The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-10-10
STATE NEWS.
NEBRASKA MISCELLANEOUS ua1reRs

people were visited by a
brilliant meteor the other night.
"A second bank has been opened at
Gresham with a capital of SO, OOO.
The young people of Bennett have
organized a dancing club for winter.
d. e.. Stevens, of Nebraska City,
is doing time in the county Jail for
beating his wife.
"A dog fell in a well $50 feet deep
at Gordon and when taken out was as
spry as a cricket.
dawson county has twenty-five al
lance organizations, with a total mem
bership of about 800.
Schools of Nebraska City have re-
opened after a temporary close on ac-
count of scarlet fever.
-Rushville has formed a stock COM
pany and will Immediately proceed to
build a cheese factory.
The Dodge county agricultural So
clety offers a cash prize for the best
written report of the fair.
: The residence of X. T. Wooden,
near Springfield. was entirely de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire.
John M. Whitman of Nebraska
City places his daughter in the school
for the deaf and dumb at Omaha.
The resignation of Captain n. P.
Lundeen of the York militia company
has been accepted by Adjutant General
Cole.
Emil Grant. a grain buyer at SYRIA
cuse, is reported to have suddenly left
town, much to the chagrin of his cred
itors.
, The Blaine county fair has been
postponed from Sept. 90 to Oct. 8, 10
and ii, at Brewster, and a good fair is
expected.
The men at the B. & NJ. shops at
Plattsmouth now work ten hours a day
and are happy at the pay for the extra
hours work.
An expert has notified the water
commissioner of Beatrice that he has
prospected and found a body of water
seventeen feet deep.
The citizens and business men of
the new town of Sprague, in Lancaster
county, are figuring on a newspaper
plant for the town.
John Erickson of Franklin has in
vented a treaddle-power corn shelter
which they say is quite a novelty as
well as a success.
1t was Major Scott. the lecturer.
who was egged near Scribner the other
day and not Rev. George Scott as
stated in the reports.
-Plattsmouth papers are very proud
of the vitrified brick they are now
making in that town and say they are
of excellent quality.
The Caledonian insurance company
of Edinburg. having complied with
the laws, was granted permission to
do business in the state.
Dodge county is becoming noted
for the sheep business. About 300
900 will be fed in the vicinity of Ere
mont the coming season.
. Tom Nicholson of Otoe county,
who was ~adjudged insane by the COM
missioners of insanity a few days ago,
was taken to the asylum last week.
Ferdinand Zimmerer of Tucker
vile tried to lead a fractions COW, but
the animal got away with him and dis
located his shoulder in the struggle.
james johnson of Fremont skip
ped a board bill and left for parts I'M
known. Officers located him in Lin
coin and brought James back to settle.
Mrs. Glenn. who lost everything
in the Hebron fire. was agreeably sur
prised the other day by being pre-
scented with a purse of $203. 75 by her
friends of that city.
While unloading hay at Gordon
the other day Mr.. Olds discovered his
hay on fire. The load of hay and barn
burned up and the business portion of
the town narrowly escaped.
Henry Fay, living ear Panama,
Otoe county, committed suicide by plac-
ing a revolver down his throat and
blowing off the top of his head. No
cause is assigned for the deed.
WIN. j. Mead. a well known con-
tractor of Lincoln, attempted suicide
the other day by severing an artery in
his wrist. He had become Respondent
through long suffering from rheuma-
tism.
Hunters report good duck shoot
ing in Dodge county. and that since
the rains and the cool weather fishing
is good; the black bass and pickerel
biting ~ravenously. Good sport is re-
ported.
L. Hatch of Holdrege was stop
ping ut the Cincinnati house. Nebraska
City, Thursday night, and was put
into a room with a stranger who stole
all his money and his watch and dis
appeared.
w. Hales and wife of Battle Creek
celebrated their golden wedding the
other day. They have thirteen child
rem living. all Of whom were present
at the wedding and reunion.
Yards are being built near Ar
lington to accommodate the feeding of
8, 1000 Oregon sheep this fall and win
ter. This will create an immense de-
mand for hay and corn.
A man named Kisslingbury at &C.
dar Bluffs pulled the trigger Of a self
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