McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-06-12
ALL OVER THE STATE.

SiBut anu WE'VE wears Oiu respectively,
drove one of their father Is cows to town and
sold the animal for $25. The owner turned
up soon after, recovered the property and
took the boys to the parental roof, where 1t
is presumed they underwent suitable chas-
tisement.
John s. Mccormick, one of Omaha's
Oldest and most respected citizens, was
suddenly stricken by apoplexy on Saturday
last, and at this writing his death is hourly
expected.
The Madison creamery was started
up last Monday. The company has the
promise of the cream from 500 COWS for
start, and will add TO this number as fast as
possible. They are paying 13 cents q de-
gree for cream, and gather it themselves.
John Quincy Adams lives at Madi-
son where he follows the honorable IL not
lucrative calling of town herdsman.
Mr.. Severn Moore who resides in
Union precinct, Furnas county, while dig
ging well on his place, found at the depth
of ninety feet a cats head, with teeth all
well preserved and two joints of the neck.
The head was found fifty feet under solid
rock.
The Oxford and Kenesaw cutoff is
expected to be finished by July 1.
A little boy named Willie Geese was
drowned at Nebraska City last week.
He was standing on the bank, when it caved
in, throwing him far out into the water.
His body could not be found.
One Snyder, who lives north of Min
den, was arrested on complaint of his wife
who he had assaulted in brutal manner.
he was fided only s. and costs and bound
over to keep the peace, in the sum of $500.
What beats the MInden Gazette is the fine
being so small, believing that if he was
guilty at all, in should have been $50 and
thirty days in the cooler.
The Catholics of Minden will soon
build an addition to their edifice, besides
also erecting an academy.
S. II. Elwood and John l.. Ritter of
Dodge county, left a few days ago for the
north, intending to 90 up as far as the
White River county, beyond Galetine,
where they expect to purchase about q
thousand head of cattle, which will be
driven to Dodge county for feeding.
The Stanton creamery made their
first shipment last week of 1000 pounds Of
butter to New York. The capacity of the
creamery is 800 pounds per day, but at
present they only make about $50 pounds
per day.
Byron Drum, aged ten years, was in
stantly killed at Beatrice by the accidental
discharge of gun. He and two other boys
about his age had been hunting and fishing.
iouhS Dfuu "as tahinS gun from Cne
boat when the accident occurred. His body
was badly burned. He was the youngest
son of Postmaster Drum of Beatrice.
The Waterloo creamery has at last
attained patronage that is encouraging to
its stockholders. They made over 1,7OO
pounds Of butter last week, and expect
soon to increase the product to the full ca
pacity Of the works, $500 pounds daily.
The Geneva Driving association have
decided on July 4th and 9th as the dates for
their first annual meeting. Over $500 in
cash purses are offered.
A lady named Mrs. Ross, on the way
from New York to San Francisco with five
children, arrived in Omaha destitute of
money and tickets, having been robbed on
the train near st. Louis.
Notice of an election to provide for
a system of water works is being published
in the Ainsworth papers. The election will
take place June 10th.
State Superintendent Jones has
given, in response to an inquiry, his opin-
ion to Superintendent Rogers, of Fremont,
in regard to teachers taking holidays. He
says there are none whatever made legal by
our laws for which wages can be collected
If no school is held. The intent seems to
be to simply let teachers off certain days,
but always at their own expense.
A terrible tragedy was enacted OPP
posite Plattsmouth on the LIST, man named
Bright killing one of the bridge tender
named Williams, with a Ratchet, and after
committing the deed, blowing his own head
of with shotgun. Temporary insanity
under which Bright was laboring was the
cause of the terrible crime. The coroner
of Mills county, Iowa, took possession of
the dead bodies and the verdict of all seems
to be that Bright was insane and without
motive in killing Williams.
E. F. Lyons, of Fairburv, awoke the
other morning to find his pants and vest
missing. Search in the back yard revealed
the lost articles, but the money in the pants
and watch in the vest had gone with the
thief.
A pair of roughs attacked Chinese
laundry in Lincoln few days ago and quite
severely injured one of the prOprietors.
The scoundrels were after the money draw
er but were not successful. Officers over
hauled them soon after the demonstration.
The census of Beatrice, just COM
pleted, show population of six thousand.
Another thousand is expected to be added
before the close Of the year.
A man named Riley, of Pierce county,
quarreled with his son, the difficulty orig
mating from a dog fight. In the melee the
father struck his son over the head with
some heavy instrument, knocking him
senseless, in which condition he remained
for several hours.
Suit was brought in the district court
at Omaha by the Union Pacific Railway
company against the Wabash, St. Louis and
Pacific Railway company for $3.50, 32S.42 and
interest, on account of labor performed,
goods, material, etc.. furnished and money
expended for the Wabash. An itemized
statement filed with the court shows that
the claim runs back as far as October, 1881,
and includes such charges as switching, use
of tracks, car repairs. and the like.
A farmer named Dickinson, of Dixon
county, died last Sunday from the effects of
injuries received in a struggle with Mr..
West, store-keeper at Ponca. Dickinson
came into bis store Saturday pretty drunk,
and created such disturbance that the
merchant put him out of doors, using him
as gently as possible, but Dickinson was at
fiicted with hernia, and in his struggle the
truss that retained the rupture was dis
placed. He went home soon afterward
without attending to the hurt, and the rup-
ture became strangulated and on Sunday
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