Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-14
NEBR ASKA STATE NEWS
NEWSY STATE BSiEF3.

county are now in its new court house
Seventy-five thousand plum trees
have been shipped to Iowa points by
month of December.
While attempting to go between the
! cars of n freight train, which was
| blockading a crossing, Fred Bernstein
| of Grand Island was caught and three
toes we're mashed.
A series of temperance meetings
were held in Tecumseh with Hon.
| Thomas Darnell of Lincoln as the
| speaker. Mr., Darnell is the attorney
for the State Anti-Saloon league.
| Mayor WOLF of Fremont has issued
an edict against boys who throw mis-
siles at passenger trains. Youths
| caught in the act will be prosecuted
without regard to who they may be.
! Steathily and cunningly, Joseph
| Boucher of Keya Paha county and Os-
| car Smalley of Cherry county sawed
through the bars and escaped from the
asylum of Lincoln. Their escape was
not discovered until morning.
| In a short time Miss Edna Bullock,
secretary Of the state library commits
sion, will install ten new travelling IL
braries in Nebraska. The citizens of
| Gordon, Neb., have raised $40 and
will be allotted one of the libraries.
Dean, the four-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. w. M. Buffum of Tecumseh,
kindled a fire on the parlor floor at
q
discovered the carpet and some of the
furniture Of the room was considerably
damaged.
Roy Mason of Long Pine has
charge from a shotgun in his knee.
The gun went off outside the house
and the full load was lodged in the
lads knee cap. Tearing a hole through
the door the load carried a portion of
the wood into the wound.
Peter Nelson and daughter OF Osceo-
la were out driving Sunday and on the
way home the team ran away. Both
| Mr.. Nelson and daughter were thrown
out and the result was that Miss Mel
son had her collar bone badly broken
! and her father was badly bruised.
Robbers blew the safe in the post
Office in Cheney but fortunately for
the postmaster, secured but lite
booty. The postoffice is located in a
store operated by A. l.. Huston, who
is also postmaster The safe was lit
orally wrecked by the force of the eX-
plosion, which is supposed to have
been effected with ntro-glycerine.
County Treasurer w. d. Wheeler Of
| Cast county had a close call from death
a few days ago. He was riding horse
along the road when the animal STUN
bled, and in attempting to get up it
fell backward upon the rider. A short
time afterwards a mail carrier came
| badly bruised and injured internally,
| but no bones were broken.
Sheriff Bauman of Dodge county
went to Omaha after John Smith, who
was arrested there with a quantity Of
knives in his possession, which were
| supposed to be part of the goods stol
en- from the Ames Mercantile COM
pany's store at Leavitt Sunday night.
The total amount of goods stolen will
reach 5000. The thieves took a gen
eral assortment, including little of
everything.
The village board of Springfield
opened bids on the waterworks again.
There were eight bids, all lower than
at the first opening, and j. p. Connolly
was the successful bidder, his bid be-
ing $6,76785, or over 500 less than
any of the others. There were four
bids less than $1,000, and the board has
taken the matter under advisement for
| one week. after which the contract will
be awarded.
ID. p. Ellis, an old man of Johnson
| county, who has been mentally unbal-
| anced for some time, has been return
ed to the Lincoln asylum, from which
| he was released some months ago. Dur
| ing the past summer and fall Mr. Ellis
| had been making his home with his
| children in this county, but of late he
! has been laboring under strange hal
| fluctuations, being DESTROYS of setting
| buildings afire.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Burns
worth, residing about nine miles south
| west of Galloway, were returning home
after taking Christmas dinner with the
| family of a neighbor, Mrs. Burnsworth
was suddenly seized with a fainting
| spell. She was taken into the house of
Peter Pearce and a doctor summoned,
| but when he arrived life had passed
out. She had been enjoying the best
of health, and had not complained Of
feeling i'll during the day
Dakota City is being slowly swallow
ed up by the Missouri river, and al
ready over a third of the original town
site has disappeared into the rapacious
nav of the stream. This state of af-
fairs is wildly shown by map of that
section just completed by Harvey A.
Hart of this city. The map will be in
troduced at the next meeting of the
Missouri River Improvement associa-