The McCook tribune., 1891-03-27
STATE NEWS.
IEBRAsKA MISCELLANEOUS MATIFRs

Some OF the farmers OF Otoe coun.
ty have suffered severely from hog
thieves.
Mr.. and Mrs. 5. w. Hayes of Nor
folk last week celebrated their golden
wedding.
1t is claimed that coal has been
discovered in paying quantities near
Palisade.
travelling men making Fremont
headquarters have organized club in
that city.
John II. Kellom. who was citizen
of Omaha in the sos, died in Cali
fornia last week.
Over six hundred cars of ice have
been shipped from Crete over the Mis-
souri, Pacific road.
Spontaneous combustion was the
cause of $500 fire at the residence of
DIR. O. Parran, in Beatrice.
Henry Glessman, a farmer of
Douglas county, committed suicide the
other day, by shooting himself through
uhe head.
The Southeast Nebraska Teach
ers' association will meet at Peru,
April 3 and 3. Important subjects will
be discussed.
The body of male child about
four days old, wrapped in an old pants
leg, was found on the prairie near
Davenport, Thayer county, Il few days
ago.
The knights of Labor held a mass
meeting at the court house in Hebron.
the object of which was to discuss and
advertise the principles of the organi-
Zation.
w. Fireman, B. & NJ. brakeman,
was knocked down while making d
coupling at David City, and had his
left leg pretty badly mashed by the
wheel OF car.
james Caldwell was shot through
the left arm while attempting to lift Il
shotgun out OF n wagon. The arm is
so badly shattered that it is feared it
will have to be amputated.
The Niobrara Pioneer says that a
'spliced team was we'll represented
on Niobrara's streets, consisting offa
mule pony, an OK and a SOW, driven
by white man and au Indian.
Henry Mast. German farmer
about fifty-five years of age, living two
miles west of Tobias, committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the head
with revolver while lying in bed.
Phillip Won Windheim, who died in
Omaha last week, left directions that
his body be cremated. Accordingly
the remains were taken TO the St.
Louis creamatory for that purpose.
Hon. John NJ. Thurston. declines
a reelection as president of the Re-
publican league of the United States.
He says his time is too much occupied
with business Of a private character
The Burlington & Missouri rail
way paid its taxes on the bridge at Ne
braska City under protest. The COM
pany claims that a portion of the last
span OF the bridge is not in Nebraska.
Rumor has it that the Ogalalla
power and irrigation company has sue
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their canal in that county and will eN
tend the same down the river to Pax
ton.
The citizens of Nebraska City met
in conjunction with the board of trade
and appointed a committee to work
with Mr.. Black OF Red Willow county.
in securing aid for the farmers in his
locality.
Hon. John W. Love OF Fremont,
recently appointed consul to San Sal
vador. expects to leave for his post of
duty on the 18th of April, going via
San Francisco, and the trip will take
him about two weeks.
The Bond hotel, Lincoln, said to
be worth $95. coo. was recently sold at
sheriff's sale for 81, to satisfy a judg-
ment of 5000. Isabel Bond pleads ig
norance of her rights and has filed a
petition asking that the sheriff S deed
be set aside.
At the council meeting in Nebraska
city the other night an ordinance was
read for the first time increasing the
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LIQUOR dealers must also pay an occu-
patton tax of $780, making 81, in
all. Heretofore the license fee has
been $500 and the occupation tax 5000.
The trial at Beatrice of the Eaton
brothers, Frank and Edward. for high
way robbery on the night of December
ID. resulted in the conviction OF the
boys. The victim was half witted
old fellow named G. Kemp, who was a
stranger in the city. The boys drew
knives on their victim and finally COM
PEELED him to deliver up all his wealth.
Mrs. H. a. Morrow. wife of Gem
eral Morrow, who died recently at
Fort Sidney, has presented twenty
nine books from her late husbands Ii
brary to the state library of Nebraska.
The volumes are very valuable and re-
late in the main to explorations and
surveys west Of the Mississippi river
The set also includes works on west
ern geology and ornithology.
The annual encampment of the
Southeastern Nebraska G. A. r. dis
trict met in Beatrice last week with
representatives present from counties
of the district comprising Gage. Paw
nee Richardson, johnson. jefferson