McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-18

Hog cholera is claiming it's victims in several
counties in the state.
Confidence men and crooks thronged Omaha
during state fair week.
Twenty-Five thousand people attended the
state fair on Thursday.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to bur
glarize the Fremont postofice.
Four hundred thousand dollars will be spent
in street paving at Omaha this year.
maha has a law and order league that pro-
poses to see all ordinances enforced.
Dodge county voted to retain the county
seat at Fremont by 1900 votes out of 1900.
A bigger and better display was made at the
Richardson county fair than ever before.
There has been but one sherif's sale of real
estate in Sarpy county during the past year.
Ord is to have new school house complet-
ed by the first of November cost of
s6.O25.
Mary Cook, a deaf girl, was struck by the
locomotive near Grand Island and fatally in
1ured,
Ohio settlers of Lancaster county held a re-
union last week. A goodly number was in
attendance.
The Sioux City & Pacific will extend their
road as far as Fort Robinson by the first of
next June.
A five year old boy at Hastings was attacked
by a vicious cow and had narrow escape
from losing his life.
Henry Kinds, of Dixon county, is putting up
1850 tons of hay to feed his herd of 500 cattle
the coming winter.
Frank Burchardt, living near Falls City, is
behind the bars awaiting trial for the theft of
$50 from Conrad Denneker.
Out-of-town merchants to the number of
two hundred, were banquetted by the BUSH
ness men of Omaha one evening during state
fair week 1t was fine affair.
Rev. Horace Ewell, who was pastor of the
NJ E. church at Fairfield year ago, has been
obliged to give up preaching.
Hastings carried off the first prize, $3.50, at
the base ball tournament at Friend. Column
bus won $50, and Seward sos.
Owners of sorghum factories are now re-
pairing and cleaning up, ready for the coming
season, which is near at hand.
George Flowers, of Nuckolls county, was
kicked by horse, from the effects of which
he died twenty-four hours after.
Twenty thousand people attended the fair
at Omaha on the third day. The attendance
on the fourth day was still greater.
Peter Jansen, of jefferson county, had
wool clip this year of 5000 pounds, which he
sold in St. Louis at IA cents pound.
A splendid opening is presented at Plain l
view for barber, but still no one as yet has
put in an appearance to occupy the field.
man named Hassett, familiarly known as
.sDutchy," fatally shot himself at Valentine
a few days ago. Cause, to much drink.
The question of finding coal near Brown
vile will soon be determined, the boring pro-
cess having commenced there few days ago.
The Blair Republican says that the hog
cholera has never been as destructive in
Washington county as it is at the:present time.
The Wisner Times AYERS that not less than
$4,000 worth of cattle will be purchased for
the market in the vicinity of that town this
fall.
The building boom has struck Fairbury |
again, and as a result number of substantial |
and costly residences are in course of cree
ton.
Fannie Graves, of Omaha, was accidentally |
shot in the abdomen by man who was firing |
at sparrows in the park. 1t is thought she can
not live.
The greenback and anti-monopoly candidate
for president, Gen. B. A. Butler, was in Omaha
on the 9th, and made a speech at the fair
grounds.
Mrs. Thorne, of Illinois, on her way to Sill
yer Creek, Neb., was robbed at the Council
Bluffs transfer of all her money by four
rufians,
A wheel-of-fortune man offered $500 for a
privilege on the reunion grounds at Fremont,
but it was no go-the soldier boys would have
none of it.
No deaths have occurred among those
wounded in the fall of the grand stand at
Fremont, and it is believed none have received
fatal injuries.
Frederick Emerson, of Omaha, slightly in
toxicated, was knocked down by runaway
horse and badly mangled. The wounded man
is a stranger in the city.
Doug Hawley, of Nebraska City, has just re-
ceived $500 from the New Orleans lottery. He
invested dollar month for four years, and
has finally been successful.
Mike Sullivan, of Omaha, lies at the point of
death from a stab received in the stomach
in a saloon row. Others were wounded in its
scrimmage, but none seriously.
The state fair at Omaha was largely at
tended each day, and the exhibits were the
largest and best ever shown in Nebraska. The
weather was all that could be desired.
The York Democrat says many eastern
land seekers have recently visited York
county, and SO well pleased were they with
@I,a IL fhafo l1r nl1rchaSeS. l.
Entries to the state fair indicate that it is to
ca great success, at least in point of exhib-
its. The attendance will be governed some
what by the character of the weather.
John Croft, 80 years old, living in Adams
county, has wandered from home, and his
people are anxious to find him, more particu-
larly because he is often not in his right mind.