The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-04-13
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS.
State News and Notes IN Condensed
Form.

stock association have purchased an
elevator of L. e Mann. Possession will
be taken at once.
The new bank of Cheney has opened
for business. The officers are Charles
Marshall. president; John T. Marshall,
sice-president; and w. G. Bullock,
cashier.
J. II. Kemp has been reelected as
superintendent CT the Wayne schools
for Z period of three years. He is to
be Paid $500, $500 and Sl,Io0 re-
spectively per anrum for the three
years.
Fire broke out in Old oatmeal mill
east of Kearney at 1:I5 O'Clock Non
day evening and he entire Structure
was consumed. No aid could be rend-
cred by the fire department owing TO
the distance frCm the hydrant.
J. Ii. Montgomery, an old resident
OF the Pickerell vicinity. suffered
stroke of paralysis Sunday morning.
.iA> 'Oi.tiAi'l HSsp NiINtN siI
for time he is now reported much
improved and will recover.
W. l.. Johnson has arrived from
Blair and will assume the musical d.
rectorship OF the newly organized
Holdrege band The band will recruit
its membership up TO about thirty
pieces in the next two or three weeks.
|. y. Clark has been elected superin-
tendent OF the Weeping Water schools
for the fifth time. Other teachers
elected are Miss Mae kirkpatrick,
principal: Ernest link. science depart
ment, and Miss Lucy |. Woods, Ian
Suage DEPARTMENT
S. III. Thompson has been reelected
as superintendent of schools at Hast
ings al the advanced salary of 5000.
c. NJ. Barr. the principal. was also re-
elected at an advance in salary, and
is 10 receive $1,000 for the coming
year.
Sheep shearing is the order o! the
day at the Hershey ranch near Glib
bon. Eight thousand head are being
sheared. a gasoline engine runs eight
ShearinS machines and the men VINO
operate the shears average about 100
head per day; one of the most eX-
pert shearers had 100 sheared sheep
to his credit one day.
10
dolph was dynamited and robbed of
$4,000 in gold and currency between
. and 3 O'clock Monday morning.
Town Marshal Carroll was held up on
the street and bound and gagged and
relieved of his gun and placed in a
bank room while seven explosions. re-
Quiring fOrty-five minutes. wrecked
the vault. Three masked men did the
job and escaped.
Mrs. Hannah Parrish of Mead. an
aged widow who has been living alone.
was found dead at her home Saturday
morning by her neighbors. She was
down town the day before. and was
apparently in good health. When
found she was seated upon the floor
with her head resting upon sofa.
She had prepared breakfast. but ii
cause of death.
p. 4 Brown. who eloped from Craig.
Neb.. with the wife of his employer
John Knott. was bound over to the
district court under bord of $500 by
Justice of the Peace Allan johnson
Brown, who is twenty-;hree. took Mrs.
Knott. who is twenty-five. from Craig
to Telling. where the two set up
Mr.. Knott a farmer
aged forty-fve. appeared as complain
ant against Brown.
While driving northwest of Beatrice
Sunday night. Martin Simon. one of
the janitors at the roStoffice building.
was run into by DIR. Falls automobile.
driven by the doctor. who was return
ing from Professional trip to Day
kin. Neb. Owing TO the darkness DR..
Fell states that he was unable to see
the vehicle in which Simon was driv-
ing. Mr.. Simon was thrown to the
ground and the wheels of the buggy
were smashed. The automobile was
also slightly damaged. The fact that
the automobile was going at slow
rate of speed is all that averted a bad
accident
A farmer residing near Nebraska
City. whose name the revenue officer
refuses to divulse. went to Omaha =
short time ago and purchased a bar /
rel OF whisky. which he brought home. |
placed in his cellar and sold out in
quantities of from one 10 five gallons |
10 his neighbors The revenue officers
learned of the purchase and looked in |
TO the case knowing the farmer had
no license. They found where he had
sold the goods and located the barrel. !
partially empty. in his cellar. and
taxed him 5000 for a wholesalers IL |
cense and s66.67 for not applying for |
the license before disposirg OF any of |
the goods.
+. W. HuSe. for the past four years |
editor of the Beatrice Express. severed !
his connection with that paper Satur- !
day evening. He expects TO take 4 |
short rest after which ne will probably |
from the state and engage in /!
the newspaper business elsewhere. He !
comes from family Of newspaper !
men and is a brother Of W. ". Huse !