The Columbus journal., 1908-02-05
NEBRASKA POINTERS
STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON
DENSED EoRM.
THEPREss, PULPIT AND PUBLIC
what ie Going on Here and There That
% of Interest 70 the Readers
ThrouQhout Nebraska.

A great religious revival is on at
Dawson.
Fire in a livery stable at Exeter
burned eleven horses.
The new high school building at
Arlington is about completed.
Lincoln women are moving in the
matter of state wide prohibition.
Evangelistic meetings are in fro
gress at Table Rock, with much in
terest manifested.
The Rev. H. J. Bailey. lately Of the
Province of Quebec. has been appoint
ed rector of Grace Episcopal church Of
Tecumseh.
Some Nebraska towns are holding
meetings and discussing currency
plans. reporting their deliberations to
Washington.
A Washington dispatch says that
Ross Hammond of Fremont will be
appointed collector of internal revenue
In Nebraska.
The Tecumseh Commercial club is
making arrangements to properly Gel
ebrate the completion of new electric
lighting plant.
Sneak thieves entered the Second
Presbyterian church of Norfolk and
stole 1856 pennies that had been col
lected to purchase a picture.
In another column of this paper
will be found list Of representative
Nebraska business houses. When you
thovo iNvS
this paper.
A daughter of I. V. Hudson of Ne
braska City started to quicken a ire
with coal oil and an explosion fol-
lowed. blowing the range to pieces
and burning the young lady about the
face.
A disastrous runaway occurred at
Broken Bow. when Mrs. DIR. BarthOlO-
new. wife of a well known physician.
and Miss Raymond of Lincoln were
thrown from a buggy and seriously in
jured.
A horse buyer from the west was at
SCOTS Bluffs and bought two car
loads of the best grade Of horses. The
first load was shipped to Denver.
Prices ranged from 800 to $3.50 per
head.
In county court at Chappell Robert
Miller of Oshkosh. was bound over in
the sum of $1,000 to appear in district
court in April for assaulting James
Caslin, a hotel keeper at Oshkosh,
Christmas night.
York county is receiving consider
able from inheritance tax. County
Judge Arthur Wray assessed and col
lected last week $15O5O from the Got
tlieb HOeffer estate The value of the
estate was $4,000.
The other evening as Burlington
train No. 12O left Lincoln. a cattle car
filed with baled hay was discovered
to be on fire. The train ran to Sal
tillO. where the car was set out and
burned on side track.
Engineer j. HibbOn of the North
western had his face badly powder
burned by an explosion of gases in
the firebox. He had opened the box
to see why the steam was falling,
when the explosion occurred.
Among other things which the fire.
men did while holding a convention
in Nebraska City was to adopt a resO-
luton asking the legislature to erect
a monument to the deceased members
of the volunteer firemen of this state.
While his wife and 12-year-Old son
were searching for him. Charles H.
Kipp. active head of the kerr-Kipp
wholesale firm. Hastings. committed
suicide in his warehouse by firing a
bullet through his brain.
PatrOnize Nebraska Life Insur-
ance Company. You can get as good
old line life insurance and at as low
a cost in the Midwest Life as you can
anywhere in the United States. Write
to the home Office. 1907 "O'' Street.
Lincoln, for particulars as to the new
low cost policies which the Midwest
life is now issuing.
Superintendent w. J. O'Brien of the
state fisheries was in Lincoln going
home from Valentine. He has been
there with 100000 brook trout eggs to
place in the sub-hatcEery at that place.
In April he will take lot OF rainbow
trout eggs there for Matching. These
fish will after Matching be scattered in
the streams of northern Nebraska.
wherever conditions are favorable to
their existence.
J. C. Cameron. of Beaver City. was
held up on his way home by an un-
known highwayman. Cameron was
carrying a cash box containing con-
siderable amount of money and was
attacked in a dark spot. Taken by
surprise. he was at first staggered. but
regaining himself, set upon his antag-
onist. and finally put him to fight.
The cash box was smashed open in
the conflict, but its contents were not
lost
The Nebraska Cement Users assO
citation will meet in Lincoln February
4, 5 and in its third annual session.
It is expected that fully $50 members
of the association will be in attend
ance.
Attorney General Thompson has re-
ceived a telegram from Sheriff H. ].
Peterson of Phelps county, who is in
Tenn, after one GregmOr.
wanted on a felony charge. saying