McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-19

| PEOPLE who regard It as an objectionable sin
, 20 look in upon q dance, have no conscien-
| tions scruples about putting on the skates in
| q roller rink.
The sheriff of Lancaster county has just
put behind the bars in Lincoln one Pete Mat
thews, accused Of rape committed in Lancas-
ter county In 1881. His victim was woman
sixty years old.
| man named Rement, in Adams county.
has been swindling people generally by sell.
ing mortgaged property. borrowing money
under false pretenses and performing vari.
GUS other wicked deeds.
Rev. w. X. Beans. Of Beatrice, was recently
presented with fine driving horse, an ele
| giant new side Bar buggy, harness, whip, lap
robe-everything complete. valued at $3.50
with the compliments of his many friends.
1.-THE room of Secretary Roggen. in Lin
coin few days ago Hon. Glen Kendall late
land commissioner, wac presented by state
officers with handsome water pitcher worth
$75. Governor Dswes making the presentation
speech.
| G. e. Atwater. of Tekama, who was seriously
injured in wreck Cd the Illinois railroad, has
been brought home and is confined to his bed.
| His injuries are internal, complicating the
lungs and kidneys, and are Of very grave
| nature.
| John Vincent, an old resident OF Fillmore
| county, left home and went to Columbus.
| where he was seen next day. This is the last
| news which the members of his family can
| learn of him, and his wife is nearly crazy by
| his prolonged stay.
| House roll No. q, a bill to enable employees
Of railroad companies to recover damages
for injuries caused by the carelessness or
negligence Of co-employes, was run on the
side track at late hour of the senate pro-
ceedings despite the efforts of its friends.
An actof the recent session of the legisla-
ture creates the office of register of deeds in
every county having population to exceed
1900. The register Of deeds is to do the re
cording business now done by the county
clerk, and is pad in fees, the same as the lat
ter official now is.
Anton Konelezna, laborer. 35 years old
and a native of Poland, was struck by Mis-
souri, Pacific engine at Omaha the other day
and fatally injured. dying soon after in the
hospital where he was taken. He was en-
gagged in picking coal from the track when
the engine struck him.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean states that Robert
B. Williams, of Hastings, Nebraska, was the
youngest soldier in the army of the war. He
enlisted Nov. 20, 1861, in the 111th Pennsylva-
mia infantry at the age of ID years, months
and days, serving four years before dis
charge. Mr.. williams was one of the pioneers
of Adams county.
The Alma Herald is assured upon the very
best authority that if the necessary aid is
voted to the north and south railroad, that it
will be built this year. The company that
proposes to build the road over and above
the amount of aid, has the money and are in
no way connected with any road now operated
in the valley.
Colored citizens Of Omaha passed a resolu-
ton saying: ''We do publicly express our
thanks to the friends Of equal rights, Hon
B. Wright, Robert NJ. Taggart, Thomas c.
Drummer, George Mieklejohn Geo. w. Chives
and others, members of the legislature of Ne
braska, for their interchangeable efforts in urs-
ing the successful passage of the civil rights
bill"
At Omaha on the 18th the in .bound Missouri
Pacific express train struck down Polander
named Konelezna at the Seventeenth street
wheels, was terribly mangled. His skull was
crushed, the bones of the right shoulder were
shattered to splinters, and his right arm and
leg comminutely fractured. He was taken to
the hospital and died soon after arriving
there.
There is no clue as yet to Furnival the
Nance county murderer, but it is thought to
be only question of time when he will be
apprehended. Particulars of the crime and
description of the murderer have been sen
to all parts of the world. and at every seaport
the passengers are scrutinized. and in every
city the police are constantly on the watch
for the man whose crime is the greatest in the
history of Nebrasks.
Eli Holt, of the firm of Holt & Gascoigne,
says the Beatrice Republican, brought to this
Office two geological specimens that deserve
mention in these columns. At depth of
twenty-five feet. while digging well in the
north part of town, he came upon strata of
blue-black mineral resembling powdered lead.
The strata is at least three inches thick, and
deserves investigation. After this they came
upon one-foot strata of white sand, and
then strata of clay or mud, and there they
found a bone nearly in a state of perfect
preservation. 1t is undoubtedly a bone of
some animal, and has not gone through the
state of petrefaction.
Two young men from illinois, says the
Bloomington Guard, made a morrow escape
from death by drowning, iff Turkey creek,
last Sunday. They were told where to cross
the stream, but the informant "a child of ten
or twelve years. was ignorant of the fact that
the creek was out of its banks by freshet.
They drove in and soon found their horses
swimming and the vehicle being carried down
stream by the swift current. They drifted
against tree, where both men saved them
selves by holding on to limbs of the tree and
climbing to the shore. 1t was a narrow es
cape from death.
The Lincoln Journal says that house roll
275, which passed with an emergency clause
and is consequently in force from its passage
makes several important changes in the law
concerning assessors. One of the changes is
a provision that the assessors shall meet at
the office of the county clerk on the third
Tuesday of March, for consultation as to tho
values of various kinds of property to be q
sessed by them, and to receive from the clerk
the necessary books and blanks for the assess
ment of property. This meeting has hereto
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