The McCook tribune., 1890-10-31

JORDAN. Il cOlored pfonlDltlOn orator
SHERIFF DAVID d. HANNAH of Cher
ry county brought George II. Meade t.
the penitentiary at Lincoln last week
He will undergo penal servitude fol
three years for stealing horses. This
is the fourth horse thief that Hannah
has brought to the penitentiary since
July.
A 3-YEAR-oLD child of James Lemon
OF Risings wandered into q cornfield
and was lost. The whole town turned
out to hunt for the little one, who was
discovered asleep after a long search.
The child's mother went into spasms,
and was in a critical condition for some
lime.
ANDREW FISHER of Fremont. an en-
ploye of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis-
souri, Valley road, has received official
notice that he is one of the ninety
direct heirs to an estate of $50, 600, 0OO
in Germany. This thunder clap from
a clear sky made Fisher profoundly
happy.
WHILE Lawrence Hawk of Lincoln
was carelessly fooling with a shotgun
he discharged the weapon and shot a
man named Baldwin. who was block
away on Tenth and P streets. For
tunately only few of the shot struck
Baldwin and his wounds are not con-
sidered fatal.
AMONG the latest discoveries of in
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doing an unauthorized business in the
state, are the Mill Owners mutual of
Chicago, and the Peoples mutual life
insurance order of Nashville. Tenn.
None of these have a right to transact
business in Nebraska.
A NEW distillery with a capacity of
200 bushels is to be erected in Ne
braska City. Some members of the
Nebraska City distillery company and
some eastern capitalists are back of
the enterprise. Plans have been drawn
and work will commence as soon as it
is known prohibition is defeated.
AN addition is being made to the
foundry at the Union Pacific shops
which will be about seventy feet long
and the width of the present foundry
More room was needed for the present
force and it is probable that more men
will be added to the foundry force as
soon as the addition is completed.
A COMMITTEE of investigators ap-
pointed by the Fremont board of trade
returned last week from Grand Island,
where they went to inspect the OXnard
beet sugar factory. They are en-
| thusiastic for the establishment of
similar project at Fremont and strong
effort will be made to interest Mr.. Ok
nard in that place.
LINCOLN is casting her net in the
hopes of securing beet sugar factory.
They scy that as the Grand Island fac
tory, has proved such a success, there
is room in Nebraska for dozen such
plants. And let them be put in as
speedily as possible, as the farmers
want a more diversified industry than
they have at present.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JAMES w. NANAUDA
of Dodge county last week celebrated
their sixtieth wedding anniversary at
the residence of their daughter, Mrs
Edward Blewett. The children of the
aged couple were present from Indiana
to California. One hundred and twen-
ty-five of their Fremont friends assisted
! in honoring the event.
JEFFERSON BRANDON, colored, of
Omaha, was shot and probably fatally
injured by an officer in that city the
other night while in the act of making
an arrest. Brandon had whipped his
wife numerically and turned his chill
dren out of doors. He was armed with
a shotgun for any kind of game, but
the policeman got there first.
WASHINGTON special: Pensions were
granted today to the following Ne
braskans: Increase-Robert Thorp,
Bladen; George NJ. Babbitt. North
Platte; Charles M. Coon, Osceola; An
drew j. Ricketts,. Gates: Charles w.
Foote, Silver Creek; Nelson J. Porter
Central City. Reissue-John P. Mill
er, Stromsburg; Henry L. Armstrong,
Omaha.
THREE prisoners confined in the
county Jail at Dakota City made an
attempt to break, and had it not been
for the vigilance of the jailer would
have succeeded. He heard slight
noise, made an investigation and found
that the prisoners were saving the
bars of the steel cage. He demanned
the tools and they gave up three saws.
Later further search was made and
five others of the same kind were
found.
THOMAS KELLEY. on his way home
from Harwood lake, near South Omaha,
discovered grave in an unfrequented
spot on the flats between the B. & M.
tracks and the Missouri River. Civ
ing notice to Marshal Brennan, that |
officer went to the spot, and on dig
ging down three feet found soap box
containing the body of Il newborn in
FAINT Whether the infant was mur-
dered or died natural death is not |
known.
CHARLES S. DIFFEY, the farmer liv-
ing in Pleasant Valley township, Dodge
county. who was arrested for forgery