Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-20


most Of frost in the air, but the sun shone
out bright and warmed II up.
WAYNE-Au unusual heavy rain fell last
! night and has continued through today
accompanied by a cold wave. Some dam
age has resulted In the low lands.
BEATRICE-Mr. William l. Twombley
and Miss Maud Stulzer both OF this city,
were married yesterday morning at 1870
O'Clock, Judge Walker officiating.
| BEATRICE-The rainfall here since last
| Thursday night has been about seven
inches. Farm work has been suspended on
account OF the muddy condition of the
ground.
BEATRICE-The County Board of Super
months repairing and putting in new
| bridges to take the place of those destroyed
In the recent flood.
| WOOD RIVER-The haying is all COM
pleted the yield of wild hay being the best
| that II has been for years. The yield of
afalfa tlis year was also fine and the
| largest acreage harvested for several years.
| BEATRICE-The Burlington Rock Is
| land and Union Pacific roads succeeded in
| getting their lines east and south of the
| city opened for business yesterday The
| lines Dave been closed since the flood Of
Thursday night
WOOD RIVER-Mr and Mrs. z. S. Leav-
enworth, the former prominent sheep man
| have Just returned from a summer vaca-
| ton spent in the New England states Mr..
| Leavenworth will feed several thousand
| head of sheep here this winter.
| OAKI4AND-Frank Rieff, foreman Of the
here with the material for the steel bridge
the city II the weather. YEA % is fsvorabIe fSo M he e
/ expects to have the bridge in in a weeks
time. BE-.
| OAKLAND-People Of this city are greatly
pleased over the announcement that
| Rev. Charles p. Lang will remain as pastor
of the Methodist church here another year.
| Rev. Lang has served the congregation
here for the past three years with excellent
satisfaction.
rar- ANN
the Beatrice Steam laundry company's
plant was blown down yesterday morning
during the windstorm which prevailed here.
The damage to the stack will cause the
company. considerable expense as we'll as
inconvenience.
BEATRICE---Mrs: J. R. Dodds, wife of
Sunday morning. She was 90 years of age
and had been resident OF Wymore for
by her husband and two daughters. The
! funeral was held today at O'Clock.
| WAYNE-The democratic county conven.
tion here placed in nomination the follow
treasurer tres T. NJ Cherry sheriff. J. W
veyor. A. l. Nauser: coroner, DR.. Neimsn.
CHADRoN-The democratic convention
| for Dawes county met here this afternoon
and placed the following ticket in nomina-
clerk, county clerk J. kAss tTea tTeasureq rBoS BOTH
of Chadron; William Cooper Of Crawford,
sheriff; Thomas Jones. superintendent OF
WOOD RIVERA hard rain fell all night
last night and today accompanied by
was done other than the rain is retarding
the Tipenisg OF corn and preventing fall
ploWing. Some OF the farmers are getting
anxious to get their plowing finished in
time to plant fall wheat.
| ALBION-After thirty-six hours OF con-
pesred and the % sun nj is shining Brightly AZ
though cool, there has been no frost and
prospects now are good for fair weather
for the meeting Of the county fair A
| though the weather yesterday was eN-
tremely bad large number of entries were
made.
| LoUP CITY-I.ast night an Informal re-
ception and banquet was given at the par
lors Of the St. Elmo hotel in commemora-
| tloh OF the departure OF Ihomas 3. Night
| ingale, who has been a resident attorney
| of Sherman county for the past twenty
| seven years and who, with his family, is
| removing TO Los Angeles, Cal, in hopes OF
regaining in a measure his failing health.
BEATRICE-The candidates for the
Beatrice High school football team are
doing regular practice work at present,
and up-to-date about twenty boys have
donned suits and appeared on the field as
candidates. Harry Garrett will act as
coach for the new team which will be
will be scheduled with high school eievens
wishing to play Beatrice.
| FREMONT-William Calhoon and Bertha
Hahn, who elOped from Nickerson last
week, evidently gave the officers the slip az
| ogden ana lnere IS no trace OF them. IL
now appears that the girl took along with
her about SO OF the funds of the local lodge
of the Ladies' circle Of the Woodmen, OF
| which her mother is treasurer. Her parPnts
have not given up hopes of apprehending
| the runaway couple and are of the opinion
! they have gone to California.
| BEATRICE-LOu Davis and George Mich
els Of Harmon, Kan, who came here tbs
! other day to spend a few months fishing
had rather exciting experience during
] the food last week. They were campini
| on an island few miles below town, and
! after the heavy rains the water rose sC
| obliged TO climb tree where they re
mained forty-eight hours without food o
drink. AS the waters did not recede the!
were finally obliged TO swim ashore anC
later reached town in an exhausted condi
ton. The young men lost their campinl
OUTFIT including the fine boats and wer,
glad to escape with their lives.
| FREMONT-William Eyerle, who died a
the Fremont hospital Sunday OF fever, wa
the principal witness against DR.. Odell Wht
is soon to be tried at Columbus for causinl
the death OF a girl by a criminal operation
After the affair he skipped out and the au
thorities OF Platte county spent q large sun
OF money to locate and bring him back. II
: order 70 prevent him from communicating
with the defendant. He sick at tn
time and as he gradually became worse wa
removed TO the hospital. On Saturda
morning his statement OF the affair wa
taken and sworn to- on which he made on
a complete case against the defendant. HI
death renders Odell's conviction very doubt
full.