The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10

Aoiiin pNibtAy bNAh6 " bhifS N"o' "a
Bancroft, was thrown from his horse,
breaking both bones of his arm, and dis
the wrist of the sane arm.
The Burlington q Missouri has is
sued a circular containing full informa-
ton as to harvest excursions.
"A David City load of hogs sold in
the South Omaha market Mt So 50. The
load numbered sixty head, which aver
aged 30S pounds.
Plans and specifications have been
drawn up for an extension TO the Union
Pacific depot, Denver, from Sixteenth
street to Eighteenth street. A hotel
and other improvements on q large
scale will be added. Poor old Omaha
is allowed only a cowshed.
Salvatore Incle, an Italian laboreE
working in the construction gang on the
B. & NJ. near Lakeside, just east Of ALI
ance, was run over by the work train
and fatally injured. He was brought to
Alliance for medical service, but died in
less than ten minutes after the engine
carrying him arrived. He leaves a
mother and sister in his native land who
were dependent upon him, but no rela-
lives here.
Charles Emery, the twelve-year-old
son of William Emery, living about six
miles west of Blair, was last week bitten
by n r~attlesnake. The boy was working
in the harvest field b~arefooted, and on
raising his foot to take a step was struck
by the snake in the heel. His case was
precarious at last accounts.
On the I'd of August, a little before
II o'clock the livery barn of G. B. May,
nit York, was discovered to be IN flames.
The barn, with its entire stock of fifteen
horses, besides carriages, harness.
grain, etc, was totally destroyed.
Among the animals burned WAS n thor
oughbred jack valued Mt $500. a Norman
stallion worth $500. C. n. Carpenters
roadster mare worth 5000 and other val
liable horse flesh. The total loss foots
up 81, 000, without a dollar of insurance
Madison has organized two building
and loan associations.
The Methodists of Columbus have
paid off their church debt.
Aurora is infested with burglars.
The other evening while Mr.. Waddle
and another gentleman were out riding
about two miles from town, they no.
ticed two men in a buggy some distance
ahead of them, and their queer action
in getting out of the buggy, tying the
horse to a fence near by, and each TAX
ing a stand ear the road, created a sus-
picion that all was not right. Mr.. Wad-
die and companion laying on the whip
they dashed by them in safety.
Governor Thayer on the 3Oth re-
ceived an official notice from the gov
ernor of Colorado of a call for a deem
water convention of states west of the
Mississippi river. The purpose of this
convention is to secure the united and
harmonious action of the middle and
western states in a movement looking
to the establishment Of a deep water
harbor somewhere upon the gulf of
Mexico.
The 11-year-old daughter of Michael
Brennan, living near Hay Springs, met
with a horrible death last Tuesday. She
started to lead a cow to the house, when
the animal became frightened and
started on a run. The little girl became
e%ntangled in the rope and was dragged
to death. Her parents were Mortified
spectators of the affair, but were unable
to render assistance until life vas extinct.
John Wagner, who formerly resided
at Dyersville, Dubuque county, Ia, but
now located neal Fremont, has just lost
a son by drowning. This is the third
unnatural death that has occurred in his
family since he left Dyersville. One
child died from eating poisonous roots,
another committed suicide and the third
has just been drowned.
A Hay Springs brute has been given
public warning that unless he desists
from c~astigating his little stepson with a
rawhide he will be given q big dose of
his own medicine.
The spots in Nebraska that are not
to be blessed with an overflow of grain
and corn, this year, L very few and far
between.
The state board of agriculture held
a meeting on the LIST.
The month of July has been a good
one for Nebraska City merchants. Bust
ness men generally say stheir sales for
this month have been better than during
the same month for several years.
Construction trains are running over
Che new bridge at Nebraska City daily,
and 1t is expected everything will be in
readiness for the formal opening within
two weeks. This bridge is said to be the
shortest crossing the Missouri river.
There are two spans, each 400 feet long,
and one of 800 feet. The height of the
truss is fifty feet. There is a trustle on
the island, opposite the city, 1850 feet
long, and this is now being filed in with
earth.
-Delbert Simpson, the sixteen-year-
old son of a Custer county farmer, COM
suicide in Almost deliberate man
ner on the oath. He had been sent out
to pillow with a team of oxen and took a
double barreled shotgun with him.
Reaching an unoccupied house he went
in, took off his boot and sock, cooked
both locks of the gun, and with his foot,
after placing the muzzle of the barrel in
his mouth, discharged the gun, which
blew the whole top of his head off, scat
tering the brains and skull bones all
over the room and even mp to the roof
over him. The cause which led to the
suicide is not known.
Major John G. WATSON and Colonel
F. P. Ireland, as attorneys for Charles
Meyers of Nebraska City, the man fined
800 under the Slocum law, have made a
motion to set aside the conviction, which
was sustained. Meyer was fined for Civ
ing intoxicating liquors to his friends on
Sunday.
p. Firestine, a dealerin general mer-
chan9;se at Fremont, was foreclosed I'M
der a chattel mortgage held by Henry
Thurman, of that city. and amounting
to 81, 100. Firestine also owes 5000 to
Chicago wholesalers and smaller sums
to Omaha merchants. He claims his
stock will invoice 81, 900, but it is not