The Columbus journal., 1904-01-27

DuRrxo q thunder storm Thursday
nieht uear Beatrice three horses, three
mules and thirty head OF hogs veee
killed by lightning. Snow Wa falling
vheo the stock was killed.
The sleet which hes for tho pest three
days covered tho face OF nature to tho
depth OF Q half inch or more in tho VI
cinity Of Humboldt is said BY fruit men
TO have destroyed all tho prospects, for .
fruit crop another year, - Tar - that
section IL concerned.
The first lake OF oil ever discovered in
Colorado was tapped while drilling we'll
No. 3l2 At Spindle Top Heights, three
miles south OF Florence. The oil body
was encountered ut . depth OF 2,775 feet
The oil in the new we'll 10 said to have
risen &c within Q few hundred feet OF the
surface.
BErwrKx l25 and $50 men were en-
tombed Monday. by IN explosion in tho
shaft Of the Harwick Coal company near
Cbeswick, Pa None OF them had been
rescued at noon, and it 10 believed that
many OF them we're either killed outright
by the explosion or have been su6ocated
BY the gas.
FnE broke out Saturday afternoon in
the Masonic temple in Chicago, . twouty-
story skyscraper, one square east Of tho
Iroquois theatre. Owing to the fact that
upward OF 1000 people occupied tho
Offices and stores in the giant structure
the fire caused much excitement A
number Of people were injured but mono
killed.
DURING the past two weeks people
living in the eastern states have been
experiencing extremely cold weather, the
mercury marking - low q 30 below
zero at many different places. Zero
weather IL about q low % the thermom-
eter has registered in Nebraska % Gar
this winter, without . severe storm OF
any kind.
The Fremont Tribune says that Frank
Skutt, formerly Of Blair, who has been
growing sweet corn for the Blair canning
factory, has rented forty acres Of land
west Of that city and will plant the entire
tract in sweet corn for tho Fremont an
ming factory. Mr.. Skutt says that ut
Blair last year the sweet corn crop AVER
aeed i've Tons per acre.
ID. F. DAVIS in the Silver Creek Sand
expresses himself - follows; III the
Sand editor wished to pose - . prophet,
he would say that tho next democratic
national convention would result in .
split and that there would be two tickets
in the Geld. Al it ID, he he's no desire to
pose - . descendant Of Moses, and will
only say that he iguesses So"
THR welcome news comes from Ne
beasks City to tho effect that . shaft he's
bsen sunk in the bluffs south OF that
city and IN eighteen inch vein OF coal
uncovered. The coal 10 Of good quality,
being free from slate and burns quite
freely. A company 10 to be formed to
sink tho shaft deeper with the hope Of
bsing able to strike . bigger vein. It
has been known for years that coal ex-
istsd in that section, but no veins - thick
- this one he's been uncovered.
JuDaE HAMER, ono Of Mn. Lilies
attorneys, thinks be he's another card
up his sleeve, il tho supreme court ~
fuses her . o trial, and - based on the
section in the constitution Of tho United
States which says no ono shall b indict-
Cd and tried for murder unless IN indict-
ment - first found BY . grand jury.
Under tho laws OF our state . grand jury
= only called on tho order OF the presid-
ing district judge. Some Of our lawyers
think it may raise IN important ques-
tioa.-Dsvid City Pres.
In . speech delivered in New York on
his return from abroad M. Bryan said
among other things. there i no coantry
in tho world where tho opportunity to
make tho most Of ones life = - great %
in ths United States. Hero u tho great
ct stimulus to great work, physical.
mental and moral" II Wa we'll said and
indicates that the distinguished gentle
man has been cured Of his belief e.
pressed in the populist platform Of 1880
that tho country u ION tho verge OF
political, moral and financial ruin" The
void do mova-Ftemont Ttibune
An srtssian veil has just been CON-
Plsted ct Lynch, Boyd county. Tho
veil Va drilled down SO fsst, 1t . cost
At e25 PER loot, before The Gov w,s
rseched and W. completed October 10
IL veil "oame in" 1t . pressure Of III
pounds to tho square inch. The total
oose ~ S4,l5S50. and for thu sxpeodi-
tnre . sixty-hosse perpetual power has
bssa secured. It i proposed to operate
sa sSsctsic light plant supplying tho
towns a Lynch, Bristov and Nooovi
fto0 To vell and to st tho came tine
furnish power Tor . l00lbarrsl Touring
min.
0DoooR FRAxcD TRAM, pioneer.
Qookse, 6nanciec and American citizen. +
oe which ~ hive N aooount elsevhero
Il III iasua. - posed away ct Tho GO
q u ysasa The 66s of N. Ttain was