The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-01-18
ABOUT NEBRASKA.

Tho state board OF transportation
has sent notice to the railroads that all
trains must stop not Less than 400 feet
from each railroad crossing and must
whistle not less than 200 feet from each
road crossing.
-Theamount required TO run Douglas
county last year was 1926, 900. This sum
was raised for general county purposes,
and required q levy of 13A mills on the
dollar valuation. The estimate for oun
~ purposes this year, it is thought by
the commissioners, will exceed that OF
1888, and q levy of Is mills will be made.
The additional ID mills will be used to
raise q fund for the purchase OF Q poor
farm.
South Omaha authorities propose
closing up the gambling establishments.
The executive committee of the W.
O. T. o., consisting of Mrs. q. w. Clark,
Of Omaha; Mrs. O. A. Holmes and Mrs.
Russell, of Tecumseh; Mrs. Wilson, Of
lincoln, and Mrs. Woodward, of Sew
home at Milford last week. They find
the building an excellent one for the
money-it cost $40, 0O0-and they say
they have more than enough who are
entitled to admission to fill the building,
but there Is NJ money to start the build
ing.
Omaha and other creditors who be-
gan suit as parties defendant in the case
against the Hastings Gazette-Journal
company, withdrew action before the
court and n decree of foreclosure was
entered and the property ordered sold
by Receiver Boalich to satisfy the. Ne
braska Loan and Trust company's claim
for 1886, 600.
"A disastrous fire occurred at Madl.
son, destroying the livery barn of Geo.
Losey, containing t~hirty-six valuable
horses and all of his buggies; the agri-
cultural implement house of II. III. Full
Ter and most of its contents, and the res
idence of Charles Gross. Loss about
5000. The cause of the fire is I'M
known.
The Union Pacific is negotiating
with the Standard Car-Journal Lubricat-
ing company of Chicago whereby a new
device is to be put on the journals of all
cars That will do away with the use of
waste md dope in preventing boxes from
heating. 1t is stated that the use of the
az" oSNANS A ooNO ~ Su1OA L dCluG
abont $50, 600 annually.
The Arcade clothing and notion
store in Lincoln caught fire last week,
and goods to the amount of fully So, 500
were destroyed. 1t was impossible to
trace the origin of the fire, but there are
several suspicious circumstances con
nected with it.
Mike Prokope, a young Bohemian
living eight miles southwest of Exeter,
met with what will probably prove to be
q fatal accident. While riding a bron-
cho he was thrown across q barbed wire
fence and his foot caught in the stiIrup.
The animal pulled him until one of his
legs was nearly sawed off. One leg will
be amputated.
w. j. Armstrong, the owner of the
elevator at Palmer, was fatally injured
last week. While attending to some
machinery late in the evening he passed
the fy-wheel of the engine and was
caught and carried three times around
the great wheel. When found he was in
the pit under the wheel and partially
conscious. Physicians were summoned.
He was found to be paralyzed in the
lower portion of his body and. limbs.
He fingered in great agony until mid
night and expired.
w. 81. Merrill, a prominent citizen
and lumber merchant of Grand Island
for the last seven years, and an old time
resident of Nemaha county, Kansas,
died last week from cancer in the stom-
ach. His father, seventy years old,
from Haverhill, Mass, came to attend
the funeral.
Little Bessie Logan, of Long Pine,
fell from q wood shed and broke one of
her legs.
"A Thayer county paper says that
more horses are ruined by being kept
standing in the stable idle during the
winter, fed on corn, than by work in the
summer It suggests that if there is no
work for them to do turn them out in
the stalk fields or some winter pasture,
days. and shelter at night.
Ole Anderson, who is confined in
the Brown county jail for murder, is an
expensive boarder on that county. He
has cost taxpayers over SIT since his
confinement.
Efforts are being made to have On
derwood, the great Boston atheist, speak
In Fremont in the near future.
The editor of the Milford Nebras-
khan was presented with a handsome
watch and chain, the gift of a ieweler Of
the town.
The tenth annual meeting Of the
bee keepers was held last week. The
attendance was good.
Representative KEEPER proposes to
boom the farmers mutual insurance
companies. He has introduced a bill al
lowing the officers a compensation for
their services al the rate of $2.00 per
day, while soliciting business. At pres
emit they are not allowed by law to re-
ceive any pay, and the clerical work OF
the companies is performed gratis. The
stock companies will fight this bill to the
bitter end.
"A bill has been introduced for the
establishment of a state normal school
at Stromsburg. The school shall be
governed by a board of seven members,
five of whom shall be appointed by the
governor for a term of five years each,
and the other two shall be the state
treasurer and superintendent of public
instruction. An appropriation OF So, 900
is asked to start up the school,.
More than $1s, 900. 600 in mortgages
against Omaha real estate was executed
during the year 1885.
"A slight effort is being made to re-
vive roller skating in Lincoln.
Omaha is rapidly catching up with
Chicago as a divorce center.
"A boy named Mike Kroup, a Bohe-
milan, living near Burress, Fillmore