Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-20
Nebraska News Notes.


| five hours.
/ ALBION-Quite a number of Company
Nj, National Guard, left this morning Ior
Ashland to participate in the target prae-
| tice at that place.
WEST POINT--The new officers of the
! County central committee of the republi-
| can party of Cunning county are Il. n.
Macg, chairman II; M. Bassinger, secre-
tary; and Henry Behrens, treasurer.
! NEBRASKA CITY - Louis Wilberger,
while working in abe hay field Sunday,
was overcome by the heat and for a time
| il was feared he had lost his mind. lie
is under the care of aylhysician and will
/ recover. s%zAugS s-a
PERRIN celebration of their fifieth
wedding anniversary Mr.. and Mrs. ID. {.
| Cole leave this week for Minneapolis, Mimi,
where they expect to make an extended
visit among Mr.. Coles brothers whom he
has not seen for years.
PERU--Thursday, July 49, has been set
! for the laying of the cornerstone of the
new administration building at the Normal
| school, Senator T.. j. Burkett will be
! present and make the principal address on
! the New Woman and the Young Man.
! PERU-Division superintendent Lyman,
I accompanied by the chief engineer, was
in Peru Tuesday and while here decided
upon the location for the new depot The
/ engineer will soon return TO stake off the
grounds and the work of, building Will be-
| gin at once.
NEBRASKA CITY-Father John Hahn,
pastor of the st Mary's Catholic church,
! has resigned and will go to Orleans, Neb.,
to take charge of the church at that place
Lis place VIII be filled by priest from
Ohio. Father Hahn breaches his farewell
sermon on August Z
| WEST POINT-Miss Gertrude Lindale, a
graduate of the stenographic department
OF the Omaha Commercial college. has
4 stenographer, this being the first one in the
history of the city where the public needs
call for an office of this kind.
II sHUBERT-The funeral of David Ward,
A,.tNr hall Of he hn-
dist church in Shubert, followed by burial
at Prairie Union. Mr.. Ward was blowing
in the corn field when stricken with bowel
|, trouble, and lived only few hours. The
widow and six children survive.
WEST POINT-C. F. Schonlau, editor OF
the Houston Signal at Houston, Mimi,
visited the city of his birth yesterday for
the first time in thirty years. His father,
the late DIR. SchOnlau established the Ne
braska Volksblatt, a German publication
at West Point thirty-five years ago.
WEST POINT-During the last six days
a total of "a inches Of rain has fallen In
the vicinity of West Point Corn never
looked better, hay has yielded better drop
than was expected and pastures have re-
} vived considerably. Taken altogether the
average of the crops OF the county will be
up to the normal standard.
WEST POINT-Mrs. John Holtz passed
away last evening at her home northwest
Of the city at the age of So years. A sor
and two daughters survive. The funeral
A obsequies will be celebrated by Rev. M
Leimer pastor of the Rock German Luth
: eran church. Mrs. Holtz was a widow OF
! one of the earliest pioneers Of this county
NEBRASKA CITY-The Robert Graves
D company of New York City filed suit In
; the county court against w. S. Hyer, the
statloner, and an attachment was placed
/, In the hands of the sheriff This is the
. fourth attachment against the stock anC
the NNSereabOuts Of the owner of the stocl
is not known, as he Is on the road trav
cling for picture moulding firm.
NEBRASKA CITY-Yesterday morning
No.. Lob nh. H. T.
ern part of the city, went up stairs with
lamp In her hand TO get some medicine
In coming down she tripped and fell, tn,
D lamp exploded and the house was sooI
1 ablaze. Mrs. Rousch was rescued, although
! slightly burned. and the house was saved
but the contents were destroyed.
ALBION-The political candidates, VIII,
have filed for the several offices In Boone
county, are as follows: State senator
Aubrey A. Smith, republican; e. G. Barnes
d democrat; representative, Roscoe Smith
2. republican; o. H. t1ory, democrat; I've
d England, pOpulist; county attorney, o. NJ
Needham, republican; F. j. Mack, demo
lcrat.
WEST PoINT2Twenty-fiv men tool
IS part in the blue rock shoot at the farm o
n August Reichlnger on Sunday, wherein
T. the high score of % was won by II. II
| Benne. William Raduechel came in secon'
J. with 81, and Nicholas Peatrowsky with q
e These meeting of the sportsmen OF tn
% county are becoming exceedingly popular
- being held alternately on the farms Withll
- easy distance of West Point
e ALTOONA distressing accident occurre,
p yesterday at the home of Mr.. Il. l.. Mans
J. field. when one of his daughters, Will
starting fire in gasoline stove, was Sc
verely burned. IL appears that the oil
u became ignited while she was endeaVorinl
lie to start the generator, and in a secon
In she was perfectly covered with the burning
y fluid. While very painfully burned, 1t /
20 thought she will recover.
WEST POINT-County Judge Dewald OF
Il, ficiated at the marriage of Arthur Zuhl
s. and Miss Ida Otterstein, we'll known an
ID popular young people of Neigh township
:. The groom is the son of William Zuhlkt
d; a well known old settler OF Neigh town
d, ship. and the bride daughter OF Ludwi
Is Otterstein. both OF them being born an
rs brought up In this county, the children @
I; pioneer settlers. They will reside on thei
own farm In the neighboThoOd Of their oil
home.
y NEBRASKA CITY - An eighteen-year
:, old son OF Conductor William Griffin, Will
"a playing ball yesterday, was struck in TN
a. back by she knee OF another boy who wa
In running bases, and ruptured one of hi
kidneys. The young man In a ser
lous condition and was taken to Oman
, Monday evening, where he will undergo
Ia surgical operation. The young man di
:, not realize at first that he was as seriousl
Injured 1t proved to be later and con
l. tinued playing ball for some little tim
30 before he tainted and had. to be carrie
home,
summer suits 10 order III. 80. reduced fror