The Falls City tribune., 1904-09-30
NEWS IN NEBRASKA
THE STATE AT LARGE.

The Journal at Columbus has COM.
menced publication of a daily paper.
The Union Pacific is rapidly push.
ing work on it's freight depot in FIRE.
mont.
Andrew Nordine of Cass county
has been pronounced a fit subject for
tie insane asylum.
Mrs. A. A. King of Edgar died at
Delphi, Indiana, while on a visit to
her daughter in that place.
The Nebraska State Institute for
the Blind at Nebraska City opened
with fifty pupils enrolled for the COM
ing term. A number of pupils are
still expected and the total attendance
will reach about seventy-five.
One dollar a bushel has been paid
for wheat to the farmers at York
for the first time since the Letter
wheat deal in Chicago. At Henderson.
York county, 10000 bushels were con-
tracted at 81 per bushel in one day.
Oliver Emmert, a farmer living
west of Falls City, was compelled to
kill five of his horses on account of
CHAMBERS. The state veterinarian was
called and ordered that the animals
should be killed to prevent c%ontagion.
The contractors at the new govern
ment building at Lincoln have begun
the erection of the steel work of the
lower floor of the structure. 1t is
contemplated that the building will
be finished and ready for occupancy
by next fall.
The citizens Of Lincoln again have
began to agitate the project for a new
union depot. Articles of Incorporation
of the Lincoln Union Passenger sta
ton and Terminal company have
been drafted and are being signed by
the business men.
Brent X. Neal, alias Olney d. Smith
the young man lodged in jail at
Beatrice a month ago on the charge
of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses, pleaded guilty in the district
court and was sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary.
The Seymour camp team of Omaha,
won the first prizes of $500 each in
the two classes open to competition
in the w. o. w. contests at the
worlds fair, and Alpha camp team Of
the same city won second prize in the
n class which it entered.
Joseph Scott, the York county
young man who was charged with as
saulting Olgie eagle of Pierce, Neb.,
with intent to do great bodily harm,
had his preliminary hearing at Nor
folk and was bound over to district
term of court under bonds of $500.
The city authorities of Hum
boldt, Neb,, are making an at
tempt to test their new ordinance
against Bookkeeping, and have placed
under arrest one J. Hoppe, who has
been making his home there for some
time, on a charge of d~isposing of
liquor contrary to law. He was ar
raigned but plead not guilty.
Rufus E. Geiger, a fireman, has
sued the Burlington for $4,000. He
was injured while acting as fireman
on August 2S, 1900. In his petition
he claims that the engine was in bad
repair and that owing to this condi-
ton he was thrown from his seat to
the tracks near Germantown. His
skull was fractured and he sustained
internal injuries and other injuries
which are described as of a perman-
ent character.
One of the most dastardly crimes,
and n which has caused as great an
amount of Indignation as any ever
perpctrGted in the community, was
committed at what is known as the
south barn, in Kearney. Some scoun-
drel or scoundrels mixed up a guam.
THY of paris green in some feed and