McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-25

iiho reekcrs nave recently Nlslueu 1OrH
county, and SO well pleased were they with
the outlook that all made purchases.
Perry Dutton was arrested at Ainsworth by
Deputy Sheriff Brahmstadt. upon charge OF
stealing horse belonging to John Fowler
He was taken back to Valentine for trial.
John Croft, 80 years old, living in Adams
county, has wandered from home, and his
people are anxious to find him, more particu
larry because he is often not In his right mind
A Lincoln woman who stood the abuse and
cruelty of drunken husband as long as she
could, started out to earn her own living, but
was taken sick, and is now subject for char
ity.
Mrs. Rosakrans, an aged lady at Tecumseh
while ascending long flight of stairs, was at.
tackled with a fainting fit and fell backward to
the bottom, sustaining injuries from which
she died.
A seventeen-year-old girl named Matilda
Mccullough, living with farmer in Nuckols
county, attempted to take her life by means
of bed-bug poison. She was saved by stom.
ach pump.
The English Lutheran church, at Omaha,
now undergoing completion, is one of the
handsomest church edifices of the west. 1t is
having a mammoth organ with 1044 pipes at a
cost of $4,000.
The young lady at Columbus who won the
81 600 piano at the state fair has presented
Mr.. Mueller, of Council Bluffs, with beauti.
full cushion made from the crazy quilt which
she had on exhibition.
Tom Rogers and Bill Turner, Lincoln, had q
difficulty, when the former shot the latter in
the leg, painfully but not dangerously wound
ing him. Turner had interfered with the do.
mestic affairs of Rogers.
The B. & NJ. company has put in stock and
feed yards near the round house at Hastings,
and all stock shipped from Benkelman and
points east of that station will be unloaded
and fed and watered there.
Two bootblacks entered the store of ]. d.
Jackson, North Platte, and stole fifteen pocket
knives, some pipes, plug tobacco, and $50
cigars. The thieves were captured and all
the stolen property recovered.
About thirty crooks were arrested at Omaha
during fair week, some of whom will be held
for trial. All accounts agree that the thieves
who put in an appearance on the occasion of
the fair were not very successful, on account
of the newspapers having sounded the note
of warning.
An Iowa farmer had a team stolen and went
to Omaha to look for the same. Here he fell
in with stranger who claimed to be able to
find the stolen property. Finally he offered
the Iowan drink of whisky from flask.
after partaking of which he lost his senses
and all his wealth Some S140
Mrs. Briggs, the wife of a Woodworking
brick mason of Lincoln, got mashed on an
other fellow, aud the other day "lit out" TAX
ing their baby, the only child, and stripping
the house of furniture. Briggs don't care
about the woman's return, but he wants it
understood that he is going to get the child
and don't you forget it?"
The Lutheran Synod, at its recent conven-
ton in Ponca, appointed an educational com
mittee. Measures will be taken to found a
classical institution of learning west of the
Missouri river. A suitable place will be look
ed after and inducements considered. Eleven
newly organized congregations upon applica-
ton were received into connection with the
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Nebraska.
rThe Utica Record sums up the harvest:
'Now that the threshing is nearly over in this
vicinity farmers know how much they have
been repaid for their labors of the season; as
q rule the yield of all kinds of grain is salts
factory, and while not yet quite up to last year
the quality is excellent, whilst the corn is very
good, and the weather very favorable to its
ripening up in time to be out of the way of
FROST