McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-26

Fierce, too, will have o creamery. gen
tieman who thoroughly understands the bust
ness will manage the enterprise He is quiet
ly making arrangements to commence opera
7 tons at an early day.
While workmen were engaged in layinl
brick on two-story business block in Hast
ings, the front of the building fell IN with 1
terrible crash. owing to o defect in the wal
of the adjoining building.
DIR. George b. Graf, OF Omaha, one of Ne
braska's early pioneers. died suddenly in
Denver few days ago Of heart disease. A,
the time of his death he was largely interested
in the Wyoming oil lands.
1t is said that Mrs. Griffin. widow of the
man killed while trying to rob the state treas
ury. is about to begin an action for $4,000
damages against Gov. Dawes. Treasurer
Bartlett and the detectives implicated In the
murder.
Rev. c. r. Ford, of Kearney. is in bad odor
just now on account of his alleged inhuman
treatment of young man named Frank
Bicknell. while sick with diphtheria in the
reverend gentleman's house.
A Lincoln married man objected to his wife
going home from the skating rink with a
gentleman friend" enforcing his command
with revolver. Only one shot was fired, but
that was enough to brighten the intruder so
far away that he has not since been heard of.
In Adams county some boys go, hold of a
rusty revolver. AS usual it was loaded,
though it had laid about for years, and with
premature explosion boy named Alexander
was shot through the heart and instantly
killed.
Il roih - ~ xrI1
has been attending the exposition at New Or
leans. writes to that paper that the Beatrice
canning company displays splendid line Of
goods and has received large number of
orders.
The Crete Globe complains of the poor
showing that laboring men who always pay
cash get from the business men. The man
who buys his goods and is consequently in
| debt to the merchant gets what work he has
to give out.
Fifty cents an hour, for the time actually
employed, is the price paid the teachers in the
Blair schools. The Pilot says that no bust
ness man in Blair gets as much pay for his
services. the railroad companies and banks
don't pay their most expert clerks any such
wages.
The Santee reservation Indians are CON-
planning that their white brethren living ad.
jacent to the reservation have been taking
wood from the Indian lands, and are threat
ening retaliation by appropriating settlers
live stock in numbers sufficient to make the
deal even.
w. +. Apgar turned up in Lawrence. Kan.
the other day seemingly in great trouble
This he relieved by hanging himself In his
room, after an Intellectual attempt to bleed
himself to death. His malady was love
affair. the young lady in the case being a
resident of Hastings, this state.
AT Eyerts Bros. farm, in Richardson coIn-
ty, fire destroyed the corn-cribs containing
1000 bushels of corn, go bushels of millet,
large quantity of clover seed, agricultural
implements, the hog sheds, together with
twelve fine brood sows and about seventy
pigs. The amount of loss is not stated.
The cearances at the Omaha clearing house
last week amounted to Sl,S63s3o. This is
decrease of nearly 100000 from the preceding
week, but still puts Omaha twelfth in the list
of twenty-seven cities. The towns distanced
are Indianapolis, Cleveland, Hartford, Mem
phis, New Haven, Columbus, Peoria, Port
land, Worcester. Springfield Lowell and SYRIA
cuse.
DIR. W. H. Smith, of Crete, intends to set on
5000 tress On Arbor day. The Vidette re
minds the farmers that there is a first pre-
MUM of fifty dollars and second premium
of twenty five dollars to the one who sets out
the most trees on Arbor day in Nebraska.
These premiums are always promptly paid
when passed upon by the committee of the
state board of agriculture at their annual
meeting.
John ]. Mcneil, of Omaha, who was pas
senger on the Union Pacific train from Den
yer on the l4th. was blown from the platform
of a car while the train was running at full
speed. few miles west of Clark station, by
the high wind which swept across the prairie
at about fifty miles an hour. Being hampered
by several books which he was carrying, Mr..
Mcneil could not seize the guard rail, and was
carried to the ground, where he struck vic.
lently. dislocating his right ankle and break
ng one of the bones of that leg near the |
ankle. |
One Tom Ballard, at Omaha on the 18th, |
shot and killed Henry Verpoorten, bar |
tender. Both men were employed at the st |
James hotel. kept by Mrs. Daemon. When |
Ballard was asked why he had killed Verpoor |
eth, he said he did it because he (the dead |
mani had been stealing money from the pro-
prietress of the hotel, and that he had been in |
the habit of conflscaring to his own use |
large share of the funds that came into his
possession. Further statements relative to
the motive for the crime he would not volun-
teer.
Near Valparaiso recently a man allowed |
key containing powder to stand in his yard.
Some of this was spilled on the ground by
the children at play. The owner went to the
spot to scrape up the powder and replace it
in the keg. smoking his pipe in the meantime
Result-a spark went to the powder and the
powder went of, burning and blackenng the
children standing about In a serious manner.
The local paper says it was supposed their
eyes were SO badly burned that in the future
they would be sightless, but hopes are now
that they viii soon be able to
zee again.
j. w. Rogers, adjusting agent of the Ger
man Insurance company, was found dead in
bed in his room in Lincoln a few days ago.
was supposed at first that he had committed
suicide, as he left a note directing that his