Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-09-12
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
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Dedication of the new Birdwood
church located in the country ten
miles north of Sunderland, occurred
Sunday. The occasion was deliberately
observed by the people of the neigh
borhood, who assembled and spent
part Of the day picnicing at the Saxton
grove nearby.
The preliminary hearing of James
c. Bowen, the man who shot William
Siebert, the Gretna saloonkeeper,
August 16. was held before County
Judge Begley and the defendant bound
over to the district court in the sum
Of $1,000. Sheriff McEvoy took the
prisoner to Omaha and lodged him in
the Douglas county Jail.
The present prospects for bumper
corn crop in this part of the country,
says a Douglas county dispatch, has
caused the farmers who are holding
their last years crop to make a de-
livery, and the elevators are working
from early morning until late at night
taking care of the many hundred
bushels that are being dumped.
Edward Coleman. an employee Of the
Chesapeake restaurant, Omaha, was
stabbed by Will Ingram, a colored fell
i low worker and died at the Omaha
General hospital The men had quar-
relied, it is said, over joke and In
gram cut his friend and escaped. He
lie a resident of Council Bluffs and
an effort is being made to find him.
s. ID. Bishop, aged about as, well
knnwn racidQnt M prnlynr
mitted suicide by hanging. Financial
difficulties is supposed to be the cause.
The body was discovered by the Oldest
son, who, going to the stable at $3.50
O'clock, found his father hanging by
harness line from one of the rafters.
The man had been dead anywhere
from two to four hours.
Alvin T. Swisher and wife of Lin
coin have brought damage suit in
the district court of Seward county
against the Shogo Lithia Springs COM
pany of Milford, of which General j.
H. Culver and son Harry are the
proprietors, for the sum of $5,270. The
damages are asked because a son of
the Swisher's was run over by one of
Culver's delivery wagons at Lincoln.
Mrs. Fred Becker, ST., of Grand
Island, Neb., who was badly burned in
a gasoline accident about ten days
ago, succumbed to her injuries, gan
creme having set in, in the lower eX-
tremeties. Mrs. Becker's daughter ac
cidentally poured some gasoline, which
was in pitcher, in a tea kettle of hot
water, which was at the time on the
hot pfn N In-
suited
John Beckner, young man OF 1S,
whose home was near Nebraska City,
was found hanging to a tree three
miles east of Murray. Suspended there
by a rein, he had been dead some
hours when discovered. Bcckner had
been in the employ of Charles
Dreamer, local farmer. In the morn
ing he went to his usual work in the
field, but did not return for dinner.
His team was found about O'Clock in
Iield.
A young son of John TONES, of
Grant township, Cunning county, was
killed at his home. Tho young man
was leading a team hitched to a load
of cobs when the horses became
frightened at children climbing on the
wagon and ran away. The end of the
tongue hit him in the breast knock
ing him down the wagon colliding with
a feed box, overturning it. In its fall
the heavy box struck the young man
OH the head killing him instantly.
Elmer Philpot, his wife and their
three little children of Nehawka
%, 20 aftnDI tho Old
Settlers reunion and as a train was
on the crossing he attempted to drive
between 1t and the depot building
when the freight train commenced to
move, which frightened the team of
bIoncos so that they ran away. The
occupants we're thrown out the buggy
smashed into kindling wood and Mr..
Philpot seriously if not fatally in
,jured.
Jay Gallogly, physicians attendant
at the Bailey sanitarum, Lincoln, was
killed by an insane patient, Irene
Nickel who poured bottle Of carbolic
acid in his face while he slept, The
girl, who was handcuffed, arose from
her bed, left her room, went to the
far end of the hall, passing several
sleeping nurses, and secured the bot
tie of poison. She then returned tC
the room, where her victim and ]. c
Moore slept, and emptied the contents
of the bottle in Gallogly's face. The
man leaped from his bed and fel
dead in a chair, eXclaiming only the
words, "Carbolic acid"
A valuation of the sheldon estate
near Nehawka as stated by the APP
praisor OF Cass county, is 1922 Abs
The larger part of this is represented
by Cass county farm land bought il
the early days at low price,.
Chambers has broken out among thu
horses Of the northern part of Saun
ders county. William Hays hal