Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-03-12
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social Agricultural, Polit-
ical and other Matters Given
Due Consideration.


While helping TO put up ice Charles
Steltenberg lost two of his fingers.
Doctors of Grand Island have gone
on record as desiring milk inspection.
Commissioners of Douglas county
will submit u bond proposition for
new court house.
Elizabeth Hamilton and Mrs. s. l..
Dodder, sisters, were burned to death
at Omaha by gasoline explosion.
About $4,000 will be spent by the
Independent Telephone company OF
Fairbury in improvements this year.
Twelve farm mortgages, amounting
to $27,210 were filed, and eighteen,
amounting to $33,650, were released
in Cass county during January.
Lincoln won out in the high school
debate with Beatrice. Governor Shell
don presided. The question for de-
bate was, Increase of Our Navy"
The fiftieth anniversary o. the we'd
ding of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Wincamp,
of Snyder, Neb., was celebrated at the
Catholic church at that place Feb
ruary %.
Byron McNally, of Cass county, fell
into dry well eighty feet deep and
was in there two nights and. almost
three days before being rescued. He
was badly bruised, but will recover.
During a show given at Ong the
film of moving picture machine
caught fire. In the stampede that en-
sued as the people rushed for the only
exit, no one was seriously injured.
DR.. Boyd, local practitioner at
Central City, reports remarkable in
cident in his practice, having attend
ed at the birth of a child which was
born with two we'll developed teeth.
John LANCE, living six miles south
east of Cortland, was found dead in
bed. The coroner's jury rendered
verdict that death was due to heart
trouble. Deceased was 20 years of
age
Work on the Burlington's new depot
at Alliance will be resumed again on
March I. This will be one of the best
structures of it's kind in the state and
will have cost, when complete, about
$4,000
On the eve of his departure from
Norfolk William Boeche, prominent
farmer who had lived two miles
southeast of Norfolk for years, fell
through the ice of the Elkhorn river
| and was drowned.
The recent snow storm covered up
and smothered many coveys of quail
in Otoe county and a number of farm
ers reported finding the dead birds.
Rabbits were found in snow drifts and
were caught by hand
Superintendent j. 7. Morey of the
Institute for the Blind at Nebraska
City, has discovered the young boys
of the institute well supplied with to-
bacco, and they claim to have pur-
chased it from the dealers in that
city.
Fulton jock and R. W. Sabin, at
torneys for Shumway, the Gage county
convicted murderer, are preparing to
present the case to the supreme court
The bill of exceptions OF the defense
has been prepared and covers 1000
pages.
| News has reached Central City of
the death of George Raser, former
Central City boy. in the mines of
South Africa, on the twenty-first of
last December. No details are given
except that he was killed in a mine
explosion.
The last condition of the settlement
of the divorce suit of Calvin Chapman
OF Nebraska City against his wife,
Harriet Chapman has been complied
with and deeds have been filed where
by he gives her property to the value
of $4,000.
Buy your life insurance this year
| from the Midwest Life of Lincoln. This
is an old line company, writing up-to-
date policies at lowest safe rates pos
sible. No estimates but clean protec-
ton for Nebraska homes. This COM
pany is backed by Nebraska capital
and business men and the premiums
| paid to it remain in this state. Write
the company for information.
A peddler stopped at the home Of
Eilert Cramer in Gage county over
night and asked lodgings. He was
| given quarters, but soon after his de-
parture the next morning Mr. Cramer
missed his pocketbook and $40 which
he had placed on clock shelf.
| Cramer gave chase and catching up
with the peddler, gave him a sound
drubbing and secured the money.
The number of shipments from
Broken Bow during the past year
makes fine showing, OF cattle there
were PA cars; hogs, 217 cars; horses
and mules, forty-two cars; wheat,
ninetyone cars; corn, oats, hay, -four
and feed, ninety-seven cars; 6S7 cases
of eggs nearly 10000 pounds of but
ter and 50,715 pounds of hides.
Retrenchment in freight service on
1 It's branch lines was inaugurated by
the Union Pacific, when three trains
were laid off on the Columbus di-
vision. The Grand Island local
freight was discontinued and traffic
will be handled Dy the through freight.