McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-01-08

24x3O feet in dimensions. The building will be
brick,
Postofice changes In Nebraska during the
week ending December 9th: Established
Peake, Buffalo county, Jennie Peake. post.
master. Postmasters appointed-Ainsworth,
Brown county. D. b. Rippey; Leigh, Colfax
county, Frank J. Smith; Lillian. Custer coun.
ty, James o. Bates; Logan, Sioux county,
Wilson Since.
A Thousand scorpion tails" says the Full
lerton Journal, would come very handy just
now to use on the man who bitches his team
out in the cold. while he toasts his shins for an
indefinite leugth of time by some grocery fire.
No man has any business to hitch his team
out of doors more than ten minutes at time
when the mercury is below zero.
A Lincoln judge married couple q few
weeks ago who returned the other day and
asked the official to put aside the decree and
set them free again. The judge informed
them that while he had the power to bind he
had no power to urbind, and as far as he was
concerned they must remain as they were, at
which they went away Borrowing.
The Cedar Rapids Era says that last week rs
the mail ,arrier between Scotia and Cum
mingsvillc was crossing the Cedar river be-
tween Moran and Middleport, the heavy flow
of ice then an swept the horse and mail cart
down the stream into deep water. and but for
the timely arrival of some farmers near. the
mail carrier would have been drowned. The
mail pouch was saved, but the horse and cart
were lost.
Sealed proposals for locating the Nebraska
state fair for five years will be received and
considered by the stat, board of agriculture
at its coming annval meeting, Lincoln. on the
third Tuesday GOTH in January, 1885. The
board, in considering propositions presented.
will reserve the right to award the most adj
vantageous, all things considered, or to reject
any or all.
Laing Bros. near Sidney, lost q thorough
bred Kentucky stallion last week and the sup
lion which has been seen twice near their
ranch. The ground about where the horse
lay when found was covered with blood and
torn up showing that there had been terri
BILE struggle between the animals.
suit for $4,000 damages for SANDER has
been brought by j. E. Brown and wife, Of
johnson county, against Thomas Wright, W.
s. s. VIM. Holden, and John Carroll, all parties
10 the suit being resident neighbors in the
Helena precinct, the same county. The suit
rows out of the ''Stink Finger Magazine"
which was circulated in that precinct and
vicinity some months ago.
A fatal accident occurred at Hastings last
week IN divers elevator. Mr.. Guyer looks
after the machinery and while STOPPING over
a tumbiing rod to fix grain chute, his clothes
we're caught by the rod and he was jerked for
ward and under the rod, breaking his neck
and killing him instantly. His head was bad
ly crushed and arms bruised, but no bone
broken. His coat was torn clear off.
The Philadelphia Press thus speaks of DIR.
Miller, of the Omaha Herald: western pa
pers generally have regarded as a joke the
Of DR.. George L. Miller, of Omaha,
for cabinet position, but in New York state
have treated DIR. Miller's candidacy in all seri-
BUSINESS. Miller's intimacy with Mr.. Tilden.
Governor Seymour and other prominent DEM
ocrats of New York is said to have given him
special claims for consideration at the hands
of the Incoming administration.
Another victim of the careless handling of
gun, says the Schuyler Herald, happened to
be boy named Marohn, living about eight
miles northwest of Schuyler, nearC C. Marohn's
the victims uncle, On Wednesday an older
brother loaded shotgun and while in the act
of putting cap on it, it was discharged, the
entire charge entering his bowels. He lived
until the next day when death ended his suf-
ferings.
The Fairfield Herald notes that times are
up wonderfully since the advance
in the price of corn, and any day after ten
o'clock from fifteen to twenty-five loaded
wagons await their turn to unload at the ele-
vators in that place.
The Indian industrial school at Genoa now
numbers 167 pupils. Of these twenty-f0ur are
eight Poncas, one Omaha and
the remainder Sioux from the Yankton, Pine
Ridge and Rosebud agencies. Seven boys are
taught carpenter work, q regular detail of
boys work the farm of $40 acres. The girls
are taught sewing and laundry, besides keep
ing the dining room, kitchen, dormitOries and
halls in order. The products of the farm last
year was 100 bushels of vegetables, 1910 of
ats and 5000 CT corn.
Henry Cords, well known in Platte county
as real estate agent and for some time of the
firm of Cords & Hammond, of Columbus was
lOuuU the OlueT ulSut INC UOlUOu Vi tuc
stairs leading into the coal cellar of their Of
fce in an insensible condition, with a deep
cash in the back part of the head at the base
Of the brain, evidently caused by contact with
large humps of coal on which his head was
resting when found. Cords died in a very
short time after being found. 1t is supposed
, fell down stairs.
The year 1884 has been one of the most sue
,essful Omaha has ever experienced. The
buildings erected and the business done are
far in excess If any previous year. The
amount expended in street Improvements APP
oroximates nearly a million dollars. Her
outlay for buildings, public and private, is
away beyond any previous year. A late num-
Der of the Omaha Excelsior shows illustra-
iors of some of the res dences erected the
past year, which exhibit architectural skill of
1 high order. The cost is put down at from
to $4,000 each.
Mrs. McDougall, mother of Alexander and
John McDougall, says the Schuyler Herald
vas fou d dead in her bed about Monday
noon. The old lady since coming to town has
lived alone in a small house near E. E. Green
mans, and on Monday, seeing no signs of life
about the house, after waiting until near