The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-09-21
OVER THE STATE.

exceeds any former year.
THE Johnson county fair has been
declared off for this year.
LIGHTNING struck and burned the
BAR of John Hussac, near Verdon.
THE dwelling house Of Sherman Cor
nett, of st. Paul, was destroyed by fire.
A HEAVY wind storm did considera-
bic damage in the vicinity of Eldorado.
DODGE county spent $106, 600 last
year in support of her common schools.
BURGLARS got into the house of VIM.
Peters, Fremont, stealing cash and
goods.
CHARLES HURLBUT, one of johnson
county's wealthiest farmers has been
~adjudged insane.
OLD settlers of Dodge county had
their annual picnic last week, there
being about 500 in attendance.
FIRE totally destroyed the barn and
sheds on Pat McCabe's farm, about five
miles southwest of Newcastle.
THE Jail at Blair is now provided
with steel cells, and it is expected there
will be fewer escapes therefrom.
J. NJ. c. JONES of Gage county did
some irrigating on a small scale and
had a wonderful growth of vegetables.
PROF. G. w. SAMPSON, OF Tecumseh
has gone to Arapahoe, where he will
superintend the schools for the coming
year.
THERE are 1,422 more pupils in the
Omaha public schools at the beginning
of this school year than there were last
year.
Turn dor, o1r,4ta a0nmyacciooo nv,
vention of the First district will be
held in Tecumseh Thursday Septem-
Der 20.
IT is reported that there is 4 man
living near Rising who is offering 81
per head for old horses, which he kills
and feeds to his hogs.
THE directors of the Cass county fair
have called off the horse versus bicycle
races and will substitute straight wheel
races in their stead.
THIS has been a discouraging year
for rain makers. Now, after they have
stopped operations, moisture is coming
in ali sections of the state.
THE Fremont Tribune suggests that
a healthful and useful exercise in Ne
brasl1a at this time is to rise about 6 a.
H., get a hoe and swipe Russian this
ties.
WALTER HAND is under bonds to
answer before the district court of
Dodge county for running away with a
team of mules. He was arrested in
Crawford.
THOUGH this has been a severe year
on creameries the Fremont institution,
by good management, has made some
money. 1t has a capacity of 5000
pounds per day.
The Catholics of Dawes, Sioux, Box
Butte and Sheridan counties will hold
a union picnic on the Crawford fair
grounds September 20. There will be
some politics in the gathering.
A PRAIRIE schooner which passed
through Fremont bore this laconic in
scription on n side of its canvas top:
"Seven Years in Colorado; Going Back
to Live with My Wife's Folks"
HENRY EAGLES, an old soldier, died
at the soldiers home at Grand Island
at the advanced age of 70 years. He
was a member of a Michigan company
and had a record as a brave soldier.
WILLIAM BLoUvETT, the young man
arrested for the assassination of Frank
Breithaupt, at Oxford, in July, had a
preliminary hearing at Beaver City and
was placed under heavy bonds to APP
pear at the district court.
A DEsPoNDENT hog belonging to D.
E. johnson of Verdigre committed sui
eide by hanging itself in it's per. 1t
made no parting squeal, but it is sup
posed that the shortage in the corr
crop was the underlying cause of the
rash act.
A QUARANTINE proclamation from
Governor Waite, of Colorado, was re-
ceived at the state house last week. 1t
forbids the importation of sheep into
that state from the territory of Okla
homa, afflicted with the disease known
as "scab."
C. j. LANE, general freight agent of
the Union Pacific, Nebraska division,
returned last week from a months trip
through Utah, Idaho, Washington and
Oregon. He says that the Union Pa
cifc is on the boom there and that
crops are the best ever seen.
A REQUIsITIoN for the arrest and re-
turf of Charles Garrison, charged with
the crime of grand larceny, by the Col
orado authorities, was honored by the
governor. He is under arrest at Brady
Island, Lincoln county. He is accused
of having stolen a horse and sulky.
THE question of Columbus voting
bonds in the sum of SIC, 600 to aid in
the construction OF an irrigation canal
has been ordered submitted to a vote OF
the people by the board of supervisors,
n the election will be held at the
town hall in the city Of Columbus on
October s.
When the wife of a laboring man or
farmer buys Nebraska goods she in
creases the demand for labor, makes it
easier to obtain profitable employment,
and makes a better market for the pro-
ducts of the farm. Nebraska made
goods are the best in the market: Far
rell & Cos brand of syrups, jellies, pre-
serves and mince meat; Morse-Coe
boots and shoes for men. women and
children; American Biscuit Il Manufac-
turing Co., Omaha. crackers.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has made a
change in U. S. deposits at Omaha by
which the Omaha National, which has
long been a depository for government
funds, has been eliminated from the
list. Secretary Carlisle says the mat