The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-09-02
mesRAs,<A mews AND NOTES.

lance Over the State.
Taft end Bryan clubs are being or.
ganized In all Nebraska towns.
Lightning recently killed number
Of cattle and horses in Gage county.
The Fenton baby. which was scald-
ed at Tecumseh. died from its inJu-
ries.
A two-year-old child Of Irvine Pat
rick at Harrington drank I've and died
In a few hours.
The Pioneers and Old Settlers as
ISOLATION of Burt county had 5000
PEOPLE at their picnic.
o. September 9 the county judges
of the state will convene at Hastings
20 consider matters of needed legis-
latlon.
Farmers about Valentine are con-
cerned for the welfare of the corn
crop in view of cold weather that has
set in.
The German Catholic church. ten
miles northeast of Osceola. burned,
together with all contents. Origin OF
the fire Is unknown.
A white man who came to Nebras-
ka City and was living with a negro
woman. whom he claimed was his
wife. was given the alternative Of
leaving the city or going to Jail by
the officers.
Commander Hoyt Of the Grand Is
land soldiers home called upon Gov
crncr Sheldon and confirmed the re-
port of the resignation Of Adjutant J.
w. Bowen. which win be effective
September 1.
The 2-year-old baby boy Of John
Omesher, living twelve miles south.
west of Valentine, was drowned. The
baby had wandered away from the
house and fell into a barrel sunken
under a spring.
For the second time within the
past two months the mill dam at
Hclmesville has been washed away.
This will necessitate closing the mill
until q new concrete dam can be built
some time this fall.
The latter part of last week an
agent of the Argentine Republic was
in Jefferson county, and while there
bought six Expansion-G Grand Look FO-
land China hogs to be exported from
New York September 9Th.
Andrew Temple and Reuben Camp
bell, living near Benkelman. had trou-
BILE about the trespassing Of stock.
resulting in the former filling the
latter with bird shot. The matter
will be aired in the courts.
A rapid administration of justice
occurred in Tekamah. when George
Ringer pleaded guilty before Judge
Sears to the charge of burglary and
vas sentenced to term Of seven
years in the state penitentiary.
A suit involving a half interest in a
$4,000 estate has been filed in the
district court of Merrick county. The
plaintiff in the suit is John n. Hig-
gins, who claims a child's interest In
the estate of his stepfather, John Hig-
giLs, who died last December.
A good sized freight wreck occur
red on the Burlington at Berwyn, ten
miles east of Broken Bow, in which
As, containing about 500 head of cat
tie and horses, were completely ditch
ed. About thirty head of cattle and
twenty head of horses were killed.
Del Dare of the vicinity Of Burweli.
was arraigned before United States
Commissioner Cleary at Grand Island
and gave preliminary hearing on the
charge of violating the Lacy law by
shipping prairie chickens for the mar
ket. Game Warden Carter was one Of
the principal witnesses, there being
nine or ten others.
Mrs. Starkey, the woman 1ho was
shot in the army by her divorced
husband at the home of his father.
whittier she had gone to interview
hin. is still suffering from the effects
of the shot, the arm being in quite
bad condition. She is at present at
the home of her father. near Grand
Island. in care of physicians.
Hid away in an old trunk the au-
thorities at Humphrey found $1.9S0.35
in currency, gold and small change,
representing the hoardings of Gus
Blessing, the hermit who was found
dead in his room. This amount about
balanced with the records in his cash
book. Some of the paper money bore
dates which indicate that it had been
laid away years ago. Blessing was
60 years Cd.
The sheriff of Cherry county re-
turned from Merriam, bringing with
him Jake Sanders, whom he went up
after and arrested for assault with
intent to do great bodily injury. He
had beaten up his wife. having used
q club. and then had taken a case
knife and cut and hacked her about
the head, having almost scalped her.
Sanders waived examination and wa;
bound over to the district court.
Sheriff Young brought to Kearney
Loue Racy. charged with the murder
Of Robert L. Stewart at Wolsey. 1t
was developed at the inquest that
the two men were seen to enter an
old mill at Wolsey together. Racy
fails to give account of himself and
circumstances strongly indicate his
guilt. Stewart was a plasterer from:
Brookings. and was apparently chok-
ed to death and thrown into a bin in
the min.
John Boulton, an old settler Of thir-
ty years in Adams county, residing
Two miles south Of Juniata. commit
ted suicide by drinking strychnine. lie
W.. an invalid %