The Columbus journal., 1903-07-01
Matters in Nebraska.
MEwsY STATE BRIEFS.

The ministerial association Of Ere.
mont is making war on Sunday base
ball.
On q stunt q barber at Valentine
shaved thirty-two men in thirty min
utes.
Mrs. Segrist of Humboldt fell into
an open cellarway and was painfully
injured.
A $500 barn at Kearney was
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground.
A terrific hail, wind and rain storm
did much damage in the vicinity of
Arlington.
A liberal sum of money has been
raised for the Fourth of July celebra-
ton at O'Neill
The pastor of the First Methodist
church of Plattsmouth has accepted q
call from Portland. Oregon.
Mrs. Vandeveer wants $500 from
the town of Humboldt for injuries re-
ceived from q defective sidewalk.
A Custer county farmer. bitten by
Q rattlesnake. sucked the poison from
his finger and suffered no serious re-
suits.
Frank Suttley, a wealthy farmer of
Madison county. has disappeared af-
ter transferring all of his property to
his wife.
The jewelry store of Thornburg
Bros. at Albion, was entered by burg
lars and goods to the value of about
500 stolen.
Harry Wilkinson. q young man well
known in the vicinity of Humboldt,
was thrown from q buggy and seri-
ously injured. Results may terminate
fatally.
Melvin Crawford, a farmer about
~ years OF age, living three and one
half miles southeast of Ulysses. was
killed by lightning while standing in
his barn door. The barn was not
damaged.
A ave-year-old girl. the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hagerbaumer, who live
five miles east Of Hooper, lost her
life by drowning in the Elkhorn riv-
er. Her body at this writing has not
been recovered.
Reports of a hail storm Sunday
evening five miles north of Edgar
have been coming in and as far as can
be learned q strip has been badly hail
ed nearly a mile wide and extending
several miles east and west of Edgar.
Ephrfam Zuhlke has instituted legal
proceedings to recover damages from
johnson county in the sum of O,5O0
for the death of his wife. child and
team that were drowned May % while
crossing a swollen stream a mile south
of sterling. The accident occurred
early in the morning and no one wit
messed it.
The York grain dealers who were
unfortunate in having cars of grain on
track In Kansas City during the re-
cent food which were submerged,
have been unable SO far to collect any
losses from either railroad or COM
mission firms. =,
The board of directors of the Val
ley County Agricultural society has
decided to hold its annual meeting on
October %, 30 and November 1. The
has purchased property
close to the city limits and a force
of carpenters is erecting a high board
fence.
L. E. McClelland of Etna, q small
town near Gathenburg. while passing
the Union Pacific yards at
Cheyenne. Wyoming. had his left foot
so seriously that amputation
will be necessary.
Hail storms did considerable dam
age to crops in Adams county.
Mrs. Stull of Plattsmouth, the aged
mother of Mrs. Agatha Barton, who
was on trial at Sheridan, Wyo., for
the murder of her father-in-law, was
almost overcome with joy when a
telegram brought her the news of her
acquittal by the jury in the
case.
Through q birthday party given In
her honor it has just been learned
that Mrs. Caroline Briley. a colored
lady living a half mile south of Hast:
ings. has passed the century mark by
two years. Mrs. Briley does not look
over sixty-five in spite of the fact that
she was born in Culpepper. Va, in
June. 1901.
The attorney general has prepared
the formal order in the case of the
state against the Woodmen of the
World Accident association of Omaha
and its successor, the American Mu-
tual Accident association, for the ap-
pointment of a receiver to wind up
the affairs of the company and retire
1t from business.
Fire destroyed the large new ware
house. Office and entire stock of the
Zaugg Lumber and Coal company, and
the implement house and stock of F.
F. Montfort at Yutan. The total loss
is in the neighborhood of $4,000.
The city council of Beatrice has
called a special election for July Is.
for the purpose of voting on the prop
osition of issuing $1,000 bonds to be
used in putting in an electric light
plant to be owned and operated by
the city.
During an electrical storm Ray
Pickrell, a twelve-year-old boy resid-
ing with his parents near Murdock,
was struck and instantly killed by
lightning. The fatal bolt struck him
while he was standing on the porch,
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