The Columbus journal., 1908-07-22
NEWS AND NOTES.
Items Of Greater or Lesser Impoc
lance Over the State.

Items Of Greater or Lesser 1mpor.
lance Over the State.
The county assessment OF Douglas
county totals $32,793.424.
Corn brought more money on tho
Omaha market Saturday morning, says
an Omaha paper, than In Chicago
for the first time in the history OF the
Omaha market. according to grain
dealers. On the floor of the exchange
J. B. Swearengen sold eight carloads
to the Transmissippi Grain company
for Is cents per bushel. 1t was No.
corn and few minutes after the sale
was closed Mr.. Swearengen was oner-
ed 75A cents for 5000 bushels. The
highest price in Chicago was "a cents.
Mrs. Amelia Barr of Plattsmouth re-
ceived q telegram saying that her
youngest son, aged 16 years. was
drowned Sunday in Pennsylvania.
william Walter, blacksmith of Bur-
ress, q village seven miles south CT
Exeter, was accidentally shot with
22-caliber rife in the hands Of his H.
through the thickest part of his thigh,
causing considerable hemorrhage and
pain.
Rev. F. NJ. Sturdevant, for the last
four years pastor of the Tecumseh
Baptist church, has resigned. asking
that his resignation take effect Octo-
Der 1. There is no discOrd between
the pastor and the church members.
rather quite the contrary. However.
Rev. Mr.. Sturdevant desires to make
q change.
Sheriff T. W. Carroll came to Repub-
lican City from Alma and arrested o.
ear Kent on q peace warrant sworn
out by his wife. Kent was taken be-
fore County Judge Shelborne and
placed under $500 bonds. Kent, 1t is
alleged, has been abusive to his wife,
on more than one occasion has struck
her and threatened to take her life.
While putting up hay on his fathers
farm near Fullerton. George N. Carter.
aged 20. was overcome by the heat.
When Dr. Barber arrived he found the
young mans eyes set and body rap
idly growing cold. He brought him
to the Carter home in town and after
much work was rejoiced TO see
change for the better in Carter's con-
dition.
At Ravenna the fats" played the
leans" a game of baseball and won
by a score of 9-S. The proceeds OF
the game, nearly $4,000 were do
mated to the good roads fund"
club of fifty members has been raised
and much more will be secured from
time to time, as the road question Is
the most serious one Ravenna bust
ness men have to contend with.
A freight train No. rs, eastbound.
! on the Burlington ran over and killed
August Crumroy of Culbertson. three
quarters of a mile east of that place.
Crumroy was walking in the middle OF
the track and was practically ground
to pieces by the engine and cars.
The man was evidently very hard OF
hearing, as he paid no attention to re-
peated whistling by the locomotive.
Albert H. Evans. liveryman OF
Wray, Colo, was tried before Justice
of the Peace H. H. Berry Of McCook
charged with adultery, and was held
to appear at the next term OF the
district court; his appearance bond be-
| ing fixed at $780, A Mrs. Brady OF
near Wray is the woman in the case,
and the crime is alleged to have been
| committed at McCook. May 70, 19Os.
Boston dispatch: Arthur o. Kelley
of Franklin, N. H.. expects to assume
this fall the position of professor OF
biology at Doane college, Neb. Mr..
Kelley is a graduate Of Dartmouth,
with the degrees of A. B. and A. NJ.
and last year was an instructor In
biology in that institution. Mr.. Kelley
comes of New Hampshire stock and
is one of the most brilliant young men
in that state.
The greater per cent of the wheat
crop in johnson county has been cut.
Most farmers seem to think the crop
will be a fair one. Corn on the hills
where it has been dry enough to work
is being freed from the weeds and.
after a week of dry weather, the low
land corn can be worked. Some farm
ers who have lands on the extreme
lowlands have lost their crops as
result of floods.
That Merrick county is to have
drainage ditch, constructed on scien'
tiic principles and extending the
whole length Of the county and re-
| claiming 100 600 acres of land which
during every wet season like the pres
ent one are more or less useless for
agricultural purposes. seems quite
probable of realization il the recon-
mendations of the government experts,
who are there going over the pro-
posed route of the ditch. are needed.
New York dispatch: Forty-three
school teachers, forty-one Of them
from Nebraska and thirty-nine of them
women, went to Ellis Island and saw
how immigrants are received. They
are stopping at the Cosmopolitan
hotel. l. A. Downey, state inspector
of normal training in high schools II
Nebraska, is in charge of the party
and Mrs. Sarah Brindley is chaperon
The teachers were selected from va
rious towns in Nebraska by schoo
boards. They are studying pedagogy
and psychology in the various places
they visit.
An incident of the big flood II
Wheeler county was the destruction
of the dam which C. A. Sitter was
| hu;ldinp at Ericsson