The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-14
THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEwsJouRNAL FRIDAY JUNE H. 1907

made two unsuccessful trips over the
ground Together the watch and fob
were estimated to- he worth In the
neighborhood of $1,000 A handsome
reward will be paid for the return of
either to G. h, NanKiri of this city,
Atkinson Ledger: j. A. SNdmore,
who was convicted as the principal I'm
the Atkinson hog steal was sentenced
Saturday to five years In the state pen
iteutiary. Skidmore got the limit of
the penalty, Dibble had his prelim-
mary hearing the same day and was
bound over to the district court. He
is out on bail NJ. f. Harrington and
County Attorney Whelan acted for the
prosecution and II. II. Dickson for the
defense. District court adjourned un.
til July, when McShane and Wellor
will be tried for completely In the
same steal.
Sheriff j. j. Clements was in Nor
folk this morning for the purpose of
taking Daniel |. Avery of this city to
Madison for examination before the
county board of commissioners on in
sanity. The complaint against MIR.
Avery was signed by son Mr.. Az
cry has made his home in Norfolk with
a son for more than a year, coming
here from Missouri. Twelve years
ago he is said to have been success
full physician, but the death Of his wife
at that date is said to have lead to Pc
RODS of dependency. The eXamina-
ton was set for / o'clock this after
noon.
Wayne Democrat: Anderson Bress-
Ter visited his brother Frank, down in
Leslie precinct, Saturday and Sunday
and found the heads of the family in
rather sorry plight from the effects of
Il severe burning Mr.. Bressler had
been heating a wagon tire, his wife
watching him, when the wind blew the
flames SO that her dress became ignit
ed and her whole body enveloped in
a blaze. Her husband succeeded in
putting out the fire but not before she
was quite badly burned about the
limbs. Mr.. Bressler was also severely
burned on the hands, but both have
about recovered now.
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farmer and neighbor of the late Kneiss
brothers, was in Wayne Saturday on
his way to Carroll. Mr.. Carrigan says
that Geo. Kneiss was a good neighbor
honest and square, but he had no use
for Henry Kneiss, and barely gave him
the time of day" when he met him
1t had been known for some time that
there was serious trouble brewing, and
Geo. Kneiss had told Mr.. Carrigan that
he expected Henry would kill him
Aside from their minor difficulties
there was well defined suspicion tina
Henry was jealous of his brothers
family of children, and that he haC
accused George of certain things while
) he, Henry, had been absent from home
The morning of the tragedy George
had expressed fear that Henry would
be after him. Mr.. Carrigan says he
) told the murdered man to get out OF
the country, but Geo. Kneiss had sale
he couldn't do so at once, hence, h'
2 tarried until it was too late.
. Newman Grove Reporter: A natur
al curiosity has been discovered OF
J the line between the farms where Kol
: zow and Holman are living, and no
far from the school house, which il
5 puzzling all the scientists in the north
( west corner of the precinct. For {
: long time there has been what wa
: supposed to be wolf hole in the ives
l bank of the ravine and another on,
in the bottom of the ravine. During
: the spring Holman discovered that thu
? upper hole had grown to be about {
foot in diameter and was about tel
} feet deep. A few days ago a spac,
about ten feet wide and twenty Ions
caved in and a party of explorers wen
over to investigate. They found that
from the open space, a cavern led off
the roof of which was about six fee
, under ground The opening, which
was nearly ten feet wide on the start
soon narrowed down so much that i
could not be followed. One boy wa
able to crawl in about twenty feet.
2 Wayne Democrat: While attempt
) ing to serve papers on some of thu
college students last Friday morning
Street Commissioner Benshoof wa!
: treated to q bath of dirty water at tn,
hands of some of the students. Tn
Democrat desires to call the attention
2 of President Pile to the fact that il
' the past years he has never been tard
, about lacking up" any individuals o
parties who interfered with his stu
1 dent body, but it is presumed that al
/, lndignity of the above sort is alright
3. coming from the students under hi
5 management. Commissioner Benshoo
. also states that number of the stu
4 dents who voted at the last election
g In the city of Wayne have gone t
,. their homes" The Democrat hope
t the authorities of this city will TAX
r such further action in the matter as /
s necessary to determine what right
= these young men have in the premises
d and no matter whether they vote her