The Columbus journal., 1899-04-26
NEBRASKA NEWS.

cumseh carried by a good majority.
The condition OF the winter wheat
in Adams county is not very encour-
aging.
A new banking company Is being or
ganized with Illinois and Kansas City
capital for a new bank to be opened
in Wymore.
Two residences in Valentine were
burned last week, and heroic efforts
were required to keep the conf1agration
from destroying others.
A grainary and two corn crlDs to-
gether with grain and machinery
burned on Henry Loney's farm, three
miles northeast of Plainview. The
cause of the fire was the explosion Of
q lantern.
The twenty-third annual tournament
of the Nebraska State Sportsmen's
association. which will be held in
Lincoln May 2. 3. 4 and 5. will prob
ably be the largest tournament held
in the west for some years past.
Captain Baxt, r disposed of the in
terror furnishings Of the old post
Office building in Omaha last week.
Although the property when 1t was
new cost many thousands of dollars.
it was sold for the sum total Of $56.25.
Dietrich Gaede of Nebraska City was
found dead in his room at the home of
his son-in-law, ex-Mayor H. H. Bart
ling. During the night he had put a
cord around his neck and fastening 1t
on the closet door hanged himself. He
was seventy-six years Of age.
1t has been reported that q big
strike was brewing among the pack
ing house men at South Omaha and
that May l had been selected as the
date on which the walk-Out was to
ecu But 1t is now reported that
the strike has been called OF and that
whatever differences there may be will
be settled by arbitration.
One morning about 2 O'Clock a fire
which was started north Of Vroman,
burned back north of Brady Island
with a heavy northwest wind and de-
stroyed much property, At the home
of Mrs. Anderson, a widow, the fire
spread rapidly and all clothing was
burned from her body, she being fright.
fully burned. Her nephew, John West
erland, was badly burned about the
head and hands. N. Flicklinger and
son were badly burned about the feet
and hands.
From a careful examination of the
condition of the fall wheat in Rich
ardson county, it is safe to say that
fully so per cent of it has been de-
stroyed by the constant freezing and
thawing since the first of March. Al
falfa and red clover are also badly
frozen out. Peaches and b~lackberrries
and raspberries were destroyed by the
cold weather of the winter, while ap-
pies. plums and cherries seem to be all
right.
The class Of 80 Of Hastings college
will be the largest that has ever grad
uated from that institution. Com
mencing about June IA, there will be
a full week of commencement exer-
cises. which will include class. concert,
debate and banquet. The graduating
class is composed of Clarence Cooke,
Ernest Brouillette, Henry Heller, Rich
ard MOritz, Wilson Stichter, James
Brown, Edward Bushnell, Charles
Slime and Miss Erdell Montgomery.
Mrs. Ahdiel v. York of Rising City
has been adjudged insane and will be
removed to the asylum at Lincoln il
her health we'll permit. She was
stricken with erysipelas a few days
ago. and from the inception of the
disease she grew rapidly worse. At last
she appeared to be dying. all the symp-
toms of approaching death appearing.
The family was called to what was
supposed to be a death bed, where
there was a sudden change in the ap-
pearance of the patient. She became
hot and flushed and full of animation.
But it soon appeared that her mind
had gone. Her mania is said to be one
Of religion.
The mortgage record for the state,
as compiled by the labor bureau from
all the counties except Banner, shows
that during the last six months of 1898
there were GAIL farm mortgages filed,
the total amount being 81, OO3, 266. 46.
There were 1888 satisfied, amounting
to $685., 147.84. The town and city
mortgages filed amounted to 81 ,9O8,-
4 300, while the releases amounted to
1862, 29O.64, or almost double the fl
ings. The report on chattel mort
cages was incomplete for the reason
sHoS q A0l6C PlOPOA VI TIC uuOTCs
cages of this class fled with the
county clerks are neve released. The
compilation shows 1889 filed, amount
ing to $21. SIS, 1888, and 20,55S released,
amounting to $9,019,35S.
]. j. E~veringham, deputy of the in
surance department of Auditor Cor
nell's Office, has issued the annual
statement Of risks written, premiums
received and losses incurred and paid
by the fire insurance companies doing
business in Nebraska, for the year
ending December 81, 1893. The joint
fire insurance companies Of other
states and nations wrote risks amount
ing to $96, 1926. 346 and received $780, |
079 in premiums. The losses paid
amounted to $552, 7O4 and the losses
incurred amounted to $569, 760. This
shows a great increase in the amount
of business transacted. The figures |
for the previous year were as follows:
Risks written, $S7. 915, 160; premiums |
received, 1927, 879; losses paid, $685.
999; losses incurred, $361, 647.
The entire force of government
microscopes at South Omaha, num-
bering about thirty young women, has
been laid of until further orders. d. |
c. Aver. chief of the bureau. received
an order to this effect, and it is under
stood that the falling of in export
orders IS the cause of it.
Mark Sumner, a young farmer liv-
ing near Brownville, made an attempt
to commit suicide by taking poison.
By energetic work or the part Of rel
atives and neighbors. his life was saw
ed. Sumner, it is alleged, was deeply
in love with Aela Sliger. who did not
reciprocate his affections, hence his
desire to shuttle of.
The body of Ladislay Kucera, the
Bohemian printer who disappeared on
March 5. was found in the Blue river
about three-Quarters Of a mile below
the mill dam at WILDER, where he was
last seen alive. From papers found in
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