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NEBRASKA. The government survey is at work Kimball South Omaha county. dogs must have tags be exterminated. Congressman Horr of Michigan spoke in Lincoln on the 5th. Randolph has contracted for a new school house to cost $5,000. The Hitchcock County bank at Culber&son is in the hands of a receiver. farmer in Pawnee county threshed acres. A bushels of wheat from twenty house at 769 The new B. & M. eating McCook is rapidly nearing completion. round Railroads will give a one-fare Lintrip rate for the state reunion at coln. There is a demand at South Omaha good for muttons, and sheep bring prices. Colored people of Omaha celebrated at Fremont. emancipation day by holding a picnic Charles Thayer, long a citizen last of Wahoo and an old soldier, died week, aged 53. Discussion of the union depot at Omaha is still on, but nothing definite has been decided. Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman wants $5,000 from South Omaha for injuries received from a defective sidewalk. The physicians of Seward county with have organized an association, Dr. D. D. Potter president. Winside a considerable acreof wheat will not be cut of an growth of age Around excessive weeds. because The sixth annual session of the the sugar school opens at in State Nebraska university September. P. A. Hilderbrand of Plattsmouth, this was prostrated by heat, and at writing fatal results are feared. Gill, a farmer living near while running a corn Boone, William machine. sheller there lost his hand in the Jonathan Redding, evanwill begin a series of gelist, Rev. meetingsat weeks. the Liberty to continue for two Settlers' association of York, Butler and Polk Seward, The old counties this will abandon its annual picnic year. Nelson Stone's residence at Juniata struck by lightning, but every bolt. was menber of the family dodged the Rev. A. D. Wolfe, pastor of the Seward Presbyterian church, has rechurch. signed to accept a pulpit in a Missouri A party of eastern real estate men, in number, are expected to make a 200 tour of Nebraska during the month of August. Rev. John Clark Hill of Chicago has been unanimously called to the pastor- at ate of the First Presbyterian church Lincoln. Buy home made goods and build Far- up home industries, is a good policy. rell's Fire Extinguisher, made by Farre'l co., Omaha Bancroft is to have a system of at once. City of $5,000 have been extent waterworks bonds sold to and the dirt will begin to fly. Sun has been The Schuyler Orth. purchas- The ed by R. S. Bulla and T. P. conlatter was formerly nected with the Fullerton The gentleman hope News. the last for Hoover. Omaha murderer, is gone. Gov. refused to and condemned Holcomb has interfere take the law will be allowed to its course. Quite a number of the wide awake farmers around Newcastle are commencing to plow the stubble fields so as to prevent the Russian thistle going to seed. An allowance of $44,896 was made last week by the first assistant postmaster general for clerk hire in the Omaha postoffice during the present fiscal year. One of the largest real estate mortgages ever filed in Ked Willow county was placed on record recently at MeCook. It covers a 2,000-acre farm and is for $25,000. The creamery at Geneva is paying out about $1,200 per milk delivered by the farmers the month from about for the a vicinity. They are making ton of butter day. Frank Veach, a Verdon elevator man, took in 10,000 bushels of old corn last and is unable to secure empty week enough to make shipments as last as the grain comes in. Judge B. I. Hinman of North Platte threshed some oats which ran nearly to the acre. On one of the there were twenty-six kernels. stalks 100 bushels irrigated. The entire crop was Governor Holcomb. ex-Assistant Attorney-General Summers and Judge Broady will deliver addresses at the annual picnic of the old settlers tenth and 13. at Humboldt on August 12 Hon. J. Sterling Morton, national of visitsecretary agriculture, has been Nebraska at Arbor Lodge, near and will make a City, ing probably Washing- public address before returning to ton. / An Otoe county farmer stopped to his pipe last week while working light also in his oats field. The match ignited the straw and ten acres of oats joined the farmer in a very successful smoke. Ames Wiseman. one of Polk county's farmers, while his was kicked in ti.e young horses, working abdomen about and nearly killed. The Beatrice canning factory has