.
Married, February q, 1876, William A.
Routson and Miss Cora O. Thurstou.
Died. December 4, 1875. Samuel
Mahood, aged 80 years and six months.
Herman Oehlrich Of Grand Island
engaged with Henry & Bro. as book
keeper.
Married. December q, 1875. by Rev. J.
A. Reed. Charles L. Hill and Miss Ella
NJ. Echols.
Cheek consists in assuming q virtue
when you have it not. and because you
have it not.
Wm. Burgess and family left for the
now agency OF the Pawnee Indians, in
the Indian Territory.
Blair 4 Wiggins Of Chicago bought
Coolidgeis hardware stock, corner Of
Olive aud Eleventh streets.
Thomas Haney of Wisconsin visited
the county, to take look at his section
Of land in Shell creek valley.
Died, January 6, 1876, Of diphtheria,
Margaret, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John George, aged four years.
Died, January 20, 1876. Mrs. Mary J.,
wife of e. ]. Baker, aged 81 years. The
body was buried at Mount Vernon, Ohio.
E. d. Fitzpatrick, who is now mayor,
had bill OF $40 against the city, Decem-
Der 6. 1875. for plastering the engine
room.
A large body OF excellent land, the
Pawnee Reservation, twenty-tw miles
west OF Columbus, was placed on the
market.
Prof. Schaller left for Philadelphia ito
enjoy some OF the benefits of the Gen.
tennial in q social, musical and pecu-
mary way"
November q, the dwelling house on
the farm OF Charles Morse, three and a
half miles southwest of the city, was
destroyed by fire.
A walking match, four miles, between
J. g. Higgins and j. E. North was given
up by the latter when not quite half way
over the distance.
Died, Saturday morning, November %,
1875, Nettie, wife of David Redpath, Of
Redville. Polk county, in the twenty
ninth year OF her age.
II. p. Coolidge suffered double frac-
ture Of bone and the displacing of q
knuckle joint by the step Of his horse
into hole in the road.
John Wise left with the editor a
pigeons "egg within an egg," the inside
one unbroken, and taking the place of
the yelk of the outside one.
J. p. Braun received notice OF his
appointment as postmaster at his resi-
dence 211z miles north of Stearns Prairie,
the Office to be named Clinton.
Married, November 8. 1875, Frank P.
Burgess. editor of the Columbus Repub-
lican, and Miss Caroline E. Baker,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Baker.
j. D. Brewer returned February Is,
1876, from Texas, purchased lot near
the brick school house, in the east end of
the city, and had nearly completed a
dwelling house thereon.
Died, at the residence of her son-in law,
J. E. North, Of heart disease, Mrs. Maria
Arnold, aged "a years and 4 months.
She left four children: E. w. and A. ].
Arnold, Mrs. J. E. North and Mrs. Ira
Mullen.
From January 1, to March l, 1876,
$4,000 three-cent stamps we're sold at
this Office; 6,OOO postal cards and 1882
in stamped envelopes. The Office
reached as high as $500 a week in
money orders.
J.G. Higgins helped District Attorney
Hoxie in the prosecution Of Burchard.
charged with the murder Of Helmos.
The jury was made mp from 124 talesmen,
and the prosecution was estimated to
cost Colfax county $1,000!
Roll Of honor, District 13: Ole Olson,
George Schram, Daniel Schram. Eva
Cohey, Carl Olson, Albert Olson, Rob.
Ssley, Frank Turner, Lizzie Co6ey, Mary
Hannah, Sarah Fitzpatrick. Mrs. G.
Fifeld and Miss 8. Olson, teachers.
The first company from Columbus to
the Black Hills started February q,
1876: A. j. Arnold, T. D. Delong, Jos.
Strothers, James Overly, Emerson Potts,
81. G. Rockfellow, J. J. Bump and Steve
Lang. They were thirty-five days max
ing the trip from here.
Gerhard Loseke brought to town and
sold to Henry Bros. for $12O, the hams,
shoulders and sides Of seven hogs. The
JOURNAL commended that method, in
stead of raising grain for sale, the one
item OF transportation being decisive-a
full load of bacon being worth forty nine
loads of corn.
Mark Sears, eldest son of VIM. Sears
Of Colfax county, made confession, Octo-
Der %, 1876, as to the murder of John p.
Helmos about year before, duplicating