McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-26
TIE STATE IN BRIEF.


TEE STATE IN BRIEF.
The Auburn creamery will resume busl
ness the LIST Of April.
Omaha's public library contains between
R,0O0 and 1900 volumes.
Burnett expects to build large and sub
stantial brick hotel in the spring.
car repairer named Timke was killed al
Lincoln by being run over by train.
The losses of the farmers in Cunning county
by hog cholera have been very heavy.
&The citizens of Indianola have raised $l2, OOC
for Touring mill to be erected this year.
The religious revival at Indianola Is said to
have captured nearly everybody in the place
The Columbus schools, closed on account OF
prevalence of diphtheria, have again opened.
Blair people are generally favorable to the
construction of a system of water works in
that place.
The school authorities at Ord recently ex.
PEELED four boys from school for defacing
school property.
1t is said preparations are being made
extensive coal prospecting in Knox county
the coming summer.
A colony of thirty five families from Illinois
is expected to locate in Adams county in the
near coming months.
L. E. Sinsspauph. the Syracuse (Neb.) horse
man, has bought The stallion Bay Splendor, at
Woodruff, H., for $1,000
The protracted meetings in Pawnee City
have closed with the result of fourteen addi-
lions to the Baptist church.
An Omaha man gave his wife $3.50 to pay
debt at Portsmouth. Now he would like to
find both his wife and his money.
Polk county has paid. out about 81, 200 in
support of the poor thus far this season. Pur
chase of q poor farm is talked of.
John Terham, of Beatrice, had narrow es-
cape from being poisoned by taking dose of
medicine from the wrong bottle.
man named Halves, from Omaha, is re-
ported by the Chicago Times to have fallen on
the ice in that city and broken his leg.
An Omaha newspaper man was brought be
fore the grand jury to explain in regard to
making public secrets of the jury room.
Cyrus Il. Mccormick, Jr., has sent in his
S6COuu cOutrlDutiOu W hdStlnSS cOuego. Iue
amount is 5000 and the cash is on hand.
Fitzpatrick Bros. have purchased the rancho
of E. D. Webster, on the Sticking Water. 1t
is oneof the larges ranches n the state.
John II. Polman, of Nemaha county, lost
five head of cattle within few days. An ex-
animation of the stomach showed no disease
there.
NM VI loor
Russell g. Reed Bros. that nearly all of their
peach trees have been destroyed by the severe
winter.
Rev. and Mrs Ogburn, of Utica, were the
recipients of purse of SIG, made up and
presented by pa rties not members of their
church.
One horse trader 'sheld up" another as he
was crossing the Missouri river at Omaha
few days ago. The offender was nabbed by
the officers.
The board of trade of Omaha have selected
ground for the chamber of commerce build
ing, to be erected the coming summer. The
site cost SI3,@a0.
A mast 40 feet high carries the Niobrara
and Running Water telephone wires acros-
the Missouri river above the reach of steams
boat SmOKe-StacKS.
The Schuyler Herald and the North Bend
Flail are occupied in ventilat1ng an Insurance
swindler recently engaged in SHINING the
grangers in that locality.
The St Helena Harrington county seat
muddle will be solved by the courts recon
vening the canvassing board and ordering
correction of the figures of the votes cast.
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Ashland, have secured large railroad con-
tract in Arkansas, and in the spring the firm
will remove to and become citizens of that
state.
The fish commi ssion ask the legislature for
an appropriation of $4,000 to carry on their
work Sixty thousand fish will be placed in
the lakes and tributaries of the Ellkhorn in a
few weeks.
A few of Pawnee City's young bloods un-
dertook to paint Tecumseh. but made poor
job, part of them being landed in the GALA
boose, from which they emerged to pay
roundly for their fun.
The Waterloo Gazette urges upon the citi-
zens of that place the necessity Of forming a
stock company to erect vegetable canning
establishment, which, it believes, will prov
highly remunerdtiNe.
eoThe great Patti, en- route to the Pacific
coast. concluded not to make the trip VIA
Omaha, and the wide-awake newspaper re-
porters of that city were disappointed in con-
templated interviews.
The masquerade ball of the Omaha press
club was largely attended affair. James
Gordon Bennett, Whitelaw Reid and other
distinguished journalists were unable toTbe
present and sent regrets.
At Superior q scoundrel in human form put
a dog in lime vat, from the effects of which
the Door brute lost both eyes. If the perpe-
traitor could be found an opportunity would
he given him to know how it is himself.
A Young woman stopping at the Beaver
Valley house, Albion, gave birth to a child,
the paternity of which she lays to a married
man living a few miles in the country who
brought her from England last summer.
The shoot ng of DR.. Murphy, near Valen
tine. by the squaw-man Frenchy, Is said to
cause little interest and no excitement. The
murderer claims to have done the kiiiine IN
self-defense, and apparently that setaes+