Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.


Rushville from Bordeaux and report
ed that a man named Lane, who Ives
ten mixes northwest OF Hay Springs,
was killed by lightning while chopping
wood in the yard.
The grand jury Of Douglas county,
after thirty-three days of dehberation,
reported to the court and was dis
charged. 1t returned thirty.six indict-
ments, sixteen of which were submit
ted with the final report.
The large three-story warehouse Of
the Black Bros. Milling company at
Beatrice was partly destroyed by fire.
About 10000 sacks Of flour were stor-
ed in the building, all of which was
ruined by the water and smoke
The committee in charge has de-
cided to hold the Southwestern log
Rolling association meeting this year
at McCook. The affair will last sew
eral days and is expected to bring
several thousand people to that city.
Fred Flaslka, snd albert Brehm
were brought to Beatrice from wy
the county jail on the charge of as
saulting Bohemian named Laka with
intent to kill They were bound over
at Wymore to district court in bonds
OF 81 900 each.
The auditors Office issued a certifi-
cate to the Bankers Union of the
World of Omaha and the fraternal
order now has the privilege of con-
Quoting it's business in the state. The
certificates states that it was issued at
the hebest of the supreme court.
The injunction against the Bankers
Union has been dissolved by the SUI
preme court.
Prof. w. w. Cook of the Univer-
sity of Nebraska College of Law has
resigned his position and will accept
a professorship of law in the Univer-
sity of Missouri Lighter work and a
substantial increase in salary are the
inducements which have caused Prof.
Cook to leave Nebraska. The State
university loses a strong man of high
scholarship.
Six months in jail and a fine of
500 was awarded to Charles H. Will
son by Judge Holmes at Lincoln.
Wilson is the man who beguiled Mrs.
Anna Endres a widow Of Des Moines,
Ia, into coming with her children to
Lincoln under promise of marriage.
After living with her until he had
used up all her money he drove her
from the house with blows and
curses.
A farmer by the name of Rhine
helt, living six miles northeast of FIRE.
mont, showed symptoms of insanity
in an attempt to kill his children.
4urs. Rhinehelt, seeing that there was
danger and that the man was derang-
ed, left him and took the children to
the house of a neighbor. Since then
he attempted to take his life by cut.
ting his throat. He is not likely to
live.
At Clear Lake, about twenty-five
miles southwest of Ainsworh, Frank
Clapper, the 15-year-old son of Frank
Clapper, Sr., with a lot of other
friends was at the lake fishing and
started to swim the lake where it is
about 200 yards wide. He got with
in thirty feet of the opposite shore
when he sank to rise no more in
about seven feet of water. The body
was recovered.
The supreme court has held that
the evidence in the case in which
| John Fickenscher received a judg-
ment against the Union Pacific Rail-
road company for S1,175 for injuries
received in a prairie fire alleged to
have been started by a spark from an
engine belonging to the company was
| not sufficient to sustain the verdict
and therefore the decision of the low
er court was reversed.
Considerable curiosity has been man.
| ifested regarding the identity Of the
mysterious John Doe" who subscrib-
ed $4,000 toward the Omaha auditor
ium building fund, at time when the
auditorium company was very much
| in need of money. 1t develops that
it was the Burlington railroad.
The supreme court in the case of
| the Aachen and Muenchen Fire In
surance company against the city Of
| Omaha decided that it has no original
jurisdiction because municipal Feve-
nue. is not included within the scope
of the term revenue as used in the
state constitution. The court holds
that the constitution gives original
! Jurisdiction in cases involving the
state revenues only and not municipal
| taxes.
Word has been received in Grand
Island of the death of Mrs. Joseph
Smith of Columbus, o., and her burial
at Toledo. She is the wife of Joseph
Smith, ex.policeman, who made rec
ord against crooks in that section,
later received a position as special Off
Ger of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, and
is at present chief of the detectives
| of the Hooking Valley road. Mrs