The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-12-10

by the board OF public andsa and buildings.
The average appraisement is about SO per
acre. There is still about 100000 acres
OF school lands in Nebraska which have
never been offered for lease or sale.
The much-needed repairs at the state
university nave been completed.
Mrs. L. P. BOYD, wife OF the editor OF tn"
Auburn Champion, took by mistakea dose
OF poison and came near dying.
THE Presbyterian collection taken up in
Lincoln on Thanksgiving day was turned
over to Elder Howe for the benefit Of the
poor.
THE Lincoln Journal says that those
who imagine that the lease and sale OF the
large amount OF school land which has
been put on the market in the last few
years has about exhausted the supply, will
be undeceived when they learn that there
are yet 1,300, 900 acres OF these lands that
have never been leased or offered for sale.
Mrs. SMITH, one of the inmates OF the in
SAINT asylum, was fatally burned the other
night. She retired early, and soon after.
wards smoke was discovered coming from
the transom of her room. The door was
broken open and Mrs. Smith vas found
standing against the wall. Every bit oil
clothing had been burned from her body,
and the bedding was afire. She had set fire
to the mattress and herself. The flames
had burned the skin from every portion OF
the body except just over the eyes, where
she had protected herself with her hands.
She died in a few hours.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made that Gibbon is
to have it's second newspaper.
AS SOON as the winter season is past, the
Northwestern will put on a through pas
senger between Chadron and Missouri Val
ley, which will stop at only the principal
towns along the line. Thirty miles per
hour will be the running time.
SUFFERING from temporary ALTERATION,
caused by a severe attack OF illness during
the past autumn, says the Kearney Courier,
Geo. Hoge wandered from his home in that
city last week, since which time no tidings
have been heard OF him. Mr.. Hoge has a
farm in the suburbs OF Kearney, and also
one in Custer county. The family are in
great distress, and it is hoped those under
whose notice this article may come will be
kind enough to keep a lookout for him. He
is described as being AZ years of age, about
5 feet 6K inches in height, weight about 145
pounds, brown hair, light chin whiskers
and moustache.
ARNOLD, in Custer county, is becoming a
trading point of considerable Importance.
THE bond OF the treasurer-elect OF Sarpy
county has been fixed at $4,000.
SOME big stories about ''big corn" are
now appearing in the state papers, but.
says the Papillion Times, it is reserved for
Arson, of Sarpy county, to get to the
with the biggest ears OF corn yet seen
or heard from. He came in the other day
with a dozen ears, every one of which
a pound and a hall, and one ele-
waited the beam at two pounds. 1t is sug-
that before Col. Chase represents Ne
braska at the next waterways convention
he should visit Sarpy county and see bigger
and better corn than his Imagination ever
dreamed OF.
REVIVAL meetings in the NJ. E.. church at
Bloomington are drawing large and atten-
congregations.
BLOOMINGTON has a reform club that
doing away with saloons in the town is one
of the first things to be attended to-.
SCHUYLER has a Bohemian dramatic So
that plays before large audiences.
IJrrrrnN- hOnDr ~ ro1gov o1,,n4u
keted fourteen fifteen-months-old pigs that
pulled down the scales at 5,61O pounds.
Now. don't anybody try to beat that.
The st. Paul NJ. E. church of Lincoln
has the largest Sunday school in the state.
It now numbers between 500 and 600 mem
bers.
PROFESSOR PERRY HoGE. musical in
at the state reform school, died
asst week. He had been suffering for some
weeks with quick consumption. The re-
mains were conveyed to New York.
MAIL AGENT McMAcKIN was seriously in
ured the other day by an accident on the
A. & n. road. Fears are entertained for
MS recovery.
ii ItW W. "a. CluECH, ICCCuOiy oCOlSdUCo
1T Fairmont, has no debt.
MANAGER HOLDREGE. of the B. & NJ. has
pledged the citizens of Geneva to build a
stub road from Fairmont to the latter
place, provided they secure the right OF way, |
pledge themselves not to give aid to
other company to build there during
1885 and 1856.
SHERIFF MELIcK. of Lancaster county, has
n his charge a prisoner brought down from
)sceola for safe keeping, charged with forg-
ng commercial paper to the amount OF
$4,000.
BURGLARS entered the residence of s. T.
Smith at Lincoln, turning everything in
tide out in carrying away a quantity OF
foods.
GEN. OTro FUNK, for six years postmas-
er at Lincoln, his term ending in 1881, died
asst week of cancer OF the larynx. He
erved through the war, going in from
Ills, in the Eleventh Illinois caval-
y. He was rapidly promoted and came
,ut of the war a brevet brigadier general
lie was so years of age and leaves a wife
several children.
PROF. E. j. CANAL, the m~ineralogist OF
Humphrey, this state, has announced tho
GLOWING weatherforD December: 1st, north