The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-05-01
STATE NEWS

-Plattsmouth schools planted owe
200 trees Arbor day.
The measles are prevailing at Tai
mage to quite IN extent.
There are no vacant residences a
Milford and the demand is for more.
Governor Boyd has proclaimed
Nebraska City a city OF the first-class.
Peter Rasmussen. an insane man
suicided in his cell in the Hastings jail
-Thirty-six licenses have bee,
granted the liquor dealers of Lincoln
An experimental free delivery sys
tenn will be established May l at Oak
dale.
Beatrice will be connected with hel
Chautauqua grounds by an electric
railway.
-Crete's new census taken by orde,
OF the council shows a population Of
2.431 souls.
Miss Jessie Reight of Bradshaw
has been declared insane and taken to
the Lincoln asylum.
Arrangements are being perfected
Tor the erection of a $3.50, 900 opera
house in Lincoln this year.
R. R. Douglas was appointed sta
ton agent for the B. & M. at Nebraska
City TO succeed the late Michael De-
rum.
Minnie Freeman, of Nebraska
blizzard fame, vas married in Omaha
last week to E. d. Pinney, of Lexing-
ton.
Lew Louis, an old resident of Otoe
county, was examined by the board on
insane and pronounced a fit subject
for hospital treatment.
-Arbor DAY was generally observed
throughout the state. the people in
nearly every city and village partici-
patlng in the planting of trees.
The Rock Island elevator at Paw
nee City was recently set on fire. Be-
fore much damage was done the fire
was discovered and extinguished.
Frank Lawrence of Steinauer
pleaded guilty in district court of Paw
nee county to selling liquor without a
license and was fined 5000 and costs.
Judge Gaslin, who is holding court
at Broken Bow. is forcing attorneys
to get up in the morning, as he has
the docket called at 1880 a. m. sharp.
Mrs. Minnie Walker, whose par
ents live in Lincoln. a member of the
demi monde, shot herself in a house
OF i'll fame in Butte, Montana. last
week.
George Meyers walked into a
pawn shop in Omaha snatched nine
watches from a tray in the window and
an. He was caught after a hard
chase.
A committee has been appointed
at Bloomfield to secure a bonus of
81, 900 to induce the Bowhead roller
mills to remove from Halestown to
Bloomfield.
1t is rumored that prominent Chi
cago parties have closed a deal with
some of the Superior stockmen to put
in a stock yards and packing house at
that place.
One year ago Central City, Neb..
was shipping potatoes to Seattle.
Wash. Last week a carload of pota-
toes from Washington was received at
Central City.
-Arbor day was appropriately OBJ
served by the Stanton high school, all
the rooms being decorated with flow
ers and notices. Trees were planted
by the pupils.
Francis w. Bell, proprietor of the
Square clothing house. Nebraska City,
made an assignment of his stock of
goods to the sheriff for the benefit of
his creditors.
Mrs. Reed fell through a 6efec-
tive sidewalk at Nebraska City and
received injuries that will make her a
a cripple for life. She asks for &c.
900 damages.
The elevator at Hay Springs loans
out wheat to farmers with the condi-
ton that in the fall they are to pay
back four bushels of wheat for one
bushel of seed.
Henry Vansant, a blacksmith of
Ainsley, is likely to lose the sight of
one of his eyes, which was struck by |
a cinder from a piece of iron which he
was hammering.
The total enrolment for this
school year at the state university was
$50 students, or se~venty-fve more than
lastyear. 1t is a very creditable show
ing for q year of drouth.
Henry johnson was working near
a cog wheel in a Cedar Rapids mill
when his clothing became caught, and
but for a desperate effort on his part
he would have been killed.
Mrs. Anna Stamm of Wayne has
been declared insane and has been sent
to Norfolk. Five years ago she was
an inmate OF the asylum at Lincoln,
but was discharged as cured.
"A five-year-old child of Mrs. Will
son fell into a well in Lincoln. and
would have been drowned had it not
been rescued by Mrs. F. E. johnson.
The well was twenty feet deep.
w. G. Murphy, while visiting a
brother in Lincoln, was chloroformed
by burglars who entered the house and
him of $50. He could not be
aroused from his slumber until noon
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