McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-31
NEBRASKA NOTES.

before last. 1t was shipped to New York
to be smelted.
The robber who went through Mr..
Cochran's iewelry establishment in York. O
week or SO ago, was captured at Platts-
mouth last Saturday with all the stolen
and attempted to trade q watch for horse,
when the sheriff Of Cass county dropped on
him.
John Martin Heller has begun an &C.
ton against Frank A. Woods and j. A.
Wakefield, in the district coort at Omaha,
to recover $40, 600 damages for false impris-
onment on q charge of removing his goods
with intent to defraud creditors. Heller
was confined in Jail nine days and was hon.
'orably discharged when called up for trial.
He says his reputation and business were
injured to fully the amount claimei.
The Rusicks brothers, Frank and
Joseph, sons of the proprietor of the Wilbur
opera house, quarreled over their CUBS, and
Frank, to emphasize his argument, pulled
his revolver and shot at his brother. The
latter lodged behind the bar and saved
himself. Thinking he had killed his brother,
Frank put the pistol to his breast and sent
a bullet into the flesh near the shoulder
blade. The doctors may pull him through.
The West Point brickyard turns out
q, 200 bricks daily, for which ready mar
ket is found at home and neighboring
towns.
The Milford Ozone says the Union
Pacific railway surveyors are now engaged
in surveying line from Crete in a south
west direction, crossing the B. g. M. at
point about half way between Swanton and
Western.
Ex-City Marshal Guthrie, of Omaha,
convicted Of bribery, has been refused
new trial and sentence will be pronounced
hn ~ al oA
Chase will take place as soon as his health
Will permit OF his appearance in court.
E. P. Savage, superintendent of the
agricultural college farm at Lincoln, has
agreed with the assistance of the stockmen
throughout the state) to gather and compile
the stock statistics of the state for publica-
ton in the catalogue to be issued by this
state at the Worlds Industrial and Cotton
Centennial. This being matter of interest
to the whole country, it is earnestly re-
quested that every ranchman or stock
breeder residing in the state, owning stock
within or without this state, send to him his
postoffice address, number and kind of
stock, particularly all thorough bred or
registered) number of fat stock for sale this
year, number of acres used for range,
where located, with kinds of grass. Also
any other items that will tend to give our
stock interest ''good send off, These
are statistics that can be had only thus per.
sonally, and it is really hoped the above as
sistance will be rendered him, and If it is he
agrees to place our stock interest where it
belongs, to the front.
Chester, too, will have its skating
rink. The building is being made ready and
the skates have been ordered.
j. Fl. Rocks, of Thayer county, has
shelled over 10, 600 bushels Of corn since last
fall. He recently refused the job of she'll
ing another 81, 900 bushels for q Hebron
firm. Who says corn isn't raised in Nebras-
ka-and Kansas, inquiries the Chester Tri-
bune.
Sickness and death have visited sew
eral Beatrice households recently, not less
than three fatal cases of illness being re.
ported within twenty-four hours.
Quite an excitement was created at |
Reynolds. says the Times, by mobbing |
spree. Several of the citizeus escorted one |
j. n. Andrews to the outskirts of town and |
told him to skip. He came back into town |
and told them to ''come on with their
mob.' They then seiZee him, took him to |
the creek and gave him couple Of duck
and feathers. The charge against him was
general cussedness.
A child died suddenly at Crete, q
few daysIago, and it is thought it was pois-
oned, as all the symptoms were present at
the last.
A movement is on foot at Cedar Rap
ids to lay out good race ground there and
invite the adjoining counties of Nance,
Greeley and Wheeler to join with Boone
and hold a fair this fall.
From private source the Hastings
Journal learns that Hon. James Laird has
very pressing invitation to make number
of campaign speeches In one or two of the
doubtful states this fall.
NJ d n MoAnd,ox, hoe oboxr,,, @ha
editor of the Ainworth News specimens of |
peat, fresh and almost pufe, and of cooked
peat perfectly pure, which were taken from
the bottoms of the Calamus, some thirty.
five miles south from Ainsworth. Those
from the t'auld sod'' who have seen these
specimens pronounce them as far superior
to any they had ever seen in Ireland, where,
in many localities, it is the only article of
fuel known. The peat beds are numerous,
aud cover an area Of from one two acres in
extent, and will average from four to six
feet in depth.
The Lincoln Journal is informed by
o. NJ. Druse that arrangements have been
made whereby the largest bull in service in
the United States will be on exhibition at
the state falr at Omaha this year. The ami
NAL is a thoroughbred Galloway, four years
old, and he tips the beam at :, $40. He is
owned by Mr.. Marshall of Kansas City, and
was on exhibition at Hastings last week at
the fine stock sale. No breeder of fine stock
and especially of Galloways should miss the
opportunity to see this splendid animal.
A Utica special says: One of the
heaviest wind and hail storms ever known
in this section swept down upon Phillips on
the night of the Goth, destroying the hotel,
elevator and a store. Three box cars that
were standing on q side track were carried
over the switch and found near Aurora the
next morning. The hail came down in size
rs large as hens eggs and was lying in spots
to the depth Of afoot. A gentleman said he
picked up lump of ice that measured eigh-
teen inches long, nine wide and two deep.
Considerable damage was done to crops at
Utica. The skating rink, large frame
building, was blown down.
At Omaha on the 22d, District Attor-
ney Goodwin and Attorney Burnhsm pre-
sented their respective arguments in the
trial of Edmond Henry, indicted for the
murder OF Piggott, and at O'Clock the case
was submitted to the jury. After fifteen
minutes they returned with verdict of
guilty of manslaughter. Henry, who is a
Russian Jew, with pallid complexion and