The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
OVER THE STATE.

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hold their convention in August
THE Dixon county republican con
vention will be held August ED.
Our near Randolph a farmer got six
ty-one bushels of barley per acre.
LINCOLN county will produce more
than one thousand carloads of pota-
| toes.
THE Dixon State bank will establish
a branch at Laurel, with E. A Quincy
in charge.
DAVE FOWLER of Dodge county has
already cut, baled and shipped 16O
acres of hay.
A DAUGHTER of John Goodman at
Ohiowa was struck by lightning and
instantly killed.
WIN. WILcoxEN, living lea Elm
wood, was seriously injured by a horse
falling IN him.
A WOMAN pensioner at Wilsonville re-
ceived back pension to the amount of
81, 1872 last week.
The Nebraska City school census
gives that city 3,40S school children, a
gain Of twenty-seven since last year.
THE farmers are harvesting one OF
the largest crops of small grain that
has ever been grown in Nance county.
ORIN P. CLARK Of Lancaster county
was drowned in Salt creek a few days
ago. He fell out of boat while fish
ing.
COUNTY TREASURER FRANTZ of Gage
county reports that there is due the
county on delinquent personal taxes,
SOL, 600.
On the Stewart petition for dividing
ed of parties who have been dead very
many years..
3THE home and barn of Thomas Biggs
of York was fred by in%cendiaries. The
barn burned, including two horses, one
double carriage and a phaeton.
Miss EMMA SUTTON, a young lady liv-
ing in the family of Fred Clark of AL
bion, received notice a short time ago
that she was heir to $50, 600 in Ohio.
THE Central labor union of Omaha
has decided to put up a labor ticket
this fall. There will be no labor day
demonstration on account of the hard
times.
OXFORD is now connected with Bea-
yer City by telephone, the line having
been completed last week. The circuit
takes in Edison and covers a distance
of twenty miles
CHARLES ANDERSON of Papillion
offers a reward of S10O for the convic-
ton of an unknown scoundrel who en-
tered his pasture and stabbed a valu-
liable horse to death.
The dates for the fourth annual Cedar
county fair are September 10, IL and IL.
The magnificent harvest insures a good
agricultural display, and the race pro-
gram will be unusually good.
FRANK BROWN, Ralph Woodruff and
Charles E. Matthews are under arrest
in York, charged with criminal init
macy with Alice Swanson. The girl
was mentally weak and only 16 years
old.
E. LAKKIN has a large cattle farm
his absence in the east some persons
have stolen several of his cattle and
butchered them. The thieves are not
yet captured.
JOHN WALGMUTH dropped dead in an
Omaha saloon. The deceased was 4
miner of considerable property and
lived at Spokane, Wash. He had been
east for some weeks visiting at his old
home in Springfield, Ill.
PROF. r. A. HERATAGE who has had
charge of the musical department of
the Fremont Normal school the last
year has rendered his resignation to
President Clemmons. He goes to Salem,
Ore.
The Genoa State bank paid a first
dividend to depositors a few days ago
of 10 per cent. 1t is the general opin-
ion that about 20 per cent more will
about exhaust the available
of that institution, SO far as general
depositors are concerned.
THE Sherman county fair will be
held on October l, 2 and 3. The asso-
citation was late in deciding on holding
their fair, but o they are going to
Join with the Sherman County 1rriga-
ton company, who will hold their
formal opening of the canal October l.
LIBNI GARRIs of Fremont took his
wife and baby son out in the country.
He also took his shotgun and quite an
accident befell the party. Garris got
out of the wagon to shoot a snipe and
cooked both barrels of the gun. He
fired at the bird with n barrel and in
meandering around in the weeds the
other barrel was discharged and the
charge hit his wife and child. Both
were painfully hurt.
SUPERINTENDENT MACKAY of the
Norfolk asylum for the insane has
written Governor Holcomb that he has
on hand a lot of clothing which, as he
it in his letter. ''has been eX-
posed to mice, moths and the %corroding
Influences of time which he desires to
donate to the state relief commission
for distribution. He says the clothing
is useless for hospital purposes. but
thinks it might be found available for
charity.
FRED WILLIS, a negro of Camden, S.
D., and Robert Harris of Mexico broke
into a merchandise car in the Union
Pacific yards at Columbus. where they
were caught by j. c. Wizard, a Union
detective. They were tried
and sentenced by District Judge Sulli-
van to one year in the penitentiary at
hard labor.
THE house of G. G. Halter, three
miles east of Winside, burned down
when no one was present. The loss
will be 81, 600. Small insurance.
ARTHUR FORBES, of Beatrice. in the