McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04


Freeman Tucker burned to the ground. The
jured. Five hundred bushels Of corn and 800
bushels of oats, together with harness. robes
and blankets, were consumed. Loss about
$1,eOO; insured for $1,000.
Among the interesting things which State
School Superintendent Jones will forward to
New Orleans will be collection of photo
graphs Of the school buildings in the state.
each accompanied by a description giving the
time of building, materials, cost. seating ca
pacity, size and other interesting particulars.
Prof. Hardell. of Colum bus. and his three
children and nephew were taken violently Ill
he other night with all symptoms Of poison
ing. They had partaken of canned chicken
during the evening meal and within few
hours were attacked with violent vomiting
and cramps. Physicians brought them out all
right.
Geo. Uhlmen, of Sidney, has mountain
sleeps head that was brought from Pumpkin
creek, the animal having been killed in the
Coad pasture. Ithas horns measuring sixteen
inches in circumference at the base and thir-
ty-two inches in length. The head is to be
prepared by taxidermist and kept as Curl
osity.
VIM. L. Lewis, who has been very promi-
nently identified with Omaha business circles,
left the town quite suddenly recently. many
creditors mourning his hasty departure.
Wine, women and cards got the better of his
mental balance and led to excuses which
ruined him financially. He has gOne-nObody
knows where.
Fred Christian, of Omaha. while oiling the
machinery in the elevator pit of Parlin, Oren-
dorf & Martins warehouse, was nearly crush
ed to death. He unwittingly caught hold of
the wire that workt the car and set the latter
in motion. Itdescended upon him and he was
SO squeezed that the blood squirted from his
nose and mouth.
fire in Omaha on Sunday last resulted in
quite severe losses to several merchants, the
damage being principally by water. How the
conflagration originated is not known. Fred
erick, the halter, was the greatest sufferer
the larger portion of his stock being COM
pletely ruined, added to which sneak thieves
carried off some of the goods.
thing almost unknown in surgery, says
the Nemaha Republican, was discovered by
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Mathiesen, who was accidentally shot at the
democratic rally. By careful probing he dis
covered that the ball passed entirely around
his arm, only little depth under the skin.
and came out at the spot where it went in.
The New Orleans Democrat of November
22d says: prominent among the displays
now being put up in the government and
states buildings is that of Nebraska. This
state was the first to report with ten car loads
of goods, and for a full week the corps of
workers from Nebraska, together with car
penters hired here have been preparing the
space and putting up the display
"There are several Beatrice people," says
the Express, ''who are namesakes of men who
have been conspicuous figures in the history
of the country. Charley Ross is an unpre-
tending citizen who lives across the river.
Jefferson Davis is a colored man who lives in
the country. Andrew johnson was postal
clerk, but is now living in Beatrice. Willard
Fillmore keeps saloon at Blue Springs.
A citizen of Pierce, while out one night re-
Gently painting the town, red, went into the
Farmers house and proceeded to the dining
room, where the girls were, and thought to
make it lively for them. But he made slight
the girls were too many for
him, and they soon had him down on the floor,
and began rubbing pot SCOT all over his face
and they finished up by tying dishcloth over
his mouth.
kilograms received by our grain dealers
yesterday, says the Lincoln Journal, announc-
ing drop in new mixed corn to 32H cents and
rejected to 311a were something of a surprise,
though falling IL arket has be en- generally
predicted. These prices make the two grades
worth about IL to 13 cents and II to II cents
This looks hard for the farmers,
and those who can get stock to feed their corn
to will not put much of it on the market just
yet awhile.
In Union Pacific train, few nights ago,
was two cars of oil near Clark station; a jour-
nal on one of the oil cars was burned off and
the blaze of the hot box was communicable
the woodwork Of the car and in time trans
mitted to the oil. This made a roaring hot
fire and ignited a refrigerator car, filed with
butter and eggs which was completely de-
stroyed. The secord car filed with oil was
hauled under a water tank and the flames
we're extinguished.
Henry COOk, Lne once happy ana prosperous
mail contractor on the St. Paul route, says the
Loup City Times, is now looking through the
IRON CRATES in Kearney, Sheriff Caltus having
taken him there for safe keeping. Mr.. Cook
was arrested at the instigation of w. A. Will
son, for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses, and at preliminary trial before Judge
Hunter, Wednesday, was bound over to ap-
pear before the next term of district court, in
the sum of 81 900.
Following is the personnel of the Nebraska
delegation to the New Orleans exposition: Ex-
Gov. r. w. Furnas, of Brownville, Nebraska,
John c. Bonnell, of Lincoln.
Nebraska, artist and architect; Mrs. S. c. Eli
Dit, of Lincoln, Nebraska, superintendent of
work; Harry Hotchkiss, of Lincoln,
Nebraska, scenic painter; S. McConiga, of
Lincoln, Nebraska, superintendent of freight
department., with VIM. Baker and Harry
Creamer, both of Omaha, as assistants.
Frank Heidi, vagabond German living at
was arrested and jailed at Omaha
for attempting to wreck Union Pacific passen-