McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-04
NEBRASKA ITEMS.

The Index says dozens of men car
find employment at Doniphan.
Liberty Journal: Last Wednesday
the B. & M. passenger train from Crete was
little behind time and came laundering
down the grade between Blue Springs and
Wymore at faster than the usual speed, and
when it came to where the wagon road
crosses the track between the two towns 1t
ran into horse and buggy, killing the ami
nal instantly and knocking the buggy into
splinters. The driver was hurled violently
from the buggy and is seriously injured.
The man was from Kansas, and was up in
that neighborhood dealing in horses. He
will leave wife and family should he die,
which will, we fear, prove to be the case.
Greenwood Eagle: Frank Williams,
boy about fifteen years Of age, living near
Elmwood, collected $55 of his employers
money and skipped the country. He was
traced to Lincoln, and in a short time was
in the clutches of the law. All but $13 Of
the money was recovered. He admitted the
charge preferred against him and was placed
under bonds to appear at the next session of
the district court.
Ainsworth News: Williams Clark has
the honor of shipping the first carload of
grain ever sent out from this place. 1t was
his flax crop which averaged over 10 bushels
per acre. Mr.. Clark got his claim last fall
of Uncle Sam for $14, and 1t is to-day worth
$1,000. 1t requires nothing but grit and
energy to make success IN this country.
E. H. Winney has started paper at
ellwood, Butler county-the Monitor.
Friend Telegraph: Mrs. Murphy,
living about five miles south of town, met
with a serious accident one day last week.
1t seems that while in the act Of stalking out
a cow she In some way became entangled in
the rope, when the COW stampeded, drag
cling her some distance to a corn field, and
reaking her leg in three places. DR.. Hewitt
reduced the fracture, and at last accounts
he was getting along as we'll az could be eX-
ected.
J.J. Smith, of Lincoln, who has built
and operates creameries in various parts of
the state, is to start ono of these paying con-
Germs at Table Rock.
Valparaiso expects the number of
new buildings erected this season to reach
one hundred.
j. H. Livingstone, bricklayer at
work on one of Omaha's new buildings, fell
from third-story window Wednesday
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his right thigh, broke his leg in two places
and fractured several ribs.
Fremont has aised i dog tax to So.
Cedar Rapids is sure of q railroad
within year.
Civilization progresses. The Chinese
laundryman at Blair advertises in the pa
pers.
Burglars recently went through the
saloon of Hill & Miller at Juniata. They
drilled hole in the safe, put in a charge of
powder and blew the door open, getting as.
reward between four and five hundred
dollars.
The Hardy Herald complains that
some parties were out with their dogs muir
dering polecats in the south end of the town
one night and made the night hideous with
their yells, etc.
Valentine Reporter: a report has
reached this place to The effect that the
teams sent out by Peter Donoher few days
ago with supplies for the up-country
ranches, hsd lost the trail and went upon
the reservation, where they were picked up
by the Indian police and taken to Pine
Ridge agency. If they were captured
while going upsAgent McGilIicuddy will
make it hot for them, for they had large
amount. Of whisky on board for saloon
that is beng run near the reservation.