McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-04
NEBRASKA.

Hebron will soon have an elegant new hott
of which ]. w. Hughes will be proprietor.
Ainsworth's new opera house, 40x1OO feet,
nearly completed. It will accommodate 1,5C
people.
Hedges Sons foundry at Lincoln was dc
stroyed by. fire a few days ago. Loss no
given.
The Omaha printers arrested on charge O
firing the Omaha Bee Office have been dis
charged.
Harry Richards, of Auburn, was throw
from wagon and painfully and dangerousl!
injured recently.
John Gabler, living near Wayne, is suffer
ingwith badly broken leg, the result of
kick from horse.
Burglars entered the clothing store Of J. G
Smith, Fremont, and carried away clothing tt
the amount of S175 or more.
The removal of the old Congregations
church to make room for a better one has
been commenced at Fremont.
Time was when Otoe county sent to Missou
ri for apples, but now she has them herself to
ship to all parts of the state.
The Gibbon creamery turns out $500 pounds
of first class butter a week, which readily
finds cash market at good prices.
Kent Conant, of Geneva, was kicked in the
face by horse, and though not seriously hurt
will carry scar for some time.
John Jordan, of Franklin county, was Sc
riously injured by being gored by bull. His
dog came to the rescue and saved his life.
George Warner, the man so nearly killed re-
Gently while at work on the Paxton building
in Omaha, has almost entirely recovered.
A steam ferry will soon be in operation OPP
posite Blair, affording direct means of transit
for teams crossing the Missouri either way.
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 the.present time.
Fremont is up in arms because of move to
take away the county seat and put it at Cen
terville. A special election is held Septem-
Der q.
The corner stone of the Episcopal Mission
church of the Santee agency was recently
laid under the auspices of the Masonic fra
ternity.
The Beatrice canning company received a
proposition from Pueblo, Co.. asking if thir-
ty car loads of canned corn and tomatoes can
be furnished.
& firm in Grand Island is just now shipping
200 to 500 dozen ears of green corn to Colora-
do, and finds that it pays. He pays cents a
dozen at wholesale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Senator Henderson have re-
turned home from Washington, and will re-
main in Nebraska till the reassembling of
congress in December.
A Fremont bagnio. occupied by Mabel Gray,
and generally known as 1.-THE Pen" on ac-
count of high board fence around it, was
wrecked by fire last week.
The B. s. NJ. is making some substantial i'm
provements at Oxford. The work is about
completed. The town is also soon to have a
fine grist mill built of stone.
Instructors at the Crete assembly, held last
week, all gave their services without remu-
neration except for their actual expenses.
The admission receipts were S557.25
The mother of Major North has recently re-
turned from two weeks visit to her son,
who was seriously injured while performing
with the Wild West show of Buffalo Bill.
Rev. Mr.. Henderson, who fell through
bridge near Crete, a few days ago is not as
seriously hurt as was at first supposed. Ply
sicians think that his recovery will be rapid. |
Union Pacific detectives at Omaha arrested |
two confidence men who had just swindled a |
man out of 500. They are in jail awaiting |
trial, and will probably be sent over the road. |
An Iowa officer put in an appearance at |
Bower, Jefferson county, few days ago, and |
arrested one John Phillips on the charge of |
rape. There is prospect of his doing duty for |
the state several years.
Leander Clark, of Hall county, attempted to |
smoke the mosquitoes out of his stable and he |
succeeded effectually. But he has no stable J
now and one of his mules was so thoroughly |
cooked that it will never kick again.
Rev. Father Martin, of Exeter, and assist |
ant pastor of the Roman Catholic church at |
Grafton, met with a serious accident last |
week in attempting to board a train. He was |
thrown on the platform and badly bruised.
Hogs are being swept off rapidly in Wash
ington county by cholera. VIM. Rosenbaum
has lost thirty head of old and 40 pigs. Hans
wulff has lost SIT head of pigs. Many others
have suffered more or less from the fatal dis
ease.
The Sioux City Journal is informed that the
grading of eighty-nine miles of road-bed from
Valentine west is soon to be let. The grading
is to be finished this season, but it is not ex-
pected that any part of it will be ironed until
next year.
Clinton Dill, a penitentiary convict having
been sent up for murder, suicided few days
ago by cutting his throat with pocket knife.
There was movement on foot to get him
pardoned, and ie that failed, to secure a new
trial.
Anton Nelson, of Long Pine, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a razor
week before last. The deceased was Swede,
in this country some seventeen years, and a
man of about so years of age. He had no
family and no relatives on this side of the
ocean.
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