The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-07-06
OVER THE STATE.

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for the Fourth Of July.
POTATO bugs are more troublesome
than usual in Clay county.
THERE are $50 names on the pay roll
OF the Kearney canal company.
In the school election at Sidney the
A. F. A. ticket was defeated.
OMAHA is laying off some of its fire.
men to reduce municipal expense.
TEcUMsEH now has a daily paper,
published by Miss May Ell. Bennett
LARGE crowds are attending the Be-
atrice Chautauqua and it IS a pro-
nounced success.
society adopted resolutions strongly de-
nouncing base ball on Sunday.
THE state sherif's association meet
ing at Hastings has been again post
poned. The date has been set now for
July IL.
l.. G.. RENO has made a proposition to
the city of Norfolk that for a bonus of
SIS, 600 he will build an opera house ad-
junct to his hotel there.
LIGHTNING struck the barn of Levi
Stebbins, in Pawnee county, tearing a
hole in the roof, but the heavyrain pre-
vented it from catching fire.
Under the annual readjustment of
presidential postofices to take effect
July l the South Omaha Office is re-
duced from the firstto the second class
The rain has done great things for
wheat and other grains. In many in
stances there will be good crops where
at lone time entire failure was predicted.
A MAN named Simpson, residing be-
tween Falls City and Rulo, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed. His
head was completely severed from the
body.
The Order of Railway Conductors and
Order of Railway Trainmen o f-south-
east Nebraska will hold their annual
picnic in Dillon's grove, Tecumseh,
July IS.
THE body of a newly born male child
was discovered in a well in Omaha last
week and the circumstances surround
ing it's death give every indication of
murder.
THE 6-year-old son of George Mccoy
OF Omaha was run over and killed by
the cars. The little fellow was leading
q COW across the track when the acci.
dent occurred.
The people of Omaha are reviving
h Platte river canal scheme again.
This n contemplates the voting by
the county of a ST., OOO, 900 bonus, and. is
Q big scheme-on paper.
A.. j. MICHAEL, a young man about
twenty-five years of age, vas arrested
at Burchard for an attempted rape on a
little glrl 10 years old. He was bound
over to the district cOurt.
A CHILD of Hr. and Mrs. Alexander,
OF Grand Island, swallowed three but
ton n the family physician had two
hours work in relieving the child of
the intense pain it suffered.
E. G.. MCINTYRE. father of Hon. Ed
mund Mcintyre of Seward, died at the
home of his son in hat city, in his SOth
year.. His remains were taken to his
old home, Stafford, VT, for burial, ae-
companied by his son.
PROF. DooLEY has finished taking the
school census of Hooper and found 333
children of school age within the dis
trict. While taking the school census
he also took the census of the town and
found the population to be 969.
A PURSE of $40 was made up at Te-
eumseh for the purpose of seeing some
Az olN1lHS I1ICiS. ATtuuT OF U0S anu
Robert Cochran jumped 'front.' the bridge
into the Nemaha river, a distance of
dfty-two feet, for the amount.
l. A. Fort, president of the state ir-
Figation association, addressed the peo-
pie of Elm Creek a few days ago on
the subject of irrigation, after which a
local Irrigation association was formed
with a capital stock of $4,000.
OLA BowLUs, the little daughter of
Banker Bowlus of Scribner, fell from
h second story window of her fathers
new house a few days ago and suffered
Q badly sprained ankle. It was a for
tunate escape, even with that.
JAMES MCCLAIN of Albany, N. Y, a
shoe laster by trade, was caught by a
freight train in the yards at Gretna
while trying to steal a ride, and had
his foot mashed. The village authori-
ties provided medical aid and quarters
for the injured man.
A HAIL and wind storm passed over
Hooper, unroofng outbuildings and
houses, topping chimneys, etc. Mr..
Jacobs large barn was blown over;
the lumber yards Were scattered all
over town, limbs were blown off of trees
a much other damage done.
A CHICAGO dispatch states that Her
man Bean, a former Omaha bartender
for Jack Woods, was fatally stabbed in
. State street saloon by an unknown
drunken man in a drunken row over
the quality of a certain brand of liquor.
Bean was well known in Omaha as a
quiet, ~peaceable man and had a host.of
friends.
If Nebraskans would adoptthe motto
"Patronize Home Industry" there
would be plenty of work for idle men,
and a good home market for raw ma
terials. A large number OF dealers
have already adopted it. When you
buy enquire for the following brands
OF Nebraska made goods: Farrell
& Co.'S brand of syrups, iellies.
preserves and mince meat; Morse-Coe
boots and shoes for men, women and
children; American Biscuit & Manu-
featuring CO, Omaha.
The franchise and entire plant, con-
sisting of houses, reservoir and nine
miles of mains of the Hastinps Gas