The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-03-22

Mrs Marie Koch, mother of Mrs G..
iiudat and Mrs. Louise Asmus of Nor
folk, died Thursday night after very
dat. The end was totally unexpected,
as Mrs. Koch had been unusually well
this winter save for slight cold
which attacked her last Saturday. Flu
neral services were held Friday af-
ternoon at the Rudat home and the re-
mains will be taken to West Point
Saturday morning for interment be-
side the grave of the deceased wo-
mans husband, who succumbed eigh-
teen years ago. All of the children
excepting Mrs. Peterson of Texas
were present at the deathbed, They
are Mrs Rudat, Mrs Asmus, Mrs,
William Breitinger of West Point,
Koch of West Point, Herman Koch
The deceased, with her husband, set
tied at West Point in 1871. She had
been making her home with Mrs Ru.
dat for four years. Rev. j. p. Mueller
of Christs Lutheran church had charge
of the services in Norfolk.
Junction politics are sadly twisted
and Junction mathematicians are
called on to figure out which party
holds the vantage point. Is Conductor
Pat Dolan, republican nominee for
Fourth ward councilman, a democrat?
Did the democrats carry the Junction
republican caucus or did the repub-
licans achieve a strategic victory by
nominating the most available demo
crat in the ward? Here lies material
for daily debates in the Junction
stores. The Junction democrats turned
their backs on their own caucus last
Tuesday and let it go by default. The
| Junction, too, is a democratic strong
hold The uptown politicians were
alarmed about the situation, however,
and their frantic communications to
| the south side resulted in a second
democratic caucus being called for to-
night at Koerber's barber shop. De-
termined to beat Pat Dolan, the repub-
lican nominee, will they nominate Pat
/ Dolan, the democrat, against him? If
they do 1t will be a lively fight for
Dolan means business and declares
that he will give no quarter
An important damage suit brought
day. Mrs. Frye Sues for 100000 dam
county is being followed with interest
by Norfolk people familiar with the
details. The case is now on trial in
the district court in Holt county, hav-
ing been called for trial on last Mon
day. Mrs. Frey sues for 100000 dam
ages based on the death of her hus-
band alleged to have been caused by
the excessive use of Intoxicating liquor.
| Frye previous to his death had pur-
chased the saloon stock and uneXpired
| license of a saloon man at Atkinson.
His death occurred last fall In suing
| for 100000 damages Mrs. Frye named
as defendants not only the saloon man
who had sold his business to her hus-
band but also the various wholesale
dealers who had furnished him with
supplies. Service was made in Nor
folk on wholesale house agents as
wholesalers. Attorney Burt Mapes of
Norfolk is in attendance at the trial
as one of the attorneys for the defense.
The case is bringing up many technical
legal points and may not be concluded
for several days. A suit resulting from
a saloon dealer drinking his own liquor
is commented on as strange case in
the court annals.
Evidences of the existence either
of spectral "bogy man" or of ma
terialistic midnight prowler in Nor
folk continue to be offered in ways
disquieting to the peace of many Nor
folk families. The latest story comes
from North Ninth street The visit of
the unwanted intruder occurred last
Tuesday night before the stories of
other similar happenings had been
much afoat. Two Norfolk travelling
men make their homes in a double
house on North Ninth street. Tues
day evening both men being absent
their wives had another travelling
mans wife over to spend the night.
Toward midnight one of the women
was alarmed to hear a man apparent
ly stumbling about on the lower floor.
Her friends were equally frightened.
Fastening the door, barricading it with
folding bed and then bracing their
barricade with other furniture, the
women waited in suspense, planning
the meanwhile for possible escape.
After they had broken open storm
window and were debating whether to
scream for help or to descend to the
ground by means of an improvsed lad
der of sheets, the unlimited visitor left
the house slamming the door behind
him. The door had a night lock and
locked when the man shut it. No
trace was left as to the identity or
object of the night prowler. One eX-
PLANTATION was that a drunken man
had in some way effected an entrance
to the house, at last leaving of his own
volition. The three women are still
DOSitiVe that the DroWler was "real"