The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-04-01

and county bonds.
GEORGE CoSKLIN, of Nebraska City, has
suffered the loss OF three outbuildings by
fire the past month, all by ~incendiary.
The York Canning company has begun
york on the necessary buildings to be com
pleted in thirty days. The company will
pack 600, 900 cans Of vegetables during the
coming season.
A MUSICAL festival will begin in Omaha in
June, Prof. Pratt will be the manager. He
agrees to furnish the music, the singers,
q part OF the orchestra and drill the chorus,
and the board guarantees him $4,000.
A GANG OF thieves who have long been
operating in the vicinity OF Calhoun have
been broken up by detectives. A number
oil arrests were made.
THE Louisiana State Lottery company
has sent out a circular saying u resident OF
Omaha drew one fifth OF the capital prize
in the late drawing. The lucky individual
has not thus far made himself known.
An unsuccessful attempt was made by a
prisoner in the. Falls City Jail to escape.
Sheriff Ray captured the aspirant for free.
dom before he had gone ten rods away.
The Nelson Gazette says a railroad
meeting of citizens was held at the court
house In that place, to give expression to
the proposition Of the Rock Island for an
extension to that place, and the large num-
Der present were almost unanimous in
favor OF e%Xerting their influence to secure
the much coveted line OF road.
AT Seward, while DR.. Beavers fine team
was ont in tho 1nf An De fhap, 4, -,1,o1Jo
mare, attempted to jump the picket fence,
but only succeeded in getting partly over.
the pickets entering her body, producing
such injuries that it was found necessary
to kill her.
AT Beatrice the other day, while Prof.
Ebrisht was preparing to make an expert
ment with sulphuric acid gas in the labora-
tory OF the high school building, the gas be-
came ignited and exploded, SCATTERING the
glass tube used in generating the gas, doing
more or less damage to the professors
clothes and person. Apiece of glass struck
him in the lace near the eye, inficting quite
a wound
ACCORDING to the Ewing Item immigra-
ton to western Nebraska, eastern Wyom-
ing and the Black Hills country was never
greater than it is this spring, and the
movement OF thisim immense throng OF home
seekers was never inaugurated earlier than
it is this spring. Every day the passenger
train en- the Fremont. Elkhorn & Missouri
Valley road is literally crowded with men
and families seeking homes in the west.
SAYS the Lincoln Journal: The hearing
OF John Pierson before United States Com
Billingsley on the charge OF muir
dering Watson B. Smith was resumed yes
terday, when several witnesses testified.
Sutton, the former cell-mate of Pierson,
and to whom the alleged confession of
was made, was the principal wit
ness. Warden Nobes, Lee Helsley and
Fred Nye of the Omaha Republican went
o IL the stand and told what they knew of
the circumstances which, implicate the. wit
ness. The commissioner held the prisoner
to the next term of the United States
in May, without bail, and he was re-
manded to the Lancaster county Jail.
A BENNETT correspondent OF the Omaha
Herald writes: A few days ago we were in
vited to take a ride into the country II few
northwest OF town to the farm OF
VIM. Jacobsmeyer, to see n curiosity in the
shape of a hog which had recently had a
remarkable experience. During the recent
snowstorms the hog got out of his pen and
got away and was finally given up as lost;
a few days ago Mr.. Jacobsmeyer, while
a haystack, thought he heard
something grunt and procuring a shovel
an investigation and soon liberated
his Eogship. As soon as he was liberated
from his beautiful prision he started for
the watering trough, and from the way he
drank one would imagine he had been at
a ''prohfb." convention. 1t was
Just forty-nine days from the time he was
missed until he was found, and all he had
to eat in that time was hay. He looked
rather thin, but at last accounts he was
doing as well and was as sprightly as any OF
his fellow hogs. Mr.. j. thinks some OF ex-
hibiting him at the next state fair.
THE Ponca Journal is ofsthe opinion that
i a big vein OF coal is found there this
spring, capitalists will rush in without de-
mines will be opered and the town
will become as large as Sioux City within a
year.
A LODGE OF the A. o. q. ". wa insti-
buted at Rushville on the 18th. A state
grand lodge will be organized notlatert than
April 10.
THE university faculty have been warned
against the approach OF q scientific crook,
who. under the name OF II. S. Williams, is
educational institutions, and rob-
bling their collections OF valuable specimens.
FROM Hastings it is reported that emf
grafton west by wagon has been exceed
ingly large this spring. Nearly every outfit
has some good cattle and horses with it.
This is in contrast with the prairie schoon-
ers that were crossing these prairies a few
years ago.
GOVERNOR DAWES, at the request of the
sanitary livestock commission. has issued
a proclamation barring outfrom Nebraska,
during the months OF April, May, June,
July, August, September, and October, all
cattle from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia,
Tennessee, and North and South Carolina,
except under such quarantine rules as may
be prescribed by the commission.
A MAN named Hubert, living in Illinois, is
a strong appeal to the governor OF
Nebraska for the pardon of Bradshaw, who
sent to the penitentiary three years
ago for the murder of VOORHEES, in Gage
county.
AN Omaha man named Menter drew
SIS. 900 in a late drawing of the Louisiana
state lottery.
THERE was a small blaze in the black