Omaha daily bee., 1900-12-10
Nebraska News Notes.

Grafton has just dedicated a new opera
house.
The town Of st. Paul has contracted to
have the streets lighted by electricity.
Work has been commenced on the con-
structton OF the electric light plant at Madi-
son
To guard against the spread OF smallpox
the authorities OF st. Paul have decided to
close the public schools until all danger is
over
The poultry fanciers OF McCook and sur
rounding country have been holding a most
successful poultry show at which the ex-
hibits were numerous.
The proprietors of the Superior mills have
decided tr to put tn.r in "a an engine to run their
furnish power from the wheel
The monument which the admlring
friends are to erect over the grave Of the
late Congressman McKeigan is about cCm-
pleted and will be in place in short time.
Willie, the young son OF William Murphy
OF Arapshoe. was drowned last Sunday. He
broke through the ice and life was extinct
before the body could be taken from the
water
A corps of the Salvation Army has been
conducting revival meetings at Tobias with
considerable success. The meetings have
been closed and an assault Is to be made on
Adams.
Albion finds itself unable to accommodate
all the children who desire to attend school
and will vote on the proposition to issue
$4,000 In bonds for the erection of a new
school building.
The deaths or cattle from What ID called
cornstalk disease, for want of better
name, have been more numerous this fall
and winter than common and most all parts
of the state report some cases.
Madison county farmers are being agree
ably disappointed In the yield OF corn. Be-
fore husklng II was thought the yield would
be about thirty bushels TO the acre on the
average and II Is found that II Is over forty.
Dwight Hemmenway OF Frenchtown, An
telope county, was killed by being thrown
from horse He had been sent to town
| I,rh 10 70 htNs ana h. .Al
dent there is no information Of how 1t oc-
CURED.
Thomas Horvorka was found in the road
| in Box Butte county dead. The body was
| lying under the wagon and the team was
| standing still. Indications were that he had
fallen In front OF the wagon, and the front
| wheels had passed over his head.
William David, a horse doctor from EN-
erson. was arrested by the sheriff on the
charge Of cattle stealing. While In custody
| he jumped into n buggy with his brother
| and putting whip to the horses escaped
| The brother later returned and is now held
| to answer the charge of assisting a pris-
| oner to escape
Nemaha county once had fine growth OF
native timber which was supplemented with
a large number of timber claims and other
planted groves. Cordwood was at one time
a drug on the market, but the timber has
been cut with such prodiSality that a tim
Der famine is likely unless the people again
revert to the practice of setting out trees.
Ham Kaufman. who at different times
has edited populist papers in Broken Bow
| Oakdale and O'Neill. Neb., which were
noted for the radicalism of the editor ant
particularly for the amount OF vitriol which
he injected into his editorials. has aban
doned the editorial field and gone into tn,
cigar business In Panora, Ia. In writing I,
the editor OF the O'Neill Frontier he eX
presses himself as disgusted with the mod
ern brand OF populism and repudiates tn,
high priests of the latter day regime
Thomas Rabb, n boy who works at
stone quarry near Springfield did u heroi,
act the other day. The shanty In which tn
dynamite was kept caught fire and the boy
remembering that dynamite was harmless
unless conclusion set II OF rushed into tn
burning structure and grabbed the percus
sion caps which were used 10 fire the dyna
mite and carried them out of reach Of tn
fire. The dynamite simply burned up an,
did no harm, though an explosion woul,
have destroyed much valuable property.
A party OF serenaders who visited newl
married couple at Gretna had hard luck
One of the members climbed on the roo
with the intention OF plugging the chimne
to smoke out the bridegroom. lie fell OF
= and seriously injured himself. few min
utes later another member of the part
was firing salute from an antiquate
, shotgun, when II burst and one side OF tn
msnipulators face was filled with powdei
The serenCders then adjourned and treat re-
; themselves TO creek water.