The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-12-19
OVER THE STATE.

be in Omaha December oath and de-
liver a lecture.
ADAM PRETLEG, a prominent citizen
OF Plattsmouth, died at his home Sat
urday, aged fifty-six years.
GEORGE w. HALE of Mitchell was
kicked by a vicious pony near Gering,'
and had two ribs broken.
TRANNIE BILLUPPs, a girl "a years
old, of Hay Springs. Neb., committed
suicide. in Omaha the other day.
The Butler county court house is
under roof, and it will be pushed to
completion. 1t will cost $50, 600.
IT is said that the headquarters of
the Missouri Pacific railway, now in
st. Louis, will be removed to Omaha.
S. H.. II. CLARK, the new general
manager of the Union Pacific, began
rallroading by running a gravel train.
The mains for the w~aterworks at
Crawford are being rapidly laid and
the system will be in working order
shortly.
1T is said there will be a good many
saloons less in Omaha the coming
year. The brewers will refuse to .'put
up as they have in the past.
The third annual meeting of the as
ISOLATION of superintendent and princi-
pals OF graded schools will be held at
Lincoln December 90 and so.
ALLISON H. GILCHRIsT, proprietor of
the Nebraska City creamery, took first
prize for butter, awarded by the Illi-
nois state board of agriculture.
Two MEN held up Joe Houghton, a
policeman in South Omaha, and slugged
him. He is in a very %precarious con-
dition. He does not know who did the
deed.
The pontoons of both the Short Line
and the wagon bridge between Sioux
City and Covington have gone out.
The Short Line trains now O on
the high bridge.
j.. b. GIETZEN, manager of the Col
umbus lumber company, was thrown
from a buggy by Il runaway horse and
was so severely injured that his re-
covery is doubtful.
In the district court at Nebraska
City James Martin and Terry Finney
were sentenced to W years and eigh-
teen months, respectively, in the pen
itentiary for burglary.
CATTLE + dying of corn-stalk dis
ease at the rate of five a day in Pleas
ant Valley township, Dodge county.
Plenty of water and green food mixed
will prevent the disease.
MoRLIN NERBECK, of Omaha, was
killed by being hit by an engine on
the Missouri Pacific in that city a few
days ago. He was hurt internally and
lived but two hours after the accident.
CATTLE belonging to farmers in
Pleasant Valley township in Dodge
county are dying from some unknown
aus The rate of mortality has been
as high as five head a day with some
of the farmers.
THE resignation of F. B. Tiffany,
one of the judges of the Ninth judicial
district, was received by Gov. Thayer
the other day and he has appointed
Edward M. Coffin of Ord as Judge to
succeed IlHany
FORD R. SMITH, late of the clerical
force at the packing house of Swift &
Co., at South Omaha, committed sui
eide last week by taking morphine.
Illness and dependency seem to have
driven him to the act.
w. j. FLANAGAN, lately a postal
clerk running between Lincoln and
Crawford, was arrested in Lincoln
and brought to Omaha, charged with
refusing to turn over the records, etc.,
in his possession to his successor.
M. P. WEBSTER, who resides about
fifteen miles east of Gering, was
thrown from a horse and had his col
lar bone fractured in two places be-
sides sustaining serious internal in
,uries. He is fifty-nine years old.
ANOTHER decided step in the onward
march of Christian work in Omaha
was celebrated last Sunday by the dedi-
cation of the First United Presbyterian
church. 1t is a fine structure and
there is but little Indebtedness upon it.
THE December distribution of the
temporary state school fund amounts to
sos, 004. 81. This is next to the larg-
est distribution in the history OF the
state. The largest was in June, 1880,
and amounted to $317, GIG. &c. The
distribution n year ago amounted to
1882. 425. 81.
MARTIN BARKER, the Lyons barber,
who. while drunk, shot a fellow named
Lewis in the arm, was found guilty of
assault with intent to commit great
bodily injury, and was sentenced to
five years confinement in the state pen
itentiary.
DAVE PAXTON, colored, was arrested
by Detective Jim Leary in Hanover
precinct Gage county, on a charge of
being implicated in stealing a mule
from w. II. Bryant in Beatrice about
q year and a half ago. Payton was
lodged in the county Jail.
The sixth annual convention of the
dairymen's association will
be held at Pawnee City, Neb.. Deem
Der Is, IL and Is. A very interesting
programme has been prepared, and
there is every indication that the meet
ing will be largely attended.
j. C. WATKINS. a switchman en-
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