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

n Spanish silver coin OF the date OF II90,
n little larger and not quite so heavy rs
a silver dollar. 1t is apparently made
of purer silver than the United States
coins of to-day. 1t had evidently lain
covered up q long time, and when
frightened up showed its inscriptions
quite plainly. One gentleman offered
So for it, but the man who found it pre-
ferred not to give it up.
Ed Burke, Harry Matterson, Will
liam WEIGH and Charley Moore, four Of
the tramps arrested at Nebraska City
for highwey robbery, had their trial and
were bound over to await the action of
| the district court, which convenes No
vember IL. Harry Migles and Tommy
Miles, two toughs who came from
Omaha, were given $40 and ten days for
being found in the gang. Word was re-
ceived from the Chicago police to hold
the four above mentioned, as it was al
most certain that one of them was want
ed in that city.
"A four horse team with o load o.
lumber ran away with B. Jungbluth al
Arlington, breaking his arm in two
places and otherwise badly bruising him
IitO lIllDcI MhS SCullCIGu u III llllt
along the road.
Three hundred and ten students are
now on the books of the State Univer.
sity register. One hundred and ten OF
these are new this year. Others are ex-
pected before the close of the term.
Seventy are registered in the present
freshman class and the seniors will num-
Der thirty.
Additions to the state university
library are pot commonly large but they
are always choice. Between 400 and 500
new books have been added this year.
Among these are complete sets of Black
woods magazine and Dublin university
magazine. The former number 112 and
the latter sixty-eight volumes. Prof.
Bessey has also added some very fine
foreign works to the botanical library.
Last week the body of a man was
found in the Missouri river at Florence,
and the coroner wa summoned. An in
quest was held, resulting in the discov-
cry that the body was that of j. D..
Burke, a farmer residing about eight
miles from Florence. About one week
ago, Burke was in the above town Oh a
~prOtracted spree. He was seen late at
night in II drunken stupor, and it is
thought while in this condition, he fell
into the river and was drowned. The
inquest resulted in averdict accordingly.
Burke leaves awidow and eight children
in destitute circumstances.
shenandoah has narrowly escaped
her second tragedy. Ben Smith, pro-
prietor of a foundry, got into an ~alterca-
ton with a moulder il his employ, named
Frederick Stephenson, over the settle
ment of the weeks wages. Smith struck
Stephenson over the head with a bar of
iron and, after telling him to the ground,
e~ndeavored to shoot him. Stephenson's
skull was fractured and he now lies in a
somewhat precarlous condition. The
preliminary examination was postponed
to await the result of his injuries.
A cowboy from the Snake river coun-
try brings news to Cheyenne of the
lynching of F. W. Adams, and a COM.
panion known as "Dutchy." The two
men had been slaughtering elk and deer
for their horns and hides, in violation of
the state law, and were demonstrated
with by an ex%-ranchman named John
son, who said he would report them to
the authorities if they did not desist.
This enraged the hunters, who that
night burned down the house of John
son. and threatened to kill him if he in
terfered again. Johnson rode to the
settlement near by and gathered a force
of forty men, who caught the hunters
and hanged them.
The German-American bank is q
new financial institution established in
Fremont.
Lincoln now has two telegraph com
panies.
The largest bet made in Nebraska
City on the coming election was made
last week, James Wilcox betting $500
that Cleveland would be reelected. The
bet was taken by II. f. Cady of Omaha,
and the money put up.
"A daring burglary was committed at
the residence of a MI. Walsh, in Lin
coin, last week. The family were ali
away from home, leaving the house
securely locked. When Mrs. Walsh re-
turned she at once discovered that some
one had been rumaging in the drawers
and closets, and upon investigation
that anickel plated watch, several
gold rings and other articles of jewelry,
R coat, overcoat. shoes and other wear
apparel had been taken.
"A train of five box cars was smashed
last week between Liberty and Bur
chard. After leaving Liberty eastward
the water supply was found to be low.
The engineer with the engine having
gone to Burchacd for water was return
to his train, but failed to stop his
until it ran into the train, with
the above result. No other injuries are
reported and no one seems to know the
cause of the trouble.
Ed. ellison, a fireman On switch en-
CINE No. %, met with a severe accident
at Plattsmouth. The water glass OF his
bursted and a piece of the glass
entered his arm, severing the main ar
terry. ellison started for the doctors
office but before reaching it he be came
weak from loss of blood and had to be
supported. He is getting along as well
as could be expected.
George N. Sroat of Nebraska City has
a valuable souvenir, an autograph letter
by Abraham Lincoln, in 1859. 1t
is an answer to an invitation to attend a
banquet in Boston on the anniversary of
the birth of Thomas Jefferson. The let
ter concludes with the following tribute
to the author of the immortal Declare
ton Of Independence: "All honor to
Jefferson, to the man who, in the con-
crete pressure of a struggle for indie
pendence by a single people had the
GOODNESS, forecast, and capacity to intro
duce into a merely revolutionary docu-
ment an abstract truth, applicable to all
men and all times and so to embalm it
there that to-day and in all coming days
it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling
block to the harbingers of reappearing