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NEBRASKA. A telephone exchange has been organized at Pawnee City. Franklin is making a fight to keep out saloons and hopes to be successful. Enough stock has been subscribed to build a creamery and cheese factory at Ponca. A brick yard is one of the new industries that will be started at Ravenna this season. Secretary Morton's new paper in Nebraska City is expected to get under way about April 1st, without any fooling. Ex-Governor Crouse, of Fort Calhoun has just returned from Florida. His orange orchard which was greatly damaged by the freeze several years ago, has come out and this season brought in very satisfactory returns. Harry McCumbers, who has been employed eight years in the elevator at Shubert, got entangled with the large belt on the balance wheel and was so severely injured as to render amputation of his leg necessary, from the result of which he died. William Fritz, former treasurer of Madison county, is reported to have struck it rich up in Klondike. A claim owned by himself and five others is yielding $1,000 to the ton of dirt, and they have been offered by New York capitalists $1,000,000 cold cash for it. At a public sale at Fairmont $1,500 worth of property consisting of cattle, hogs, farm machinery and household furniture, on which one year's time was to have been given and no discount for cash, there was over $750 in cash paid. Ex-Auditor Eugene Moore arrived in Lincoln last night, says a dispatch, from Stanton, where he has been visiting relatives for several days, and it is announced that he will fight the attempts to get an indictment from the grand jury. The state board reports two banks as having gone into voluntary liquidation for the purpose of quitting the business. These are the Bank of Cordova, Seward county, which has a capital of $5,000 and the Citizens Bank of Bradshaw, York county, which has a capital of $10,000. In the district court of Dodge county in the case Newman and Shields against the Union Pacific, the jury found a verdict for plaintiffs, allowing them $280 for eight head of cattle lost from the feed yards in Fremont, from the ten car loads being shipped from Kimball to South Omaha. The case will be appealed. The hearing of H. W. Monroe, whose "temperance hall" was raided some weeks ago, was held at Tekamah and he was bound over to the district court. The hop ale taken from his place was analyzed by an expert chemist, who said it contained four-tenths alcohol and that it would only take three-tenths to make it an intoxicant. The dedication of the Episcopal church at Ord was solemnized last Sunday. Bishop Graves was the officiating clergyman and the pretty service was gone through in a beautiful and impressive style. This chapel is a very neat edifice, especially on the interior, and is a credit to all concerned and is an ornament to the city. A serious accident occurred to a farmer living five or six miles southwest of Nelson, by the name of Sorensen, who had driven his team up to a corn sheller which was at work and was waiting for a load of cobs. The train came in and frightened his horses and by a sudden start jerked him out backwards and in falling he struck his back across the endgate of his wagon. He is completely paralyzed. Charles Smith of Fremont is nursing a revolver bullet in his leg, as a result of an attempt to escape from custody. The sheriff was returning from the court house to the jail, having two prisoners, Smith and June Roberts. At what he deemed an opportune moment, the former started to run. The third shot from the sheriff's pistol brought him down. Hall county experienced a jail delivery. Jim Hall, a prisoner awaiting trial in the district court on the charge of grand larceny, took the occasion while the deputy brought the suppers to the jail to carry out the ashes. He did not put on hat or coat in order not to cause suspicion and when out of the doors of the jail took a lively scoot out of town, hatless and coatless. It is a case of good riddance. The State University exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition will occupy a space of 1,920 square feet. It will represent the work of twenty-two departments, including agriculture, horticulture, dairying, the Sugar School, skilled carpentry, blacksmithing, electric engineering, assaying, and manufacturing processes, physical experiments, weather bureau, animal husbandry, veterinary science, art and music, besides the regular academic literary, and law courses. The University exhibit in itself will be a miniature representation of Nebraska energy and industry in all its branches and will emphasize the leading idea of Nebraska University work—that it is a school for WORKERS, not one merely of literary polish. A party of prospectors left last week for Alaska from Lincoln and vicinity under the guidance of Sam Henry of that city, who returned from the Klondike last fall. He told stories