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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
1.-THE Trust Busters"

1t was a good sized audience which
witnessed the little musical farce com
ody, The Trust Busters" at the Nor
folk Auditorium last night and the
crowd got its fiji of shrieRing and
laughing. The show is just what it
claims to be-no more and no less.
1t is rather clever little musical farce
comedy, with a number of catchy
songs and musical numbers and Jokes
to laugh at, 1t plays at popular prices
and apparently the good sized audi
ence was satisfied. The show is a
wholesome, clean little skit built on
the line Of unadulterated fun.
It was the first uight that the new
electrical sign in front of the thoater
had been turned on for a show and
the innovation was termed a marked
Improvement by many spectators. It
was said to make the place look more
like a metropolitan theatcr than ever
The new cement walk in front of the
Auditorium also attracted favorable
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30

the Higgins lyuching at Bancroft has
a striking parallel in north Nebraska
history of eighteen years ago. Last
July this parallel murder of the eigh.
ties was pointed out in The News but
at that time Pender people secuted the
idea that their own double tragedy
would end in the punishment of the
murderer still further call to mind the
shooting of the Clarks near Elgin and
the lynching of Nicolas Foley.
1t was on June 49, 1889, that Mr. and
Mrs. Pomeroy Clark of Elgn were
shot in their bed room. Nicholas Fo-
ley who shot the Clarks, was like Hig.
gins employed as a farmland by the
husband and wife who were his vic.
Tins.
Angered because the Clarks objected
to his attentions to Mrs. ClarlIs sister,
young Foley stole into ClarIs room
and shot the husband. lie rushed
down stairs only to return later in the
night with a ladder. Climbing the lad
der he shot and instantly killed Mrs.
Clark.
Foley was captured near Burwell
after a chase that again paralleled
flight across the country
When Deputy Sheriff Beclwith with
his prisoner were four miles east of
Elgin on their way to Neigh they were
overpowered by a mob. Foley was
taken from the officer and lynched.
He was hanged from a high bridge
DNar raJnr rr,,ly
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
RAIN FOR THIRSTY CORN
REFRESHING SHOWER VISITS ALL
THE NORTHWEST
DRY FIELDS NEEDED MOISTURE

In Norfolk Something More Than a
Third of an Inch of Rain Was Re.
corded-More Than That Fell in
Brown County-Raned on Rosebud.
Refreshing raiudrops came out of
Sunday mornings sky to satisfy thirs-
ty grain Threats. Thirty-siX one-hun-
drcdths of an inch of water fell in
Norfolk and the rain extended all over
northern Nebraska and into the Rose
bud reservation, according to reports
received here. In some places more
rain than that was recorded.
A special to The News from Aims
worth says that 139 inches of rain
put a smile on the whole face of ma
ture. a commercial traveller from
Gregory said that it rained as far
north as that point.
Rain was needed. For some weeks
there has been less than the required
amount of moisture and corn in some
places was getting rather badly brown
ed. A commercial traveller who drove
through Boyd county last week said
that rain was needed and conditions
around and west Of Norfolk showed
the same need.
In Norfolk the rain was badly need
ed to lay the dust.
Corn Crop is Saved
Valentine, Neb, Aug 2G.-Special to
The News: After a hot and sultry
day, much needed rain fell here last
night This will cause much JOY to
the farmers, as it will save the corn
crop, which had been much despalred
of by them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
"The sweeteet GIrI In pInIe.o

The next attraction at the Auditorl.
UNI VIII be "rho SwcoDcat Girl In
Dixie which comes Monday afternoon
ana niEhj. giving a matinee and oven
ing performance on Labor day In
NorIul, This play viii be presented
by the Fulton stock company, who
play all of each summer in Lincoln to
packed houses. The show is said to
ho an attractive one and the company
capable Robert Fulton, leading man,
was for a time playing leading man to
EVA Lningo In the Woodward Stock
company Of Omaha.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
PEOPLE DISCUSS THE LYSCHlNG
General Feeling That Too Many Muir
ders Have Gone Unpublished

ders Have Gone Unpublished.
News Of the lynching Of Murderer
Higgins near Bancroft was given to
northern Nebraska and southern South
Dakota by The News just twenty-four
ahead Of any other newspaper The
story of the hanging was the princi-
pal topic of conversation on the streets
of Norfolk during the afternoon and
the Trust Bustors,' farce comedy
troupe, who arrived on the train from
Emerson, were in demand because Of
the details which they were able to
give.
Higgins was being taken from Oma-
liza to Pender for trial. Bancroft is a
town of 1000 population and the first
station south of Pender. Bancroft is
in Cunning county. 1t is said that the
mob of men forced the engineer to
uncouple his locomotive from the
train while they went into the car and
took Higgins. The Omaha sheriff
moved for his gun but one of the mob
from behind grabbed his arms and the
gun was taken. The mob carried guns
and knives.
Among people generally who heard
of the lynching soon after it happened,
there was little tendency to condemn
the mob as severely as in many in
stances of this sort. There seemed to
be general feeling that too many
murderers have been going unpunish-
ed and that human life has been re.
Gently regarded too cheaply in Ne
braska. Many referred to the case Of
Frank Brink, murderer of Bessie New.
ton at Ponca, who escaped with three
months in the Norfolk hospital.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
known.
STORY OF THE CRIME
Higgins Shot Walter Couple and Wife
in Middle of the NIGHT.

1t was about midnight on Sunday
May IL, of this year, that Louis Ray
Higgins, then going under the name
of Phillip Burke, murdered Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Copple on their farm at
Rosalie, Neb., in Thurston county.
Higgins was employed on the farm.
1t was with shotgun that Higgins
slaughtered the farmer and his wife,
He got up about midnight, took load
ed shotgun out of doors and called
Couple. When the man appeared Hig-
gins poured two charges into his body.
Death was instantaneous. Copies
wife heard the explosion and came
running out of the house, clad in night
clothing. AS she left the door, Higgins
turned the smoking gun upon the wo-
man whose husband he had just slain,
and shot her down like a beef.
Then the murderer tossed the bodies
of his two victims over the fence into
the hog pen, where the swine badly
mutilated the corpses.
Higgins escaped and was later
caught at Hooper. At Fremont he con-
fessed his guilt. He was taken to the
Omaha Jail for safe keeping and his
preliminary trial was held on board
a train in Thurston county to avoid
violence. People of Pender were
quite indignant at the time over the
insinuation that any violence could Oc-
cur in this civilized age.
Higgins at Fremont said he was I'M
able to remember all of the details of
the crime, because he was mad from
drink when he committed it. He
would give no cause for his crime and
said he was ready to plead guilty. 1T
was about midnight Sunday night"
said Higgins, that | got up and Sc
cured the shotgun. | do not know why
l did it, l called Copple out and then
shot him. | emptied both barrels and
may have fired four or five times af
forwards. Mrs. Couple came rushing
out and | shot her twice as she stood
on the doorstep. Then | went into
the house and stayed with the children
until / o'clock, when | locked the door
and went out. l took a mule from
the barn ana rode seven miles down
Logan creek, where | left the animal.
wandered over the country from that
time until | was arrested at Hooper"
Near Hooper a bridgeman who had
seen a description of Higgins, saw the
murderer limping into town. He hur-
ried ahead and informed the town
marshal, who apprehended Higgins
when he arrived.
Higgins sat unmoved in the Fremont
Jail while he confessed his dual crime.
He was apparently numb and sleepy
from the cold and was so stiff from
rheumatism and an injured foot that
he could hardly walk. He asked that
his mother, Cora Fay Higgins of Den
yer, be notified. She later came to
Omaha to see him.
Higgins claimed that Couple had
given him whisky.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
A FORMER FENDER TRAGEDY.
Trials of Dr. Goodmanson Created Elk.
citement There

This is not the first excitement that
Pender has had over a murder case.
A number of years ago the sudden
death of Mrs. Goodmanson in the dent
al office of her husband, and the two
subsequent trials of DR.. Goodmanson
on charge of murder, caused endless
turmoil. DR.. Goodmanson was finally
cleared and soon afterward married
again, He was charged with having
poisoned his wife with strychnine in
a glass of water. The first trial re-
suited in a life sentence Both trials
were at Ponca on a change of venue
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
MURDERER HIGGINS
[YNCHED By MOB
SLAYER OF coPPLE AND WIFE,
HANGED TO BRIDGE.
is STRUNG UP NEAR BANCROFT
WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM SHEER.
IFS ON PASSENGER TRAIN.
BY A MOB OF TWENTY MEN

L. r. Higgins Was to Have Been Plac-
ed on Trial at Fender for Numbering
Farmer CoppIe and Wife-He Was
Hanged at 1897.
Bancroft, Neb, Aug. 26.-special to
The News Higgins, the farmland
who last spring murdered Farmer Cop
pie and his wife, was lynohed here at
1897 O'Clock this morning.
Higgins trial was to have begun at
Pender for the double murder, today
The slayer of the Coppes was being
brought to Pender from Omaha.
A mob of twenty or thirty masked
men boarded the traln--No. 4-took
the prisoner away from Sheriff Newell
of Omaha and Sheriff Young of Pen
der, took the guns away from the two
sheriffs, forced them at the point of
guns to remain on the train while it
went on to Fender, and made away
with Higgins.
Higgins was taken mile and quar-
ter north of Bancroft and hanged at
1897 to bridge over Logan creek.
known.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
CITED 70 NORFOLK COURT
ROW ARISES OVER ROAD DISPUTE
NEAR LYNCH.
BRING IT TO FEDERAL COURT
On Complaint Of Joshua c. Baker Of
Council Bluffs a Number Of Promi.
nent Boyd County Farmers viii APP.
pear in Norfolk Federal Court Soon.

hyhch' Nob" Aug. 21-Spccial to
Ihe News; y deputy United States
marshal appeared in Lynch yesterday
ana served notice on seventeen leading
ctlzehs OF Lynch and the country
north to appear In federal court at
NortoIk ON the first Monday in Octo.
per and answer complaint filed by
joshua C. Baker OF Council Bluffs,
iowa Ihe trouble has arisen over a
dispute concerning certain road lead
ing north from Lynch and crossing a
farm owned by Mr., Baker.
lie claims the road is not a legal
road ana Is endeavorlng to close it
ana iorce traVel onto the section line,
winch Is not passable, His fence has
Deeh cut number OF times ana the
'ans'e seems to be increasing.
inc feeling here Is very bitter
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
ROSEBUD CORN IS SAFE
GOOD RAIN SoAks CROPS IN THAT
LOCALITY.
LIGHTNING WAS A FACTOR
House Of Pete TheboIt North Of Fair
fax Was Struck-Two Dogs Under
the Front Porch We're kIIed-Four
Grain Stacks We're Burned Down.

Fairfax, S. D., Aug. 27.-Special to
The News: This section was visited
by heavy electrical storm and a good
rain.
Lightning struck a house owned by
Pete Thebolt, a farmer living a mile
west of here. The family were shock
ed but not hurt badly.
Two dogs were killed under the
front porch. Four stacks of grain
north of town were struck and burned
down.
The rain came in time to save the
large corn crop which will now be
good.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
TUESDAY TOPICS.
]. Durland is in Spencer.

A. ]. Durland is in Spencer.
Miss Esther Walters is visiting in
Humphrey.
j. Nelson of Wisner was in Norfolk
over night.
Miss Genevieve Stafford is in Hot
Springs, S. D.
John Stephens of Stanton was in the
city yesterday.
Miss Hattie Jonas is home from a
Battle Creek visit.
Thomas Coleman of Butte was in
Norfolk yesterday.
N. P. Jeppeson of Plainview was in
Norfolk yesterday.
F. D. Brooks of Creighton spent yes
terday in Norfolk.
A. V. Swanson of Wausa was a Nor.
folk visitor yesterday.
H. Reed Of Madison was in Norfolk
for few hours Sunday.
George f. Boyd of Oakdale was
Sunday visitor in the city.
F. A. Wood of Dakota City was a
Sunday visitor in Norfolk.
Herbert Zutz left yesterday for his
school at Watertown, Wis.
E. H. Hunter of Oakdale was in
Norfolk on business Saturday.
o. 7. Conway of Fairfax was in Nor
folk between trains Saturday.
Miss Luella Paul has been visiting
with Hadar friends this week.
]. A. Wright, the Battle Creek real
estate man, was in Norfolk yesterday. |
George NJ. Carter of Sturgis was
South Dakota visitor in Norfolk yester.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Schwartz are
home from a visit to Spokane and the |
coast.
W. B. Carlock of Gregory was
South Dakota visitor in Norfolk over
Sunday.
Mrs. Won Krosigk and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hetzel of Boelus were in the city
yesterday.
F. II. Carpenter and Misses Bessie
and Cora Carpenter of Winside were
Norfolk visitors yesterday.
General superintendent S. NJ. Bra
den of the Northwestern Is in Dead.
wood and will not return until Thurs.
lay noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McWhorters,
Mrs. Alaric Simpson and Miss Mamie
simpson Of Pierce were in Norfolk
asst evening
Miss Title Lehman visited all last
week with her brother, Oscar, on his
arm near Pierce. She expects to re.
urn this week.
Mrs. Roller of Philadelphia and J.
3. We'll of Cincinnati are visiting at
he home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lodor
IN South Fifth street.
Misses Louise and Helen Mathew
son have arrived in Norfolk from their
outing. Miss Louise Math-
'wson will teach again this year in
he Norfolk public schools.
Rev. j. J, Parker of Genoa Is in Nor.
ok on a short visit with his son, DR..
)r. c. S. Parker. Mr. Parker will be
accompanied home tomorrow by Mrs.
= S. Parker, who will visit in Genoa.
Superintendent C. II. Reynolds of
he Northwestern left on the morning
rain for Boone, Iowa, to attend a meet.
ng of officials. He was accompanied
~ Mrs. Reynolds, They will return
Thursday.
Prof +. NJ. Gregg of the Peru State
Normal school, who was in Norfolk
he past week as a member Of the
eachcrs' institute faculty, left Satur-
lay for Wayne, whore he will be con-
.ected with the Wayne county instl-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30

comment being a relief from the old
rlcNoly brick walk The whrrug cleo.
lrlc fans inside the DhcaDcr afforded
cool relief from the days heat.
Jho Auditorium MANAGEMENT ia
much pleased with the way I'm which
things have started believing that n
successful season for good shows in
Norfolk Is ut hand.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
FROM CANAL ZONE LIFE
d. C. o'CoNNoR PREFERS AMER.
lcA FOR HIS HOME.
HEAD or CANAL ZONE SCHOOL S

Former Norfolk Superintendent. Now
Superintendent Of instruction In ca.
nal Zone Of Panama, Revslts Nor.
folk and Finds Changes.
II. G. O'Connor formerly city super.
intondont In Norfolk but now Mt the
head of the American school svslrm
In the canal zone at Panama, has
spent twontNonc months 10y the big
ditch and is wcll satisfied with his
surroundings and his work. But MIR.
O'Connor says that he can not regard
Panama as his home and that scarcely
anyone living ON the little strip of
American land so regards the country.
Mr. O'ConnOr with his family makes
his home In GurEOna whore the gov.
crnmcnt machine shops employing T..
800 white men are located. But the
hundreds Of Americans now nj Cor.
gona only three were there when Mr.
O'CouuOr came to that canal zone city
from Norfolk some twenty months ago
Twenty months residence has made
the former Norfolk superintendent ono
of the towns oldest inhabitants. 80
quickly do people como and go i'm that
now country
UucN an Earr.u This Y.f wool. n,
70 business trim Mr. O'cunnnr found
changes u Norfolk, NOT UDu mn.
chances of rI. .npn. .t..n l.,l .I..,..r.
chances showing imrro,rr,.u, oI
WAS most Immersed purlln." ,lid Aft,
O '"omor "wfn rnr work that raa
been done ON the sirrris off .tn.. ,It,,
durng tho ypnr orr two n,,t ba,.
been away. And flrrr is prour..s aII
nlouy that stands pui artrr u,u,.
month away ann also moro ,b,p
pleased to note the plaus mon which
the now Iipn school buiIdiup is ,nipy
mn n win nurro,,b tnu.,r,l. , ,,,.I,I
school house"
Canal School Work
The school gyeirm of t,n c,r,I ,ono
roprcgcutg Mr. O,Cornor,e r.orl rris
teaching force viii be raised from
fortv-onc TO Grty teachers NV nocon =
Der The color limo ia dro,yn IN
these Panama gchnoIs Ahort a fourth
of the pupils are white and those studv
Spanish and French Rut tho yopo
schools have only English for tho bIocl,
children. Work Is carried nm IN tho
fifth and sixth GRADES ana two birh
schools for white children oro boing
planned,
It's vacation time In Panama schools
no,,, h,,t mot L,o,,,c,, I, &C. A., ,...
season. for II isn't Rnt it,e tho roiry
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30

Sometimes the most urgent business
of the day is TO find q man-to nm
vacancy ia your organization or TO DO
an odd job" for YOU Want ads. are
Fishers of men"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30
A PARALLEL CASE

Farmland Near Elgin Was Lynched
Eighteen Years Ago,
The Fender tragedy eliminating in
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30

The Norfolk colony at Panama has
mounted up to score of people
These Norfolk people are all well sat
isfied but none, with the possible ex-
ception of DR.. Walters, would smile on
Panama as a permanent dwelling
place. DR., Walters, who is chief of
the medical store department, views
the canal strip with great favor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
SHIPWRECKS
WHILE YOU WAIT

WYE are going to have shipwreck here this
" afternoon or tonight. Come down and
bring your camera and take it in"
1t is doubtful If anyone ever received an
invitation came over the wires from Redondo to
parties in Los Angeles, and was accepted.
They were not disappointed, as the fine bark
entine Gardiner City went to pieces so near
the crowd of observers, at about the time pre-
dicted, that she might have been part of
stage fitting and the witnesses the audience
At the time of the disaster referred to the
Gardiner City had reached the pier at Redondo
and was about to unload her lumber. She was
fast to the buoy off the pier and to the dock.
and on the opposite berth was another lumber
schooner. At one o'clock IN the morning it
was smooth and no sea running; an hour
later the wind began to blow in ftful gusts,
gradually increasing with accompanying sea.
The wind was directly inshore, and, owing to
the nature of the place, there was no possibility
heavy to haul off. Before ship could get I'm
der sail she would be on the beach, few yards
distant.
The sea was now breaking at the end of the
wharf, and suddenly a terrific comber struck
the vessel and nearly covered her, and the
mainmast seemed to spring and jerk off, going
to starboard. Up to this time the crew had
stood by her, fighting against hope, trying to
kedge her into deeper water; but it was i'm
possible, and rope was now flung to them
and they came ashore; just in time. as the
next sea appeared to break the foremost,
which. with its heavy yard, went over the rail
with a crash that rose ominously above the
gale. The vessel was now seen to be settling;
she was Scuppers under, and lunged with ter
rible force. Suddenly large sea came rolling
in out of the foam. and appeared to tear away
the piles at the end of the pier. The hull rose
to an extraordinary altitude, apparently nearly
on end, then shot backward, striking the heavy
pier, and boring fifty feet into it as though it
was paper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
What Lava Is Good for

TOURISTS in Italy are astonished at the
/ practical use made of the lava that has
flowed from Vesuvius in past and recent erup-
tons; for all Naples and its vicinity appears
to be world of lava.
The streets are paved with it; there are
staircases and statues, drinking troughs, brio
a-brac, and even jewelry of this strange ma
terial which once dubbed from the yellow and
dripping lips of the great crater above. The
careless guides make money out of it by press
ing coins or other objects on partially cooled
fragments and selling these to visitors. On
the ashy tanks of the mountain there is
enough lava to build another New York or
Chicago shoreless frozen sea, it seems of
dull black that summers strangely purple in
some lights. These heaving pillows and snake
like masses were once white hot, steaming,
and even exploding as the fiery flood met some
little innocent stream on the way down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24
A Picture of Devastation

G. extraordinary a scene of breaking, rending,
~ sudden disaster, doubtless had rarely been
witnessed there. The hull, loaded with lum-
Der, and now water logged. rose and fell in the
very heart of the big pier, ripping it out. bend
ing the railroad tracks like twigs. and playing
havoc with trucks, timbers, engine, pile driver,
and other impedimenta. The grinding process
reduced the rails the house, and almost every
portion of the wharf to frewood. A change in
the wind threw her off, and she lay and rode
out the remainder of the storm, water logged
wreck, picture of devastation.
Even more vivid was the wreck of a few
weeks previous. The same conditions ex-
listed, though this vessel was lying near shore;
to gale, attempted to kedge off shore, but was
trapped and slowly came in. The terrific sea
in few hours forced her in, and she was
wrecked in the sight of hundreds of observers.
The crew could not leave her on account of the
sea, in which no boat would live, and stood by
her. She entered the area of breaking surf
stern first, the heavy seas making a clean
beach over her, and, lifted on one to a great
height, she undoubtedly came down on the
sands with such force that the keel in some
places was damned into her, anidships. In
this way she soon filled This broke away the
support for the mainmast, which fell to port
in heavy roll, then swung back, ripping out
the shrouds and wrecking the vessel amid
ships. A series of heavy seas now sent her
inshore, breaking heavily over her.
The men caught rope sent out, and escaped
by it: none too soon, as successive seas badly
wrecked the craft. From this on the vessel
rapidly went to pieces, and to-day all that re-
mains of one of the finest vessels on the coast,
the Mabel Gray, is section of her bow partly
buried in the sand.
Every stage in the wrecking of these vessels,
and all the exciting incidents including the
rescue of the men, observed from the
beach, few yards away, and within talking
distance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

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