Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-08-17

thought she would bleed to death be-
fore medical assistance could be Sc
cured.
The pattern room of the Fremont
foundry was entered by burglars and
about $50 worth of patternmaking
tools belonging to George Heizenbut-
tie taken. Some of them are marked
with his initials.
John r. Smith has sold his farm
adjoining Falls City on the northeast,
to Henry Whiterock, for s17,500. The
farm included 100 acres. This gives
general idea Of the price of Rich
ardson county land.
Axel Johnson, a 14-year-old boy of
Oakland, was trying to board freight
train when he slipped and fell, the
train running over his foot, necessitat-
ing the amputation of three toes and
a portion of the foot.
While filing gasoline tank in the
engine house of the Burlington pump
Ing station at Louisville, William And
erson, section foreman, was so badly
overcome by gas that he was uncon-
scious for half hour.
Father c. p. Hadsney, Of Ashland,
the Oldest Mason in the state, cele-
brated his ODD birthday recently. He
Joined the Masons in 1871 and was
recently presented with medal and
pension of $25 per month by the
Grand lodge.
Oscar Nelson, minor living In
Walker township, Platte county, has
brought a suit in the district court,
through Nels Lundeen, his next
friend, against julius Strand for $500
damages. The petition recites that
Strand did publish, in the presence of
divers witnesses, the false and de-
famatory language concerning him.
e. R. TODD, farmer residing near
Plattsmouth, has curiosity on his
which was almost completely reduced
to splinters by bolt of lightning. Mr.
Todd reports that he has never seen
anything which equals this freak OF
the elements, and he expects to have
a photograph taken of the curiosity.
Lands and Funds has received $4,000
in Massachusetts gold bonds from e.
III. Rollins &. Son of Chicago. The
contract, which was entered into sew
eral months ago, calls for purchase on
a basis of 1927 per cent. The board
also purchased the coupons detached
TO bring the interest down to this
rate.
P. B. Hoard, living eighteen miles
,orth of Ainsworth took a dose of
trychnine and died in a few minutes.
lis son-in-law wanted him to take an
wanted to die. He leaves a wife and
everal children. He was rs years old
nd a well known railroad man in
omaha, where he has many relatives
md friends.
Meme Leners, one of the prominent
ownship, Gage county, was seriously
injured in a runaway accident. His
team became frightened at a threshing
machine engine and after running a
short distance he was thrown out of
the wagon. His left ear was nearly cut
off, his arm broken and his body ter
ribly bruised.
The records Of Polk county for the
month Of July show: Eleven farm
mortgages filed, amounting to 500 1000;
twelve released, amounting to SIG 1863;
three town mortgages filed, amount
tnr 10 TIT hot tAJ
cages filed, amounting to $17,43317;
seventeen released, amounting to ST.
329.84; making an increased indebted
ness of 15,55933.
The Farmers Grain and Live Stock
company of Bloomfield, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $25, 00O has
filed articles of incorporation in the
Office of the secretary of state. The
incorporators of the company are j.
F. Kintz, Charles r. Kracht, August
Gnewuch, Theodore Rietz, Dotlef
Hafner, Guy R. Briggs. julius Stahl,
Ben Titus, Ferdinand Lemke, Eugene
Herald, r. McQuistian and John Zorn.
A. p. Loder. assistant United States
engineer of Washington, d. c., has ar
rived in Auburn with the surveying
instruments and is now getting ready
to do the preparatory work for the
"object lesson road" across the bot
tom east Of that city. which will ex-
tend for a distance of one mile. The
Commercial club of Auburn has been
advised from Washington that the
machinery has been loaded and that,
with the expert labor to do the con-
structing, will be on the ground in the
very near future.
A law and order league, to embrace
the whole county of Seward, has been
organized.
A disastrous hail storm passed
through the western part of Boone
county totally destroying all crops,
breaking down trees, killing hogs and
poultry and breaking windows.
A fine steam launch has been added
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