Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-27
THE STATE AT LARGE.

1TOnlDlJOnlSlS OF gOlh county nave
'ut a ticket in the field
Jacob Bodner, an old resident OF
Platte county, was found dead in
chair.
Mike j McCarty was attacked by a
stallion at his home at Unadilla and
'atally injured.
A car loaded with cinders in the
Union Pacific yards at Columbus
caught fire and before water could be
turned upon it was destroyed.
a new German Lutheran church at
Telbasta was formally dedicated last
Sunday. Bishop Bowman of Omaha
was in charge of the exercises.
, Frank Sedlitsky farm hand who
has been working at Lavitt, was held
up and robbed of 81 while walking
home from Fremont few nights ago.
An artesian spring has recently been
discovered on the Mousel ranch seven
miles northwest of Cambridge, which
Is wonder of unusual interest to
that country.
Laying OF the corner store of the
new government building at Hastings
took place under the auspices of the
Masons Hon. W. Il. Andrews of Wash
ington delivered the address.
F. U. Dyers, an employee Of the
Keaton restaurant, Fremont, was rob
bed OF S1S at Mrs. Vests Albany
house by a strange boy whom he be-
friended in Offering shelter for the
nicl :.
DR.. S. r. Towne. state expert on
contagious diseases, accompanied by
DR.. Gabbois of Humphrey, are investi-
getting the epidemic Of scarlet fever at
81. Bernard, small place nine miles
northwest of Humphrey.
AT Columbus the little 2-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Dietrich was found face downward in
a tub of water. The child was appar-
emily dead and the face was turned a
blue black but after some hard work
by the physicians it was resuscitated
Enos Perkins, the farmer living
eighteen miles north of Cambridge,
who was arrested on a counterfeiting
charge, January II, by the United
States marshal, is unable to appear in
court on account of an injury caused
by a stroke of lightning recently re-
ceived.
c. l.. Hummell. cashier of the Hum
bOldt National bank. caused the ar
rest Of William Perkins. young COL
ored man quite we'll known in police
circles of that section, on the charge
Of uttcring a forged endorsement on
4 check of small denomination, which
was cashed by the bank.
f. Birkner, about 20 years old, was
struck by the engine of passenger
train No. 16 and instantly killed. He
was walking on the track two miles
west OF Red Cloud when the acct
dent happened. He was very deaf, to
which is attributed his failure to hear
the approach of the train.
Jesse Young, who was tried some
time ago for shooting and killing
James Bolts last spring was brought
into court at Nebraska City and Judge
lessen gave him a sentence of thir-
teen years in the penitentary. The
jury found Young guilty of murder in
the second degree.
Henry NJ. Willis of Blue Spring, who
escaped from the insane asylum at
Lincoln some time ago, was found
wandering about northeast Of Beatrice
and was brought to the county jail
by Deputy Sheriff Moore, for detention
until he could be sent back to the asy-
lum. He was taken to Lincoln by
Sheriff Trude.
The body of Tom Fogarty, aged A.,
Of Fort Dodge, Ia, was found or the
Union Pacific tracks under the Six
teenth street viaduct at Omaha. He
"4s lying across one of the rails OF a
sidetraci, beneath a freight car. One
wheel had PASSED over the body cut
ting him in two above the hips. The
name Fogarty was tatOoed on the arm.
Red Poet, a new Lutheran minister
from Kansas, has entered upon his
| duties at Stella.
The fine barn on the farm of James
Stewart, near Salem, was burned un-
der circumstances strongly indicating
incendiarism. In the structure were
stored forty tons Of hay and much
grain and other property, and the loss
IS very heavy upon the owner.
Citizens of Falls City have become
imbued with the idea that that section
is underlaid with a vein of coal and
gas and are at work raising funds to
pay for prospecting. The plan contem-
| plates organization Of a stock com.
pany with shares of SO each and a
capitalization of at least s. COO much
of which has already been taken.
F. G. Karlson discovered his photo
graph gallery In Mead had been rob-
bed of some silYerware which he
stored in his Mead gallery before NOV
ing to WahOo. Upon investigation it
was found that Harry Davis, printer
working on the Mead Advocate had
been disposing of some sllverware
that was identified by Mr. Karlson as
! belonging to him, and a warrant was