The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-06-15
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
News Notes Of Interest From various
Sections.

News Notes Of Interest From various
| Sections.
A. E. Cady of st. Paul Is urged to
make the race for governor.
The new postmaster at SCOTS BluR
has entered upon his duties.
Omahans are talking of a railroad
between that city and Yankton. s. d.
The farm home of ]. H. Lee Of
Dodge county was destroyed by fire.
Democrats Of Central City are plan
ming a big jOllification for some time
in June
The Nebraska Liquor Dealers asso-
citation held their annual convention
in Omaha last week.
The dates for the holding Of the
kearney chautauQua have been set for
July 1G to "a. inclusive.
Miss Jane Blunt, teacher of mathe-
mates in the Fremont high school.
has resigned. She is going to wed.
G. H. Stanley jumped from Burling.
ton train No. ~ just before 1t reached
the Seward yards and was badly hurt.
Seventy-one graduates Of rural
schools in Dodge county received di.
plomas from the county superin-
tendent.
John johnson. aged about fifty-five.
was found dead in a back room Of
shoemaker's shop In Omaha. Death
was due to asphyxiation.
One hundred or more teachers at
tended the Franklin county institute.
A monument marking the old Ore
gon trail was unveiled in Kearney.
Hans Hanson. a pioneer resident Of
Holbrook and vicinity. committed |
suicide by shooting with a Shotgun
while alone In his bedroom. He kept
q blacksmith shop there for the past
fifteen years, and had been q resident |
OF that section for the past thirty
years.
Last evening Curtis Thompson, q
we'll known character. about Nebraska
City. went to his room. which was In
the basement Of a house in the east
ern part Of the city. and cut his
throat. He bled to death before any
one could reach him. He had been
drinking much Of late.
State Superintendent Bishop filed q
report with Governor Shallenberger
showing the receipts and disburse-
ments of the Office for the six months
beginning December I, 1909. The re-
ceipts from the registration of certi-
ficates In the last six months have
been $3.176.S2. OF the appropriations
under supervision Of the department,
/ balance Of ,-.,37.33 Is shown In the
Junior normal fund. the appropriation
Ior which for the biennum was
10000.
Sheriff Beal Of Keith county landed
Thomas F. Shireman in the peniten-
larry to serve term of three years.
Tor bringing him back from Canada
o stand trial Mr.. Beal has filed with
he state auditor bill for $5G772. OF
his amount $50 was PAM to an attor-
ley in Canada who assisted the officer
vhen Shireman fought extradition. -,
After being out less than ten hours ,,
he jury in the Heddendorf case at 9
IOldrege returned with a verdict in ,
which they found the defendant not
utility of the charge of murder on =
'hich he was held. The verdict was n
ute in keeping with Judge Dungan's =
and was looked for by g.
nose who had given the case the
losest attention since its commence n
lent.
Judge Travis has called a special
erm OF the district court of Otoe .,
ounty. at which time Judge Pember- *
IN Of Beatrice will be present and o
y the case of Houston VS.. the mayor ~
nd city council. 1t Is a suit pertain
e to the granting of the water and =.
ght franchise =,
The farmers Of this section. says q =.
eaver City dispatch. are shaking
lnds with themselves over the fine =.
respect for crops of all kinds and es- n,
,cially the small grain. Oats never h;
'omised larger yield at this time Fl,
year. While the government re-
,r;s place the wheat at 80 per cent, m
at In Furnas county was little in n
red by the winter weather. and the
'outh Of the spring was broken by fa
nelly rains. dc
A touring car. being stored at W
cal livery barn in Ragan. was re-
owed at night and run about s1ty
lies. 1t was returned before day
int with one tire punctured and two ~
'es gone. The livery men were COM su
lied to pay the damages, amounting pr
$50. u'
Fred Beck Of Nebraska City. who va
ls arrested on the charge of at III
npting to assault the 5-year-old
lighter of Mr.. and Mrs. Bankson, oe
his hearing before the county Oh
1ge and was bound over to the dis ",
ct court. .u '
Mrs. Anna Sbinefiew. who makes ~, ~,
r home with her daughter. Mrs. j. ~
Youngman of Humboldt. received 81,
rd OF the death of her sister. Mrs. a..
lrtha SNYDER of Salem, a few miles -,
st of there. the death resulting from Oh,
stroke of lightning a.,
1t a special election held In Kear. 9
y the citizens voted by a good ma
ity to buy the city water plant at T
. figures offered by the American
,ter company, which Is $125,ho0.
e vote was heavy for a special cleo
n. although neither side did very
lie work at the polls.
Kisses Ollie and Anna Stevenson i