McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-09
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

I A signal station is about to be established
ut Valentine.
Beatrice has six saloons that each pay 81 600
year license.
Omaha's bonded debt amounts to something
more than 81 100000.
An addition is to be erected to the b. s. NJ.
headquarters in Omaha gEE
The New church at Diller has been dedi-
Gated and the debt thereon cleared up.
Seventeen families have recently arrived to
swell the population in and about Coleridge.
Several carloads of horses have been re-
ceived at Creighton, all finding ready mar
ket. .
Andrew Nelson, an Omaha Swede, has beeu
adjudged insane, and will be taken to the
asylum.
Five hundred dollars have been raised for
the erection of wing to the Methodist church
at Milford.
Farmers in the neighborhood of Scotia are
preparing to plant considerable quantities of
amber sugar-cane.
Banker Wolf. Of Cedar Rapids. owns six
horses. all having a record considerably less
than three minutes. rs
Ed Hill and wife, while crossing the Loup in
q skiff near Fullerton were capsized and mar
rowly escaped drowning.
One of tie largest pipe organs ever brought
west of Chicago has just been received by the
Presbyterian church of Omaha.
The Cedar Rapids roller Touring mill is
grinding LIS to $50 barrels of high-grade flour,
and is running full twenty-four hours per
day. fas f
The citizens of Fulleston are discussing the
advisability of establishing or starting pri-
vate normal school in the university building
at that place.
A Beatrice paper suggests that the reunion
grounds In that city on the occasion of the
annual Grand Army gathering be lighted with
s,ectric light.
lis it to be a new sehool-house or are the
Did structures to be patched up and money
thus wasted. is now a question uppermost in
the minds of the people of Pierce.
Mrs A C. johnson. living seven miles south
of Dewitt. pricked her thumb slightly with a
needle Sunday night at o'clock, and died
Monday morning at 10 oc'ock from iockjaw.
County Treasurer Hildreth, of Franklin
county. has issued 1000 copies of Nebraska
Homes for the spring of 1885. 1t is expected
TO bear good fruit in the way Of settlement in
Nebraska.
The Reporter says that Special Agent Co
burn. of the interior department., arrived in
Valentine the other day for the purpose of
looking after several crooked transactions in
the land department.
The stable of John Stork, near Utica, burned
last week. The loss amounts to 500 bushels
Of oats, % bushels of seed corn, part of the
machinery belonging to his self binder, one
horse, and harness and other minor articles
d. o. Quinn, of Nebraska City, the agent of
the Singer sewing machine company who
skipped out last week, is wanted badly, as his
defalcation. it now leaks out, foots up to over
800, with several more transactions to bear
from.
The Fremont Tribune says: Peter A. Buck.
master has instituted suit against ]. N. Nc
Elroy for $500 for damages sustained by
freezing his feet last winter, which he alleges
was the result of drink obtained at the de-
PENDANTS saloon,
Two Sherman county lasses, living on
New Orleans exposition, and accordingly
packed their satchels and boarded the train.
They saw the show, had a good time, and
asked odds of no one.
! A German woman aged about 40, of Alma,
attempted to get away with herself by poison.
Physicians pumped the poison from her, and
she failed to reach the shining shore. She
afterward t, ed to take her life with knife.
but it was taxen away from her.
! German farmer and wife named Tegler,
In Highland precinct, Gage county, went to
the field to work. leaving their young children
ia the house. The house took fire and the
children we're burned to death. The house
and contents were destroyed.
: James Davis, of Ponca, who, at the Noven,-
Der term Of the United States court, was SEN
fenced to imprisonment In the Oousias