The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1910-04-13


lumbus was destroyed by fire.
At the farm of Alex Schiermann in
Clay county fire broke out, Destroy
ing a threshing machine outfit and
! two large stacks of wheat.
A prairie fire in Brown county de-
stroyed much property. At least fifty
miles of range was burned over and
everything in the Faith of the flames
was swept away.
J. ID. Rohmer hung himself in his
brothers barn on his farm three
miles northwest of Calhoun. He was
81 years Of age. a single man and had
been i'll for some time.
William Jerauld. farmer northeast
Of Auburn. is erecting large and
commodious hay barn and stock sheds
and for timbers is using native lum-
Der that has grown on the place dur.
ing the past forty years.
Mrs. Manspeaker. wife Of the jailer
at Cass county jail. is receiving con-
heroic act recently when. at the
point of a revolver. she prevented
three prisoners from making their
escape from Jail.
The team of horses that was stolen
from Peter Sibbers. six miles south
of Bloomfield, March 90. was found
last week five miles northwest OF
Pierce. The team had been turned
loose and the buggy and harness was
run under a bridge.
Charles Bowers, a young man sup
posed to have been living since his
birth in the neighborhood OF Columbus.
Platte county, was arrested in Silver
Creek by Marshal Lucas on advice
from Sheriff Her of Merrick county.
He was charged with having in his
possession a team of bay horses that
did not belong to him.
John Douglas, a horse thief sus-
pect. was shot twice and probably
MORALLY wounded at ranch nine
miles east Of Niobrara by Sheriff
Vlasnik of Knox county, while COM
ing to a ranch with three horses to
spend the night there. Farmers held
hnn by strategy until the sheriff ar
rived. When Douglas was ordered
to stand and deliver his gun. he ran
and attempted to draw a revolver.
when the sheriff shot him twice, az
ter firing several times wide OF the
mark Intentionally.
The bloody coat and hat of Otto
In 80 rDshnrhnrU fnnn6
one block from home in a hole near
the sidewalk. also two empty and
bloody pOcketsbOOks and one shoe
badly cut On the bank of the lake
was the other shoe, cut and bloody,
and his vest He drew $1,000 in cash
from the bank the day before. Blood
hounds followed a trail to the rail-
road track, where were found feath-
ers in blood Some think he disap-
peared and left the bloody clothes as
a blind.
The large barn IN the NJ. j. Clarke
place, three miles west Of Auburn.
burned. Two horses burned to death
and the third was SO badly hurt that
it will have to be killed. Besides
this a large amount of hay. several
hundred bushels of corn and oats
were destroyed.
A new effort to catch John Cline.
the man who forged Fremonter out
of $4,000 while masquerading under
the name Of Fisher. has been started
by organizing his thirty or forty VIC
tins scattered over the United States.
The move has been started by the
Dodge county authorizes.
Kearney is about to start work on
the soldiers monument to be erected
at that place.
At his home near Humboldt, Gil
bert Erwin, a young farmer. attempt
ed to murder his wife with an axe.
and later committed suicide by hang
ing himself in the barn. He and his
wife had had a disagreement.
Gilbert Irwin. a prominent farmer
who lived ten miles south OF Dawson.
committed suicide by hanging. He
had been acting queerly for some
time past. and his wife had COM
menced proceedings for divorce.
Willard Preston, Broken Bow boy
of twelve years, was thrown from
horse and dragged considerable dis
lance. being badly hurt
Attorney F.. c. Calkins has submit.
ted an opinion to the city council OF
Kearney in which he declares that
the city cannot legally raise the sa-
loon license to $500 FER year as the
people voted for and against licensing
the saloons under the provisions OF
an existing ordinance. However, an
occupation tax of $1,000 can be placed
and with the present license fee of
$500 will make me cost to the saloon
keeper $500.
Andrew Mcclure. foreman OF a
Union Pacific switching crew. was
run over by three cars and instantly
killed at Grand Island. He was on
some cars, making IN a train In the |
lower yards. Two engines were en-
ployed. He gave a signal to his en-
g.ne and the other engine took 1t up. |
He was knocked of the car and the |
body was cut in two.
In the past three weeks sixty auto |
mobiles have been sold in Holdrege !
Not all Of them have been sales In |
Phelps county. but have been IN
counties adjoining for which Holdrsge
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