McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-06-05

liquor was invited TO pay the assessment or
stand ,, the consequences OF prosecution .,G for
Thomas Wroth, switchman on the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
railroad, was run over In the yards at
Omaha, having his leg so badly crushed
that amputation became necessary. The
limb was terribly crushed and broken, be-
ing run over by the entire train.
At Beaver City the case of Cyrus
Callagham, charged with attempting to
wreck train on the B. & M, In the fall
Of 1883, was recently before the courts.
the charge alleged consisted In placing an
The intention was to wreck the night pas
senger, which passed the point at $3.50
O'Clock. The obstruction was placed upon
the bridge over q creek, and il 1t had not
been detected by the engineer, the destruc-
ton to life and property would have been
discovered In time to avert the catastrophe.
The case has been continued until another
term of court.
Edward McGaugh, living near Pal
myra, and said to be weak In the upper
8 DRY, procured quantity of whisky. He
then went to house where he found a lone
woman, to whom he first made indecent
proposals and afterward felled her with
stone. The husband coming home, found
revived and told the story of her wrongs.
McGaugh was arrested and will probably be
sent to the insane asylum.
An important case was recently tried
before Judge Post in Fremont, involving
the question as to whether whisky bill
under the Slocum liquor law, can be col
lected. After exhaustive showing by able
attorneys and authorities, the court held
the claim cOllectable.
One Arbuckle, of Beatrice, has been
arrested for wife beating. He was taken
before justice last Tuesday and fined S.
and costs.
Bernard Taussun, a young man liv-
ing near Talmage, received injuries at a
mill which resulted in his instant death.
He was German and had no relatives in
this country.
A fine three-storv hotel, several brick
residenc, S, and other valuable structures,
will be numbered among Minden's i'm
provements in 1884.
obtaining passes from railroads through
false representations, was run down in
Omaha aid made to yield up favors granted
him before his true character was discov-
cred. He claimed to represent numerous
Influential journals, but in every instance
was found to be fraud Of the first water.
The German Lutherans of Fremont
have just completed the erection of fine
church edifice. 1t is Of frame, 26X50, and
has tower 70 feet high. The building and
lot cost over 50, 600.
The Beatrice Republican says: "Mr.
Bookwalter, the famous democratic politi-
clan of Ohio, owns thousands of acres of
choice lands in Gage and Pawnee counties.
Upon these he has herded thousands of
sheep. Since the reduction of the tariff on
wool he has decided to go out of the sheep
business, as it will no longer be paying
investment. Mr.. Bookwalter is purchas
ing imported Herefords to take the place
OF his Sheep l
Three persons were bitten by mad
dogs in Pawnee county week before last.
There has, however, been no serious re-
suits thus far.
Burglars are plying their vocation in
Beatrice as well as Lincoln, several houses
having recently been broken into. One
gentleman is out $25 in cash and $50
watch.
Memorial day was duly observed in
all sections of Nebraska. Generally the ex
ercises were under the auspices Of Grand
Army OF the Republicposts.,
A subscription fund is being raised
for the purpose of defraying the expense of
special mail service on the line from Valen-
tine to Rapid City via. Porcupine Creek
until October LIST.
The Fourth of July will be celebrated
in Osceola in good style this year. All the
preliminaries have been gone through with,
and all that is now needed is the hearty CO.
operation of the people.
A Lincoln dispatch says: A week ago
Warden Nobes, Of the penitentiary, got an
inkling of plan of guard named Charles
p. Churchill to let convict, Frank SUIT
ton, escape, for which he was to receive
$500 from Sutton IS sister, who lives at Blair,
Neb., and goes by the name of Mary E.
Barnes. A letter to the sister was inter-
cepted. Having got sufficient evidence
Churchill was at once arrested. He plead
ed quilted and was bound over in $500.
The warden took the sheriff to field where
Churchill was guarding conyicts and hand
cuffed him in their presence.
The Nebraska eclecticians, recently
in session at Lincoln, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: President, 1.
Van Camp, of Omaha; vice president, l..
F. Polk, of Raymond; secretary, r. S.
Grimes, of Lincoln; treasurer, II. Y.
Bates, of Springfield; board of censors, j.
A. Woodward, of Omaha; O.. NJ. Moore
and E. NJ. Butler.
The Deaf and Mute Convention.