McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-06

OF good deal OF shooting among COW -Doys'
The people of David City will make
An effort to secure location Of the soldiers
home at that place.
A train on the B. & M. recently made
the run from Akron to McCook, distance
OF 143 miles, In $50 minutes. Considering
the stops made and slowing up at crossings,
this is An average of little over 80 miles an
hour. ,
Tecumseh journal: A case of cruel
desertion comes from Beatrice. A boy in
that city had contracted fatal fever while
nursing his brother through days Of delir-
FUN to strength. On the day the boy lay
diving the father took the convalescent boy,
packed up his things and left for = distant
state, leaving the boy to die, forsaken and
alone.
Alma's new opera house is completed
and the opening entertainment will be given
IN the sSth.
Alma Tribune: A prairie fire on last
Friday did considerable damage in the vicm-
fly of the Westbrook farm north Of town.
r. L.. Hill lost two or three stacks OF wheat
besides considerable hay. The farmers
turned out and stopped the spread of the
fire before any other serious damage was
done. We understand that the fire origi-
mated from the carelessness Of some parties
who were travelling through the country with
. herd of sheep.
On the 23d an accident occurred at
the Omaha transfer which, though fOrtu-
uately not fatal in its results, was very
serious one. Chas. Riley, young man
in the employ of the Union Pacific, in the
capacity of switchman, was engaged In
coupling cars, and in some manner slipped
and fell underneath the train. The wheels
passed over him and crushed one OF his
limbs 50 badly that amputation was neces-
gary.
The Park hotel, at Auburn, owned by
Judge Morgan and operated by E. a. VIII
cox, was destroyed by fire on the 18th. The
fire is supposed to have originated in de-
fective fiue. The house Is total loss.
Henry Bolton, of Colfax county,
armed with a warrant, went over the bord-
q Into Platte to search three houses for
jewelry alleged to have been stolen.
Clay county's Jail again has an
occupant boy charged with stealing a
shot gun.
A number of children of Fairfield have
been afflicted lately with scarlet fever.
Lincoln journal: The university
library committee of the faculty has sold
back to Chancellor Fairfield the sets OF
books, Littel's Living Age and the Penny !
Epcyclopadia, which were purchased while
he was at the head of the university The
price he pays Is the same he received for
them. Some interest attaches to these
works from the fact that in the memorable
Investigation several years ago, one OF the
charges against the chancellor was that he /
had put these books upon the university at
q price much above their real value. He
does not seem to have thought so, as he
takes them back at the same price he re-
seived.
Lincoln journal: Another death
warrant was issued yesterday by Guy A
Brown, clerk of the supreme court. This
time in the case Of John r. Polln, from
Cass county. The date Of the execution Is
fixed for Friday, December Is. A motion
for rehearing has been made In the case,
which will come up when court meets De-
oember IS, and if entertained the execution
will probably be postponed few weeks.
A special from Crete to the Hastings
Journal says: A sad accident occurred here
last evening. The switch engine received
orders to help the evening freight up the
Grade beyond here. As the engine left the
yard a brakeman attempted to board the en-
CINE, but in some way missed his footing
and fell 40 that the engine passed over his
fnot, cutting of about half Of it. Soon after [
this, another brakeman, in coupling be-
tween this same engine and the caboose,
was knocked from the pilot on which he {
was standing while making the coupling, |
and fell under the wheels. The wheels cut
his leg off about the ankle.
The Omahs Herald learns through
private letter to friend in the army that
General Hancock intends shortly to take
sranscontinental tour, and that he will mako
stop IN Omaha while on his way west from
Governors Island.
Ord Journal: This continued scarcity
Of coal Is confirming farmers and many
others In the use Of corn for fuel. Thanks
to q generous soil we have plenty Of corn to
burn, and il the railroads do not bring US
any coal they will lose the freight on both
corn and coal. The people here will not
stand around shivering while the railroad
companies are devising scheme to put up
the price Of coal.
We should never make enemies, If
for no other reason, because it is so hard
to behave toward them as we ought