The McCook tribune., 1891-04-24
STATE NEWS.
NEBRASKA MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

The band recently organized of
Hastings has collapsed.
"A camp of Modern Woodmen has
been instituted at Pender.
"A camp of the Sons of Veterans
has been mustered in at Reynolds.
JEFF Long OF Gretna had his ankle
dislocated by horse stepping On it.
Tho sheriff of Adams county now
has six criminals in Jail at Hastings.
A violent wind storm visited
Beatrice, doing considerable damage.
Louis Heimrod of Omaha has en-
tered upon his dutiGs as state oil in
spector.
-Pender has quite building boom.
seven houses being in course of con-
struction.
Two well developed cases OF CLAN
eers have recently been discovered in
Lincoln.
-O'Neill is figuring on having a
$3.50, 600 beet sugar factory sometime
in the near future.
There is mad Dog scare in Union
township, Dundy county, and the
CANNES are being eXterminated.
The total valuation OF property
IN the city of Hastings according to
the recent assessment is SOL. 166, 962.
"A young son of Samuel Miller of
Shelby has disappeared. 1t is alleged
that his father and he could not agree.
MIR. and Mrs. Sampler of Fremont
were poisoned by eating chocolate
candy and were very sick for u short
time.
Louis Heimrod, the newly ap-
pointed state inspector of oils, has filed
with the secretary of state his bond in
the sum of $40, ,0O0.
"A ten-year-old boy named Joseph
was killed in suburb Of Omaha the
other day by a portable hog pen top
pling over on him.
Isaac Howard. eighty-three years
old, died at his home in Gage county
last week. He had resided in the coun-
ty twenty-three years.
Frank Davis, Il pickpocket, took
$500 from a man at Lincoln the other
day, but was captured before he got
sway with the Doodle.
The twelfth semi-annual session
Of South Platte conference of the Evan
gelical Lutheran church was held at
Yutan with eleven ministers in attend
ance.
Prior to the closing of the court in
Beatrice Frank and Ed Eaton, broth
ers, were sentenced to three years
each in the pe.iitentiary for highway
robbery.
Henry Vansant blacksmith of
Ansley, is likely to lose the sight of
one of his eyes which was struck by q
cinder from piece of iron which he
was hammering.
w. NJ. Clinton OF Lincoln, who
had both legs taken off in an accident
at Ravenna last summer has gone to
New York, where he will procure
pair of artificial limbs.
Editor Hart of the Dakota City
Eagle, was assaulted the other day by
ex-Judge Wilbur ana quite severely
bruised. Wilbur took exceptions to
an article in the Eagle.
Mayor Ireland has filed his affida-
Wit with Gov. Boyd announcing the
population of Nebraska City to be more
than ten thousand, which makes the
city one of the first class.
A Norfolk boy with a cigarette
set fire to the dry grass on u play
ground in town and for time there
was lively scramble to extinguish
the flames which ran like wild fire.
The Nebraska Security company
of Harrison, Sioux county, filed arti-
cles of incorporation with the sere-
tary of state. 1t is a real estate co1-
Germ. The capital stock is $50, 600.
M. C. Sweener of Omaha was
fined $25 and costs for striking u
woman. The judge said that no mat
ter what the provocation was, man
was brute who would strike woman.
In Omaha slack rope walker fell
thirty feet lighting on his back on the
stone paved street. No bones We're
broken, but it is believed he received
internal injuries that will result in his
death.
A large picking and preserving
company OF Chicago is negotiating to
locate factory in Hastings. They
propose planting 400 acres in pickles.
besides a limited acreage of corn and
tomatoes.
A barn near Steele City, owned by
c. y. Pickering, was struck by light
ming and the building and contents
entirely consumed. The loss is nearly
81, 600, about half of which is covered
by insurance.
At a meeting of the Friend fair
association it was decided to hold a.
three days trotting, pacing and run
ming meeting on August 26. % and 90,
and to offer more liberal purses than
heretofore.
A wedding which was to have oc-
curred at Ainsworth the other day has
been indefinitely postponed because
Billy Branigan's intended bride gave
him the slip and failed to appear at the
critical moment
During a storm at Friend the barn
of Mrs. Margaret Langley of Monroe
precinct was blown down, her resi-