Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-11

! newspaper circles in the town and county,
/ IS clean and neat geographically ana iuI
! Of news.
A son Of S. X. Lee Of Custer county was
killed by the accidental discharge Of a
shotgun
Hunters shot and killed a valuable horse
belonging to A. w. Deardin, a farmer
living near Leigh.
The new Lutheran church at Friedensau,
| Thayer county, will be dedicated on the
| nth Of this month.
E. A. Lundburg, principal of the Emer-
son schools. resigned, and Prof. Patterson
has been elected to the place
James Gregg, who lives ten miles, from
Gordon, lost leg as the result Of the ac-
cidental discharge of a shotgun
Gus Nelson, a stromsburg boy. lost an
ear by the accidental discharge Of a shot
gun He was not otherwise injured
An unsuccessful effort was made to in
duCe the st. Paul city council to order
the saloons closed every night at o'clock.
The saloon at Harrisburg burned to the
ground Wednesday night OF last week.
There is no doubt the fire was of incen-
diary origin.
Charles Mack of Butte thinks j. Whistler
has deprecated the value of his equity
in his wife's affections $1,000 worth and has
sued him for that amount
The Clay County Poultry association Will
hold its annual show at Clay Center, Pc
cember 10 to %. There will be institute
work the evening of the goth.
+, s Payne, fusion candidate for treas
urer in Dixon county, has filed a contest
against j. w Thompson, whom the can
Vassing board declared elected.
The Burlington company has had force
of thirteen two-horse sCraperS and large
number OF men at work ming dirt IN the
ground floor of the new shop building.
Mrs. Martha Sheneman who resided just
south OF Beaver City, was struck and in
stantly killed by train on the Fort kear-
ney and Junction city branch of the Union
Pacific near Talmo, Kan. last Friday aft
ernoon.
The Missouri river is open unusually late
this year. The ferry at the Ponca land
slush and floating ice that are collected
along the shore, but It is still able to make
landings.
Many of the discharged members of the
Twenty-second infantry, who took up
claims on the old Fort Randall reserva-
tion when they were quartered at that
post, are now returning to establish their
homes and start in farming.
"spook" show drew good crowd at
st. Paul but just as the spoots in the
cabinet were giving the liveliest part of
the performance someone in the crowd be-
came overly curious and started an In
vestigation. The spook proved to be
very material woman and the show came
to an abrupt ending.
The mortgage indebtedness record of
Dixon county for November, 1899, is: Farm
mortgages filed IL, sl6,9925 50; released 20,
$22176.1S. City mortgages filed s, &5S7lO;
released 10, S279O.56. Chatte mortgages
filed 40, $50, ,i7S.4S released us, $23,74O,9S.
No sherff's or other deeds in foreclosure.
While out hunting with some other boys
Grover Walton of Ord shot himself through
the foot with % rifle. He had the muzzle
on his foot and when the gun was ac
Cidentally discharged the ball was sent
straight through foot, sole and all. He did
not seem to mind it very much, however,
for he stopped and played with the boys
for some time before coming home.
A number of bankers of the Republican
Valley country assembled in Nelson
Wednesday afternoon and organized the
South Central Nebraska Bankers associa-
ton. The counties represented were:
Thayer Fillmore, Clay, Webster and
The meeting was held at the
First National bank and officers were
elected as follows: j. +. Bradshaw, presi- |
dent; w. II. Jennings, vice president; F. |
E. Bottentield, secretary and treasurer ]