McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
NEBRASKA.

Greeley county is going to fund $4,000 of its
Indebtedness.
Work is progressing on a $4,000 school
building at Omaha.
A gigantic squash raised near Riverton, this
state, weighs 1872 pounds. :
Seventy-three immigrant wagons passed
through Oxford last week.
Printers employed on the Omaha Bee went
out on a strike last Sunday.
colony of one hundred persons will locate
in Pierce county next spring.
Four hundred books have arrived for the
public library at Grand Island.
T. H. Head living south of Alma, has fine
bearing peach orchard of 800 trees.
Atlanta is the name of a new station on the
cutoff between Holdredge and Oxford.
The broomcorn crop in Adams county is
said to be immense, and all harvested.
Valentine on the 27th brakeman named
Bruce was run over by car and lost leg.
The new settlers in the upper country are
hauling their winter supplies from Valentine.
The railroad company is considering the
matter of building new stock yards at Wsner.
The docket for the October term of the
Douglas county district court contains $50
cases.
A subscription paper is being circulated at
North Loup to raise funds for building a
church.
Mrs. Hoops of Nemaha county. aged IS, died
suddenly while making preparation to attend
. church.
Grand Island has passed an ordinance pro-
hibiting hitching posts in the business portion
of the city.
Omaha police made raid on the colored
gambling dcns and lugged sixteen players to
the lookup.
Anti-monopolsts of the Goth senatorial dis
trict have nominated d. S. Parkhurst for the
state senate
Harry ingalls,, formerly of Beatrice, was ar
rested and brought back to Nebraska on the
charge of bigamy.
Loup City is looking for a boom. Town lots
to the number of $50 are to be sold at auction
on November 18th.
A foreigner cannot vote in Nebraska unless
he takes out his declaration papers thirty days
before the election.
A large prairie fire swept over the table
lands north of Valentine last week. No dam
age reported thus far.
VIM. Rhinegans, former resident of Adams
county, was drowned in Grand river, Colo
RADIO, week before last.
The remains of a boy baby, supposed to
have been still-born, were taken from the
river at Omaha a few days ago.
Rain somewhat interfered with the atten-
dance at the Gage county fair, but in the mat
ter of exhibits it was great success.
John G. Gray, the Genoa editor. has recov-
cred from his self-infiicted wound, and has de-
parted for his fathers home in Iowa.
Near LaPorte, few days since, Miss Julia
Thompson had a leg broken by the overturn-
ing of a buggy in which she was riding.
Benjamin F. Cobb, ex-police judge of Lin |
coin. is in straitened financial circumstances |
and creditors are jumping on him from all |
sides.
Nebraska has no soft corn this year, and if |
the cereal is gathered in season and properly
housed it will command the highest ruling
prices.
The young girl who was some time ago as
saulted by the Mexican fiend is still very low,
with chances rather against her final re-
covery.
The PRESBYTERIAN society at Hubbell re-
Gently dedicated their new church building.
1t is slightly edifice and was erected at cost
of $1,000.
At Hampton little boy named Boyce, with
out authority, was engaged in chopplng
inc hp nuf ends of
his fingers.
Scarlet fever is attacking so many children
in the neighborhoods east of Doniphan that
some of the schools have been temporarily
suspended.
Omaha is clamoring for more girls to do
homework. Good housekeepers marry so
fast that it is difficult to keep the market for
hired girls supplied.
Alvin McGuir, who broke Jail in Lancaster
county last December, has been captured and
will be compelled to serve out an uncomplet-
ed term of sixty days.
The Woman's Christian Temperance unions
of the state are going to secure mammoth
petition to present to the next legislature,
asking for prohibition.
Capt Foster, an Omaha sporting man, won
$4,000 in gambling house in that city last
week, breaking the institution and compelling
the manager to close up.
j. NJ. Stout and James McNeal, of Doniphan,
got into difficulty which terminated in the
former getting a jaw broken in two places
and the latter a closed optic.
A German at Lincoln named Vogt took a
dose of strychnIne and passed on to the other
world, where wine and women will not again
upset his mental equilibrium.
Perry Dutton, a youth in jail at Valentine
for horse stealing, cut his way out with a
pocket knife. He was recaptured and is now
confined in the jail at West Point.
Charles Nelson, young Dane working for
q ca1 daner near Omaha was found dead in |