Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-16
Nebraska NeMn Nntea.

BEATRICE-The Johnson-Terry habeas
corpus case has been set for hearing next
Tuesday in the district court. Mr.. John
terday.
BEATRICE-Judge Raper yesterday set
Monday, July 10, as the date for hearing
the Blakely divorce case. Forty-one wit
nesses have been subpeoned by the plain
tiff, Mrs. Blakely.
KEARNEY-A democratic county con-
vention will be held at the city han in
electors are to meet Wednesday. July 2l.
to select delegates to the county conven-
ton.
BEATRICE-The body of Perry Jerman
was brought here Thursday evening from
Rawlins, Wyo., for interment. He was
drowned last September at that place and
the body was not found until last Mon
CENTRAL CITY-The funeral Of Henry
McGath, ST., was held at Clsrks Thursday.
Mr.. Mccall died while visiting in Ohio,
his death resulting from complications
arising from a broken hip sustained by
falling. He was 81 years of ago, a veteran
of the civil war, and widely known and re-
spected.
KEARNEY-The high water in the Platte
river has interfered will traffic from
across the river at this point, there being
about a hundred yards Of water over the
road at the north end Of the bridge. Sew
eral automobiles have been stuck and re-
quired the use of the old faithful horse to
pull them out.
LYONS-Transfer was made to Fred En-
field Of Lyons by the Bell Telephone COM
pany of its local interests here. Mr.. En-
field is blocking out his new Individual ser
vice and arranging his secret phone
system. He is also proposing to put
cables into the town and is making re-
pairs generally.
NEBRASKA CITY-The police arrested
a man who had been soliciting pictures
for enlargement and collecting in advance
for the same and made him refund the
money. The man was then escorted out Of
the city. This old scheme has been worked
here several times and the police have
been instructed to put a stop to 1t in the
future.
HEMINGFORD-June 81 was the fifth
anniversary OF the going into effect of
the kinkaid homestead law and those
'kinkaiders" who filed the first few days
now have completed their five years resi-
dence. Many Of them will prove up this
summer and fall. They are required to
have $500 in Improvements, besides resi-
dence and cultivation as under the old law.
HEMINGFORD-George Fendrich, a pro-
minent ranchman, who has been married
but a rev weeks, had a runaway with a
team hitched to a mower and caught in
one of the wheels and dragged several
hundred rods. He was dragged through the
NlObrara river twice and was terribly
bruised and one leg was broken in three
places. His INJURIES were so severe that he
was taken to the hospital in Alliance.
SEWARD-The oatmeal machinery In the
Seward cereal mills is to be taken out
and alfalfa milling machinery installed
with a capacity Of twenty tons a day. The
name of the new mills will be the Seward
Cereal and Alfalfa Milling company. The
corn milling machinery will be retained
in the mill for the manufacture of the
various corn products, in connection with
the alfalfa meal mill grinding. Ten men
will be employed.
KEARNEY-Miss Ella Foster of Buck
eye was struck by a runaway horse Wed
nesday morning while crossing the street
near the Midway hotel. The horse was
hitched to a butcher wagon and ran north
on Central avenue. Miss Foster did not see
II approaching and was struck by the
boulder of the horse and knocked down,
the vehicle passing over her. She was
taken into the Midway hotel and attended
by physicians who pronounced her injuries
slight outside of numerous scratches.
WYMORE-The Wymore Hardware Co,
stock and business was purchased yester-
day by A. d. Lasher and w. H. Welle-
meyer the other hardware dealers of the
city. They will divide the stock. Mr..
Lasher previously had purchased the
building occupied by the Wymore Hard
ware, and will move his stock into tina
store room. John Cox, who owned the
Wymore Hardware Co, will return to his
home in Colorado Springs. He had been
here only a few weeks. The stock and bus
mess just sold has changed hands a good
many times in the past year.