Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-02-02
Nebraska News

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caliber revolver the weapon was dis
charged and 10-yearold Mabel Cradle
OF Hastings was painfully wounded in
the arm.
DR.. j.. r. Brown has filed suit in the
| district court against the village of
! Pierce and Mrs. l.. NJ. Norman for
| $4,000 damages. alleging as the cause
p defective sidewalk on the lot of Mrs.
Norman.
Fred Shannon of Beatrice, a brake
man on the Burlington line running
| between Nebraska City and Holdrege,
broke his left leg between the ankle
and the knee by a fall he received
while at Holdrege.
| Alexander Peters of Chadron has
been appointed steward of the Nor
folk asylum by Governor Mickey. He
will begin his duties as soon as the
asylum is open and will receive a
salary of $1,000 a year.
A case of smallpox is reported in
| Nemaha county at the home of Charles
| Shurtleff, the patient being Miss Kate
Tucker, a sister of Mrs. Shurtleff, who
recently returned from visit to the
western part of the state.
George w. Frank. Jr., at one time
one of the most prominent citizens and
| business men of Kearney, died at Lib
erty, n. Y. Funeral services and in.
terment took place at the former home
of the family in Warsaw, N, Y.
Mrs Charles Roeback. residing in
| Inland township, about six miles
southwest of Harvard. was stricken
with paralysis while out to the barn
| getting a basket of cobs. Medical aid
was at once summoned. but she died
James d. Myers, a pioneer resident
of Gage county, dropped dead at his
home in Odell. Mr.. Myers was once
engaged in the banking business at
that place, but retired from active
business life some years ago. He was
80 years of age and is survived by a
widow and one son.
superintendent Johnson of the state
institute for feeble minded youths re-
ported to Governor Mickey the condi-
ton of one of the female inmates of
the institution and laid before him
suspicious as to the culpability Of a
former employee. 1t is said she will
become mother in few months.
Leon II. Miller of Oaks, an alleged
railroad promoter. was brought to Be-
atrice by Deputy United States Mar
shall Homan, on the charge of sending
nj litnrntI1n
At the close of his hearing before
United States District Commissioner
Cobbey he was bound over to the fed
eral court, his bond being fixed at
$1,000
George II. Spear one of the prom
inent travelling men of Nebraska,
proved to be a mighty lively corpse
when he arrived in Norfolk from the
Black Hills the other day Reported
dead by his friends, he had been the
cause of no end of worry in Norfolk.
Mrs. Spear had become particularly
concerned and was under severe strain
until her husband appeared.
The county supervisors of Platte
county are in a sort Of quanoary
over the matter of who shall be paid
the reward of $500 which was offered
a year ago for the capture of James
Kelley, who was afterwards convicted
of the murder of Arthur Snowden.
The reward is claimed both by Sheriff
West of Butler county and Sheriff
Bauman of Fremont.
Despite the fact that they have lost
a sugar factory at Norfolk, northern
Nebraska farmers are already max
ing contracts for furnishing beets to
other institutions next summer and,
singularly enough, more acres of beets
have been contracted in the vicinity
of Norfolk for next year to supply the
factory at Ames than were contracted
for at the same time last year for the
plant in Norfolk.
Through the confusion caused by a
child fainting a cry of fire was raised
at the Pheland opera house in ALI
| ance, which resulted in panic among
| an audience composed entirely Of chill
dren that would have proved disas-
trous had not members of the com
pany and other cool-headed people
| worked energetlcally Tor rev min
utes. AS it was, several children were
slightly injured
Word has been received in Nebraska
| City from Rudolph Evans the sculp-
tor, who is in Paris designing the
statue of the late ]. Sterling Morton
| for the Arbor Day Memorial associa-
ton, stating that the figure is in the
hands of the bronze founders and will
be completed in time to be shipped
early next month. The granite work
will be delayed, but everything will be
completed in the coming spring.
Considerable excitement is manifest
in Greeley over the application to Gov
ernOr Mickey for the pardon of Mi
chael Lamb. No less than ten petit.
tions were put in circulation charging
Lamb with having kept a rendezvous
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