The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
ABOUT NEBRASKA.

ton.
-Dannebrog citizens have raised G
bonus for new roller mills, and the en-.
terprise is now regarded as q sure thing,
The people of the First Baptis
church ut Grand Island have a new
house of worship as well as a new pastor
The damage to the B. & NJ. bridge
yer the Blue, mentioned as burned yes.
terday, says the Beatrice Express, il
more extensive than at first reported
About two hundred feet of the north ap.
proach to the bridge is practically de
stroyed. Repairs are being pushed Of
rapidly as possible.
The Fremont public schools are full
to overlooking, Notwithstanding the two
new buildings erected this year. The
question the school board is trying tc
solve is how to dispose of the surplus. u
Last Thursday evening, says the
Chadron Democrat, while Jackson Greed
was pulling a train Of stock from Casper
to this place, the engine ran into n herd
of cattle that had pre-empted the track.
and without warning the entire train
was piled up in the ditch. All the train
hands, who had escaped injury, at once
rushed to the engine, but the escaping
steam made it impossible for them to
see the engineer, and when found he was
SO badly scalded that he lived but ashori
time.
The sudden death of BENJAMIN
Palmerton, the venerable Odd Fellow
of Beatrice, in Omaha last week, was q
shock to the entire Beatrice commu-
nifty. No man in Beatrice was SO well
known and so well liked as "Uncle
Ben" His remains were brought home
In charge of a special committee ap-
pointed by the grand lodge. Mr.. Pal
merton was 81 years old, and came to
Beatrice from Ohio about fifteen wears
ago. OF late years he had been engaged
III stock raising.
"A Custer county lad started to at
tend a charivari Thursday evening and
carried a gun. While holding both
hands over the muZzle the weapon was
accidentally discharged, SCATTERING both
hands and tearing away the rim of the
lads hat. He will be a cripple for life.
AT Omaha last Sunday Isaac John
son (colored) received fatal injuries by
being struck by a locomotive on the
Missouri Pacific track, at the intersec-
ton of Grace street. johnson was
walking along the track, and the weather
being inclement, he sheltered himself
with an umbrella. At this point, an en-
CINE that was running to the round
house came along at a rapid rate, in the
direction that Johnson was NOV
ing. and without any warning he was
hurled from the track a considerable
distance and died from the effects a few
moments afterward.
The democrats of Omaha will make
q final political effort on the evening OF
November Sd On that occasion they
on any previous occasion.
The Lincoln board of trade build
ing association, organized with n capital
stock of $3.50, 600, composed of some of
the leading capitalists of Lincoln and
the west, filed articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state last week.
The promoters Of the natural gas
project in Omaha assert that they have
in no way abandoned the enterprise.
A pipe $50 feet in length, extending
from the tank to the intersection of Six
teenth and Burdette streets has been
laid, and the fluid burns brightly after
being conveyed that distance. A new
movement is now on foot to further in
.estigate the supply by sinking a hole
Q, 900 feet beneath the surface.
"A Nebraska City special says: Mrs.
John Hall shot her husband during q
quarrel this morning. Hall had
been drunk for two weeks, his family
been driven from home every
this week and compelled to sleep
at the houses of neighbors. This morn
ing they became engaged in a quarrel
and Mrs. Hall drew a revolver and
threatened to kill him. Her husband
told her to shoot. Mrs. Hall then start
ed to leave the room when her husband
her around the neck and at
tempted to take the pistol from her.
During the scuffie the weapon was dis
charged, the ball striking Hall on the
left side of the neck. The wound is con-
sidered dangerous. Mrs. Hall being in
a delicate condition was not arrested,
but a guard wa placed over her to await
the results of her husbands wound.
Hall is a brother of Mast Hall, who
killed a man at Auburn a few years ago
and escaped with a light sentence.
"A fellow left a pair of shoes that
needed mending in a shoe store in South
Omaha and marked directions ON them
rs follows: "Tapt and / sold"
The only gambling den in Fairbury
has been broken up, the proprietor hav-
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fined.
Beatrice has completed a sewerage
30, 600 feet long and $35, 600
deep.
South Omaha thieves Lave no use
for preachers in their midst. A reverend
gentleman in that city engaged in build
ing a house has had /, 200 feet of lumber
stolen from him-S00 feet first and then
400 feet.
Charles S. Jones, an old resident OF
Juniata, died there recently aged seven
ty years. He was a distant relative OF
the late Samuel J. Tilden, and during
the war was a member of the Twenty
seventh Michigan infantry.
The furniture store of w. G. Wood
worth, at Exeter, was destroyed by fire
las. week. Loss, about So. 900.
The state meeting of the Y. NJ. O. A
will be held in Beatrice October IS to %.
"A cannery, a packing house and a
bridge are amoSg Ponca's inn
y.ediate wants.
The Madison Chronicle reports big
aroyes of cattle passing through town
almost daily, being taken from the
range to winter quarters.
-Whiteman & Hamilton, of Oyerton,
had three car loads of hay burned, il
being set on fire by a passing engine.
The Journal opines that Falls City