The Columbus journal., 1900-05-02
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| AIeouous Adye0 otOou uIuiy Uy ui0
friends.
: Ed. North had second attack of
measles.
Nick Adamy lost by prairie fire three
acres OF trees.
Plastering began on the Sisters hos
pital April Ii.
The A. l. N. Ry was leased to the B. &
NJ. for 999 years.
Patrick Burke died March 10, after a
very brief illness.
Barbed wire for fencing was quoted.at
II cents a pound.
Allie and Sam. Rickly opened a meat
market at Albion.
1t was nothing surprising that Iowa
instructed for Blaine.
Nearly 5000 emigrants for America
left Germany each week.
DR.. F. J. Schug, late Of Sandusky,
Ohio. located in the city.
The post-offices at Gleason and Keats
kOtOos were discontinued.
Deep SHOWS in Montana, and wild
beasts resort to the settlements.
Susan B. Anthony wanted congress to
remove her political disabilities.
"The grazing Of meadows in the spring
is at the expense Of the hay crop"
Adam Smith, who was largely inter-
ested in Boone county, died at Chicago.
NJ. X. Turner'S four youngest children
were sick with measles little hospital.
Jacob Ernst purchased eighty acres
lying Immediately north Of his dwelling.
Died, at his residence north Of Jack
son, March 25. George Reder, aged So
years.
Receipts at the U. s. treasury, month
Of March, in excess Of expenditures were
$8,6Sl, 900.
Miss Francis E. Willard received high
encomiums for her temperance work in
Nebraska.
VIM. O'Brien, S. A. Crosby and F.
Morgan Of McHenry county, ILL.,, arrived
in the city.
Calmer McCune sold the David City
Republican to A. G. Wolfenbarger and
E. L. Heath.
Gen. John C. Fremont, governor of
Arizona, passed east on his way to
Washington.
At q special meeting OF Hummer
Guards, r. H. Henry was unanimously
chosen captain.
VIM. Eimers removed his store from
st. Mary's to Humphrey station on the
Jackson extension.
The long-continued "drag" on the B.
\ NJ. taxes was finally settled, Platte
county receiving $l4,7OO.
Speice 4 North prepared for sale a
splendid map of Platte county, locating
all the towns, farms, etc.
Will. J. Newman, accompanied by
wife and child, arrived in the city April
q, to make it their home.
Columbus had just one week to pre-
pare for the greatest political gathering
then known in the history Of the state.
The rattlesnakes got fewer John
Welch living on Shell creek had q colt |
which was bit in the chin by rattle
snake.
Jim Strain, the oldest engineer on
the A. & N, was transferred to the |
northern division between Lincoln and
Columbus.
David Redpath Of Marengo, ILL.,, made |
business visit to Nebraska, having |
land in Polk county. We believe he still |
owns the same land.
A man was indicted for hog stealing |
in Appling county, Georgia; he after
wards shot and killed one of the grand |
jurors who found the bill.
Died, May l, OF pneumonia, VIM. NJ.
Davis, in the 21st year OF his age. Since |
lad he had had two attacks of typhoid |
fever and five Of pneumonia.
One of the burning local questions |
then was, Shall Frankfort square, CON-
monty known a. Engine House square,
be cut up into business lots and sold?
Lawrence Cockburn and family &C.
companied by II. d. Lewis, started for
Winnepeg, Manitoba, April q, expect
ing to reach their destination the next
evening.
The following persons, all farmers but
Anderson, shipped fat cattle and hogs
to the Chicago market in ono train OF
eleven cars: George Berney, Pat MUIR
ray, R0bt. Hummer and d. Anderson.
B. d. Slaughter of Fullerton rejoiced
over the birth of their first-born child in
Fullerton. ''Gad" says that in June
there was not house there; now there
are thirty-ave, and thirteen under con-
tract.
1t was claimed that no less than 73..
600 people in Donegal, ireland, needed
relief. Distress has been 60 great that
Of families have pawned or
sold their clothing and household effects
to obtain food.
Every artesian we'll bored in the Ale-
grian desert became Q nucleus of settle
ment, proportioned to the supply OF
water. Several nomadic tribes had
planted palm trees near BY, turning the
desert vicinity into IN oasis.
Patents to lands in Platte county were
- ready ut the land oGice at
Grand Island. Tho names set solid &C.
cupied . half-column In Tn JOURNAL.