The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-08-12

THIRTY EIGHT deaths occurred in Lincoln
during July.
WASHINGTON COUNTY ex soldiers will have
a two-days picnic: the 18th and 18th of
this month.
RESIDENTS OF O'Connor, Greeley county,
will give a bonus OF SIS, 900 if the Scribner
branch of the Elkhorn Valley road is ex-
tended to the town.
Mr.. WALKER, near Cozad, was gored by a
vicious bull, and there are doubts about
his recovery.
Ii your horse is g~landered and has to be
killed the recompense from the state is one
dollar.
WAYNE county has sent in for r~egistra-
ton refunding bonds to the amount OF
$4,000. They are 6 per cent ten twenties.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance un-
ion of Omaha placed a book case in the
main room OF the county jail filled with
volumes for the use OF the prisoners. About
200 volumes have been contributed by the
women OF the union.
A YOUNG lady OF Red Cloud went riding
with a young Not liking the quality
OF his conversation she jumped from the
buggy, found a farm house and remained
there until the following morning.
THE Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Val
ley railroad has its grading almost COM
pleted, and expects to run trains into Lin
coin soon after Oct. 1, although they did
not agree to do SO before Nov. 1. The
track is laid for a distance of about six
miles west OF Fremont. The line Of the
road crosses the Platte about six miles
west OF Fremont and nearly half of the
first third, and the piles for the whole
bridge are driven.
WASHINGTON special: Henderson and
Dorsey have secured the consent of the Sec
rotary OF war and OF General Sheridan ror
the loan of a battery from Leavenworth
for the reunion at Grand Island this sum
mer, and the order will probably be issued
to the captain OF that post to this effect,
the battery going overland to st. Joseph
and thence by the St. Joe & Western rail-
road to Grand Island.
THE prohibitionists have organized a
club at Roca and have a good working
membership.
CATALOGUES of the Weeping Water acad-
envy are just out and maxi a fine showing
for the past year and give promise of more
extended and thorough work in the future.
B%URGLARIEs are becoming of too frequent
occurrence in Hastings, and there is no
doubt an organized gang are at work..
THE smokestack of Plattsmouth's brick
and terra Gotta works is completed, and is
Just 100 feet high.
MAN whose name at this writing is not
known was found lead near the race track
at Lincoln the other day. He had died
from a pistol shot, but whether it is a case
OF murder or suicide has not YET been de-
termined.
SENATOR VAN WICK will deliver an ad-
dress before the Burt county agricultural
society the second day of the fair.
A TREMENDOUS rain visited Grand Island,
doing considerable damage by the flooding
of Easements. Several houses were struck
by lightning.
A DIsPATC from Chadron says: j. E.
Smith, better known as ''Townsite Smith,"
late postmaster at Dawes City, having been
fired out as postmaster, accused County
Commissioner A. V. Harris OF having been
the cause of his removal and attempted to
thrash the latter. Commissioner Harris
beat him nearly to death, pounded him up
to such an extent that he had to be hauled
home in a carriage and is not expected to
live.
THE citizens of Lincoln are at loggerheads
over the sewerage question and are holding
meetings that extend far into the night.
The farmers loan and trust company
lave filed articles of incorporation in the
office OF the secretary OF state. The capital
stock is S120, 900 and the objects those
usual to that kind of associations.
GRAN GEIGER, a convict at the p%eniten-
tiary, was given his liberty on the Sd. He
was sent up from Adams county for three
years, the 29th of October, 1888, for horse
stealing. He made two months and TWEEN
ty-seven days good time.
ONE II. D. Brown, who took Jennie Pc
terson to the Washington house at Lincoln
and registered her as his wife, and has since
been giving his undivided attention to
eluding the officers OF the law, was captured
at Cortland the other day and will nave
an examination.
An Omaha Bee Chadron special says:
The sheriff OF Cheyenne county arrived in
this city early last week in search OF a
school girl and heiress, who, he had been in
formed, had left her home and went forth
to capture the hearts OF the cowboys in the
northwest. 1t appears the official was sent
on his errand by a practical joker, by what
is known in detective parlance as a
pigeon" containing a description OF the
'fheiress'' above mentioned. Armed with
| this letter the officer reached Chadron, and
there, after searching the many places OF
ill-fame, succeeded in finding in one OF the
courtezans the long lost school girl, who,
by the way is somewhat handsome and
quite young in years, but old in iniquity.
He visited her from day to day and in fact
he pumped her necessarily as to her
parentage, etc. In the mean time she
worked" him for S75.
A BROTHER of ex-Mayor Chase, OF Omaha,