Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL. SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit-
ieal and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.

the new depot at Alliance.
The new United Evangelical church
at York was dedicated last week
Beatrice's new Catholic school has
been completed and will soon be dedi-
Gated.
The Tecumseh Chautauqua associa-
ton has been organized for the CON-
Ing year.
Wakefield has organized CONNER
cial club for encouraging growth Of
the town.
Fire, for the second time in three
months. destroyed the barn Of Ed
ward Neigh at West Point.
Edward S. Grimes of Omaha has
been named deputy oil inspector by
Governor Sheldon, to succeed George
Templeton. also of Omaha.
Rev. w. p. Ferguson of Lincoln, re-
Gently acquitted of having improper
relations with one Of his congregation,
Mrs. Gross. filed suit in the district
court for $4,000 against Atwood &
Guile and c. r. Smith 6 Co.
After Fire or Wind loss you need
the money. Friends may sympathize
but Ii you want a company which
pays cash try the Farmers and Mer-
chants ms. Co., established since 1885.
Over a million dollars already paid to
patrons.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
at Grand Island withdrew and dis
charged 200 men who were working
on extension of trackage in the west
end Of that city. All laL~ rs working
on the construction of the ice lake
east OF the city were also discharged.
John Dingman, brakeman on the
Northwestern road, was, it is thought,
fatally hurt at Blair. Dingman had
cut the train at the road crossing,
stepped across the track and attempt
ed to step back again when the cars
came together and crushed his abdo-
men and back.
Chief Game Warden George L. Car
ter has received a report from the
clerk Of Douglas county that 1,1S5
hunting and fishing licenses have been
issued there since the first of the year.
OF that number, Twenty-Five wete is
sued to non-residents Of Nebraska,
who paid the regular $40 fee.
The request Of Superintendent Kern
OF the Hastings asylum to be allowed
to buy turkeys for Thanksgiving and
for Christmas has been turned down
by the board of purchase and supplies
on the grounds that turkeys come too
nigh and chickens still taste good.
All the other institutions will be mott.
fed that the usual Thanksgiving tur-
key dinner is to be dispensed with.
c. II. Frank. who lived some eight
or nine miles southeast of Table Rock,
in the corner of the county, commit
ted suicide. He had taken a shotgun
and gone out remarking that he would
kill a rabbit and he crossed over the
line into the edge of Nemaha county,
and, stepping on the porch of Luther
Burrow, one OF his nearest neighbors,
he placed the muzzle of the shotgun
to his head and fired, instantly kill
ing himself.
The state railway commission, in
answer to an appear for justice made
by j. w. Haper of Geneva, has re-
piled that his transaction with the
Northwestern railroad was purely in
terstate. and so out Of the jurisdiction
of the Nebraska commission, Mr..
Haper objected strenuously to be COM
PEELED by the Northwestern to pay
$117.6e on a carload of potatoes from
Hitchcock, S. D., to Geneva. He claims
that he was made to pay 30 cents per
hundredweight, when the limit rs 80
cents.
Two men arrested by Sheriff Dayley
of Saunders county. and now in Jail
at Wahoo. had concealed in their
waist belts, collars and around in their
coats several bills ranging in rs, 2's,
SIS. los and eos on the Merchants
and Planters bank of Savannah, Ga,
and other banks of the south, and in
different parts of their clothing good
\ money and express orders were found.
4 About $265 good money was taken
Vfrom their clothing. They had passed
= good deal of the spurious money.
Adamage suit for $1,000 has been
filed by Miss Kate Hinckley against
Charles B. Jewett of Lincoln OF this
amount $4,000 is to reimburse Miss
Hinckiey for wounded pride, injured
feelings and loss Of social standing
and 500 for her unused wedding tros-
seau and trip to Pontiac. Mich. Miss
Hinckley, who for some time has been
a cashier in local restaurant, charges
Mr.. Jewett with breach of promise to
wed. Jewett is considered well-to-do
and owns farm north of Lincoln.
James Moles was fatally injured at
Plattsmouth, being struck by freight
train No. IA, eastbound, while he and
a number of Italians were riding on
a handcar from that city to their bunk
car.
Notice has been received from the
referee in bankruptcy at Omaha that
a 10 per cent dividend has been de-