The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-09-28
OVER THE STATE.

financially as in 1898.
THERE are 1,270 children attending
the schools of Kearney.
THE fish commissioner will stock
som fine ponds this fall
THE Cedar county farmers have a
mutual insurance company.
BEATRICE schools reopened with a
surprisingly large attendance.
A NEW camp of the Modern Woodmen
has been organized at Emerson.
THE receipts of the Fillmore county
fair, lasting four days, were $500.
AT the recent term of court in Logan
county Ill civil cases were disposed OF
WAYNE county this year has Jared
remarkably well in the matter of crop
returns.
TYPHOID fever is prevalent in many
localities as a resul of the dry and hot
weather.
THE two express Offices in Fremont
have combined their business in one
building.
Gov. MCKINLEY will be in Lincoln
and Omaha Oct. 4th, making speeches
in both cities
CANDY has opened the religious
campaign in Nebraska with a series OF
revival meetings.
FARMER VEHRs, living near North
Bend, will have a corn yield of fifty
bushels to the acre.
FIRE destroyed Peavy's elevator at
Oakland. The confiagration is believed
to be of incendiary origin.
ALBERT BAY, of Dodge county, made
an assault on Miss Ida Fake and will
have to answer to the district court.
FRED RENsALEY of Albright is under
bonds to appear in court and show
cause for threatening the life of j. w.
Alden.
DURING the late camp meeting at
Taylor a gang of hoodlums threw eggs
at the preacher. The guilty parties
were no apprehended.
RANDOLPH, like many Nebraska
towns, is crowded for school room.
The rising generation is coming rapidly
forward in this state.
Mrs. VICTORIA MUNsoN of York has
been declared insane, though her men
tai ALTERATION is SO mild she may not
be taken to the ASYLUM.
A CoLFAX county farmer reports two
and a half tons of hay from about ff-
Uccu dCItS Lie CIOp ID very SiOI I
throughout the county.
JOHN HoUGHNoN, farmer living near
Cambridge, was killed by lightning
while driving his cattle home in the
evening. He was a native of Ger
many.
THE payment of the premiums
awarded at the state fair will be made
from the Office of the secretary in
Brownville, and all the premiums are
to be paid in cash.
THE ladies of the First and Second
wards of West Point are making two
American flags, each being eighteen
feet in length, to be donated to the
Cunning county fair association.
AN appeal for help has been issued
by some of the residents of Custer
county in the ne%ighborhood of Merna,
as they say they cannot pull through
the winter without aid from the out
side.
JOHN WEsTPHALEN advertises in the
Hooper Sentinel that his wife, Lena,
has left his bed and board without
just provocation'' and that he will not
be responsible for any debts she may
incur.
NEAL NYE of Wayne county is suffer
ing from severe injuries caused by be-
ing buried under a mass of lumber that
fell from a wagon he was driving when
the wagon upset by the falling of a
bridge.
While a Mr.. Gray of Thomas county
was handing a gun from the top of a
load of hay to a person on h ground
it was discharged, the load taking eff
feet in his hand and breast. 1t is fear
ed he cannot live.
SHORTY" %SCHoNNoL, an employe of
the Nebraska City packing house, was
seriously stabbed by an unknown man
from Iowa. The police have a good
description of the assailant, and will
probably capture him.
Mrs. EDITH HENDERSON of Liberty
has begun suit in the district court
against the c., B. 81 Q. railroad for So
900. The plaintiff was injured by a
Burlington train while crossing the
road nea Liberty the Goth of April
last.
HoN. ANTON ZIMNERER of Nebraska
City recently celebrated his sixty-sec-
ond birthday anniversary. Mr.. Zim-
merer is an old resident of Otoe coun-
ty, was a member of the first legisla-
ture, and received many congratula-
tions from his friends.
The Bohemian-Polish settlement
about ten miles northwest of Ord is
having considerable excitement over
the sudden flight of Stanislaus Waz-
MAX, who was postmaster, township
and school district treasurer, besides
holding various other offices.
THE eldest daughter of C. Van Bus
kirk. of Hazard, while in 4 bad state of
mental alteration, left her fathers
house bareheaded and barefooted. A
diligent search ali night failed to find
her and it is feared she has drowned
herself. She is about 20 years old.
The 2-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. w. Weed, of Fremont, while near
the gasoline steve its clothes caught
fire. The child ran out doors followed
by it's mother. She tore the burning
clothes from the boy, but not before
his arms, face and head were badly
burned. Fatal results are not looked
for.
MRS. MARY KELLEY of Greeley died
IF arvcine1as after a vary hrinf illuaSS