McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24

through the center of Saline county, un.
roofing houses and doing considerable dam.
age to the crops. A man named Mong,
who was out Ia the storm and got his head
badly cut and bruised, says hailstones as
srge as teacup fell.
The laying of the corner stone of the
Nebraska state capital at Lincoln was at.
tended BY much display Of ceremonies I'M
der the auspices OF the grand lodge Of Ne
braska of Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, and more appropriate and i'm
pressive ceremony never took place at the
capital city. Ex-Governor Fnrnas made
the address, In which he embodied the his.
tory Of Masonry, the early history of Ne
braska, statistics showing its rapid growth
standing at the present time.
A Swedish cattle dealer was swim
died out of $500 in Omaha by the confidence
game last week. He was on his way to
Chicago with a train load Of stock.
William +. Amin, formerly associate
editor of the Omaha Bee. and Miss Emma
Paddock, daughter of Maj. j. W. Paddock,
were married on the 18th in Trinity cathe-
dral, Omaha. For nearly . year past Mr..
Amin has been engaged In business at Fort
Robinson, and there he and Mrs. Amin
will make their home.
Plainview is enjoying quite boom.
Many buildings are going up and consider
able real estate Is changing hands.
The Kearney Era says that reports
from the districts visited by hail on the
night on the night of July Sd, about twenty
miles northwest Of kearney, are to the eff
feet that many farmers may lose their en-
tire crops crop Small grain was entirely ruined ID
recover. This Is not general, but is in
streaks along the Loup.
The BARRIERS of Beatrice are asking
for repeal of the ordinance allowing their
shops to be open Sundays, as they do not
wish to work on that day. The petition will
be presented to the council.
Richard Tilden, of Salem, had his
pockets picked on the road between Hia-
watha and Atchison. He was on the night
train and asleep when some bold william
lifted his watch and chain. He made in
quiries from the passengers when he awOke
and missed his ticker, but as most every
seen around the car that was anyways sus-
picious.
At the last term of the United States
court at Omaha a judgment was rendered
against Seaton & Lea, of Lincoln, for the
sum of 81, 600 for an infringement in the
manufacture of the Section well augur. The
patent was granted to Joseph Burns, who
now owns it and is the plaintiff in the case
referred to. The probability is that now all
parties who are making or using the Section
we'll augur will be called on to pay royalty,
as it is understood that Mr.. Burns is deter
mined to collect, thinking thewell men have
had free use Of his invention long enough.
At q recent meeting of the city coun-
Gil of Lincoln it was resolved 'sthat it is to
the interest of the city to use the Holly
Uafor UnrEc cvcforo oa11od ond tho 0ifVT
attorney is hereby directed to prepare o
contract for the construction of a system of
water works by the Holly Manufacturing
company in accordance with the plans and
specifications on file made by Messrs. Birk-
inbine & Son, with such notifications as
may be required.' The works are to be
ready by December LIST.
Lindsay, the Lincoln child beaten, who
was up before Judge Parker few days ago
to. Jail. Constable Hunger was in court
during the hearing, armed with warrant
charging Lindsay with living in open
adultery, and if he had been released he
would have been Immediately rearrested.
The Sioux City Journal has crop re-
ports from twenay points in northern and
eastern Nebraska, embracing in territory
more than one hundred miles west and
south from the northeast corner of the state,
and without a single exception the reports
are all Of the most f1attering kind. The
harvest in that section is fast coming on and
the yielded for spring wheat is placed at
twenty to twenty-five bushels per acre.
The German Lutheran church of
Pierce was dedicated last Sunday with ap-
propriate exercises. The church is 26x46,
fourteen feet high, arched ceiling. The
congregation do not owe penny on the
building and have little money left over
for bell.
I. G.. and W. Brewer, of Central
City, are putting up large grist mill,
which will commence operations the coming
autumn. h5.zN-tzs
A vacancy having been caused in the
board of village trustees Of Kenesaw, the
board called for an informal ballot to get an
expression of the people as to their choice
for the position, the board pledging them
selves to ratity such choice. The contest
was one on the ground Of license or no IL
license candidate, by vote of 81 to Al.
This gives the license party majority.
An old man living near Holmesville
was riding mule, and stopping to take off
his vest, the animal became scared and ran
sideways against wire fence. The man
was brushed against the fence in this way
for some distance. The flesh was torn from
the instep of his right foot by the barbs,
making an ugly wound. -C[EC>G
Lincoln has a stallion that is a fine
but dangerous animal. A Mr.. Douglas was
badly bitten by him in the arm few days
ago. The horse was formerly owned ~ the
Richards Bros, and is said to haye killed a
man while in their possession. On account
of his mean disposition he was sold by them
for mere trifle, and has since bitten three
fingers off of one man and lacerated an
others arm so badly that it had to be am
putated. His last victim is Mr.. Douglas,
whose arm is very much swollen, but it is
thought no permanent injury will result.
Omaha's big packing and slaughter
house, it is expected, will be put in opera
tion next month.
A convict working in the Nebraska
company department of the
penitentiary takes all the extra time he can
spare to work upon fancy toilet boxes, He
has one box in which there are over 5000
pieces of wood inlaid into the black walnut
body. He sells these boxes for from $40 to
$25 each. They are very neat, and when
finished up make an ornament upon any