The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-11-23

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stock industry of South Omaha. The
commissioner feels that he can make
this report without question of invidi-
business, because there is but one point
in the state engaged in such enterprise.
The report will show that South Omaha.
now occupying third place in line of
stock prominence in the United States,
is fast climbing to second place.
COMPLETE arrangements are being
made in Lincoln for the reception and
entertainment of mayors, chiefs of po-
lice, city marshals and others who are
to convene Thursday December 6, by
call of Chief of Police Seavy of Omaha.
The meeting will be held in the coun-
Gil chamber, Lincoln. Special rates
lave been secured from railways. There
is said to be pending a great deal of i'm
portant business to transact to promote
the efficiency and welfare of the police
forces of the state.
The regular session of the Antelope
county term of court opened at Neigh
last week. Soon after his arrival Judge
Robinson received a telegram announc-
ing the hopeless sickness of his mother,
who lives in West Virginia, and ad-
journed court and left for that state.
Before his departure the case of Bar
rett Scott, the convicted defaulting
treasurer of Holt county, was brought
up and arguments for a new trial were
waived. Sentence of five years in the
state prison was then passed and notice
of appeal given.
A SUIT has been filed in the United
States court by Swift & Co. against the
Ashland Mill and Electric company.
The petition sets forth that Swift & Co.
have a large pond in Saunders county,
which they flood with water from Wa
hoo creek, which passes through the
property Upon which the pond is To-
Gated, the property being owned by
Swift. The Ashland company is plan
ming to drain the pond. As it is here
where Swift gets ice the court is asked
to issue an order restraining the Ash
land company from draining.
ELIAS STYLES of Dawson and John
and Joe Candy and George Shrenfiew
of Salem, who are suspected of having
tried to blow open the safe of the Daw-
son bank, and who burned the building
owned by the bank, are in Falls City,
in the county jail, Styles having con-
fessed to the crime and further declares
hat they were the same gang that
burned the Dawson mill about d year
ago. John Candy was arrested and
discharged last week on the charge of
burning the bank building, but was ar
rested again by Sheriff Ferguson.
The Northwestern passenger train
due at Hastings at $40 p. m. ran over
a young woman about a mile and a
half west of Harvard. Both legs were
horribly mangled and will have to be
amputated. The engineer noticed an
object alongside the track, but did not
know hat he had struck anything I'M
til he was oiling his engine at Inland,
when he discovered blood upon it. He
ran back and found the woman and
took her to Hastings. She revived and
gave the name of Mary Markko. How
she happened to be struck by the en-
CINE is not known.
The members of the local board Of
education of Plattsmouth are confront
ed with a serious problem. The city
schools are over crowded with pupils
and in many rooms in the lower grades
halliday sessions are held, part Of the
children attending in the forenoon and
the others in the afternoon. The en-
rollment this year is in excess of that
for all previous years to a considerable
number. School funds are rather low
and for the present the board will be
unable to construct any new buildings,
but next year the board hopes to pro-
vide the necessary rooms.
Gov. CRoUNsE has issued his thanks
giving proclamation, in which he says:
Owing to the extraordinary drouth
which has prevailed in some portions
within our borders during the year now
drawing to a close we cannot rejoice in
the bountiful crop with which we have
usually been blessed. / would, there
fore, especially urge upon those who
have an abundance to contribute gen
erously to the less fortunate, and by.
bounteous charity lift the clouds of
want and distress wherever found, thus
making glad every heart, SO hat the
day may be in truth, as well as in form,
a day of thanksgiving"
Mrs. c.. S. CAsCADDEN, superinten-
dent of the Home for Fallen Women at
Milford, has made her report, the third
biennial, to the governor through the
commissioner of lands and building.
The superintendent recommends that
there be made larger appropriations for
her institution, and that the pay of The
employees be put o n the same basis at
the other state institutions. The re-
port shows hal there were in, the in
stitution at the date of the report a
total of adults and children, eighty
six. The average weekly number dur
ing the biennial period has been sew
enty-six, and the cost per capita per
| week S.. 20.
A SAD accident occurred at the home
| of Councilman Jacob Thomas of Has
tings resulting in the death OF his wife
and five-year-old daughter, Edith. Mrs.
Thomas was engaged with her kitchen
duties, and the little girl was playing
in one part of the room, when the gas
oline stove exploded, for without a
moments warning the Dor was filed
with flames Mrs. Thomas made a rush
for the door and rave one loud scream.
Then thinking of her child, she re-
turned to the kitchen. Fighting her
way through fire and smoke she sue
ceeded in finding the little n and tried
hard to make her escape with the prize
which she had risked so much for, but
| she had inhaled the flames and smoke,
and when she reached the southeast
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