McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-14


disbanded, and is now one Of the things of the
past. --Ss~ges1
The Omaha lard refinery was destroyed by
fire on the sth. Loss on building and con-
tents, $4,000. 5 ~, IL
Lewis Ferguson, the man who knitted Hamp-
ton at Aurora, July o, has escaped from jail,
He slid out between the bars. g-- ss-ss
A man named Gutenberg was run over by
the cars near Lincoln, and killed, one day last
week. He was drunk at the time.
The soldiers reunion at Laramie City OPEN
ed with large crowd in attendance, not less
than 5000 people being on its grounds the first
day. 1900
J. Treitman, an Omaha butcher, would like
to find his former clerk, lit out a few days
age withlLa goodly sum OF his employers
money. "a N#E # SeE
Lincoln county is in an enviable position
financially. She has built q $4,000 bridge
and nice large court house, andis nearly out
of debt.
Union Pacific officials and others now enter
tain no fear regarding spread of texas fever
among the cattle. Fall shipments are about
to commence. ,.e.-....-s
pounds of butter per day during July, or over
1900 pounds During the same period it
turned out Sol cheeses. ------
Nebraska is taking steps to be properly rep
resented by the samples of her products at
the New Orleans exhibition next winter.
Good returns may be expected in the future.
A lad named Burns, living near Valparaiso,
slid down upon the handle of a pitchfork,
which entered his person about ten inches re-
sulting in injuries which, it is thought, will
prove fatal.
During a recent thunder storm G. w. Fen
derson, homesteader, located thirty miles
north of North Platte, on the Loup river, was
struck dead by lightning. His home was at
Grand Island.
Miss Pulsche, of Omaha, tolerably fair
looking girl, deserted her poor old mother
few days ago, and went away with a negro,
with whom she became infatuated and pro-
posed to marry.
Hans Thompson, a farmer living about ten
miles west of Omaha, went to town and re-
ported to Coroner Maui that man in his en-
ploy died from the effects of sunstroke re-
ceived that day.
William williams, who lives six miles east of
Guide Rock, and is sixty-six years old, met
with painful accident He was thrown from
pony while herding cattle and produced a
fracture of his collar bone.
Fifteen transgressors, convicted at the late
term of the district court of Douglas county,
have just been given quarters in the pen near
Lincoln. One of them, for manslaughter,
was sent up for twenty years.
The ex-city marshal of Omaha, convicted of
bribery and sentenced to the penitentiary,
has been denied stay of execution by the SUI
preme court, and now does duty within the
walls of the state penitentiary.
Near Doniphan last week, while number
of men were helping a farmer to replace his
house, which had been blown over by the
wind, the roof fell in and crushed a man by
the name of Rhodes SO severely that he is not
expected to live.
The supreme court hasissued writ of error
in the murder case of Quinn Bohannon sem
fenced to be hung at Nebraska City on the 18th
of August. This will postpone the hanging
until after the January meeting of the
supreme court.
W. w. Van Doren, of Oakdale, is a missing
man, having disappeared June 20. Nothing
has been heard of him since. 1t is feared he
has been foully dealt with, as he had about
$500 on his person at the time, with which he
intended to buy 1and in Dakota.
July 18th the first white child was born on
the Omaha reservation, in Cunning county,
Mrs. Thomas Mcneil being the mother. The
newcomer has been donated 160 acres of
choice land in section O. township "a, range
east, in acknowledgment of its priority of
urinary hOnOrS.
]. A. Smith, living three miles southeast of
Kenesaw, was threshing with a steam thresher
when it exploded, killing him instantly, de-
molished everything around, blew Smith
about twenty yards, ripped open his bowels
and nearly cut his head off. A piece of the
boiler was found forty rods away. No others
were hurt.
r. J. Moore, capitalist, Spectator and stock
man, of Lincoln, has recently been under the
surveillance of officers, charged with dispos-
ing of mortgaged property. Complaint was
made by athe Capital National bank, the
amount at stake being $500. The affair was
finally. settled by the defendant making good
the obligation, and the matter will be sienced
on account of the heretofore high standing of
the gentleman for integrity and honesty.
The board of managers of the Nebraska
Baptist state cony ention, in session recently
TT Lincoln, appointed the following mission
aries: Rey. A. W. Snyder, for churches at
Auburn and Brock; Rev. d. S. Hubert.
Plainview; Rev. B. F. Lawler, Humboldt;
Rev. A. H. Law, Wymore; Rev. G.. j. Travis,
Wayne and Harrington; Rev. ]. A. Abbott,
Oxford and Holdredge; Rev. J. Shutz,
Minden.
Postofice changes in Nebraska during the
week ending August 2, 1884, furnished by VIM.
VanvlecK of the postofice department: Es-
tabtshed-Anderson Brown county, John An
derson, postmaster; Lutes, Brown county,
John Lutes, postmaster. Discontinued-Far.
rail-, Platte county; Putnam, Gage county,
Postmasters appointed-Big Spring, Cheyenne
county, George s. Human, postmaster;
Hamesville, Holt county, Alfred C. Mohr
postmaster.
The Edgar Times says that little daughter
of o. N. Overturf, living nine miles north of
IL r,.xx a.