The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-06-22

par biSS lisInS III NllcdSO, anu WAS III
sured for $7oo, enough to fully cover
all loss.
Five boys at Rising the other day
made a cannon OF a gas pipe, and, after
four successful shoots, on the fifth ven
ture with the machine" it exploded,
and four Of the boys tasted powder, one
being so disabled that he will remain
in bed a while.
No tuition will be charged at the
Wesleyan university, Lincoln, hereaf-
ter. At the commencement DR.. Max
field announced on behalf of the trus-
tees that instruction would hereafter
be free. Degrees were conferred upon
eight graduates.
Paul Lyon of Nebraska City, charged
with embezzling goods belonging to
his employer. Capt. s. H. Morrison,
the jeweler, was arraigned before
Judge Chapman. He pleaded guilty
and vas sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary.
Florin Geiger, a welEto-do German
farmer living six miles southeast of
Utica, was instantly killed, while re-
turning home with a load of lumber,
by his team running away and throw
ing him under the wheels of the wagon,
which crushed in his breast.
The prohibitionists of Madison u
ty will meet in mass convention at
Norfolk Saturday, June 80, at l p. m,
for the purpose of selecting delegates
to the state congressional and senator
ial conventions, and to place in nomi-
nation candidates for county offices.
A Crawford belle, Miss Mamie Grimes,
through her presence of mind, pre-
vented a serious fire one day last week.
Children had overturned a lamp and
rushed out crying fire" when Miss
Grimes ran into the house and with a
bucket of water ,extinguished the
flames.
There is a yearling colt at Seward,
owned by D. B. Palmer, that is a world
wonder. He has shown a PIG pacing
gait for one-eighth of a mile. The
Seward driving park club has made ar
engagements with Nh. Palmer to exhibit
the speed of his colt at the meeting
July 4.
Mr.. c. W. Wilson, who has a system
OF irrigation in operation upon some
forty acres of his farm neal Ayr, pro-
nounces his proposition a success, and
is jubilant over the prospects opened up
for him by artificial means of supply
ing the necessary moisture to the crops
upon his land.
Seward has concluded to celebrate
the Fourth of July as becomes a great
people. The principal feature of the
day will be a race meeting given by
the Seward driving club, and though
the purses offered are not large they
are sufficient to insure good races and
a day of fine sport.
Governor Crounse has issued a re-
QUESTION on the Iowa authorities for
one Ashley w. Thrasher, who is now
in Jail at Creston and is wanted in Cass
county to answer the charge of grand
larceny. James E. Eikenburv is au-
thorized as agent OF the state to con-
duct the fugitive to this side of the
river.
A Boston dispatch says the statement
of the Union Pacific railroad for April,
entire system, shows: Gross earnings,
So, 395. SIS. sc; decrease, S75s, 24a. 95. Ex-
penses, minus taxes, 81, 966, $50. As; de-
crease, $36S, Salt. Surplus, S42S,-
554. Al; decrease, $3.50, 40S. 81. The same
four months to April 80: Gross earn
ings, So, 246, 1861; decrease, $33, 49,
631. Go.
The 1O-year-old son of Frank Gail,
living about twelve miles east of PEN
der, left home and has not been heard
of since, notwithstanding the fact that
the entire neighborhood for miles
around has been thoroughly searched
for the runaway. Gail was about to
chastise the boy, and he ran out of the
gate. saying as he went: Goodbye,
mother. You will never see me again"
The Madison Reporter says: Seven
families of Russians live in tents on
Union creek and cultivate beets. They
gather brush for fuel and drink from
the creek or draw water from a tenn
porary well a few feet from the creek.
They got S14 per acre for attending
beets, and it takes the labor of one man
from the middle of May to the middle
of November to attend five acres.
At Beatrice Antoine Weily, a chronic
drunk, made an attempt TO commit sui
eide in an clubhouse in the rear of a sa-
loon. He was rescued in an uncon-
scious condition and was resuscitated.
Next morning he obtained a pistol and
went into a meat shop and declared his
determination to blow his brains out.
The pistol was taken away from him
and he was locked up in jail to sober up.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Fleek, at Brainard, was severely
scalded with boiling water. Mrs.
Fleelz placed a dishpan full of hot
water on the table, near which her 10
m~onths-old child sat in a high chair.
and as she turned to get some cold
water the baby caught hold of the pan
and pulled it into her lap. The child's
hands and parts of its body were burned
to a crisp.
W. H. Williams, a Schuyler police
man, recently received the official no.
tice from headquarters at Washington
that a medal is now being engraved
suitably and will be forwarded soon.
The award is to William H. Williams,
private, company c, Eighty-second