McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-02
NEBRASKA.

The normal school building in Fremont IL
nearly completed.
Omaha bankers will establish clearing
house association.
Deer and antelope are abundant in the
neighborhood of Brewster.
Beatrice feels quite sanguine of securing
the new soldiers home.
The Dodge county fair will be held at FIRE.
mont October LIST, I'd and Sd.
In Omaha, three soldiers knocked a man
down and took from him $50.
One farmer in Sherman county raised over
1000 pounds of grapes this season.
Ten divorce cases are on the docket for the
next ERIN of court in Hall county.
DIR. Newman, the celebrated preacher
lectured in Omaha few days ago.
The Young Mems Christian association in
Omaha will open gymnasium rooms.
The proposition to license saloon in Kene-
saw was negatived by the town board.
Cortland has decided that it can get along
without saloon, and none will be licensed.
Maxey Cobb, a Nebraska horse, is said to have
graduated as the fastest stallion in the world.
destroyed by fire few nights ago. Loss about
$500.
Columbus is soon to begin the erection of
new school house which is to cost about
$1,000.
One hundred and eighty-three cars of cattle
were shipped from the Omaha stock yards on
the 26th.
Rev. J. L. St. Clair has been returned to
Albion, as pastor of the NJ. +. church, for an
other year.
Watermelons are so plentiful this year that
even the small boy does not consider them
worth stealing.
The skating fever has struck Valentine and
the upper story os the town HALLS being fitted
up for the fun.
James S. Fitzgerald a stranger, was killed
at Omaha by being run down by the cars. He
was 50 years old.
Humphrey is overrun with dogs that make
night hiGeous and disturb the slumbers OF the
peaceful denizen.
Eight hundred people were on the grounds
the first day of the Seventh Day Adventists
meeting at Omaha.
A dead beat named Hebron, claiming to be
u -. H.
of Albion and vicinity.
Two citizens Of Falls City dropped roll of
$3.50 among the fakirs of the circus which
visited the town last week.
There is great activity at Omaha in building
houses of worship. The buildings are not
only commodious but costly.
Beaver crossing, Seward county, has tiatter-
ing prospects for getting new church. over
$500 has been pledged thus far.
Ed. W. Morgan, formerly of Omaha, where
his parents now reside, fell out of window
at Lafayette, Ind, and was killed.
John G. Gray, the Genoa editor, has recov-
cred from his self-inf1icted wound, and has de-
parted for his fathers home in Iowa.
The Seward county fair this year will take
place after all the other fairs are over, the
date having been changed to October s. 8, 10
and IL.
Sweet potatoes weighing nearly four pounds
own in the suburbs of Lincoln were exhib-
tied in the Journal Office in that city few
days ago.
A Nebraska cattle thief has just been over
hauled at Columbus, Ohio, by the sheriff of
York county, and brought back to the theatre
of his operations.
Capt. Foster, an Omaha sporting man, won
$4,000 in gambling house in that city last
week, breaking the institution and compelling
the manager to close up.
The stage running between Harrington and
Yankton came near capsizing the other day,
when N. 1. Stancliff, of Extra, Iowa, was
thrown out and severely injured.
Two youthful Omaha lovers aged IA and IL
respectively, ran away and endeavored to get
married but they were without license, and
no one could be found to tie the knot.
John Burns, street grader at Omaha, was
instantly killed by lightning on Tuesday last
while standing in the doorway of barn
waiting for the storm to pass over.
Nebraska City employs 800 menin her pack
ing house; lbs in her distillery; so in her barb
wire factory; 125 in her foundry and machine
shops, and 100 in her two plow factories.
A sixteen-year-old boy stole a horse and
bride at Valentine, which he sold for $40
pocketed the cash and was about to get out of
the country when he was nabbed by an of
ficer.
Mrs. Rosakrans, an aged lady at Tecumseh,
while ascending long flight of stairs was at
tackled with fainting fit and fell backward to
the bottom, sustaining injuries from which
she died.
Mr. Crosby, of Wayne county, pulled load
ed double-barreled shotgun from wagon
with the muzzle turned towards him. Both
charges entered his breast and lungs, and he
will die.
The young lady at Columbus who won the
$1,000 piano at the state fair has presented
Mr.. Mueller, of Council Bluffs, with beauti- |
full cushion made from the crazy quilt which
she had on exhibition.
George Smith, who resides about six miles
northeast of Gibbon, lost three yearling steers
n two days from the disease known as black
eg. Other farmers in that vicinity have also |
Uttered loss from the same cause.
William Sunderland, living northeast of |
SCHUYLER, had his hired man, Anton Dlapka, |