The Columbus journal., 1905-10-25
TF1EINEWS IN NEBRASKA,
OVER n STATE.

j. A.. Doerr Of Fremont was fined S.
and costs for selling liquor on Sunday
The new Roman Catholic church q
West Point is Dol to be dedicated.
There has of late been two death'
from typhoid fever in the insan'
asylum at Lincoln.
The Standard Beet Sugar Company.
factory at Ames can take car of 100,
tons Of beets a day.
Lee Allen of Seward county died las
week from injuries received by jump
ing from a hays.ack onto a pitchfork
Mrs. NJ. Turely has been appointed
by Governor Mickey to the position
of matron in the Nebraska insane hos
pital at Norfolk.
The ~14-year-old brother of George
Guenther, a dealer in guns and sport
ing goods, Grand Island, vas attacked
by a shitepoke and may lose an eye as
q result.
Blanche Baker of Grand Island is
alarmed over the mysterious disap
pearance of her husband ON October s
since which time she has not heard a
word from him.
Mrs. S. J. Weaverling has sold heI
farm of 16O acres near Barneston,
Gage county, to Peter Weir for SIS
per acre. This land was purchased
twenty years ago for Sc an acre.
Charles A. Gore, a Humboldt me-:
chant who is shipping his stock to
Colorado. met with quite a loss a few
days since, when he laid down his
~pocketbook. containing nearly 5000,
and has since been unable to find it.
The gathering of the second crop OF
strawberries and grapes in the vicin-
ity of Beatrice "a equalled, il not
surpassed. last week when B. H. Oden,
a resident OF Beatrice. picked 165 ripe
pumpkins from one vine.
News has been received at York an
nouncing the death of Mrs. Philip
Ritger in California, from appendicitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ritger three years ago
moved from York to Long Beach, Cal.
A4S "CAC PAOuCCl III 1OIhs
John Beeber, employed on the Sew
ard court house, vas struck on the
head by a piece of thing dropped by
another workman, and seriously in
jured. He vas unconscious for many
hours, but is recovering.
After an illness of less than a quar-
ter Of IN hour DR.. John o. Dawson
died of heart failure in his Office at
Lincoln. DIR. Dawson was we'll known
in Lincoln, having practiced medicine
there for more than twenty years.
Louis Dahl of Scribner was the first
man sent to the asylum from Dodge
county under the new law for the cure
of dipsOmaniacs. The complaint was
filed by his friends, who believed that
confinement and treatment was what
he needed.
The annual cO%nvOcation for the
clergy of the diocese of Nebraska will
be held in Beatrice November Z TO 10.
Bishops Worthington and Williams,
and also many prominent priests of
the diocese will be present, and take
part in the discussions.
Robert J. Brown, aged II years. was
found dead at Cambridge. Mr.. Brown
and a little boy. who was staying with
him, retired in the evening without
any complaint of illness by the de-
ceased, and on awakening the boy
found his sleeping companion dead.
George Baker, accused of horse steal
ing. pleaded guilty in the district court
of Fillmore county, and was sentenced
to three years in the ~penitentiary.
Baker is the man whom Sheriff Page
of Fillmore county captured near
Plattsmouth about the LIST of Septem-
Der.
The McCook Commercial Clubs rail.
road committee is preparing to make
q campaign for more adequate facili-
ties at McCook for handling the big
freight business of that place, not to
mention the large transfer freight
business done there.
The students attending the Kearney
Normal school and who live in the
dormitOry are up in arms against the
quality Of food served in the dormi-
tory and have made complaint to the
State Normal board. Such is the re-
port that has reached Lincoln, but it
cannot be confirmed by the minority
of the board because they
know nothing of it.
The special committee appointed by
the Commercial club of Bellevue to
confer with the Omaha Street Rail- |
way company have had several meet
ings with the company and as a result |
they succeeded in getting it to send |
cut its engineer to look ove the route
Of entrance into Bellevue. The engi-
neer spent most Of the day in survey.
ing and looking over the route.
Deputy Labor Commissioner Bush
has returned to Lincoln from North
Platte, where he went to inspect some
fire escapes, and at once started an |
Investigation of the violations of the
labor laws in Lincoln. While
no formal complaints have been filed
with the department it has been re
ported that in several millinery stores
In town the young women employees
compelled to work more than
ten hours a day and Mr.. Bush will
take action.
The September mortgage record for
Richardson county is as follows: Farm,
fled, IA, $3O.893.7S; released, 16, $780,
975. City, filed. Z, $2,5SO.75 released,
,, $1,675. Chattel. filed, IS, $35, 664. 20;
released 90. 5000 =.