McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-01-22
TIE STATE IN BRIEF.


THE STATE IN BRIEF.
Wyoming coal is sold at Madison at Sc per
ton.
A circulating library has been established
at Genoa.
The poor house of Butler county has but
one pauper.
A new time table went into effect on the B.
NJ. last Sunday.
The Beatrice Canning company has good
prospects for the coming season.
Another fire at Tecumseh, with damage un-
reported at this time. Incendiary.
An Insurance of $4,000 has been placed
upon Beatrice's new school building.
The Johnson county teachers association
will hold its next session February 7th.
Carrie Reber, of Humphrey, fell while slid
ing down hill and had her shoulder dislocated
The newsboys of Omaha have formed
branch of the mutual improvement associa-
ton.
The st. Paul s. Omaha railway company will
build commodious depot in Omaha this
year.
A Lincoln man has invented and placed in
successful operation a horse power corn
shucker.
Rev. Henry Bates, of Plymouth, Gage
county, recently celebrated his SEVENTEEN
anniversary.
A granger with wagon load of prairie
chickens showed up on the streets of Creigh-
ton last week.
The charity ball in Omaha was largely at
tended. The aid society will get about $500
from it for the poor.
Beatrices new Methodist church building
viii cost $4,000. Work on the structure will
commence in the spring.
The proposed changes in the city charter of
Omaha will raise the salary of mayor to $3.50
and that of councilmen to $500.
The loss to the farmers of Nebraska by hog
cholera the past year is estimated to be be-
tween 81, 100000 and Ss,OO0,OO0.
Six murderers are behind bars in the Doug
las county Jail. In all, the building contains
bout seventy offenders.
Judge A. W. Morgan's fine residence at Au
burn was burned to the ground. Defective
tiue. Loss, $500. Insured for $1,000.
Mr.. Green. of Kearney, fell from load of
hay, striking on his head a shoulders, render
ing him insensible for considerable time.
They had little mad dog excitement at
Fairbury the other day. The shot gun was
brought forth and the scare was soon over.
The erection of q new building for the barb
wire works at Beatrice, to replace the one de-
stroyed by fire three weeks ago, has begun.
The county commissioners of Douglas
county have figured out that they will need
about 100000 this year to run the official ma
chine.
1t is estimated that during the year 1884
100000 acres of land were taken up in Keith
county under the various government land
tights
The pastors of Blair are out with an address
to the people, the purport of which is that the
religion of Christ is reality and good thing
to get a hold on.
Mr.. Shedd of Lincoln, is the speaker of the
house of representatives, and Hon. Church
Howe, of Nemaha county, presides over de
alterations of the senate.
The fun in Schuyler's skating rink was
varied the other night by game of knock
down-and-drag- out, in which half dozen
young men tooka hand.
James Carruthers, of Deloit, had his barn
covered and the snow so banked about his
house in the late snowstorm that he had to
work all the week hauling the snow away with
teams.
letter from the turnkey of the California
state penitentiary shows that ]. Robert Will
liams, the David City swindler, served term
of imprisonment on the Pacific coast, being
pardoned May 20, 1880.
The Waterloo Creamery association recently
elected officers. retaining George r. Williams
as superintendent. The business last year
was satisfactory, and the outlook for the
coming season is encouraging.
Dr. A c. Jackson, of Kearney, who was
held on suspicion of having been accessory to
the my sterious death of his former partner,
DR.. John Linthicum, was examined last week
and after full hearing discharged.
ID. Hudson, of Butler county, marketed in
SCHUYLER the other day a hog which weighed
aa5 pounds, for which he received s34.S6. This
is the largest porker brought TO that market
since John Mcintosh brought his 1027-pounder
I'm three or four years ago.
The Schuyler Herald says that signatures
ere heipp .aken in that town asking the legis-
latnre To enact q law requiring teachers in all
schools supported by public money, TO teach