Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-18
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Weeping Water proposes to organize a
militia company.
The Sarpy County Herald put out a
colored holiday edition.
new pump has been placed in the
Seward waterworks plant.
Forty tons of alfalfa hay were burned on
the Golfer farm near McCOOk.
| The McCook Tribune is out with fine
edition, with Illuminated cover.
The United Brethren have purchased a
| building at Ainsworth and VIII remodel 1t
! into church.
Isaac Baughman. a German from Mime
| apcis, was held up at South Sioux City and
robbed of 81
A call has been issued for a conference
of middle Of the-road ,opulists to meet at
Hastings, December 2S.
Ed Parker of Logan. had an eye injured
| by >cape from a wire fence striking it;
| it is feared he will lose it.
| 4 blaze in the Union Pacific deDot at
Madison was discovered and extinguished
before any serious harm was done
The chicory business at Schuyler has not
| proved profitable and those engaged in
the enterprise will probably abandon it.
| On January the people of Ponca. will
vote on the question of voting So. 900 in bonds
to complete and furnish the school building.
John Conley of Leigh got his coat fast in
was torn off and Conley was severely
| shaken uo.
George McGregor and family left Gala
| McGregor was drugged and robbed of 500
draft and 500 in money.
| Rushville is becoming somewhat of a
musical center. Following the organization
| of the Woodmen orchestra, band was or
ganized several days ago.
! While dance going on at Hayes
| Center some sneak thief stole enough
whips, robes etc, from the buggies of those
attending to last him lifetime.
| The Gothenburg Independent put out a
boom edition setting forth the advantages
of that part of Dawson county, with its
IN nln of
E. r. Ward. a Kansas City mule buyer
who is located at Red Cloud, was seriously
injured by being thrown out on the frozen
ground by a runaway team.
George w. and WINNER Dunn of Rush
vile were acquitted of stealing a note on
the ground that the document possessed no
value, not having the necessary revenue
stamp attached.
Bruner and Den of Arapahoe recently de-
feated Boehner and Atkinson in a team
shoot, twenty-five birds to the man, by a
score of AZ to 40. Bruner and Den profess
to be willing to shoot any two men in the
state a match on the same conditions
Joseph Moore, an old settler living four
probably fatally injured Wednesday morn
ing while in the field husking corn. A team
of another husker got frightened and ran
over him, cutting off one ear, partly scalp
ing him and injuring him internally.
The professor of the Hampton schools
wrote a letter to his best girl and lost 1t
dinner one day he found It nicely chalked
on the blackboard, and entitled a specimen
of proper love letter writing. 1t Is the
opinion of his aCquaintances that it was no
mean joke.
A distressing accident happened to the
I15-year-old child of Mahlon Otto, living near
Gltner. The child swallowed a grain of
coffee which lodged in its throat. 1t was
brought to Aurora. and given the Christian
Scientist treatment but died Monday even
ing. Its throat swelled up and choked 1t
to death.
quite a curiosity was found near Dodge
in the shape of horned rabbit 1t had
three horns on each side of its head about
three and one-haf inches long, and when
first seen looked more like some specimen
of a fighting animal than rabbit. This is
the third horned rabbit seen in these parts
in the last few years.