McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-02-28
NEBRASKA ITEMS.

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A number of Fremont boys were
anxious to see the Brown county horse
thieves confined at that place, and the ac-
commodating sheriff complied with their re-
quest, keeping them in six hours. Their
interview with the prisoners was more pro-
tracted than they had bargained for.
Assessors are not pleased with the
new law which allows them only two dollars
per day for their work, whereas they have
heretofore received three dollars and two
cents per capita TOR enumerating the inhab-
itants
One hundred and fifty thousand
brook trout now In process Of Matching out
at the hatcheries near South Bend, Indiana.
will be distributed in Nebraska streams at
an early day.
The sheep men of Harlan county
have had but small losses this winter so far.
A majority Of them have better facilities for
taking care of their stock than ever before,
and havebecome better acquainted with the
business.
The Congregational Sunday school
at Hastings has class composed exclusive
ly ofprofessional young men, with a teacher
who makes it interesting for the boys.
The Nebraska Stock Yards company
has been organized at Lincoln, with capt.
tai stock of 500, 900. The association is
negotiating for lands just west of the city
for their yards.
Every Gambling room in Hastings
has been closed and many hard cases are
making themselves scarce in that locality.
Corn has been selling on the streets
of Hastings at twenty-five cents bushel.
There are thousands of bushels of
corn in the hands of the farmers of the
county who do not intend selling al the
present prices. Shippers cannot afford to
pay over twenty-five cents for good corn,
and feeders of course will not raise the
price SO long as they can get plenty at the
present price. But farmers who have good
corn can make more than the present price
by holding and feeding it to stock next fall,
and that is what most Of them will do. 1t
spossible, however, that the demand for
seed corn in Iowa and Illinois will advance
the price to forty cents, or even larger
price, in the spring.
Nine car loads of cattle, eight car
loads Of corn, seven car loads Of hay, four
car loads Of sheep, four car loads Of hogs
and two car loads of miscellaneous freight
were loaded at Schuyler in one day.
A case of wife beating has been before
the courts of Colfax county. One Brandes
was arrested on peace warrant sworn out
by his wife, who charged him with cruelty
beating, kicking and biting her. Thejudge
bound him over in the sum of $500 to keep
the peace and appear at the District court.
Mr.. Rogy, of Seward county, has re-
ceived a carload of ull-blooded Percheron
horses, which he has on his farm near Sew
ard. Three of them are yearlings, and
seven are from three to five years old, and
all very fine ones.
A fellow from Saunders county was
walking down Main stceet, Fremont, with a
gun on his shoulder, having caps on it and
the hammers raised. Some one suggested |
that it was dangerous to carry a weapon in
that way, and to show the crowd that the |
gun could not be shot off half-cocked he |
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trigger. 1t went off Under any other cir
cumstances, the Tribune thinks, the care
less fellow would probably have brought
down citizen or two with mangled
corpses.
Fremont is receiving congratulations
from all quarters for having secured the G..
A. R. reunion at that place the coming
autumn. What is known as s'the prettiest
town in the state'' appreciates these ex-
pressions of good will and proposes leaving
nothing undone that will tend to the sue
cess Of the reunion.
At the Florence cutoff, near Omaha,
on the Goth, between IS and 100 pounds Of
dynamite prematurely exploded, blowing
to atoms a man named Thomas Burne, who
was engaged in thawing out the dangerous
material. Hardly enough of his remains
could be found for the coroner to hold an
inquest upon. The shock of the explosion
was felt for miles around.
The Hastings Journal reports that
emigrants are coming in by every train,
farming utensils and families with them.
1t is learned from the Columbus
Journal that Archie Chandler, mulatto,
was found dead near the Union Pacific track
four miles west of that place afew DAYS ago.
From appearances he seemed to have lost
his footing on the steps Of the cars, and was
thrown on to the frozen ground, dislocating
his left shoulder and probably fracturing
his skull. He was accompanied on the
train by his son, and they had tickets to
San Francisco. The man appeared to have
been intoxicated at the time of meeting with
a violent death.
J. w. Brown. of Blair, a dissolute
character, was sentenced to thirty days in
iail on bread and water for neglecting his
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