The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-06-05
STATE NEWS.
NEBRASKA MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

1t has been decided to put in a
system of waterworks al Friend.
Gov. Thayer will deliver an ad-
dress in Kearney On decoration day.
George A. Murphy has been re-
appointed city attorney of Beatrice.
The Hitchcock county fair will be
held on Sept. -, %, "a and %, 1891.
Quite a damaging prairie fire re-
Gently visited portions of Wheeler
county.
-Four botanists from the state uni
versity are in Sioux county searching
for specimens.
A young farmer in Five Points
precinct. Sioux county, beat his horse
to death with a club.
FAIRFIELD business men have de-
cided on having a Fourth of July cele-
bration at that place.
W. f. Neal, a wealthy resident of
Falls City, died last week of heart dis
ease at the age of 65 years.
"A Lincoln boomer thinks there are
500 cottages in our of construction
in that city at the present time.
At the recent session OF the Ne
braska business men all the officers
were reelected for another term.
The state has furnished sufficient
sugar beet seed to plant ten quarter
lots to farmers in the vicinity of Nor
folk.
b. Whitmer, a farmer living near
Tilden, cut from his field May 8 a
stock of alfalfa which measured is
inches in length.
Several Furnas county farmers
will compete in the quarter acre sugar
beet contest for which the state fair
offers a premium.
Work has been commenced on the
scaffold in the Dodge county Jail on
which Shepherd and Furst will be
executed the 9TH of June.
Judge Kinkaid decided in a Sioux
county case that the improvements on
a homestead should not be assessed for
the purposes of taxation.
"A. j. Brown of Crookston pre-
sented the editor of the Valentine Re-
publican with a petrifaction supposed
TO be that of a very large snake.
"A team which Mrs. j. NJ. Stone
was driving at Newhaka ran away and
threw her out of the buggy against a
wire fence, inficting sever injuries.
Tho body of an unknown young
man about twenty-five years old, was
fo,,oS A1oti,r IN fha MicSnrni riyor ON
the Nebraska side lear Harrington.
Sidney Dillon says it has been de-
cided 10 increase the Union Pacific
shop force. The works at Grand Is
land and Lincoln are to be enlarged.
The little daughter OF j. G. Shook
of Ashford was seriously injured by
being struck on the head by a board
which was blown from the roof of a
building.
The Nebraska state bank of Mil
ford filed articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state. Capital stock
authorized, $75, 600, the sum OF $40
600 paid up.
"A new town has been laid out in
Boyd county and it will be called Spen-
GER. The first building will be used
as a printing Office and will be run by
j. G. Santee.
Joseph H Steer, treasurer of the
Santee normal training school at San
tee agency, has been transferred o the
Tangaloo university of Mississippi, and
will leave in June.
The Granger cattle company of
Thurston county have leased 8, 900
acres of land for pasturage purposes
and have a force of men at work en-
closing it with a fence.
-Lincoln's new mayor has issued
orders against the playing of bands on
Sundays, and prohibiting the driving
of horses in the city at a faster gait
than four miles an hour.
The case of Ellen Timothy against
Michael Spelling of Columbus, for
s., 900 for defamation Of character, re-
suited in a verdict declaring the de-
iendant entitled to s75 damages.
-Mesdames Balding, Moore and
Griswold Of Fremont had religious
services in the Jail at Fremont for the
benefit Of the two condemned murder
ers who are to be hanged June 3.
The fifth annual statement of the
Columbus building and loan associa-
ton shows that the loans made in Sc
ries a amount to $50, 600 and the net
profits for five years to SIS, SS7. 20.
The Kearney Journal-Enterprise
is responsible for the statement that
Moses Croll and William Bannis OF
that place while out hunting Sunday
killed seventy-fve white blackbirds.
The barn, together with five sets
of harness, reaper. mower and other
farm machinery belonging to A. c.
Mohr, living neal Hainesville, Holt
county, was entirely destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Mile G. Reel has sued Ne
braska City for $40, 900. On the l4th
of March she fell on a defective side |
walk and sustained injuries which she
alleges will permanently cripple her. J
The district fair association of
Clay county have leased sixty-fve acres
of land-nice ground-and will COM
mence work Immediately on a mile
track and building for a fair this year.
A tramp entered the dooryard of
Gideon, of Doniphan. and de-
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