McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-15
NEBRASKA INTERESTS.


Of scarlet fever.
Mrs. Oberman, of Cunning county,
suicided by taking laudanum, In purchase
ing which she stated 1t was for neuralgia.
The coroner's Jury returned q verdict that
the deceased came to her death by poison
administered by her own hand, while
laboring under temporary fit of insanity.
It is supposed that DR.. Strickland,
an old citizen of Lincoln, was drowned last
week. He has been missing since that time,
and 1t Is known that he left home and went
In the direction of the creek which was
rising at the time.
A civil service examination of appli-
cants who wish to secure clerkships or other
positions In the government department at
Washington will be held at Lincoln on May
18th.
The sheriff of Pawnee county has
Just landed in the penitentiary young
man for appropriating another mans horse
to his own private use and benefit. He is
quite young, and was only sent up for one
year.
The Wakefield Star advises its read
ers to be on the lookout for snide lightning
rod men. They are roaming through the
country seeking whom they may devour,
and they have devoured several already.
Chancery Abbott, of johnson county,
lad about eighteen years old, fell from a
tree, lighting on an upright stick, which
pierced his body, iniicting severe and
dangerous wound.
License to marry has just been grant
I'D at Beatrice to man aged 76, whose
prospective bride has seen but % summers.
Mrs. L. E. Martin, of Orleans, was
endeavoring to catch some chickens after
dark, when one of them run under a
barbed wire fence. She made a grab and
stopped to catch the chick, when she struck
the wire fence square in her face, one of
the barbs penetrating her eye and inf1ictlng
dangerous and painful wound.
Mr.. Henry Fisher, well-to-do and
prosperous farmer of Saunders county, re-
Gently placed on the market at Weston ITO
steers, which brought him $1,000 in cash.
A party of Danes are negotiating for
the purchase of a large tract of land in
Pierce county for colony.
Over one hundred dollars was SUBJ
scribed at Ewing to build sidewalks, and
the work is rapidly going forward.
As an illustration of the increase in
the valuation of land in Antelope county,
the Oakdale Journal notes that farm be-
longing to q gentleman from Iowa, con-
sisting of 100 acres, was bought less than q
year ago for ST., 400. The owner was there
last week and struck bargain with pur-
chaser at So, 600.
Eph Sylvester, an old printer of
Omaha, but now forman on the Salt Lake
Tribune, was shot at in that Office one
night last week. He was not struck, and
the assailant, o. E. Troyn, was arrested.
Quin Bohannon, who is to be hung
In August, has invited Hon. Vic Bierbow-
or NJ ho fn ho he
casion Of his taking off. Mr.. Bierbower
prosecuted Quin when he was sent up from
Nebraska City eight or nine years ago for
horse stealing.
Prof. j. B. Bruner, county superin-
tendent Of schools for Douglas county, has
completed his annual report. 1t shows
that there are in that county, inclusive of
Omaha, fifty two districts and sixty-seven
school houses (the city of Omaha is EN-.
OF school age in the county number 6, TIP
males and {, 1852 females, total of ID, 1854.
The total cost of schools during the year,
including teachers wages and all expendi-
lures, $229, 018.1S.
Workmen engaged in grading for the
Omaha stock yards struck for an increase
OF pay, but subsequently went to work at
the old price under promise that they should
have raise on the 18th of the month.
The Union Pacific railway company
has recently adopted sort of joint classi-
fcation OF emigrants which they claim
avoids all confusion and annoyance. In dis.
tributing berth checks for their emigrant
sleepers those who are similar in appear.
ance are given berths in the same car, and
others who prefer to be with associates of
their own nationality are placed by them
selves in separate cars.
Substantial improvements are being
made on the Lincoln driving park and the
company are in hopes to get the new track
in shape in time for the fall driving.
A special from Sterling says water
was pumped from an old well in that town
that contained so much coal oil that it
would burn. There is quite an excitement
over the discovery.
Toogood Bros, of Crete last week
sold to E. e. ingalls,, for shipment to Den
yer, Il, 900 dozen hens eggs. ssThis num-
Der Of eggs, separated IA feet apart, - says
the Globe, stwould reach from Crete to
Denver, distance of 400 miles. 1t would
take one hen 1914 years, 6 months and 10
days, of active everyday work, to roll out
this number. In other words, If the work
had been completed by a single hen on
Tuesday last, she must have commenced
her labor in the year 1889, or about three
years before the discovery of America. We
are therefore led to the conclusion that she
must have bad some assistance, and that
the work should be wholly accredited to
the bens Of our own country
The Masonic fraternity of Crete are
discussing the question Of putting up a
building, with stores below and hall above.
The matter is to be definitely decided soon.
Postoffice changes in Nebraska during the
week ending May g.: Name -changed-Pil-
zen, Saunders county, TO Poitsam. Dis
continued-Thrt Grove, Cass county.
Postmasters appointed Antelope
county, Mrs. Martha L. Ward; Rosalind,
Adams county, Alexander Rodgers.
Congressman Valentine has intro
duced the following: sThat the state of
Nebraska be, and the same is hereby diYid-
ed into two judicial districts, in the manner
following, towit: All that portion of the
state lying north of the Platte river shall
constitute new district, to be known as
the northern district of Ne5raska; and all
that portion lying south of the Pate river
shall constitute the southern district of Ne.
braska.'' The second section declares the
present Judge of the district of Nebraska.