The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03

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McConnell's Sarsaparilla.
Ice cream soda-5 cents-at McCon-
nell's.
Conductor W. G. Reddin resumed his
run, Wednesday night.
Yesterday, Conductor and Mrs. Bron-
SON occupied the Troxel dwelling.
! Mrs. w. w. Archibald has been visit
ing in St. Louis. whittier she went last
week.
Roadniaster Josselyn reports the crop
prospects along the Orleans branch as
being very good.
Conductor c. w. Bronson is enjoying
a fifteen days vacation, ON account of a
burnt off journal.
No. Is, Wednesday, being too late to
hold No. 3 at Oxford, was run on through
to Denver as a special.
Now is the proper time so begin taking
a spring medicine. McConnell's Sarsa-
parilla is the best thing to use.
Roadmaster Mcfarland was up from
Red Cloud, Friday and Saturday, on
official business at headquarters.
Assistant Supt. Highland was down
from Denver, last Friday, on western
division business at headquarters.
J. Burnett accompanied J.. Klein to
Denver, first of the week, where the lat
ter goes into a hospital for treatment.
The fiat about Perry siding was COW
cred with water by Wednesday evenings
rain, and the Blackwood creek was out
of its banks.
Engineer Frank Westland has been
entertaining his sister and niece for the
past week. They return to their home
in Lincoln tonight.
Monday evenings hail broke some
company glass at Edison, which was
made good on the following day from
the McCook store house.
The chime whistle has been adopted
as standard for passenger locomotives
on the Pennsylvania railroad. Many of
the engines are already equipped with
these whistles.
Charlie Banding arrived home, Tues
day night, on No. 3, with his bride.
The wedding was celebrated by 'the
boys" Wednesday evening, with con-
siderable enthusiasm.
Engineer Frank Reid of Wymore was
in the city, briefly, Wednesday night.
He brought up No. IS special from Ok
ford, and returned to that point empty
after a short stop here.
Sam Dulaney and the "Denver I'm
known" had a surrounds set-to in the
Railroad Mems club room, last Saturday
night, in which the Unknown came out
second best by a neat majority.
Conductor and Mrs. W. D. Beyrer ar
rived home, last Saturday morning, from
their wedding trip to Utah. They will
be at home to their McCook friends in
the Bump residence on Manchester street
after May Sth.
When passenger train No. a passed
Perry siding, "Wednesday evening, that
neighborhood looked like a lake, so
heavy had been the rainfall in that sec
ton. The Blackwood creek was so high
that the mouth of the stream could not
be determined.
The New York Central standard box
car is of 10000 pounds capacity. Three
thousand of these new cars are contracted
for. They are to weigh approximately
10000 pounds each. The general dimen-
sions are slightly greater than the aver
age new box cars. The inside dimen-
sions are "a feet, ~ inches by s feet,
81 inches, and the clear height is 7 feet.
~ inches. The appliances named and
specified in the contracts made for these
cars, are, viz, Gould couplers, Fox
trucks, Durham door fixtures, Kimball
turnbuckles, Mcclure grain doors, Vose
springs, Westinghouse air brakes and the
New York Central standard draught
gear, steel brake beams and uncoupline
apparatus. These cars are to be very
strongly built, and the end framing has
been made especially heavy to prevent
bullying and wrecking by heavy freight,
which is liable to shift its position
Scientific American.