McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-12
attack the character Of an estimablc young
lady for not dying to suit them.

attack the character Of an estimablc young
lady for not dying to suit them.
| Among the railroad rumors for spring is
the report that the q. p. contemplates the
early completion of its line from Manhattan
to Msrysville. This will in effect give Beatrice
another southern outlet and an additional
through line to Kansas City.
| David Hudson, farmer living in the nor tn
part of Butler county, ecently sold to parties
at Schuyler, a hog weighing 965 pounds The
parties who bought the hog will feed him a
month or two and then send him down to
New Orleans, to go into the Nebraska exhibit.
The editor of the Thayer County Herald
| thinks that the man who deliberately leaves
| his horse standing hitched to post in the
open street for hours facing the cold wind,
| without food or covering. should be obliged
to keep company with the poor animal in his
| shirtsleeves.
The Ulysses Dispatch says that another
strange freak of nature has come to pass. A
cow of Godfrey Rihart, near that place. has
given birth to twin calves, their birth being
six weeks apart. One was born December
18th and the other January 24th. The calves
are both doing well.
Harrison Young, a young man living FIVE
miles west of Juniata. was killed about mid
Digit on the Both by Irwin Farabee. The
quarrel was about the sister of Young, with
whom Farabee persisted in keeping compa-
ny. They met on the road, and in an alterca-
ton Farabee struck Young powerful blow
underline chin, breaking his neck and killing
him instantly.
The report of Chancellor Manatt to the
board of regents of the university, for the
TIVE years ending November 30, 1884, has been
published in pamphlet form. 1t includes the
reports of the heads of the various depart
ments to the chancellor. and is very COM
plete statement of the condition and needs of
the university.
A Masonic Grand Custodian Lodge will be
held in Freemasons' hall, Hastings, Neb., Feb
ruary to IA, inc, $685.. Under direction of
W.. Benjamin F. Rawalt, Grand Custodian,
there will be Apprentice work on Monday.
February 9, and Thursday, II; Fellow Craft on
Tuesday, 10. and Friday, ID; Masters work on
Wednesday. Ii, and Saturday, IA.
H. A. Bacon, who formerly resided in JEFF
ferson county, was recently killed at Simpson,,
on the U. P. He was in the employ of the
railroad compan vas brakeman, and was sit
ting in car by the window when, in round
ing curve, a broken switch caused the car
to leave the track and upset, throwing Bacon
partially out of the window. The car fell on
him and crushed him. He was a young man
about % years of age.
at Columbus the other day man left the
train, accompanied by his little half-starved,
half-clad, motherless daughter, who, SILVER
ing with cold and hunger, followed her
drunken father from one saloon to another
pitifully pleading in her earnest, childish way
with the dastardly brute to resume their
journey. The sheriff finally arrested the man,
sobered him up, fed the starving little crea-
ture and started them for Minneapolis, their
destination.
Postoffice changes in Nebraska-Establish-
ed: Keller, Lincoln county, Elisha N. Keller.
postmaster; Sangco, Colfax county, Louis C.
Mayes, postmaster. Postmasters appointed:
Aida, Hall county, Frank w. Powell; Celia,
Holt county, Hans A. Strangeland; Cherry
Creek. Buffalo county. Asael L. Taylor; Dun
bar, Otoe county, Louis A. Jonas; French
town, Antelope county, VIM. Napier; Geneva,
Fillmore county, VIM. H. Cooksey; Harting-
ton, Cedar county, Henry B. Swing; Malcolm
Lancaster county, Louis C. Mayer; o Conner,
Greeley county, John Walsh.
A series of accidents to an Iowa family is
thus recorded by the Omaha Herald: An
Iowa stockman named Baker arrived at the
o naha stock yards Saturday with some
sheep, and, in experimenting their unload
ing, had one of his feet smashed. He was
taken TO St. Joseph's hospital, sending a tele-
gram from there to brother at McPaul,
Iowa, to come on and look after the stock.
The brother reached Council Bluffs Sunday,
and while waiting at the Transfer for the
dummy fell down and fractured one of his
arms. Instead of going to the stock yards
he, too, went to ST. Joseph's hospital. An
other member Of the family has been tele-
graphed for and while mournful over their
disasters. the crippled brothers are doing
little speculation as to the chances of coming
through safely.