McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-25
NEBRASKA.

"Go0ASAAs
Corn is safe and magnificent crop.
rtThere is talk of the second skating rink in
Lincoln.
Adams county has decided to hold a fair in
October.
The Harlan county fair will be held October
LIST, I'd and 3D..
There are sixty students in attendance at
the Hastings college.
The pressing need Of Grand Island is said to
be first class hotel.
There is talk about fitting up $4,000 gam
bling house in Hastings.
The Lancaster county fair was the most
successful one ever held.
A new passenger train has been put on to
run in and out of Beatrice.
The Dodge county fair will be held at FIRE.
mont October LIST. I'd and Sd.
Norfolk has on exhibition a mammoth
squash weighing ninety pounds.
The new Congregational church at Fremont
is in the hands of the bricklayers.
Fremont claims population of 1900, which
makes it the third city in the state.
The new hotel at Hastings is to be one of the
finest, If not the largest, in the state.
The proposition to license saloon in Kene-
saw was negatived by the town board.
bigger and better display was made at the
Richardson county fair than ever before.
John carson, of Bloomington, was recently
severely shocked by stroke of lightning.
T. H. Head, living south of Harlan, has a
fine bearing peach orchard of 800 trees.
A movement is on foot looking to the sink
ing of an artesian well in North Platte.
The Adventists, in their camp meeting at
Omaha, will hold forth on the fair grounds.
Those counties that are holding fairs this
fall are presenting fine products of the soil.
The Israelites of Omaha have erected fine
synagogue, which was dedicated few days
ago.
Rev. H. s. Harrison, of Chicago, has accept
ed a call from the Congregationalists of
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Gen. Thayer, of Grand Island, has gone to
Indiana to stump the state for the republican
ticket.
The receipts of the state fair at Omaha were
about $50 600, which is S., 600 greater than ever
beofre.
Ohio settlers of Lancaster county held re-
union last week. A goodly number was in
attendance.
The Sioux City & Pacific will extend their
road as far as Fort Robinson by the first of
next June.
A number of colored people of Lincoln left
that city few days ago for Liberia, their
future home.
1J.w. Love has sold his Colfax county rancho
of LOO acres to some parties from England
for $4,000.
Abner Turner and A. B. Coffroth, of Column
bus. have lust purchased land in Wyoming for
a cattle rancho.
Next years grand lodge of Knights OF
Pythias will be held at Lincoln on the second
Tuesday in October.
James Gordon Bennett, of the New York
Herald, en- route to San Francisco, made
brief stop at Omaha.
The anti-monopolists and democrats of the
Second congressional district have nominated
]. H. Stickel for congress.
Mrs John Yerga, wife of 8 business man of
Omaha, has deserted his bed and board and
gone off with another Teller.
The school year of the state deaf and dumb
institute at-Omaha opened last week with one
hundred students in attendance.
]. A. Bruce, of Elm Island, had his barn de-
stroyed by fire at o'clock in the morning. 1t
is not known how the fire originated.
Thieves are again numerous in Lincoln, and
the shotgun which had been temporarily laid
away is again being brought forth.
1t is stated that Fremont was looser by the
reunion. A great many more people were ex-
pected than put in an appearance.
The Seventh Day Adventists of Iowa and
Nebraska will hold camp meeting at Omaha
from September 24th to October 9Th.
Miss Emma o. BurlIngame, of Crete, has
mysteriously left home, and her parents are
anxious to learn of her whereabouts.
A petition was circulated at Ashland asking
for an election to vote bonds for the purpose
of heating the school house by steam.
The wedding out process has been inaugu-
rated in the Omaha police force. 1t is found
that a number of them are drunkards.
Nearly every town in the state has skating
rink, and those not provided Herewith are
rapidly making preparations to this end.
The prisoners in the Grand Island Jail made
an attempt to escape, and now measures have
been taken for making them more secure.
Milford is organizing to secure the location
of the soldiers home at that place, Other
towns and cities are doing the same thing.
Democrats of North Platte held meeting to
ratify the nomination of their fellow-citiZen,
VIM. Neville, for congress in the Third dis |
trict.
Land Office Commissioner Mcfarland rules |
that land Office notices must be published in |
newspapers having good and bona fide circu- |
lation. |
Mrs. Daniel Wertz carried off the special |
premium at York county fair as the best lady |
rider. The premium was silk dress valued |
at $50.
A Nebraska cattle thief has just been over
hauled at Columbus, Ohio, by the sheriff of |
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