The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-12-28
-Messrs. Turner Bros, Of Dodc,

county, nave marketed three install.
ments Of their sheep which they brought
from Oregon the past season and began
feeding early in the fall. Their last lot
was on the Chicago market. They
averaged 100 pounds per head and sold
at $4.35 per hundred.
DR.. L.. B. Cowles, q resident ant.
prsctiting physician Of Ponca, was
found dead in his bed at midnight on
the 18th. The deceased had been sick
q few days before, but it was thought
he had almost entirely recovered. His
son, who slept in the same room,
awakened in the night, and not hearing
his fathers breathing went to his bed
side and fonnd him dead. The imedi-
ate cause of his death is attributed to
heart disease.
John Rose, q farmer living near
Blue Springs, was bitten on one of his
fingers by a pet colt. The colt died the
following night, and is supposed to have
been bitten by a msd dog a few weeks
ago. Considerable alarm is felt by the
friends of MI. Rose in regard to the
matter. and it is said he will try the
efficacy of a maidstone which is owned
in Wymore.
TO such an extent has the pilfering
OF houses off of deserted claims become
prevalent in this county, says the O'Neill
Frontier, that it may be said to have
reached an epidemic stage. If NOT
stopped short it will soon be dangerous
for a farmer to leave his home for a few
hours without some one there to guard il.
Tho material Of the late Fairbury
Republican was sold last week on a fore
closure. 1t was bid in by Hambel &
Heasty at some two hundred dollars.
which is probably about one-tenth what
it cost.
DR.. Williams, q homeopathic physi.
clan of Omaha, suicided last week by
taking poison. He had been charged
with performing an abortion and was
about to be arrested.
Their new stock exchange at Nebraska
City was formally opened at the stock
yards last week. The building is n OF
the best and costliest of its kind in the
state, and a credit to Nebraska City.
work at the yards has only fairly com.
menced, and the packing houses are not
yet running to their full capacity, owing
TO the extreme warm weather, which
greatly retards operations.
The twentieth case of the village Of
De Witt VS.. G. B. Baily, for selling in
toxicating liquors without a license, was
tried last week. The defendant was
fined 800 and costs. The total amount
of fines assessed against Baily amount
to 5000 besides the costs in the cases.
IN. B. Durkee, an old resident and q
prominent farmer, living one mile and
q half from Barneston, committed sui
eide last week. He left his home about
noon, went to the woods near by, and
climbing a tree, hitched a rope to a
limb and then about his neck, Jumped
and thus ended his life. The body was
discovered some two hours afterwards.
Mr.. Durkee was v fifty years of age,
respected by all who knew him, and was
. kind father and husband. He leaves
. wife and children.
David City's electric lights can be
seen at Osceola, twenty miles distant.
AT q meeting of the citizens of Su-
perior it was decided to organize a hotel
company under the laws of the state
for the erection of a magnificent hotel
structure. The meeting was largely at
tended by the prominent citizens of the
town and great enthusiasm prevailed.
Steps will be taken at once for the Wig
orous prosecution of the work.
The long talked of Rock Island ex-
tension from Fairbury to Omaha will
probably be built next spring. The e1-
tension has been talked of for nearly a
year, the citizens of Fairbury are eager
for it, and the wholesale men of Omaha
have doomed it. Should the line be
constructed. an agreement would prob
ably be made with the Union Pacific for
running trains across the bridge. In
addition to this extension the Rock
Island will build a line from River Bend
to Denver.
Valentine dispatch says: A shocking
murder and suicide occurred to-day near
Mccain in the central portion of the
county. Stephen Meade, who has here
tofore been looked upon as an estimable
citizen, murdered his wife and after
wards killed himself. This is all the
more deplorable. as they leave four
small children, the youngest only three
weeks old. It seems that for some time
there have been domestic wrangles in
the family, Meade being of an extremely
jealous disposition. This morning his
little son told him his mother said she
was going to leave him. He went to his
wife and asked her if this was s {. She
told him yes. Meade ut once drew a re-
volver and in the presence of his chill
dren shot her through the head, causing
almost instant death. Finding her dead.
he turned the pistol upon himself, and
emptied the remaining four chambers
into his body; not causing death, he
secured his shotgun, and placing the
muzzle beneath his chin, fired, making
a CHASTITY wound. He staggered from
the house and the Mortified children,
and fell in the garden where he SOC *
pired.
Two new towns, Walters and Streck-
ley, will be established on the Superior
branch of the Elkhorn. The former is
between Streckley and Davenport; the
latter between Geneva and Davenport.
The business men OF Friend are
talking ND the subject Of watsr works.
Northwestern railroad officials stop
ping temporarily at Geneva were sere-
naded by the band of that place, the
members of which were invited into the
for a smoke.
The breach of promise case of Slagg
VS.. Maxson, which has created no little
excitement at Friend since Miss Slagg
instituted suit against Maxson for $15,-
600 damages for grabbing his heart back
after he had given it to her, has been
The plaintiff accepted 81, 900
for her interest in the defendant, and
the rich and racy trial will not come off.
The Madison Reporter says there is
n - &lo3 ,1oao /..J T.. IL.