The Columbus journal., 1909-07-21
NEBRASKA N BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
all SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit-
te1l and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.

will be held in Lincoln July q.
A test case of the eight-hour closing
law is being made in Omaha.
The new German NJ. E. church at
Harvard has been formally dedicated.
landlord Thompson of York is look
Ing for man for whom he cashed q
$35 bogus check.
Joseph Pop of Weston, who was
shot In the hand with a blank pistol
July 3, died in an Omaha hospital.
Madison citizens are investigating
the proposition of a sewerage system.
Albert Thomas. farmer residing
eight and one-half miles southeast of
Edgar, shot and fatally wounded him.
self. He was of unsOund mind.
The body of Perry Jerrlan was
brought to Beatrice from Rawlins,
Wyo., for interment He was drowned
last September at that place and the
body was not found until recently.
A telegram was received in Beatrice
from Los Angeles. Cal. announcing
the death of w. E. Boldly. a former
resident of Beatrice. which occurred
at that place after years illness.
The Alma state bank is the name of
a new banking company chartered by
the state banking board The bank
will have a paid up capital stock of
$4,000. The incorporates are ]. B.
Billings and A. A. Billings.
The barn on the farm of George Col
lett, near Pickrell. was destroyed by
fire entailing loss of about $1,000.
Two valuable hores and a lot of ma
chinery and grain were consumed by
tina flames.
County Attorney J. C. Cook of
Dodge county and Sheriff A. Bauman
by express were made recipients OF
two handsome leather canes as tokens
from Oscar Gardner, a life convict at
the state 7enitentiary.
The Union Pacific has filed an an
swer with the state railway commits
sion in the complaint of George Bar
rett against the company for not main
tanning telephone service in its depots
at Sheldon and Gibbon.
Andrew Meyer of Lyons was taken
to Tekamah by the county sheriff for
safe keeping, as there had been talk
of public whipping He is the man
who is charged with whipping his wife
on several occasions.
The 2-year-old child of Mrs. Myrtle
TrOyer of Lexington, which had been
lost In the hills twenty-six miles
of Lexington. was found af-
ter search of forty-two hours. The
child was in good condition.
The oatmeal machinery in the Sew
ard cereal mills is to be taken out
and alfalfa milling machinery installed
with a capacity of twenty tons a day
Mrs. ]. w. Cook. Omaha. attempted
suicide by shooting herself. Her
chances for recovery are slim.
A telegram from Boise. Idaho. to
an Auburn citizen states that all the
against Edward Neal who
was charged with forgery and enter
ing false entries in bank in that
,ity, have been dismissed on the mo-
ion of the prosecution. Mr.. Neal
lived in Auburn several years ago.
George Fendrich, prominent ranch
nan near Hemmingford. had a rum
way with team hitched to a mower
md caught in one of the wheels and
ragged several hundred rods. He
vas dragged through the NiObrara
liver twice and was terribly bruised
md one leg was broken in three
places.
Christ Meyer. farmer. aged about
Is years. living three miles northeast
# Berlin. met with a serious accident
lie was cutting wheat with binder,
irving four horses. and in some way
he horses became unmanageable and
an away with him. throwing him off
he seat in front of the sickle bar. He
vas badly cut.
Omaha continues to be the fourth
rain market of the United States.
he comparative government report
or May shows Chicago. Minneapolis
nd st. Louis ahead of Omaha. and
Kansas City. Milwaukee. Cincinnati
nd other grain centers trailing off be-
ind. The relative standing for the
lonth is the same as all through this
ear.
Washington dispatch: The abstract
the condition of the national banks
Nebraska. excluding reserve cities
the close of business on June p as
epOrted to the comptroller of cur.
ency shows the average reserve held
1914 against 1858 per cent April
3. Loans and discounts increased
ON s50.2S2.051 to $o1.0O1.575; gold
Din from s1.6S6.455 to s1.740.7i7; law
II money reserve decreased from s4.-
1926 to $4112.S36; individual de-
osits increased from S52.635, 427 to
'2721.3 1853.
The Beatrice city council went upon
cord as opposed to skating Kinks by
assing an ordinance which imposes
hat is supposed to be a prohibitive
x upon Kinks.
A curious feature discovered in
roken Bow after the Fourth of July
LIBERATION was the partial demolition u
the Drake store roof by rockets. It q
ems that the rockts shot from the q
'eworks stand were SO aimed that
triton of them fell on the building
ID punched holes through the tin U
ofing. One of the sticks penetrated
'th the roof and ceiling. and was
und on the inside OF the store. II
DR.. E. K Paine. deputy state veter- u
arian for the Fairbury district. says q
e farmers are very much interested :.