Grand Island Daily Independent
Friday, May 23, 1902

SKAT CONTEST

Twenty-four of the member of the Liederkranz who indulge in the great German game of Skat participated in a contest last evenig. Each player drew a slip indication of his table and number and eighty bands were played, no changes being made in the position of the players.

Four prizes were given, one for the highest single play made, another for the greatest net result, another for the best play won without the greatest number of matadore and a booby prize.

Mr. Gottlieb Meyer played like a professional just over from Switzerland and drew the prizes fo the greatest single play and the greatest net-result; H. L. Bode being a close second, A. F. Buecher was awarded the prize for the best play won with out the greatest number of matadore (best trumps) and O. A. Abbott was found to be the booby prize winner.

Excepting that too much was undertaken in playing 80 hands the affair was a very pleasant social event. The score was as follows-:

C. N. North of Cairo was in the city today.

W. H. Harrison's fine pointer got killed in a very queer way last night. While he was up in the hay loft a bale of hay fell on him, killing him instantly. He was a highly valued dog and one of the best huntin dogs in this vicinity.

The man who gave Officer Koeplin a chase yesterday afternoon, but proved to be not quite enough Johnson for what he undertook, was arraigned in the police court this morning on the charge of being drunk and disorderly, and received a sentence of thirty days in the county jail. And he deserved every day of it.

Mr. Brand, the milkman, had quite an accident while peddling milk this morning.

One of the main bolts in the wagon broke causing the front of the wagon to fall down. He fell over striking his nose on one of the milk cans and bruising his face up in a pretty bad condition. Had the horse not been gentle it might have proven much more serious.

George Hering, a confectioner and manager of the bowling alley at Palmer, committed suicide yesterday afternoon by shooting himself through the heart. He is well known there and by a number of Grand Island people. No one knows what his reason for committing the act was.

The students of the Business College left this afternoon for Lion Grove, in three coaches, to hold their picnic. They paraded the streets, blowing horns and causing other excitement.