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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. May 2S, 1896. NEBRASKA NEWS. Platte Center has no resident pill' mixer. The Bancroft Enterprise has been discontinued. Wayne hu a Methodist Sunday school oi tOS members. JJausa is fixing np a park for her self, containing two acres. O'Neill is to be relighted after a darkness lasting four months The brick work on the new school house at Valley is nearly completed. A determined effort , is being made to rid Ilolt county of its cattle rustlers. Ernest Montgomery of Alliance had one eye nearly destroyed by a slung shot Charles Met of Norfolk, aged sixty two, died recently from the effects of a cancer. The dea. 1 of lion. Loran Clark of Albion was caused by cancer of the stomach. The creamery at Raymond started np Wednesday with about 4,000 pounds of milk Tramps have disappeared from the southwest corner of the state. Walk ing is bad. Ringing of the fire alarm at Lexing ton recently, caused the runaway of three teams. The crop of young chickens will be immense this fall if the nlght-hawka dont't get after them as they frequent ly do. J. 0. Branstitter of Brock was ! badly injured by a corn planting machine, but the doctors say they will save his arm. Otoe county commissioners have de cided to Bpan the Nemaha with a sub stantial bridge two miles west of ;, Burr. Plattsmouth people feel certain of getting a new depot if it ever stopB raining so the carpenters can get to work. Mrs. Cotterell. who died at Fremont surrounded by every appearance of ab ject poverty, left an estate valued at 13,000. Clell Miller of Howe has a three legged colt which he is saving np to exhibit at the trans-Mississippi expo sition in 1898. Mrs. Lake, wife of John Lake, for merly of Superior, was among the list of killed in the recent storm at Sher man, Texas. There is in the neighborhood of 200, 000 bushels of corn stored in the vicinity of Wayne, awaiting an advance in the price of that cereal. ; , Madison, Meadow Grove and Tilden, all in Madison county, have voted to celebrate the coming Fourth, and Nor folk talks of following suit The Thayer county agricultural and mechanical society has fixed Septem ber 0, 10 and 11 as the dates on which the fair for 1896 will be held. The Curtis Courier is trying to make people believe that the soldiers' dis trict reunion must be held at Curtis this year and not in North Platte. The record was broken at Randolph I- - - - . . .1 A. the other day when tne egg mantes dropped to 4 cents a dozen. No self respecting hen can afford to lay eggs at that price. The coroner's Jury at Omaha have fixed the murder of Harry Oswald upon James and Mike Ford. One of the par ticipants in the row made an alleged confession. Mrs. Kidder and daug of Oak- Hitln drove a frightened horse over a broken bridare and in the excitement were spilled into six feet of water. Both were rescued. Charles Green of Pohocco had his hair cut a few days ago at Fremont and some pieces of hair flew into his eye, which causes him a great deal of uneasi ness, as it is feared he will go blind. Thousands of head of cattle from Colorado are being shipped to the west V ern part of this state, where the grass I 1 erows green all around. It aoesnt k v rain in Colorado and the picking is very '.snort. Dr. Brown, a NorU .end dentist, is suitering considerable inconvenience from the effects of falling down stairs at his office March 31, and his pros pect for an ultimate recovery is not the most encouraging, Dennis Gaff of Allisnce attempted to lasso a temporarily festive calf and came out of the encounter shy two fingers and a thumb. The missing digits were severed as smoothly by the lariat as with a surgeons knife. Louis Dotzour and wife, says the Greenwood Gazette, had the sad misfortune to lose their little two-year old child last Saturday. The little one got hold of a bottle containing car bolic acid, and drank a portion of the liquid. Death ensued in a short time, Corn planting has been somewhat retarded owing to the nearly constant rains and wet condition of the soil. Some will need replanting on account of the first having been washed out Some was covered too deep and the seed rotted, but nevertheless fanners are happy. The business at the creamery has reached a point beyond all formor ex perience. The receipts of milk amount to over 20,000 pounds per day. The patrons number 170. Tuesday they shipped 84 tubs of butter to New : York, one week's surplus after filling their numerous local orders. German town Gleaner. "v, ."S, We wish to employ one or two good solictors In each county .i the state to secure subscribers and advertisements for this papc.v 7rite for terms, '' ihe ' ATTEMPTED 3IURDEK. FARMER TRIES TO HIS WIFE. KILL jflm Three Shot at Her, Two of Which Tase Effect The Woman Badly Hart, Bat May Recover Theory of Insanity Mot Cpheld. Brokxs Bow, Neb., May 57. Hettfy Walker, living twenty-five miles West of Broken Bow, is lodged in jail nere for shooting his wife it was at first thought that he was insane, but that theory is now abandoned, as he shows no 6ims of it whatever and it is the opinion of those best posted that the ttempted murder was prompted tne day previous to the shooting. Walker went to the towns of Arnold and Calla way, where he stated to physicians that his wife had tried to poison him. At the latter town he borrowed a re volver and on returning home he de liberately shot his wife in the back. She attempted to run and he made her go back to the house. She begged him not to kill her and he promised her he would not He ordered her to get sup per, but she was so weak from the ex citement and loss of blood that she could not. She laid down on the bed and he came at her a second time and said: 'Now I am going to kill yon." . She threw her hand up to her face, begging him not to shoot He fired, the ball cutting off the little finger of her right hand, entering her forehead between the eyes. The course of the ball was,' however, checked and. it glanced to one side and lodged over the left eye. He shot again, but the third time missed her. The husband then tried to probe for the ball over the eye with a dull jack knife. The nine-year-old boy of Walker's went to the nearest neighbor and sev eral parties soon came to the house and took charge of the husband and administered to the suffering wife. The phvsicians think that the wounds are not necesssrily fatal. Walker would have been lynched on the spot had not the neighbors thought he had suddenly become insane. J.ne board of insanity has examined him and as yet is unwilling to report him insane. It is the opinion of all now that it was a villianeous and premedi tated attempt to kill his wife. WENT WITH HER BROTHER Mrs. T. E. Sutton of Mill Freclnct leaves Home In a Horry. Lincoln, Neb., May 27. Monday F. E. Sutton of Mill precinct, swore out a warrant charging one W. J. Lower with assault and battery.behmd whicb lies a little story to the following ef fect: . . Some time aero Mrs. Sutton received a letter from a brother in Texas, from whom she was separated by the death other mother, when only six years old. At least that is the story she told to her neighbors. Some time since the brother maue his appearance at the Sutton home. Mrs. Sutton seemed overly iono 01 nor brother.and the attentions he bestowed upon her were so noticeable that it aroused consideraDie gossip among wmj neighbors. Matters reached a crisis monuay . 1 A. t. n morning when ounon went uui vu hitch up preparatory to planting some corn. He was hitchintr up but one horse, when Lower came out and told Sutton that he was going to Lincoln and would use the other horse, hut- ton, who didn't like the idea of board ing the man without some return, forbade this and asked Lower to aid him in putting in his corn. Lower re fused, and as Sutton turned to go at tacked him.nullins- him from his norse, kicking him about the body, and other wise injuring him. button weni 10 his neighbors for help, and on return- me to his home tounaiwo 01 am cuuu- ren running about the house not yet dressed, and bower and Mrs. ounon with her youngest child, three years old, nowhere 'to be found, while the absence of the horse and buggy ex plained the manner of their escape. This is tne story mat lies onuuu ws charge of assault, and the peculiar part of the affair is that the eloping pair are supposed to oe oroiner ana sister. However, that theory won't go now, and many there are who con sider the matter in the ntrnt 01 a carefully pre-arranged affair. The pair are being" searched for, but as yet no trace of them has been dis covered. STATE NEWS NOTES. Seventeen-year locusts have made their appearance m the neighborhood of Plattsmouth and Peru. The fourth annual session of th Lancaster county Bible association met Tuesday afternoon in Lincoln. Adiutant-General Barry of the N. N G. has just sent out 200 rounds of ammunition to each company for use on Memorial day in firing salutes. At Superior last evening as the two sons of S. P. Bishop were mowing the lawn, one fell, throwing his right hand in front of the mower. The machine passed over it.cutting off all the fingers and thumb. The jury in the Stanley Claycomb grave robbery case, at Omaha, returned a verdict Tuesday oi guilty as charged. This was the trial on secoud case of grave robbing, Claycomb having been acquitted on the first case. The seventeen-year locusts are hatch' ing out in the vicinity of Table Rock in great numbers. They have the pro verbial letter "W" on their backs, which means war. Miss Lillie Vincent of St Edward was thrown from a buggy Saturday and severely hurt. She was to have been married Monday. The wedding was postponed & week. i Bert Lock wood, a young motorman on the Lincoln street railway, has showed unmistakable Symptoms of mind diseased, and haJben aent to the asylum by the insanitjl commission. Low Special Summer Plates. "Write For Oeiteilogiie, -A.cLd.ress Mention "NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT." 4 Neb. SHOCKED BY LIGHTNING Boy at Tecnmseh Remains Unconscious for Maay Bonn. Tecumseh, Neb., May 26. During a thunderstorm the other afternoon Ed ward Barnett, the nineteen-year-old son of Mrs. Samuel Cannon, receive an electric shock that caused him to be unconscious for fifteen hours. He was at work stretching a wire fence at bis home northeast of town when the storm came up. Lightning struck the fence a few rods from him and running along the wire upon which he was at work, stuck him and gave him the shock. He was quite badly burned on the arm. HAD A FIGHT WITH BUMS Nebraska City Colored Tooth Rath Roughly Handled. ebraska City, Neb.. May 28. Last night Pete Blye, one of Nebraska City's very forward colored youths, in com pany with some tramps, was rushing the growler in the southern part of the city, when he got into trouble with them, and In the fracas that fol lowed he received a number of outs from a knife. It is not thought the wounds are of a serious nature. A Deluge at Hartlngton Habtington, Neb., May 26. The heaviest rain storm that has ever visit ed this section of the country occurred here Sunday. For one hour the rain fell in dense sheets and the drainage capacity of the city was utterly inad equate to carry off the immense vol ume of water. Sidewalks, bridges and small houses are everywhere afloat and it is feared much damage to crops, roads and bridges has been done. It undoubtedly amounted to a fall of six inches. The Body Recovered. Ashland, Neb., May 26. The body of Herman Fowler, the little boy drowned in the Wahoo last Thursday night, was found yesterday morning about a mile and a half below the place where he fell in. Searchers have been at work constantly ever since, but not until the water had fallen low enough to expose him, was he found. He was buried at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. At HU Own Request. Gband Island, Neb., May 26. The other day an urchin sixteen-years-old, who looked only ten, called on Chief of Police Ryan and requested to be sent to the reform school at Kearney. His stepfather, he said had sent him away from horns and he could find no work to do. He knew he would have to work at the school, but hoped he would be able to learn something there. The proper papers were made out. Five Deaths in One Family. McCook, Neb., May 26. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Lewis buried their little son Edward yesterday afternoon. This is the fifth child these heart-broken par ents have lost from whooping cough. Another and only remaining child is perilously ill with the same fatal mal ady. This sad incident has touched the hearts oi the entire community. Tried to Kill Herself. Cbeighton, Neb., May 26. Mrs. Matthews, fifty-five years old, living eighteen miles northwest of Creighton, attempted to commit suicide Sunday night by cutting her throat with a butcher knife. The dullness of the knife and prompt attention of relatives saved her life. Sickness in the family and the death of one child is the cause. Becomes Straight Populist. -4AVER Crrr, Neb., May 26. The ver City Times-Revenue has changed hands. V. T. Lindsay, formerly of McCook, being the new editor. It will change its politics from the Cleveland brand to straight populist Aged Resident Dies. Elm wood, Neb., May 26. Mr. ames Groves, sr., an old gentleman of eighty- three years, died at his son's home five miles north yesterday. He was an old settler of Cass county. Imhoff Buys the Bonds. AijBTJRN, Neb., May 26. The .oard of education yesterday sold the $15,000 issue of 6 per cent twenty-year school bonds to C. II. Imhoff of Lincoln at a net premium of $525. STATE NEWS NOTES. x-Senator Ingalls will deliver the Fourth of July oration at Beatrice. Chas. Murray's blacksmith shop at Grand Island was robbed of several valuable tools Saturday night R. W. Wilkinson of Eagle has an nounced himself as a candidate for the house to represent Cass county. Charles Robinson, once a member of the Lincoln Light infantry, is in Cuba fighting in the rebel army, where he was awarded a lieutenancy. In order to avoid running into an other wheelman J. A. Brink ran into the curbing on South Seventeenth street, Lincoln, and besides a smashed wheel he is laid up with a sprained ankle and numerous bruises. A young son of H. II. Yauney, who lives at 136 L street, Lincoln, crawled over to a neighbor's and ate some lye which Was being used in scrubbing the floor, jle was taken violently ill and -I for a time it was feared he would not recover. He gradually overcame the effects, however. Mabshalltown, Iowa, May 26. A cloudburst , yesterday between La Moille and State Center caused Linn creek, which flows through this city, to rise in one hour, from a mere riv ulet to a river a half mile wide. The flood destroyed crops and drowned considerable live stock. A heavy hail accompanied the rain. f la Jail for Embezzlement. Washington, May 26 Francis J. Kieckhoefer, late chief of the bureau cf accounts and disbursing officer of the State department was arrested yesterday on warrants charging him with embezzling 1137,000. IT LOOKS BEHIND. Telescope Which. Is Bald the Usefulness of Ordinary to Doable Glasses. Mankind once had an extra eye in the back of his head. Scientists say that they can still find traces of this eye in a certain irregular formation of the skull at the point where the an cient eye-socket used to be, says the New York World. These irregular places are called rudimentary eyes, but they are not to be found in all people. In fact, a man who can boast of a rudimentary eye is quite a superior person. Of course, these rudimentary eyes are of no real use to anybody, not even to the owner of them, but they serve to show us that at a certain stage in our career nature thought it was a wise thing to enable us to keep a watch in the rear. A foreign firm of opticians have very considerately en deavored to supply, as far as may be done by mechanical means, the loss of this rear-view eye. They have con structed a telescope which enables the user to look around a corner. By its means you may see and remain unseen, a circumstance which possesses obvious advantages. They call the invention the stereo-telescope. Stereo comes from a Greek word meaning solid, and in this connection it is used as indi cating that the image, as seen through the" stereo-telescope seems an exact counterpart of the object and not a mere picture of it The two tubes that extend horizontally carry an object glass at either end. The eye pieces are placed on an axis at right angles to that of the objecting or oblong tubes. When the observer looks through the small peep-holes he sees a different field with each eye. The rays of light from the objects that lie in the field of vision are reflected by means of prisms, so that they turn the corner of the right angle. Thus you may leisurely study an ob ject while under cover, the head being in such a position as not to admit of its being seen. When the tubes are thus extended, the observer may stand behind a tree or a wall and reconnolter from his concealed position. There are also open points in favor of the in strument. The field of vision is enor mously extended. You may study ob jects at opposite points of the compass with no more trouble than the winking of your eye. The stereo-telescope may be folded up, in which position, being held with the tubes upward, it enables the observer to look above an object ob structing his view, such as a hedge, wall or crowd of people. A 'Possnm Ranch. H. J. Twigg, a- young Englishman of White's Station, Ky., has conceived the novel idea of establishing 'possum ranch the only one, perhaps, in the United States. Mr. Twigg, who is a great hunter, and who has had ample opportunity to experiment with these animals, reasons that as 'possum meat is such a delicacy, and fat 'possums bring such fancy prices, money could be made in raising them for the market. He has twenty 'possums in his warren, now, which, considering their fecund ity, will, he thinks, by next fall enable him to supply the demand. An orchard of persimmons, haw, and hazelnut trees will be planted near the ranch to fur nish food. This paper and The Silver Knifrht both for one year for $1.15 in advance. McNERNEY & EAGER, Attorneys, 1034 O Street, Lincoln, Neb. SHERIFF SALE, Nnfl la hnrehv eiven that bv virtue of an or der of sale issued by the clerk of the district conrt of the Third Judicial district of Nebraska, rithln anrt lor Lancaster county, in an aciiuu wherein William Werger is plaintiff, and Robert I iinw.no at. al.. defendants. I will, at 2 o'clock p. m' on ttas 2.1rd dav of June. A. D., 1896, at the dnnr nf the conrt house. In the city of Lin coin, Lancaster, county, Nebraska, offer for sale at public auction the following described real estate to-wlt: Beginning at the northwest corner of the north v,.if ,.f the nnrthwpnt onsrter of section twenty- eicht 128). town eight (8) range six (6). esst, and nnnliiir thence PHt to the west line of the pro jected right of way, depot and switching grounds ..r th. f'liifAirn. Rnck inland Pacific Railway Co.. as the same is now surveyed and staked and laid out across said north half of the northwest quar ter of section twenty-eight township eight Mi. run six (61. thence southwesterly alone said UnaVn tii intprtw.rt.inn nf aid tirniectcd Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. grounds with the south line of said north half of the northwest nnrt..!. nf ..M-tlon twentv-etctit (2.M. township eiuht (8), range six (6) east, thence west to the Iln. nf nid north half of the northwest Quar ter oi saio wcuuu iwoiuj-viku. o, north to the place of beginning, in Lancaster (vmntv. Nebraska. (lvn nnder my hand this 20th day of May, A. D.. 1896. JOHN. J. TROMPEN, Sheriff. BANS & ALTBCHUliER. Attorneys HO 1 O St. In the District Court of Lancaster County, Neb. NOTICE. Kussall J. Brydon, Plaintiff, vs. Laura A. Bry- don, Defendant. To Lanra A. Brydon, non-resident defendant. Yon are hereby notified that on the 27th day of April, 18K6, Kassel J. Brydon Died a petition against yon in the District Conrt of Lancaster County, Nebraska, the object and prayer of which are to obtain a divorce from yon on the ground of extreme cruelty. Yon are reqnired to answer said petition on or before Monday, the 8th, day of Jane, 181)6. RCSSEL J. BRYDON. By BANE & ALTSCHTJLER, his Attorneys. 47-4t WILLIAM L.EE8E Attorney at Law Lincoln, Nebraska In the District Conrt of Lancaster Connty. NOTICE OF ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. In the matter of the estate of George W, Learned deceased: Now on the 4th day of May 1896, Angeline L. Leaned, administratrix of the estate of George W. Learned, deceased presented her petition duly verified, and filed herein, to the Hon. Edward P. Holmes.one of the Judges of the District Court of Lancaster county, and the said Judge being fully advised in the premises, does now upon the ap plication of said administratrix hereby order, that a notice of this proceeding be published, ac cording to the statute in such eases made and provided, in the Nebbapka Independent a news paper, published in, and of general circulation in Lancaster county, tor, tonr successive weeks, as follows: , ' NOTICE. To Ida L. Miller, Minnie M. Phlnney, Lncien O. Learned, Helen Boynton, Amanda M. Myers and all persons interested. Yon and each of yon are hereby notified, that Mrs. Angeline L. Learned, administratrix of the estate of George W. Learn ed deceased has presented to the Hon. Edward P. Holmes one of tbeJudges of the District Court of Lancaster county Nebraska.her pstltlon filed In on said court on May 4th, 18!X, praying for license to sell the southeast quarter of section 81, town 11, range 1 east of the 6th p. m., situated in Seward county Nebraska and on said May the 4th 1896, the following order was made by said Judge ia accordance with the prayer of said petition vis; In the District Court of Lancaster county: In the matter of the estate of George W. Learned deceased. This cause came on for hearing npon the peti tion of Angeline L. Learned, administratrix of the estate of George W. Learned deceased pray ing for license to sell the southeast quarter, of section SI, town 11, range 1, east, in Seward county Nebraska or so much thereof or sufficient amount of the same, to bring the sum of $1,002. 33, for the payment of debts allowed against said estate, and the costs of ad ministration, there not being sufficient personal property to pay said debts and expenses. It Is therefore ordered that Ada L. Miller of Lancaster county, Minnie M. Phiney of Sioux county, Lncien G. Learned of Seward county, Amanda M. Myers of York county and Helen Boynton non resident.and all persons interested In said estate, to appear before me at the count house in the city of Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska, on the 17tu day of June A. D. 1896 at 9 o'clock a, m. of said day, or as soon thereafter as said cause can be heard, to show cause, if any they have, why license should not be granted to said administratrix, to sell so much of the above described real estate of said deceased, as shall be necessary to pay said debts and expenses. It Is further ordered that notice of this pro ceeding be published in the NEBRASKA INDE PENDENT a newspaper published in, said Lancas ter county for the period of four successive weeks prior to. the 17th day of June 1SD6 the time set tor said hearing. EDWARD P.HOLMES, Judge of the District Court. MOCKETT & POLK Attorneys Rooms 48 Block to 50 Bnrr NOTICE OF CHATTEL MORTGAGE SALE. Notice is herebv riven that bv virtue of a chat tel mortgage dated Nov. 1st, 18!)4, and duly filed in the office of the county clerk of Lancaster connty, Nebraska, on the 6th day of November, lS94,andtwo chattel mortgages bearing same date and filed May 14, 1896, and executed by r, t Barnes and A. C, Frost to secure the sum of $80,- 00, and npon which there is now due the sum of S6S.00 and Interest tnereon at lu per cent, irom Nov. 1st, 1894. Default having been made in the payment of said sum and no suitor other pro ceedings ac law having been Instituted to re cover said debt or any part thereof, therefore, I will sell the property therein described, vii: one full leather top end spring buggy, Wynona, at 1402 North 25tn street in tne city oi i.incoin, Lancas ter couty, Nebraska, on theStnday orjnue, 1X96 at 1 o'clock p. m. on this date, wynona Implement Co., mortgagee, by Southbend Chille Plow Co., assignee of mortgagee. MOCK.1SXT rui.., 49-3t Attorneys, J. 8. KIRKPATRICK. Attorney at Law, Lincoln, Neb SHERIFF SALE. Notice Is hereby given that by virtue of an order of sale Issued by the clerk of the district court of the Third Judicial District of Nebraska, within and for Lancaster county, in an action wherein W. H. McCreery is plaintiff, and Peter Pearson, et. al., defendants. I will, at 2 o'clock p. m , on the second flay oi June a. u. 1000 at m east door of the court house, in tne city oi Lin coln, Lancaster county, Nebraska, oner lor sara at public auction the following described real estate to-wit: The west sixty (60), acres oi the northeast quarter (neVi) of section six (6) In township nine (9) of range six (8) in Lancaster connty Ne braska, which has been platted into six (6) lots, from one (1) to six (6) inclusive and filed for record in the office of the register of deeds of Lancaster county as Pearson's subdivision, of part of the northeast quarter (neyt) of section six (6) township nine (9) range six (6) east of the sixth P. M. in Lancaster county Nebraska. Given under my hand this 23d day of April, A. D.. 1896. JOHN J. TROMPER. 47-6t " Sheriff. Celery Pills. These pills are a powerful vitalizing force, the best remedy for exnaustiou, and Nervous Debility weaknesses, caused from youthful errors, or excesses. 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