The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-08-04
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.

0O0 = ere OvST Tue 0S0VSe i
Six men Z willing to serve Merrick
county in t,.e capacity of sheriff.
By vote. Sutton defeated the propo-
sition tc ex end the water works sys-
TEN.
A forger operated at Beatrice, |
muicting business men to the extent |
OF about So.
Threshing now going on in Eamil
ton county shows a wheat yield OF
from % to - bushels
At Fuller IN Harry Campbell got
caught in the Setting of the roller mill
and had his arm badly crushed
A. j. McDo aid, 4 pioneer citizen OF
Weeping Wa -er. So years old. while
painting the roof OF building, lost
his balance and fell distance Of ten
feet His injuries will probably prove
fatal.
News reached Auburn Of the death
of Alberta Rediug. wife of Thomas
Reding, farmer living six miles
north, from the effects of headache
powders that she had taken to get re-
lief
According to the annual report of
County Superintendent King. there are
twenty-five male and IA; female teach
ers in Otoe county. There was paid
To male teachers last year $13,O25 and
females ss2.l95.25.
General Manager Sturges of the
Omaha Corn show has gone west in
the interest of the coming exhibit,
r. I.
last year.
The Fremont police found Mrs.
James Bland and her infant daughter
in the union passenger station, and
Mrs. Bland explained that she had
been there Tor two days without food.
She said her husband had deserted
her.
At Central City young man who
refused to give his name pleaded
guilty before Judge Peterson to having
stolen ninety-six bottles of beer from
a Union Pacific car and was sentenced
to ten days in the county Jail.
Dennis Lyhenne died at his home
southwest Of Sutton from the effects
OF injuries suffered in 4 runaway which
occurred little over a week ago. Mr..
Lyhenne at the time OF his death was
sixty-seven years old. He leaves a
wife, three daughters and five sons.
SN beats. a Missouri Pacific brake
man on a local freight train running
between Auburn and Omaha was
ground to pieces at Talmage. He
WAS switching cars and in some way
fell in front of the cars and before
the train could be stopped his body
was cut to pieces.
The Nebraska Bankers association
will meet in Omaha and the conven.
ton will be held September 8 and 9.
Secretary w. B. Hughes is now work
ing out the details of the meeting
which includes speakers and place
of meeting and entertainment for the
bankers while in the states metrOpO
lis
Three sales of public land were
made at the United States land Office
in Lincoln last week. One. a tract OF
forty acres In Chase county. brought
SI.25 an acre A tract of eighty-twO
acres in Dundy county sold for $3.50
per acre, and $50 acres in Chase cOun
" sold for ST % per acre. All of the
land sold was grazing land.
John Head of North Bend was prob
ably fatally injured and Fred bunker
had a narrow escape from death. wher
a bridge between North Bend and
Pleasant Valley which the two mel
attempted to cross with threshint
otufit gave way, precipitating the en-
CINE with the men on board into the
creek.
ID. c. Proper OF Nebraska City, ;
contractor. met with peculiar acct
dent while doing some work about
building which he was repairing. HI
had occasion to take of 4 door. ant
not thinking it was held very fast. h
tried to wrench it off. The door CAV
way partially. some of the nails pull
ing heads through the lumber. TIL
door sprung back into place. and on
oi the nails. head-On. was drive
through the nail OF one of his finger:
and Mr. Proper was held fast for som
time, until his cries for help brOugE
assistance The wound is a serlOu
one and may cause hin to lose hi
finger.
&c. Rosenberger. a large land hOlt
er south of Hemingford in the vicinit
of what was NOnpareil before the al
vent of the railroad. has sued person
from Colorado for the recovery {
notes aggregating $4,000. secured b
six of the finest quarter sections ]
Box Butte county. worth $23 per acr
II the plans of the committee a.
uointed to propose them are adOpte
by the LiederkranZ society, Grand Is
and will another year have fine a
ditorium. seating nearly 5000 peopl
The society has an entire block
real estate free from all indebtedne.
ard centrally located only one-half I
which il is occupying with its own e
elusive hall.
John P Nicholson. "a whOlesa
liquor dealer of Nebraska City. WI
over in Iowa a few days since in b
auto. Some farmers set two dogs I
him as he passed in his machine al
as the road was rough and heshad
travel slow one of the dogs grabb'
the front wheel and ditched the n
chine. MIR. Nicholson shot the dc
after righting his machine. and W.
rant has been issued for his arrest
Shenandoah.
Three well-dreSSed men, riding
an auto for which they were payi
$50 per day to take them around
see the farmers, attempted to CO
.r,ot yrheat from, al cents to 81 q