The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-04-12
OVER THE STATE.


Nebraska National guards.
GEORGE DILTz of Falls City was
kicked in the side by a horse, breaking
THE ~semi-annual meeting Of the Blue
Valley Congregational association will
be held at Exeter May q, % and %.
THE citizens of Dunbar are complain
ing of an epidemic of grip, attended by
severe sore throat. Children are gen.
orally attacked.
A RANDOLPH woman tried to learn to
ride a bicycle on Sunday and was
thrown over the handles of the machine
and severely injured.
A CARLOAD of potatoes belonging to
d. NJ. White was burned on the track
at Aurora. The car, as well as 400
bushels of potatoes, is a total loss.
HARRY DRAPER, the 4-year old sol of
Tom Draper of Lincoln, was drowned
in a well. The child and several others
were playing around the place When he
fell in.
THE 17-months-old child of William
Downing, living near Havelock, drank
a large quantity of solution of arsenic,
but the promp application Of emetics
SdNcO Tx iIIGlS OuO . Liz.
ENCHANTING for the Masonic temple
at Indianola commenced last week.
the structure will be a two-story brick,
twenty-five feet fronting on Main
street. 1t will cost $1,000.
Buy homemade goods and build up
home industries, is a good policy: Far
rell' Fire EXtinguisher. made by Far
rell & Co., Omaha; Morse-Coe boots and
shoes for men, women and children.
THE mortgage record for Gage county
is as follows: Farm mortgages filed,
So; amount, SIP, 900; released, 50;
amount, sos, $50. City mortgages filed,
%; amount, $12, O20; released, 90;
amount, SIS, O2O.
A FIRE from a defective fue entirely
destroyed the residence of w. R. Tur-
ner, a prosperous farmer living three
miles south of Steele City. But little
of his household goods were saved.
Loss, $500; insured for $500.
JAMES MCCULLOUGH, a bachelor resi-
dent of H~emingford, was found dead
in his bed by a neighbor. Death was
probably due to natural causes, as his
clothes were by the side of the bed and
the pockets contained over SIS in cash.
CURT SNYDER was arrested in Fuller
ton for stealing two horses from a
farmer near St. Edwards. He came to
town and sold the horses at public sale.
j. I. Smith bought one for $50 and
Hudson Miller purchased the other for
ST..
THE proposition to vote $40, 900 bonds
to the CoZad Irrigation company was
voted on last week the second time and
carried. This binds the irrigation COM
pany to have water running in its
ditch by May Is or forfeit 500 per day
thereafter until complete.
w. w. ALT, who has the contract for
the resurvey OF Grant county, arrived
at Hyannis last week. He came with
teams and men fully equipped to begin
the work at once. 1t will require about
eight months to complete, the contract
price for which will be about SIS, ZOO.
OSCAR DICKERsoN of Rising City was
accidentally shot by John Rogers while
they were hunting on Platte river. The
full charge Of shot struck him in the
leg between the knee joint and hip
joint and shattered the bone so that
the doctors think hat the leg will have
to be amputated.
pliSOAGIS. CIllGu anu ANOTIOu,
who were serving out a thirty days
sentence, of which eleven days had
passed, broke jail in a clever manner
OF Saturday night. They had placed
two dummys in their cells. and the
he saw them asleep and locked the
cages.
Rev. JAMES LYLE, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church, of North
Platte, who has been for several weeks
in the east soliciting grain and seed for
the farmers, has returned home. Com
rade Haydn Strong, who went to SOL
icit seed grain under the auspices of
the Grand Army of the Republic post
of North Platte, returned with one car
of grain.
The South Omaha postofice was en-
tered by safe blowers last week and
was robbed of 1900 in money and
stamps. In the vault down stairs was
So, SEQ worth of stamps that had beer
taken from their boxes and handled,
but were left lying on the floor, which
is thought to indicate that the thieves
were frightened away before they had
completed their job.
THERE was a large and enthusiastic
meeting at Table Rock to look up the
beet sugar business. Individual pledges
Were made for the planting OF thirty
acres. C. S. Wood was appointed as a
canvasser to look up the matter thor
oughly for three or four days, when
another meeting will be called and a
permanent organization will be ef-
fected. Much interest is being mani
tested in the matter.
THE speed program for the coming
state fair is out, and in consequence of
the liberal purses offered, it must COM
mand the favor Of all. local horsemen,
aggregating, as they do, within a cou-
pie of hundred of $40, COO. That the
management realizes that it will re-
quire good purses to insure success is
made evident by the sum offered.
There are to be five days OF racing, be-
ginning on Monday, September l6, and
continuing until Friday, September 90,
inclusive.
A REVOLVER in the pocket of the ed
itor of the Ewing Advocate went off,
while he was standing in the postofice
and gave the crowd a scare. The edi-
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