Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The matter of building a new court
house in Pawnee county is being agi-
tated
Omaha expects to open its auditor
ium in June with series of concerts
by the lines band.
Clarence Thurston, son of ex-Sena.
tor Thurston of Nebraska, was recent.
| " married in st. Louis
Martha Brown, 81 years old, appear
ed in Lincoln, claiming to have walk
ed all the way from Omaha.
The Women's Christian Temperance
union of Grand Island wants all
screens removed from the saloons.
Dick" Gutenberg of Beatrice was
arrested on a charge of breaking into
box car and stealing case of eggs
consigned to the Bosworth Produce
company. In default of bonds he is in
Jail.
John Kuhman. who is said to live
near Brock with his aged parents, has
been at Table Rock looking for his
wife and young child, which he
claims, she kidnapped and is keeping
| in hiding.
The Nebraska oxford responsons
examinations for the 1904 Rhodes
scholarship appointment for Nebraska
will be held at the University of Ne
braska on Wednesday and Thursday,
April 10 and Ia
X. NJ. Thomson, superintendent of
the Ravenna public schools for the
past four years, was unanimously
elected president of the Central Ne
oraska Teachers association, which
closed it's annual session at Aurora.
The total internal revenue receipts
at the office of the collector of inter
nal revenue for the district of Ne
braska for the three months ending
March 81 was $G95, 2O9.44, as against
1878, for the corresponding
quarter of 1903.
Sheriff Cummings, while cleaning
out the Jail at Tecumseh, found four
saws, two knives and a dozen skele-
ton keys hidden under the metal lin
ing of ventilator which passes
through one of the cells into the. cor
ridor of the Jail.
Doctor Fred" the famous English
bloodhound owned by j. l.. Winchell
of Fairhaven, Conn, died at DR.. Full
tons kennels in Beatrice. The ami
NAL, which was sent there to be train
ed some time ago, was highly bred
and was valued at $500.
State Superintendent Fowler and
Prof. Young of the South Dakota uni
versity have applied for the position
of superintendent of the Kearney nor
tor of high schools, is also supposed
to be an applicant for the place.
w. Dwight Pierce, son of Insurance
Deputy Pierce has been called to
position as assistant entomologist at
the agricultural experiment station in
Mississippi, and left for that place last
week. Mr.. Pierce is a graduate of the
Omaha high school and is at present
member of the university senior
class.
General Daggett inspected company
M, n. N. G., in Albion in the presence
of Adjutant General Culver, Colonel
c. ID. Evans and large number Sof
citizens. The members take great
pride in their organization and have
endeavored to bring their company up
to the highest possible standard of
efficiency
Miss Ollie Holbrook, who had her
scalp torn off by fast REMOVING shaft
in a bakery in Nebraska City Christ
mas morning and has since been in a
hospital at Omaha, is at home, and the
| physicians have succeeded in grating
skin over the whoe of the head save
two small spots. She will return to
Omaha after a short visit to have
the grating completed.
Shiloh veterans celebrated their
forty-first anniversary at Lincoln.
Stockmen must use lime and sui
phur dip, according to an order issued
| by the United States government If
this is not done the NANCY cattle will
not be received at the stock yards.
| Governor hickey issued an order re-
curing this, but later modified it at
the request of the railroads and the
manufacturers of other dip remedies.
Henry Kephart of Bartlett Ia, while
worrying over family troubles, took
dose of strychnine, which came near
ending his life. He has a wife and
three children in Plattsmouth. He
was addicted to the use of strong
drink and while under its influence
at Plattsmouth some time ago pound
ed his wife up in a horrible manner,
George Brott was released from the
county jail at Auburn upon his own
recogni2ance of 5000. Brott has gain
ed a considerable notoriety by being
convicted of burglary upon blood
| hound evidence. He was sentenced
to the penltentiary, but the supreme
court reversed the case and he was
returned to Nemaha county for a new
! trial.
| A movement is on foot among Hast