McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21

the institute recently held at Geneva.
The watermelon patch is now holding out
strong inducements for the small boy.
The street improvements of Omaha this year
n the way Of paving and grading, will cost
100000.
Difficulties of Union Pacific workmen have
been amicably settled, and all have returned
to work.
There is considerable hog cholera in the vi
cinity of Ashland, several farmers having's uf-
ferred losses.
Beatrioe's canning factory is about ready to
commence operations. About 100 women have
been employed.
The first shipment of cattle to the Omaha
stock yards arrived on the 18th. There were
five hundred head.
The Catholic school building at West Point
will be completed and ready for occupancy
sometime next month.
Five thousand people attended picnic at
Auburn last week, given under the auspices
of the Catholic society.
The Omaha stock yards are now ready for
the handling of stock. The first arrival con-
sisted of thirty car loads.
A young married woman of Columbus left
that town few days ago. leaving a one-year
old baby with her husband.
A new postofice building is about to go up
in Kearney, the contract having been let and
the material placed on the ground.
An Omaha family were made quite sick by
partaking of coffee that had been poisoned in
the process of giving it a nice color.
Clarence H. Wilder, of Adams county, was
caught in the rod of threshing machine and
was horribly mutilated. He will die.
Ellsworth Murphy, of Buffalo county, while
monkeying with gun shot Mrs. H. M. Porter,
of Cherry creek. She was not fatally hurt.
The state fair grounds are rapidly being put
in condition for the exhibition which opens on
the 9Th of September, continuing until the 18th.
The Presbyterian society Of Nelson has bro
ken ground for q church edif1ce, and the i'm
provement will be completed as soon as posi-
BILE.
The Beatrice canning company, which be-
gan operations few days ago, employ eighty
people. The managers expect to put up 10000
cans daily.
Rev. DIR. Potter, of Hobert college, N, Y,
is on visit to the state. He has not yet re-
considered his declination of the bishopric of
Nebraska.
A. o. Henry, of Wayne, stole S125 from J. F.
Shelbahn, brick manufacturer of that place
Henry was arrested and bound over in the
sum of $500.
The leader Of the Indiana colony, which set
tied this spring in the country 100 miles west
of Valentine. reports the colony in satisfac-
tory condition.
Nat Ross, son of Capt. Ross, of Fort d. A.
Russell, was quite severely hurt at Omaha
few days ago by falling under the wheels of
an ambulance.
A. Bianchi, a fourteen-year old boy of Sarpy
county, was bitten by rattlesnake, his foot
swelling to enormous proportions. Physicians
think he may recover.
The Fremont creamery averaged 1,745
pounds of butter per day during July, or over
1900 pounds. During the same period it
turned out 69l cheeses.
The winter wheat crop in Saline county is
turning out we'll. Where the crop was well
put in, and not damaged by storms, the yield
is 2S to 80 bushels per acre.
Confidence men have been operating on
Union Pacific trains. Several of the gang
were arrested few days ago, and their
crooked work will be investigated.
In an alteration at North Platte recently
Ernest Smelling received severe cut in the
breast, Lorenzo Wiser being his assailant. The
wound is not necessarily dangerous.
Two hotels are among the many valuable
improvements that are being made in Doni-
phan the present season. Two churches are
also in course of erection in that village.
There is great demand for butter of the
Waterloo creamery, and there are more orders
than can be filled. All doubt about the insti-
tuition being paying investment has vanished
Ex-Marshal Guthrie, of Omaha, has thirty
days grace from the date of his conviction be-
fore he is compelled to don the striped clothes
and do duty for the state at the pen near Lin
DIN.
Tom Lowrey, of Lincoln, "big fat Tom Low
rev. as he is familiarly called, gave Elder
Howe, of the capital city, an order for fifty
loads of corn cobs to be distributed among the
poor.
Mrs. Newly, wife of Louis Newly, liviag
near Tobias, was severely burned by the ex-
plosion of a coal Oil can, and is considerably
indisposed, though she is said to be slowly
gaining.
Citizens of Clay and adjoining counties who
formerly lived in Fulton and McDonough
counties, Illinois, will hold a reunion on the
second day of Clay county fair, September
18th, 1884.
Max Grimm, of Omaha, promised to marry
Margaret Klensch, but at the time appointed
for the ceremony failed to put in an appear
ance, and now the girl will sue for $4,000
damages.
An Omaha officer. a few nights ago, found
deserted infant on the steps of the st. Mary's
avenue convent, placed there by some heart
less wretch. 1t was cared for by the sisters
of the institution.
1t was estimated this spring that $4,000
would be expended this year in buildings, in
Wayne. Those already completed and under
will cost considerably more than that