McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-14

| Henry A. Rossen, q girl, and at the residence
of Henry G. Kane, fine girl and boy. II an.
of our down-east friends think that Nebraska
will not produce human flesh as well as stock
and grain, let them come out and try it.
Gus Vastberg, who short time ago stole a
horse near Kenesaw, has been overhauld at
Superior and taken back to the scene of his
transactions He will undoubtedly get a
term in the pen near Lincoln.
Oakland has fiattering ootlook for this
year. Already quite number of buildings
have been constructed and many moro are
projected
The st. Joe and Western is now oper.tet as
branch of the Union Pacific.
Mr.. Cropsey is suing Gage county - reeov-
er the court house grounds which he donated
the county fifteen years ago.
A passenger arrived in Lincoln the other
| day minus his pocketbook containing 500,
concerning the loss of which he made good
| deal of noise. A look through the car re.
vealed the pocketbook or the fo-y where the
passenger had dropped it, although before
the finding he stoutly averred that he hsk
been robbed.
At the present rate of traclc-lay.ng the
| Sioux City and Pacific will be completed to
Chadron, on the White river by tho miadle os
July.
doc" Middleton was in Omaha the other
| day, circulating among old friends. He
ayows that he has abandoned the ways of tha
| freebooter and settled down to peaceful citi-
zenship, in the management of q saloon at
| Gordon, Sioux county.
WILDER has recently been stirred to it's
depth with a divorce suit that has occupied
the attention OF the courts for many days.
The judge has taken the matter under advise
ment and will give a decision some time in
June.
Three Central City young toughs, one Of
them the son of the residrns Methodist minis
ter. have oeen arre~:ed for Placing a railway
tie across the tx X. Their motive for at
| tempting the wrecking of trains was that of
revenge for having been put off a train while
stealing q ride.
Prairie fires have been quite destructive in
the vicinity of Bonanza, Boone county. My.
Hardell lost his stable, mower, reaper and
other farm implements.
Uri Frarr of Beatrice. while on a visit to
Blair, was thrown from a wagon, having his
shoulder fractured and otherwise being Sc
verey bruised.
A. +. Blundell, manager of the Lincoln tel
ephone exchange, who disappeared suddenly
about eighteen months ago, leaving a deficit
of about $1,000 in the funds of the company,
has written number of letters to Lincoln
parties, in which he says he is coming back
20 stand trial for his misdeeds. He is now
clerking in an eastern store.
The Omaha nail works, which have been
standing idle nearly all winter, have again
started up, employing about l25 hands.
A special to the Chicago Times says that
Charley Bonner died at Dubuque Saturday
from the effect of lead poisoning through in
halaton while working in lead factory in
Omaha. He reached home Monday to die.
His body turned black after death, and hiu
watch and chan were of the same color.
Prisoners in the Lancaster county jail made
an attempt to escape few nights ago. The
sheriff got onto their racket just in time to
prevent wholesale delivery.
The Sunday school assembly will be in ses-
sion in Crete from July LIST to 10TH A special
programme will be prepared for the 4th.
The Fullerton Journal talks thus about
the lightningrod vender: The deceptive
lightning-rod man will soon pitch his tent in
Nance county, and we hope the farmers will
be on their guard and not submit to the rob
berry that is sure to be perpetrated upon them
if they patronize these travelling humbugs.
An ordinary lightning-rod, as usually put up
is of no earthly use; in fact, is worse than
nothing at ALL Give the lightning.rod dis
penser cold reception, and he will do you
good.
The Fullerton Journal editor offers reward
for the scalp of the man who dares to assert
that sit never rains in Nebraska"
Elder R. c. Barrow, state evangelist, ha
commenced a series Of meetings at Alma.
The young ladies Of Hastings have organ
lied a cooking club.
The citizens of Alma put out great many
trees on arbor day, the school children and al.
others taking hand in the good work
The Ord creamery is being filed with ma
chinery and will soon be in operation.
Joseph Hubanks. while down in a tifty-foot
we'll in Otoe county, had a narrow escape
from Instant death. One of the heavy buck
cts used to take out the dirt slipped from the
attendants hands and fell into the well, hit
ting Hubanks near the tip of the shoulder.
He will have to carry his arm in sling for
several weeks.
Thieves broke into the barn of C. A. Reed,
near Syracuse, and were just getting away
with team of mules when discovered. A hot
fight ensued during which the thieves es-
capped.
Nebraska City's packing house is slaughter
ing from 800 to 1000 hogs day.
A man by the name of Hansen fell to the
bottom of a sixty-foot we'll at Hopewell, near
Reynolds. He was putting in wall and was
within eight or ten feet Uf the top, when,
losing his footing, he went to the bottom.
Had it not been for the mud and water he
would have been instantly killed. He was not
very seriously hurt.
A heavy storm recently visited the vicinity
of Juniata. Hail fell to the depth of two
inches.
There is at least $4,000 worth of buildings
planned and under course of construction in
Fairmont this spring.