The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-12-23
PRor. c.. E. BEssEY Ssnl deliver a lecture


meets at Sutton next weak.
Mrs. LAURA E. LEGG aas commenced a
suit for $4,000 damages in the district
court against Chas. Shiverick, OF Omaha.
She is the remarked widow OF Geo. E.
Senior, a former employee of Shiverick's,
who was killed by falling through an eleva-
tor shaft on December %, 1884.
SAMUEL HARDY, OF Boone county, has
gone to the pen for fifteen years for muir.
der.
The matter OF the new location for the
Beatrice p%ostofice, which has been under
consideration for a month past, was de-
cided on the 10th by a telegram from
Washington saying the proposition for the
Masonic Temple corner had been accepted
by the department. The is large and
will be entirely reftted with 1000 lock
boxes, making it the equal Of any Office in
the state.
BURGLARS who vent through an Omaha
store, capturing $500 worth OF goods, were
arrested in Council Bluffs.
THERE are now seventy-seven organized
counties in the state. and eighteen OF them
are under township organization.
ORDERS have been received by Superin-
tendent Dickey, OF the Western Union Tele-
graph company in Omaha, reducing the
telegraph tolls. Commencing at once the
maximum rate to all offices in Nebraska
will be forty cents per ten words and 3
cents additional for every word above ten;
night messages, 80 cents per ten words and
2 cents for each additional word over ten.
JUDGE HAYWARD was presented by the
Lincoln bar with a beautiful gold-headed
cane, as a memento of kindly recollections
entertained for him during his judicial
career.
LINCOLN has secured the Methodist uni
versity. Fifty thousand dollars in cash
and bonds valued at S243, 900 were the in
ducements offered by the citizens which
secured the prize. Omaha and York were
the principal competitors. their bids being
respectively $50, 900, and $193, 600 in
cash and lands.
THE Indian supply depot will not be re-
moved to Omaha for the present. The con-
test between western cities was so great
that the Indian commissioner decided to
make no change.
THE sportsmen OF Republican City are
preparing for a grand wolf hunt on New
Years day.
TAXES in Omaha are very well paid up
only a little over 1 per cent remaining I'M
paid of the total taxes on real estate and
personality for the last five years.
THE latest offer concerning the salt works
is considered a fair one by the state officers,
but there is a feeling that it will not be best
to take action until the legislature expresses
an opinion on the subject.
Mrs. ELIZABETH TITUS has sued Beatrice
for So, 500 damages for permanent injuries
to her person. While out riding last sum-
mer a cobble stone struck the buggy wheel,
causing the horse to run away. Mrs. Titus
was thrown out and one Of her limbs
broken.
A COMPANY has been formed at Chadron
to supply the city with brick at the rate OF
$4,000 a day.
THE Nebraska City distilling company
wants 100, 900 bushels of corn.
AT a meeting of the regents OF the uni
versity last week the university and
library committee reporting upon com
m%unications from the State Medical society
with respect to the appointment of a board
of examiners, for the examination Of candi-
dates of degrees in the university, reported
recommending the approval and appoint
ment OF the gentlemen named by said State
Medical society to act us such board ana
inviting them to act in conjunction with
the proper representatives of the university
in the premises, provided that no obliga-
ton or expense be incurred for such SER
vice, nor any compensation made there
for by the university. The secretary is
directed to notify the secretary OF the
State Medical society and the dea of the
medical faculty of this action.
Mrs. LAwLER was rearrestcd at Lincoln
last week and taken to Kansas in the GUS
tody OF the sheriff OF Harper county, who,
Immediately on hearing Of the woman's re-
lease in the United States court at Omaha,
secured requisition papers from the state
OF Kansas and came after her. The sheriff
expressed Il good deal of surprise that the
OnlUeU States court nau released tHe
woman in the face of the testimony and
expressed it as beyond any doubt as to
her transactions in making away with her
husband. The man who was paid by her
$500 to murder her husband across the
line in the Indian Nation is in custody and
has confessed all thcfacts in the conspiracy,
which are very damaging to the woman.
This man will be tried for murder in the
United States court al Wichita and Mrs.
LAWYER will be tried for conspiracy under
the laws OF Kansas.
The organization OF the Ogalalla Social
Club has been perfected and IL series OF
dances will be given to it's members by the
club during the winter.
The Pine River roller mill was just ready
after repairs to operations,
when a big washout in the dam upset cal
culations and necessitated postponement
OF C operations for some time.
KEARNEY is rushing her water works
with all possible speed.
a SHORT time ago rival geoccry firms in
Grand Island inaugurated IL war on prices.
the result OF which was that many patrons
secured cheap groceries. Now two dry
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