McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-02

| ihse, ING 'front.' or the building Tell IN with
terrible crash, owing to defect in the wall
OF the adjoining building.
Every railway in the state reports heavy
freights I'm immigrants movables destined
Tor points in the western part of the state
settlers and land prospectors are pushing
toward the Black Hills country.
Judge Broudy writes Sheriff Fowler, of Ne
maha county, advising him to be cautious
about accepting bail for the murderer, Mar,
Hall, by any of Mart's relatives as the intent
| is to work up straw bail that the murderer
| may skip.
The Blair Pilot says the women of the
W. G. T. U. Of that place have been imposed
upon by Rev. Mr.. Holmes, and through his
efforts they have got half-witted crank on
their hands that they would like to have
somebody help them let go Of.
The pnblic library of Crete has been en-
rfched to the extent Of nearly It's volumes by
the gift Of Mr.. NJ. b. G. True Of his large
library, which belonged to him during his con
nection with the Globe. Tho volumes con
sist largely Of important congressional re
ports.
Two Omaha men engaged in a legal setto
dispute was kept before the courts until the
costs reached about $50, when both contest
ants agreed to withdraw the suit and each
pay half of the bill incurred by legal pro
ceedings.
The participants in the hanging of Mrs.
Taylor and Tom Jones, at Spring Ranch, Clay
county, the other night, are said to be in hot
water. A thorough investigation is to be
made, and if the lynching was without cause
the perpetrators will come to grief-at least
some of them.
Chancellor Manatt, of the state university.
has Sanskrit grammar, bearing on the title
page the name of "Hjalmar Edgren. Pro fes-
sor of Sanskrit in the University of Nebras
ka, formerly Professor of Sanskrit in the
University of Lund, Sweden" Prof. Edgren
is the newly elected professor of modern Ian
guages, who will arri We in Lincoln SOON
Frank Stanley, aged 16. and his would be
bride, still younger, eloped from Juniata. On
their way to Minden, where they proposed to
wed, they became lost on the open prairie at
night. drove into a washout, broke down, and
walked nine miles to their destination, where
young Stanley listened to the reading of
warrant charging him with abduction. The
wedding was postponed.
The Beatrice Express says the citizens com.
mittee appointed to select location for the
asylum for the feeble-minded has already
found several suitable sites and will soon re-
port the same to the board of public lands
and buildings. The site approved by the
board will be purchased and the institution
erected thereon. As the location has to be
approved by the board, it was thought best to
submit all of them offered before taking steps
toward purchasing.
George Powers, of this city, says the e
atrice Express. now postal Inspector, has
overtaken and arrested his first man for rob.
bling the mails. The postof1ice at st. Deroin,
Nemaha county, was broken into and robbed
of money, stamped envelopes and several let.
tiers some time ago. Last Saturday morning
Inspector Powers arrested Wilson Lowe at St
Deroin, charging him with the crime, and
turned him over to Deputy U. S. Marsha
Culp. He was taken to Lincoln for examina
ton.
B. o. Smith, aged about 60 years, started
from Ponca for his home in Dakota county,
near Jackson, on foot. Nothing was heard of
him until several days after, when farmer
named Gurgin who was hunting horses, came
across Smith, who was lying on the prairie
some seven miles from his home, on the
highest peak in that section, and had appar-
emily been dead two days. No traces of vio-
lence were discovered on his person and the
presumption is that the old man sat down to
rest and died.
The city council of Lincoln has directed the
mayor to consult and correspond with engi-
neers having the necessary qualifications, fer
the purpose of ascertaining the cost of
proper and adequate plan of a system of sew
erage for the city of Lincoln, with the neces.
sary maps, drawings and detailed specifica-
lions of the proposed improvement, and that
he report to the council the result of such
consultation or correspondence as soon az
possible.
The Juniata Herald says Fred Shammer, @
German farmer living about ten miles south |
west of that town, met with a very serious |
accident, just as he was about leaving for |
home. His wagon was heavily loaded with |
coal and other articles. and as he was passing |
across the big draw near Samuel Howland's |
place, on the edge of town, sudden lurch of |
the wagon threw him forward and onto the |
ground. The front and back wheels of the |
heavily loaded wagon passed over him. in |
ficting injuries from which it is feared he |
cannot recover.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Percival, thelr |
infant child. Hugh MAR and Baird, all five the
victims of the terrible Nance county murder
of September last, passed through Omaha the
other day in course of shipment to Owatonna,
MINI. ]. L. Percival father of the first vic.
tim, and DR.. Tanner, father of Mrs. Percival,
accompan ed the CHASTITY freight. The bodies
were encased in four collins, the child lying
by its mother. The bodies will be inferred at |
Owatonna, although it is intended at some
alter date to give them final burial in Eng
land, the native home of all.
Last week, says tie Pawnee City Republic
can, w. c. Lane purchased of James H. Bray
a cow, for which he paid $50. The day after
the purchase the COW gave birth to calf
without sing lie hair upon its body. The skin
of the calf is as tender and soft as that of
child at birth, and there are no Indications
that it will ever be anything else than per.
fectly hairless animal. This is the second
birth of the kind that has happened in this
county-the first one occurring near Table