McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-16

ooKing over the ground with the view 70 es-
Establishment Of barb wire factory.
At the opening of the spring term Of the
Nebraska university Prof. Sherman delivered
an address Oh Literature and Culture"
Col Woed, the great museum man, has
rented the Academy Of Music, Omaha, and
will establish permanent museum there.
There were present in the four Congrega-
tional Sunday schools Of Omaha on Easter
Sunday 666 individuals, teachers and scholars
A colony Of ninety-sixty persons from Terre
Haute, Ind, recently passed through North
Platte to locate in Antelope valley, Sioux
county.
The Wakefield Republican remarks that the
high price of land In that locality is driving
hundreds of settlers farther west to find cheap
er homes
Ewing has bevy of young rascals who en-
gage In quiet game Of seven-up in the rear
end of its church-room while divine service is
in progress.
Charles Mutt, employed at the WILDER Mills
was caught in the boiling gear. One arm was
nearly severed from the body. His situation
is precarous.
Engineer Ainsworth, Of the Sioux City and
Pacific, will begin laying track on the 18th and
expects to put down two miles of 60lb. steet
rails every day.
The store of Kaufman Bros, Omaha, was
burglarized the other day of 5000 worth of
goods. A heavy plate glass was smashed to
get at the goods.
Additional ties are being unloaded in Papil-
lion, to be used in building the proposed
double track of the Union Pacific between
Omaha and that point.
mad dog made a trip through farming
settlement near Columbus a few days ago.
leaving his brand on several head of stock
which have since died.
The Oregon horse and land company, at
Fremont, shipped eleven blooded stations to
Ontario, Oregon, to be placed on a rancho.
They were shipped in car neatly arranged
for their convenience.
Fremont's creamery is doing . large bust
ness, and 1t is said to be the third in the
United States, the Others being at Syracuse,
N. Y, and Harrisburg, Pa.
Fred Stroeh, Jr., while sleeping at Stroeh's
hotel, in Papillion, was robbed of gold
watch, chain and a pocketbook containing
notes valued at several hundred dollars.
Ason of Ed Walters, who lives near Talmage,
while temporarily insane or suffering from
somnambulisin, threw himself from the sec
ond story window, cracking his skull and in
juring himself fatally.
After prolonged efforts with unpromising
outlook for time, arrangements have at last
been completed by which Omaha will probably
secure permanent baseball organization.
The Oakdale Journal is authority for the
statement that night express each way is
soon to be put on the Fremont, Elkhorn and
Missouri Valley road. The increased traffic de-
mands it.
ed from the army five years ago and started in
business in Omaha, was arrested the other
day by Constable Edgerton, to whom a false
friend of Wirth had betrayed him.
The w. C. T. U. of Blair is taking steps for
the establishment of reading room, regard
ing this as one of the most effective and ne
cessary steps toward breaking up the baleful
influence of the saloons on the young.
Chief Butler, of the Omaha fire department.
has arranged with the Western Union tele-
graph company to receive bulletin whenever
Gen. Grants death occurs aud will then have
slxty-two strokes sounded on the fire bells of
the city.
The Bloomington Guard says that a man
named Levi Madison, who has resided in
Franklin county several years, left his wife
and two children last Monday and eloped with
girl fifteen years of age. He left his family
in destitute circumstances.
Robert Fasting, the tramp who attempted to
murder Burns and McMurray near Columbus
! the other day, was tried for attempted MUIR
der and robbery and found guilty on both in
dictments. Burns and McMurray are improv-
ing and were in court as Pi+zssAes.
At Palmyra, Mrs. n J. Halls little girl,
bottle containing corrosive subj mate and
swallowed part Of it, and but for the prompt
arrival of a physician, who administered re-
storatives, the dose might have terminated
fatally. The child is now out of danger.
. News was brought to North Platte the other
day that the house of a farmer named R. Bas-
combe, five miles northeast of that city, with
himself and wife, aged 50 and 30 years, wer
entirely consumed by fire. 1t is thought the
couple were first murdered and then the house
fired.
H. II. Carpenter, convicted at last weeks
term of the district court for shooting, and
sentenced to one year In the penitentiary,
escaped from the guard Sunday evening. The