McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23

City distillery company paid the government
upwards of $4,000 as taxes on manufactured
liquors.
Mr.. Howard, living near Elkton, Nuckolls
county, has lost recently about $500 worth of
fat hogs, from some disease or cause un-
known.
Some unknown coward fred two shots into
the drug store of A. MEG i'll, at Creighton,
few nights ago, one of the bullets narrowly
missing Mr.. McGill.
The barn and outbuildings ofGustave Cart
ner. near Scotia. were burned by a prairie
fire. Loss, $1,000 Contributions for his bene-
fit amounted to $50.
The chief of the Omaha fire department has
arranged to Immediately sound the bell sixty
two times in case of the announcement of the
death of Gen. Grant.
A skiff load of men upset in the Missouri
river opposite Brownville few days ago. All
were rescued, but it was a narrow escape
from watery graves.
J. w. Alger of Wayne is said to have an
ear of corn grown from seed picked up on
the battle field of Chickamauga, nearly
twenty-three years ago.
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Mo, Texas, will be transferred to Omaha as
assistant acknowledgement to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Col. Taylor
The belt slipped from the governor at the
Nebraska City distillery, the fly wheel few to
pieces, an exhaust pipe was broken, and S.
600 damages inflicted. Nobody hurt.
VIM. Hall, of Pawnee, has just learned that
a missing brother was killed by highwaymen
in Arizona in 1882. Two of the murderers
were haagcd by a mob, while the third es-
capped.
A meeting of cattlemen was held on War
Bonnet creek, Sioux county, few days ago
to discuss the question of "What shall we do
to be saved?' from the incoming tide of i'm
migration.
Lawyer Kyle, of Omaha, who some time ago
assaulted P. A. Gavin, of the Times-Dispatch
of that city, was given fine Of $50 and thirty
days in Jail. Kyle's attorney gave notice of
an appeal.
There are only sixty-efght sections of land
left for white settlers on the Santee reserva-
ion. They will all be taken by homesteaders,
as men who would like to file timber claims
will be crowded out.
l. L
ventor of an automatic corn planter that does
away with both the old method of marking
the field and the more odern method OF
using check-rower.
The man arrested in Nebraska City a short
time ago for forging the name of w. v.
Nichol to a telegram sent to Oh nm New, of
Omaha, turns out to be an old offender well
known to police circles.
uThe Crete Globe says that three children of
William Warchow, who lives on the West
Blue, died last week from scarlet fever. Two
of them died within half hour of each other
One of them was 10 years old.
Misses Meta Porter and Louie Letcher
have recently been engaged in taking the
school census of Central City. They find the
number of children of school age to be 426,
being 22223 males and 203 females.
General Manager Winter, of the Minneapo-
lis & Omaha, says his company does not ask
the exclusive use of the proposed bridge be-
tween Covington and Sioux City. and has had
no negotiations of any kind about it.
A ten-year-old daughter of John Wagner,
living in st. Charles precinct, Cunning county,
has just died from chewing poisoned weed
that grows by the roadside. Another child
came near dying from the same cause.
Another Omaha family came near being
fatally poisoned few nights ago by partak-
ing of biscuits in which there was quantity
of Rough on Rats" The poison by some
means had got mixed with the baking powder.
Two Sherman county lasses, living on a
homestead, took it into their heads to see the
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.
Ed Burriss and Pat Collins of Syracuse,
two boys, had a narrow escape while driving
home from Palmyra. Their team ran off
bridge, killing both horses instantly and
greatly endangering The lives of the boys.
The horses were valued at over $500.
Messrs. NJ. T. Patrick s. Co., of Omaha, are
starting monster corral at Gilmore for fat
tening cattle. A side track 5000 feet in length
is being built from the U. P. main line to the
corral. 1t is intended to feed about 500 head
of cattle there and get them in shape for the
eastern market. The feeding corral will be
ready for business about June 1st.
Death is announced at Crete of Miss Grace
Andrews, aged twenty, of diphtheria. She
was the daughter of L. Andrews, and was
well known throughout the state as one of the
best amateur readers, and has represented
Doane college in two contests with the uni
versity. A member of the present junior
class, she was faithful in her school duties
and took high rank in her classes.
Postoffice changes in Nebraska during the
week ending April II, 1885: Esuablished-Ma-
COON, Custer county, Richard H. Magoon,
postmaster; Spannuth, Lincoln county, Fred
c Spannuth, postmaster; Steuben, Frontier
county, Gustave A. Roggensees postmaster;
Tallin, Custer county, John Tallin, postmas
ter; Yucca, Custer county, Christopher F. Co.
nant, postmaster.
The Aurora Republican says: In the scan
dial case spoken of last week no new features
have been developed only that it is reported
that the woman is dying from the effects of
drugs taken to conceal her shame, and the
man who is the cause of her ruin has not been
arrested yet. 1t was reported that he had
been seen in Grand Island, and that the Of
ficers were about to arrest him, but he found
it out in some way and gave them the CODY
1t has been remarked in the courts that i'll
the three civil damage suits broughtin Omaha
under the Slocumb law to recover for selling
LIQUOR to drunkard in spite of the warning
mot IN sell the plaintiffs in each instance have