The McCook tribune., 1890-08-15
STATE NEWS.
NEBRASKA MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

"A hne Danish church at Danebrog
is nearing completion.
The Omaha school fund derives
$277, 600 from the saloons.
"A Knights of Pythias lodge has
been organized at Geneva.
Gov. Thayer and wife will attend
the G. A. r. reunion at Boston.
The corn crop prospect in Dakota
county is of the brightest kind.
Recent rains about Clay Center
have put the farmers in excellent spir-
its.
-Mortuary statistics of Lincoln
show forty deaths for the month of
July.
The M. z. church just completed
at Haigler, will be dedicated on the
18th.
"A rain and wind storm did consid-
cradle damage in and around Peters
burg.
The Masonic order at Valentine
has received a charter from the grand
lodge.
The Saunders county agricultural
society offers over $500 in speed pre-
miums.
Continued dry weather has very
much injured corn prospects in Chase
county.
The old settlers of southern Ne
braska will hold reunion at Carleton
August %.
There are 5, 953 children of school
age in Seward county-3, 097 males and
2,846 females.
The present outlook for corn in
the vicinity of Friend is from fifteen to
forty bushels per acre.
-Denman Thompson will open the
new Kerr opera house at Hastings in
The Old Homestead"
"A thirty-foot vein of magnesia has
been discovered by a well digger eight
miles north of Concord.
"A thirty-foot vein of magnesia has
been found by weil-digger eight
miles north of Concord.
Adams county is indebted to the
great state of Nebraska in taxes for
lne year lOSU $Z(, 0ZS.IS.
The low stage of the Republican
river renders the catfish and suckers
easy victims of the sportsmen.
The enterprising citizens of Lush
ton have arranged for big horse fair
and racing to take place August Is.
An original package house was
opened at Brownville, whereat the tenn
perance people are greatly agitated.
-. N. Morris, of Thayer county,
was killed by lightning last week, be-
ing near his house when the bolt struck
him.
John r. Clark, a wealthy and
prominent citizen of Lincoln, died sud-
denly from heart disease a few days
ago.
"A David City man bucked the
tiger of the Chicago board of trade
and came out SO, 900 ahead in a corn
deal.
Five horses belonging to E. l..
Haas of st. Edwards ran into barb
wire fence and three were fatally in
jured.
The store of Gillian & Co., Au-
burn, was broken into and robbed of
knives, revolvers, a shotgun and some
money.
The school census of York county
sor 1890 shows 6, 231 children OF school
age, a gain of twenty over the census
of 1889.
About one hundred claims under
she dependent pension law recently
passed have been sent in already from
Lincoln.
Governor and Mrs. Thayer have
gone to Boston to attend the national
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
AT the election held in West Point
to vote on bonds for the new city hall,
bonds for 81, 600 were voted by ma
jofity of s.
From Elkhorn City to Chadron the
Elkhorn valley is said to be covered
with the finest corn fields ever grown
in that section.
The Catholic church is holding a
season of prayers every day for cessa-
ton of the present dry spell. says the
Friend Telegraph.
By the explosion of gasoline
stove, Mrs. Frank Taylor of Adams
county, was terribly burned and her
life is despaired of.
The barn of R. A. Twiss of Ere
mont was struck by lightning during a
thunder storm and burned to the
ground. Loss $400.
-Wilber boasts that there is but
one prisoner in the county Jail at that
place. The others sawed through the
bars and walked off.
While Ollie Cowing was making a
coupling near Weston his hand caught
between the cars crushing it so badly
that amputation was necessary.
George Harris, (colored) barber
of Omaha, suicided at Spring Grove,
Douglas county, last week, by shooting
,imself through the right lung.
August 81 the old settlers of York,
o.ll- D,,4lo, opd Seward COMMITTEES will