McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
NEBRASKA.

year.
Lightning killed several head of cattle nea
Wisner last week.
The Brown county fair will be held at Lon,
Pine, October LIST.
The Nebraska university opens the fall tern
on the 18th of September.
Omaha has sold s455,OOo worth of payins
bonds in the East at par. .
Work has been commenced on $4,000 bricl
school house at Wakefield.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to bul
glarize the Fremont postofice.
The North Nebraska conference meets al
Blair on the 10th of this month.
Hebron will soon have an elegant new hotel
of which j. W. Hughes will be proprietor.
The prohibitdonlsts of Nebraska will meet
in state convention at Lincoln on the 18th inst
Merchants and householders of Grand Island
are entering loud complaints about petty
thieving.
Grand Island has organized an electric COM
pany, and will soon do business 'by the bright
light"
Omaha is called upon to face several dam
age suits, because of a change in grade of
streets.
The Sioux City & Pacific will extend their
road as far as Fort Robinson by the first of
next June.
Boyd's packing house at Omaha, when it
gets in operating next month, will use 1900
porkers per day.
On the fair grounds at Omaha there are
over three hundred stalls for cattle and all
have been taken.
All the gambling houses in Hastings have
been closed, and it is determined that they
shall be kept shut up.
The Herald says that the location of Hart
ington is peculiarly favorable for the estab-
lishment of pork house.
Benjamin F. Butler, greenback candidate
for president, will speak in Omaha on the
evening of September 9th.
Norfolk hopes to secure the Methodist col
lege which is to be located somewhere in the
northern part of the state.
VIII. Worldly, of Wayne county. while dig
ging well was quite severely hurt by the
boards falling in upon him.
plat of ten acres has been purchased by
the North Platte cemetery association, and
Will De lmmeQlately enclosed.
A man in Nuckolls county, while hunting
Chickens took poor ain and killed a valuable
horse belonging to his neighbor.
George Flowers, of Nuckolls county, was
kicked by horse, from the effects of which
he died twenty-four hours after.
The third annual fair of the Dixon County
Agricultural society will be held at Ponca on |
@I,n = o,,d0 e
Peter Jansen, of Jefferson county, had a |
wool clip this year of 1000 pounds, which he |
sold in st. Louis at II cents pound.
The church dining halls at the Fremont re-
union grounds are said to have furnished
splendid provender at reasonable rates.
A splendid opening is presented at Plain
view for barber but still no one as yet has
put in an appearance to occupy the field.
A gentleman offers to build and operate
street railway in Red Cloud from the depot to
the centre of the town for bonus of $1,000.
Martin Peterson, while coupling cars at
Omaha, was caught between the bumpers and
received injuries which resulted in his DEATH
The Blair Republican says that the hog
cholera has never been as destructive in
Washington county as it is at theipresent time.
Jim McCarty and E. w. Werner, of Omaha
are in jail for robbing man and then assault
ing him until they had broken two of his
ribs
Lincoln and vicinity is aroused over acts of
perpetrated in the cemeteries-that
of stealing flowers placed over graves of the
dead.
The safe in the office of c. C. Caldwell, Blair,
oolv<. ,;o~I,$ last
box was rifed of small sum, but nothing
else was disturbed.
The adjusters have figured out the loss by {
the Leighton Clark fire in Omaha at $4,000. {
The stock was valued at $1,000, and the sal {
wage put at $4,000.
VIM. McArdle, cripple of Omaha, suicided !
with the pistol on the LIST inst. No cause is
known for the act, except that he was out of
work and respondent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Senator Henderson have re- ,,
urned home from Washington, and will re-
congress in December.
A Fremont bagnio. occupied by Mabel Gray,
md generally known as "The Pen" on ac- S
count of high board fence around it, was 5
wrecked by fire last week. r
Ex-General Manager Clark, of the Union Q
Pacific, has issued circular thanking all who o
AVE shown him so much courtesy and kind L
less during his official career.
The Georgia Electric Girl" Matte Lee, E
ave private exhibition in Omaha and great Il
Y astonished those who were fortunate IL
nough to receive an invitation to the show. o
Morris Skinner fell out of swing at Hardy
L.
he rope so as to hang by it, thereby injuring II
he toe so badly that amputation was neces- l
airy.
Cases of drunkenness appear upon the h
treets of Doniphan, and the authorities are
nxious to find out where they procure their
quor, there being no licensed saloons in the
OWN.
The Grand Lodge of Nebraska Knights of m
ythias was in session atTecumseh last week. ,e
he first lodge of this order was instituted at q;
uahe in 1893 There are now thirty-three