McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-06-05
THE STATE In BRIEF.

There are five murderers in the
Douglas county Jail, awaiting trial at the
term Of district court which opens next
week. These are GaZolo Qndicted), Smell
(indicted), Schneider Undicted), Keys and
Henry.
The building boom at Wahoo is said
to have become veritable epidemic. Ev-
eryb0dy nearly Is affected by It.
Confidence men at Omaha snatched
the pocketbook of w. II. ButtoIph, en-
thieves made good their escape without
parting with the booty.
Mrs. Martha Reynolds, of Unadilla,
has been adjudged insane by competent
commission and sent to the state asylum.
Mrs. Reynolds has three children, aged
about eighteen months, four and seven
years respectively, and she had repeatedly
made threats to kill them.
Jack Kinney, colored rough of
Omaha, on Sunday last, shot Pat Mehan
because he jostled the former off the cross
walk. Doctors say the wound will not
prove fatal. The shootist was jailed, pre-
vious to which there were threats of lynch.
ing.
A serious and perhaps fatal accident
occurred at Firth last week. Two brothers
named Click live together. One has very
cross bull which he keeps tied up In lot.
The little son Of the other brother went into
the lot for something. The bull became
enraged and breaking his rope got at the
entertained Of his recovery.
from hand car between Wymore and Be-
atrice, receiving injuries which resulted in
his death In q few hours. Another man
named Brougham had his hip fractured.
Henry Whilbeck, breakman on the
Union Pacific. received injuries afew days
ago while on duty between Wahoo and VAL
ley, which resulted in his death a few
hours after the accident. He was found
along side the track with his right leg from
the knee down mashed to jelly. Being
taken to the hospital at Omaha he died soon
after, exposure and great loss of blood be-
ing the cause. He was 35 years old and his
parents reside near Grand Island.
An unknown man, supposed to be a
tramp, was killed by a passenger train on
the Union Pacific railroad at Wood River
LAST week. The body was cut in two. The
heart was forced out of the body and found
six or eight feet distant.
John Splitthof, Hollander, 25 years
old, was arrested at Plattsmouth for at
tempting to outrage Agnes, the 6-year old
daughter of George Grebe. Judge Winter
alton committed Splitthof to jail to await
the action of the grand jury, he having
pleaded guilty to an attempt at rape.
Messrs. Clark, Kimball, Shelby and
Morse. of the Union Pacific, returned from
Chicago on Sunday last. having concluded
negotiations for continuance OF the Trans
continental association. An effort was
ests were so diversified that it was given up
as impracticable at the present time, though
a reorganization on that basis will probably
be made in the near future.
j. d. Fitzpatrick, of Gage county,
bought at recent sale Of Polled Angus
cattle in Omaha, thoroughbred bull and
cow, that are probably as fine as anything
in that section. The bull is fourteen months
old and weighs eleven hundred pounds.
The cow is two years old, and weighs about
the same. Mr.. Fitzpatrick paid 81 200 for
the two.
Frank Garrison, living northwest of
Plum Creek, came near losing his left arm arm
He was breaking prairie when the pillow
jumped out of the ground. He stopped
the team and fixed the pillow again, leaning
with his weight on the beam in order to get
il to take hold. As soon as the team start
ed the pillow tipped over and he fell with his
left arm directly in front of the rolling cut
ter. The complete severance of his arm
out of the ground.
The Blair bridge being completed,
the trains on the s. G. & P. have resumed
their o'd ru ming time.
o. M. Mervin, of Otoe county, plowed
up reptile which is certainly a strange
specimen. 1t is about twelve inches long,
has four short legs, the fore feet having
four toes and the hind feet five toes-the
hind feet greatly resembling in shape a
mans hand. 1t could swim like fish.
Insects resembling the Colorado
potato bug have totally destroyed six acres
of cottonwood and box elder trees on the
farm of John Kearney, in Dawson county.
The insects deposit their eggs on the under
side of a leaf, just as the potato bug does,
and before leaving the tree strip it COM
pletely Of leaves.
Mrs. Samuel Pearl, of Lincoln, a
blind woman, met with an accident a few
DAYS ago by which she is confined to her
bed with badly broken foot.
The Beatrice express says the little
year and half old son of W. 81. Ruyle was
severely scalded. A girl doing homework
had heated a pan of water, and as she
picked it up and was turning around the
child caught her by the dress and pulled
itself partly into the pan of water. Its
face, neck and shoulders were severely
burned.
Jacob Glitter, well-known citizen of
Spring Creek, Harlan county, was kicked
In the stomach by one of his horses produc-
ing inflammation of thebowels, from the ef-
fects of which he died. He was 81 years
old.
Burglars are holding full sway at the
capital OF the state. House breakings are
of nightly occurrence, and a movement is
on foot to offer liberal reward for trans
gressor dead or alive.
John Williams, of Omaha, found his
wife, Emily Williams, lying dead upon the
floor of the kitchen one day last week. 1t
was probably case of heart disease.
1t has been developed that the body
found in the river near Bellevue few days
ago is that of young Bohemian, Matthias
Free, whose friends missed and advertised
for him after his sudden disappearance in
January. He was last seen going to Coun-
Gil Bluffs with several women, and there is
a suspicion that the shooting and strang-
ling. marks of which were found on the
body, were done On that side Of the river.
A stranger was found dead and