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Show RTKlMiC STATE fir ArrAIES. nimeultie In flblalnlnx a Jlns-lal Place for a fstrancrr. Omaha, Xeb., Dec 19. A very strango .--tate of affairs exists in Litchfield, a little station on the Burlington & Missouri Railroad in Sbermau County. Early in the week a stranger sick witlt mountain fevenauie to Mason City. Custer Countj- and died there. The citizens citi-zens ;xit the body in a box and shipped it to Litchfield. The Litchfield Litch-field agent apprised his company of the arrival of the gruesome freight and asked them what he should do with IL He was instructed to turn it ovtr to the authorities for inter-ment. inter-ment. When he attempted to carry out his instructions, however, the village fathers refused to receive tbe body, on trie ground that they were not authorized to use the public money for the burial of dead bodits furnished by soulless corporations, and set a nighfwatch at the depot to see that the corpse was not sur-rejititlously sur-rejititlously removed aud placed in some vacant house. In the meantime mean-time the agent has notified the rail road company that tbe depot is too small for two permanent occupants and that either himself or the stranger must go. |