The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-02-08

from the bin OF Mr. Moore, OF Bloom
ington, dropped q ten dollar gold piece.
The coin was restored to the rightful
owner but the coal has not yet come
back.
Last week, says the Sidney Tele'
gram, Daniel Adams brought in the re-
turns from Bushnell. he was not . gid.
dy youth, to be sure, being in his eigh'
tieth year. He had heard his grand.
father preach when the latter Was 10e
years old, and his grandmother knit him
q pair OF socks when she Was owe 100.
The Reporter says that Madison
holds the key to the first trunk Of rail.
road west through northern Nebraska.
The building improvements in
Beatrice for 1883 amounts to over 5000,
600.
Mary Raynor, ayoung woman livinl
q few miles west Of Nebraska City. VA
brought before the county board Of in.
sanity and declared to be violently In
n She will be taken to Lincoln.
The report of the Omaha veterin.
arian shows that there were 100 cases oil
CHAMBERS and farcy in horses reported to
him during the year; sixty-two of these
cases proved fatal or the animals were
ordered shot by the live stock sanitary
commission.
The citizens of Franklin county mel
in mass convention and passed resolu.
tions urging the legislature ito submit 9
p~rohibitory constitutional amendment
The resolutions arc long and earnest.
Dixon county reports itself short on
small grain, due partially to sh~ortness oil
the fall crop, and also to the fact that
large amount of stock is being wintered
by Dixon county farmers.
Mis- AIDA Olmstead, of Orleans,
who is now engrossing clerk of the sen.
ate, has become entirely deaf, the result
OF . severe attack of typhoid fever.
Two McCord young men named
Williams and Jameson languish in jail
at York for stealing coal from o school
house. They confess their guilt and
have been bound owe for trial.
"A Lindsay dispatch says the noto-
rious DR.. Bennett is again at his old
tricks. Finding that P. A. Peterson, a
farmer living neal there, had a child with
a crooked foot, he offered to cure the
deformity for 800. and induced Peter
son to sign a note for that amount. He
did nothing for the patient, but now the
note turns up, and must be paid.
County personal property taxes be.
come delinquent February LIST, and
county real estate Nav LIST.
Two manufacturing establishments
have been added to Ainsworth since
June LIST.
Jacob Schrodt, living near Orleans,
while walking home from Almena, Kan.
sas, lost his way and was out all night,
freezing the toes OF both of his feet.
"A chair manufacturing company hal
been organized in Nebraska City.
John Strow, of Fremont, died sud
IDENTIFY the other day while sitting in q
chair. His malady is supposed to have
been heart trouble.
-Ponca's real estate boom Is COM
mencing to materialize.
The Hooper Bible society reports
over SIT worth of bibles sold the last
year.
Senator Paddock has secured the
passage of a bill in the United States
senate for the establishment of two ad.
ditional land districts in Nebraska.
Mayor Boyd, of South Omaha, has
ordered everybody to number their
houses by February 18th, SO that mail
delivery may begin at that time.
The treasurer of Holt county issued
tax receipts to the amount of $125, 600
last year.
Mr.. Gilchrist has introduced a bill
which will make a lively contest among
some of the towns. It is to the effect
that the state appropriate $50, 600, to be
expended during the year 1890, by the
state board Of agriculture for the pur.
chase of land on which to permanently
locate the state fair.
Richard Kimball, an old and promi-
nent business man of Omaha, was killed
on Sunday last by being run over by the
Omaha and Council Bluffs dummy.
The sheep feeders Of Dodge county
are marketing their stock. The season
has been very favorable for ~fattening
and the 1ocks are being turned off ear.
lier than usual. About seventy-tive
thousand head are being fed in the coun-
ty. The market is satisfactory and it is
estimated that these sheep will net at
least 500. 900 profit to their owners
Rev. MI. Thomas, of Franklin coun-
ty. is suffering from a broken shoulder,
the result of a runaway.
The pay roll of the Omaha police
force is nearly 90, 900 a month.
AT Grand Island, Lena chrahl filed
a complaint in the police judges office
charging William Myers with her ruin.
A warrant was issued for the arrest OF
the accused, but up to the present time
the police have been unable to locate
him. It is thought he has left the city.
The girl is not yet fifteen years old,
while Meyers is twenty-seven.
Mrs. James McKinzie. of Wymore,
met with a severe misfortune. She was
washing and had the clothes in an iron
kettle. She put a little gasoline In the
water to make the washing easier, which
exploded. burning her badly about the
face and head.
One Meyers, q Grand Island street
car driver, is wanted in that oity for the
crime of bastardy. His victim Is but
fifteen years old.
"A broom factory is 20 be established
at Brewster next season.
ALI the Omaha daily pspsrs oppose
submission.
Tho railroad forces at North Platte
have been reduced Temporarily about
twenty men.
The new order of things in Unio1
Pacific circles, says the Omaha Herald,
goes into effect to-day and many import
ant changes will be the consequence
thereof. There is no longer a genera