McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-27
GENERAL STATE NOTES.

The girl babies seems to be largely in the
majority this season.
The Omaha street car company is breaking
in a lot of bronchos.
Many tons of hay were destroyed by praf
rie fire in the vicinity of Gibbon last week.
The G. A. R. post at Gibbon has engaged
Levi Perkins to deliver a lectures in that place
Alma was the scene of another fire lately
Pettyman Brothers implement house was de-
stroyed.
The Furnas county Sunday school conven-
ton, recently held, was very successful
gathering.
The total vote cast in Polk county this year
was about two hundred more than the average
of last year.
The Child's Hospital and Home at Omaha
contains twenty-one children, and there is no
room for more.
Fire at Omaha destoyed the overall manu-
factory of Mr.. Garfield, throwing forty lady
operatives out of employment.
The little daughter of P. ]. Leonard, of
Bloomington, lost portion of one of her
fingers by the sudden falling of window.
The sixteen-year-old boy of Gage county is
ahead. He husked 100 bushels of corn. hauled
the same half mile and crbbed it-all in one
day.
Prof White has resigned his position with
the Hastings college. He does this with the
intention of preparing himself for the min
istry.
At Cleveland celebration at Falls City
cannon that was being fred prematurely ex-
,,,ife
hurt.
The Gage county exhibit for the worlds
fair was shipped the other day. 1t filed one
freight car, and was sent via the Z. P, over
the wabash.
Two little boys, named Allen and Harding,
of Kearney, not over eight or nine years old,
snatched five dollar bill out of the hands of
gentleman.
Wv. Sheakle of Dorchester, while painting,
fell to the ground, dislocating his collar bone
and injuring him internally. He is in criti-
cal condition.
Hammond & Co., of Detroit, Michigan, have
leased the stock yards slaughter house, and
will proceed at once to the killing of 600 hogs
and 800 beeves daily.
]. NJ. Mccoy, of Seward. skipped" the
country day or two ago. He left debts to
the amount of $500 or $1,000, some of which
are partially secured.
A number of school houses in Polk county
have established literary societies for the pur-
pose of perfecting the young people in the art
of public speaking and writing,
Albert Day, a young man who forged note
at Lincoln last winter on Alexander Bird, and
Or,n
year in the penitentiary for his transgression.
An attempt was made to burglarize the
bakery of the NJ. J. Shorey, at Hastings. The
thief, who was captured before he could carry
INTO effect his plan, proved to be young boy.
Some papers are advising farmers to hold
onto their wheat, while others express the
opinion that nothing will be gained by so
doing. The farmer better be his own Judge |
about the matter.
WI Nelson, who defrauded Lincoln credit |
ors. was captured at Sioux City and shot him
nate man left property enough in Lincoln, it |
is thought, to settle his liabilities.
George Smith, living On Wood river seven
miles west of Gibbon, had two valuable cows
die last week. Post norton examination dis
closed nothing but some dark spots on the
heart and coaguleum in the valves.
A nine-year-old son of Jacob Gillispie, of
Stanton county, was fatally injured lastweek.
Another child threw the frame of an umbrella
and one of the ends struck the boy just over
the left temple, piercing the brain.
The Fairbury Gazette says that scarcely
enough hay was put up in that vicinity to
supply the demand the coming winter and it
will be still scarcer before spring unless some
care be taken to protect it from prairie fire.
Two prominent citizens of Columbus made
a bet of four sacks of flour on the result of
the presidential election. The loser is to-
transport the flour on wheelbrrrow to the
residence of the winner, led by band of
music.
Mr.. Alvin Gray's boy, at Harvard, while
walking in his sleep, fell down stairway
which had no railing around it, and splintered
his elbow, broke a bone in his wrist and
wrenshed his shoulder 80 that he was badly
used up boy.
The Arapahoe Pioneer says that Furnas
county can point with pride to her increased ,
population as evinced by the vote at the re-
cent election which was 1,24 votes, against ,
936 last year. This denotes an increase of ,
fully one-fourth.
The child of Fred Dufoe, of Cedar Rapids, J
mad very narrow escape from death. It
frank some concentrated I've, and only for ,
he timely assistance of physician it would
n all probability have died. AS it is the child s
s badly burned. :
At Hansen the little child of W. L. Baker i
net with severe accident. While playing !
With its nursing bottle it got the glass tube v
nto its mouth and chewing Off large piece ?
wallowed the pieces. seventy-fve of which q
ad passed from it at last accounts. a
Another attempt was made to wreck a pas
enger train on the Union Pacific road last
yeek. AS the train was nearing point be-
ween North Bend and Schuyler, ties were G.
Dund wedged in a bridge, but before any b
amage was done the train was stopped. ii
Jacob Boudrie, of Nemaha county, the gen. ~ q,
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