The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-11-18

NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES,
Items OF Greater or Lesser Impor.
lance Over the State.
Chicken thieves have Of late been
numerous In Ot0e county.
The big Touring mill at Pierce
burned last week. The loss is So. 600
A. w. Taylor, an Omaha carpenter
fell from an eight-story building and
died from his injuries.
Omaha is making big preparations
for the corn show in December. Rail
roads will give reduced rates. :
l. Hamper, . farmer of Hayes Cen.
ter. committed suicide on account OF
domestic difficulty. He leaves two
daughters.
Farmers should all have telephones.
Write to US and learn how to get the
best service for the least money. Ne
braska Telephone Company, 18th and
Douglas streets. Omaha. use the
Bell"
Magnus Anderson of Bertrand is
erecting a new building for the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows
loage No. 1873. 1t is to be a two
story structure, the contract price
being $4,000.
; Elmer Lewis was killed in the rail-
!load yards at Ravenna. He had just
come in on q freight train and STEP
ped of from the caboose. A switch
engine going in the opposite direc-
ton struck him.
The day set for the doings in the
matter of the Young Mems Christian
association at Columbus, November
%, has been called of, as they were
not ready. and it will be held the
first week in December.
Vaclav Bohaty, aged forty-nine. a
farmer residing about six miles north.
east of David City. was adjudged
dipsomaniac by the board of insanity
commissioners and taken to the hos
pital at Lincoln by Sheriff West.
If arrangements 60 as planned, Mrs.
Pierce and Mrs. Holdsworth, two ar
dent Bryan women of Valley, will
haul Mrs. Ramsey and Mrs. Kennedy.
equally ardent Taft women. in a
pushcart from the postofice corner
to the opera house.
In district court at PlattsmOuth
Judge H. D. Travis sentenced James
Smith, colored, to serve five years
in the state penitentiary. Smith was
convicted of entering and stealing
from the home of Mrs. Jennie Schild-
knecht of that city.
Move to town and live off the in
come from the farm. Roosevelt will
take care of the children" This was
the substance of a note to his wife
found in the peck of Ira Best, a
well-to-do farmer, "a years old, who
committed suicide by hanging him.
self in the barn on his farm, eighteen
miles northwest of Schuyler. He is
believed to have been temporarily in!
sane.
A monster cement bridge is being
erected across South Table creek at
the foot of Central avenue in Ne
braska City to take the place of the
steel one which was carried away b.
a storm and high water. This is the
first bridge of this kind to be put in
in that county and If it is satisfactory
the commissioners expect to put in
many more.
A twenty-mile walk is what is COM
ing to F. A. Meltondorf of Valentine
as a result of a bet on Bryan. A
wager was made between him and
George Christopher of Simeon that if
Bryan was elected Christopher was
to walk in and notify Mr.. Meltondorf,
and in case of Taft being elected
was to walk out and no.
tify Mr.. Christopher.
Mrs. August Mueller of Richardson
county was killed and her husband
probably fatally injured when a bug
gy in which they were riding was
run into by an automobile. The
driver of the automobile sought to
stop the machine and partly succeed
ed but Mueller's horse plunged wild
ly, throwing the occupants under
the buggy and the automobile.
A suit for damages in the sum of
s625 has been filed in the county
court against the Union Pacific by
The Blue Springs Farmers Elevator
company. Plaintiffs allege that last
June they sent q car of wheat to a
grain firm in Omaha. When the car
reached its destination there was a
shortage of 72O bushels. which had
either been lost or stolen.
While performing his duties as
night Waterman at the mill of the
T. B. Hord Alfalfa Meal company in
central City, Sherman Grub had an
exciting experience with some rob-
bers, and as a result carries bullet
in his left hand. He encoun-
tered two men stealing cement, the
outcome of which was above related.
rke would-be robbers escaped.
AS the result of a shooting ARRAY
near Alliance, Lizzie Braner is in
he hospital, fatally wounded, and her
brother, Charles Braner, who did the
and her sweetheart, Frank
are in the county pail.
Braner objected to the attentions OF
Augustine to his sister. and when the
young couple went riding the brother
them. Miss Braner was
wearing the fur coat of her escort,
md, mistaking her for the man. Bra
Ter shot her at short range. Discov-
ering his mistake. he fired at short
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