The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-12-05

gathered George up and threw him
into the c~alaboose. The justice holds
him in $500 to appear at the next term
of the district court.
BIGLER HANCOCK, an old and veal
thy settler of Burt county. died at his
home neal Tekamah last week. Mr..
Hancock was one of the best known
citizens of the county, and at the late
republican convention was a prominent
candidate for the legislature.
The Iowa prohibitionists had a$30,-
900 damage suit against Peter E. Her,
the Omaha distiller, but they could
never get service on him. The other
day he started for Chicago and while
on Iowa soil they got the drop on him
and served the necessary papers
MISS FLORA STAvER, the primary
teacher of the Salem school, has had a
neat souvenir printed to present to the
visitors of her department at school.
Mss Staver proposes to have the par
ents visit the school wen if she has to
give them a premium for doing so.
The Lincoln chief of police received a
telegram from Chief Farley of the Dem
yer police force offering 81, 600 for the
apprehension of Freeman B. Croker,
president of the board of public works,
who has mysteriously disappeared. It
is thought that he has become insane.
A PETITION is being circulated in
Beatrice and is being generally signed
requesting Governor Thayer to con-
vene the legislature in special session
at once to take immediate steps toward
extending relief to the destitute settlers
in the southwestern and western part
of the state.
j. B. KITCHEN of Omaha last week
decided to N. S. HARDWOOD, j. H. Ames
and others of Lincoln the Capital hotel
building, together with two lots upon
which the building stands, for a con-
consideration of $50. 600. The sale
was made at Omaha in the United
| States district court.
A FIRE at Riverton last week burned
the livery barn of George Enos con
tanning eleven horses, a number of
bnggies and harness and a large guam
tity of feed. The barn of Isaac Shep-
herdson, with two horses and two COWS
was also burned. The ireis supposed
to have been of incendiary origin.
The elegant and justcompleted resi-
dence of Mrs. Annie E. Miller, near
Beatrice, was completely destroyed by
fire. The structure was mt of the
handsomest in the city and cost Sc. 900.
Mrs. Miller is at present a resident of
Omaha, but had expected to take pos
session of the house within a few days.
VALENTINE YEAGER, who was re-
Gently brought from Milwaukee, Wis
consin to answer to a charge of rape
preferred by Ellen Gets, clearly proved
at the trial held at Seward, that he
was in Milwaukee at the time said
crime was said to have been commit
ted and he was accordingly discharged.
AN Omaha paper says that all of the
conflicting rumor that have been in
circulation concerning the alleged pur-
chase of the Union Pacific road have
given way to a firm belief that the
transfer has been practically made and
that Mr.. Gould will be in active man
agement of the system before Decem-
Der l.
AT THE special ;erm of the district
court of Howard county at St. Paul,
Colonel Lewis Butler was tried for
disposing of mortgage property to H.
Agor, q stock buyer, a year ago.
found guilty as charged in the indict-
ment, and sentenced by Judge Harri-
son to N year at hard labor in the
Lincoln ~penitentiary.
SAMUEL CATER, an old soldier who
has been in the army and was stationed
at Fort Mead, S. D., thirty years, and
who has lately been retired from the
service, met death in Omaha last week
by aphyxiation. He went to nd in q
hotel leaving the gas on after the flame
was extineuished. His death is sup
posed to be due tc accident.
ACCORDING to his usual custom Mr..
Hopkins, the kind hearted warden of
the state ~penitentiary at Lincoln, gave
the convicts in his charge a half holi-
day on Thanksgiving. Besides he
treated them to a fine THANKSGIVING
dinner, which consisted, in addition to
the usual r%ations, of turkey, pie, cake,
coffee, and five cigars apiece.
BURT MURRELL of North Bend met
with a serious accident Thanksgiving
day by the bursting of the stock of his
gun, an old army musket. The recoil
caused the barrel to be blown from the
stock, and some part of it struck him
on the face just below the right eye,
cutting a deep wound and tearing away
a small piece of the cheek bone.
DAISY WILSON, the yong female who
has been in the Milford home for fallen
women for several months past, es-
capped from that institution recently,
ane later on was found by the Lincoln
police in one of the dives in the bot
toms. The girl has been placed in ca
pable hands. She refuses to go back
to Milford, claiming that she was i'll
treated there.
FIRE broke out on the north side of
the business portion of Arcadia the
other night, and despite all efforts in
three hours it was a heap of ruins.
The actual loss is about $25. 600, and