The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-02-06
STATE NEWS
NEBRASKA MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

Jane Charlton, one OF Cass coun-
tvs Oldest citizens. died last week.
Ninety conversions have resulted
from the revival services at Sterling.
A militia company of fifty men,
bers has been organized at Venango.
Out of S,113 arrests made in
Omaha 5,013 were dismissed by the
court.
"A great deal of sickness prevails
in the vicinity of Thedford, and a ply
stefan is badly needed.
The cash clothing store, P. Z. W.
Spargur, Chadron, has failed for SOL
600; assets said to be SIS, 600.
The Citizens State bank of Peru
begins business February /. Lieuten-
ant Governor Majors is one of the di-
rectors.
The Central City bank has filed
articles of incorporation with the secre-
tary of state. The capital stock is
$40, 900.
Fire destroyed the Union Pacific
coal chute at Valley. All the cars ex-
cept n were run out and saved. The
loss is not ver s., 600.
L. r. Hosford, four miles west of
Aurora, lost a good horse by a stray
gun shot last week. He has been I'M
able to find who fired the shot.
Mrs. Chris Peterson of Wymore
died very suddenly early the other
morning, having gone to bed appar-
emily in good health the night before.
"A petition is being circulated
amongst the attorneys of Box Butte
county. asking the appointment of an
other judge in the Twelfth judicial dis
trict.
A bit of a school war has broken
out in Ponca. The question in con-
~troversy is whether the course OF study
laid down by the school board is obi
gatory on pupils.
M. S. Hubbell of Lincoln, has
commenced suit against E. Z. Huff for
$40. 600 damages, o the ground that
Huff has alienated the affections of
Hubbell's wife.
"A lively row has been raised in
Cedar precinct, Boone county, over Il
bunch of cattle belonging to Michael
Lamb. which are reported to be affected
with Texas fever.
The revised count of the county
of Wayne, as given by superintendent
of Census Porter, gives the county a
population Of g., III, instead of G, 124,
as previously reported.
A lively row has been raised in
Cedar precinct, Boone county. over a
bunch of cattle belonging to Michael
Lamb. which are reported to be af-
fected with Texas fever.
George Osborne. a small boy,
while engaged with playmates rolling
an old wagon down a hill at Osceola.
fell from the vehicle and received
probably fatal injuries about the head.
First Lieutenant Bamford of the
Omaha guards has become so fascin-
ated with military life that he has de-
cided to Immediately join the regular
army and take the necessary eXamina-
ton for promotion.
The new $40, 900 school house
erected at Sterling last fall was finished
I'D and seated last week and is now be-
ing occupied. 1t is one of the finest
and most commodious school buildings
in southeast Nebraska.
The Wood River Farmers Alliance
Business association has filed articles
OF incorporation with the secretary of
state. The capital stock is $40, 900.
Robert Gillespie and eight other farm
a,.c ora tho recommendation
As the special train passed through
Crawford with the Seventeenth infan-
try, on their way to Fl. Russell, d
soldier by the name Of Schasuerhom
of G company fell from the train, was
u over ana instantly killed.
DR.. Ewh, company surgeon for
the NJ. 2. railroad at Talmage, was
called to Avoca the other day to at
tend Frank Kipser, a brakeman who
fell off a bridge, sustaining serious in
juries Of the spine and shoulders.
While his parents were absent at
church last Sundey, says a Stuart dis
patch, a son OF Nelson Erickson, living
on the reservation, aged fourteen,
while fooling with a revolver acct
6entally killed his four-year-old broth
er.
The protracted meetings at the
Presbyterian church at Brownville.
under the auspices of the Seventh Day
Adventists, are meeting with great
success, and the instigators justly feel
pleased over the fiattering prospects
for the future.
Mrs. Ferdinand Beiket, of Paxton.
a German woman about thirty-five
years of age. gave birth to triplets, two
girls and one boy. The little ones
weigh seven, six and a quarter and five
and a half pounds respectively, and
are doing nicely.
The roll OF pupils OF Bellevue col
lege was increased two last week by
the arrival of Leo Woe and Jua Chez,
Two Cinnamon from Omaha. They
are under the supervision of the junior
class. Leo can read and write, but
,Jua is in his a b c1s.
The daily average number OF in
mates of the insane hospital at Lincoln
the past year was 544; the percentage
NJ r~ecoyeries to the whole number