The Norfolk weekly news. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1888-1900, 1899-06-22

day visiting friends.
Wynn Rainbolt is expected home to-.
morrow from Harvard college, to spend
his summer vacation.
Ernest Shulta came home this o
from New Ulm, Mum, where he had
peen attending college.
EConductor Geo. Garter has received a
promotion which will necessitate his
removal to Omaha soon.
Mrs. A. Hodgetts went to Madison this
morning to attend district conference
and the Epworth league convention.
Mr. and Mrs. II. l.. Mccormick of
Edgwater Park, are rejoicing over the
arrival of n o. pound boy at their home.
A. =. O'Banion is having his house
in E%dgewater Park, occupied by II. f.
| Austin, treated to n fresh coat of paint.
Abe Hughes is welding the brush.
p. +. and G. T. Sprecher returned last
evening from Schuyler where they had
been to attend the last sad rites con.
nected with the burial of their mother.
The three.months old child Of Mr.. and
Mrs. @. j. Younger, who has been very
sick for several days past, died ut
10 o'clock last evening and will be
buried Mt 4 o'clock this afternoon.
Emil Iastrow, the l6-years.old son Of
Carl Iastrow, died Mt 8 O'Clock this
morning at the home of his parents four
miles east of the city. The disease that
took the boys life was diphtheria, with
which he had been sick but 36 hours.
Owing to misinformatipn THE News
yesterday stated that w. NJ. Robertson
and John $. Robinson were attorneys
for the defense in the stock yards case.
The attorneys for the defense are w.
NJ. Robertson and John Il. Hays, both
of this city.
Rev. and Mrs. G.. II. Main and Mr..
and Mrs. M. O. Hazen depart tonight
fer the Black Hills, where they will
rest and recreate for n few weeks. Mr..
and Mrs. Hazen will make their head
quarters ut the home of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
A. Gillette at Spearfish during their
absence.
Reports continue to come in which
mark the electrical disturbances of last
nights storm as of extreme fury. AT
the home Of Otto Selling, near the hos
pital for insane, a bolt struck and killed
four head of calves. Other reports of
damage to property and animal life are
heard but they lack authenticity.
Lightning struck the barn of Fred
Lau, living six miles northwest Of the
city last night and the barn was totally
to Mr.. Lau included that of six cows
and considerable machinery which was
stored in the barn. Mr.. Lau is a
brother.i in. law of VIM bearing of this
city.
Life Mrs. Smith repeatedly remind
ed her husband that she owned the sill
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so on until poor Smith almost wished he
had married n poor girl. The other
night Mrs. Smith awoke to hear strange
noises i'll the lower part Of the house,
and, vigorously punching her husband
in the ribs, called John, get up
There are burglars in the house" Eth?
inquired Mr. Smith, sleepily. Burglars !!
Downstairs - howled Mrs, Smith
"Burglars?" said Smith as he turned
over well l don't own anything"
Judge VIM. Bates kindly furnishes
THE News with some data concerning
the issuance of marriage licenses in the
county since 1890 that will prove inter-
esting to readers. The number of
licenses issued each year were rs follows f:
1890, 10 1891, ll3 1892, 1876 1898, 149
1894, 1913 1895, l05 1896, III 1897, III;
1898, Ia 1899, up to May 81, 90. This
would indicate hat matrimony is by no
means n certain result of prosperity, as
the highest number of licenses issued
was in 1898, the year of the panic, while
with this year about half gone, the in
dications are that it will be the lowest
in number on record since that time.
1t is to be hoped of course, that the CON-
ing six months will retrieve the record
thus far made in 1899.
The storm coming up from the south
west last night was the cause of on
siderable anxiety on the part of many
people, whose nerves had been more or
less unstrung by reading accounts of
cyclones in all parts of the country, but
as far as wind was concerned, nothing
serious developed here. There was,
however, quite a display of electricity,
one bolt of which took effect on the ice
house of the +. T.. and NJ. V. company,
which is the first building west of the
general offices at the Junction. The
force of the fluid wrecked portions of the