The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-11-13
NEBRASKA.

City havelgone to Europe to spend the
winter.
The Union Pacific company has q
large force of men neal Ogallala rails.
ing and widening the roadbed.
Grant Smiths .2-year-old child of
Lyons was dangerously burned by a
kettle of hot jelly being tipped over.
The Kearney Sun says that a great
many farmers are using the clear sky
for a corn cover-rpiling it up on the
ground.
The remains OFF X. Doty, who was
accidentally shot and killed at Fort
Morgan, were brought to Wauneta and
inferred.
The fourth annual convention OF the
Nebraska state irrigation association
will be held in Lexington on o 10,
20 and 81, 1896.
Mr.. Tissue and several of the wealthy
men of Seward county, are now talk
ing up a beet sugar factory. to be To-
Gated at Seward.
Mayor Ensor of South Omaha made
an attack upon a representative of the
Omaha Bee for something he had writ
ten for that paper. The reporter lost
two teeth.
One of the men working or the tele-
graph line at Dunbar climbed to the
top of a pole which, being rotten, broke
with him and he fell to the ground
breaking his arm.
The house, barns, stock sheds and
granaries filled with grain, belonging
to Fred Lessmier, on his farm seven
miles north of Bancroft, were burned
to the ground. Loss, So, 900; no insur-
ance.
Clarence Bartlett, a boy of 16 at
Fairbury, was carrying a loaded re-
volver in his hip pocket, when it was
discharged and 4 22-calibre ball in
ficted a serious wound in his left
thigh.
A number of cattle are dying in the
vicinity of Creighton. Upon micro
scopic examination of the blood in
these animals the Billings Burrili
germs of cornstalk disease is abundant
ly found.
Pickpockets were busy in Omaha the
other day when Candidate Bryan ap-
peared there. Several cases were re-
ported to the police. Burglars were
also active but confined themselves to
h business section.
A large German Lutheran church
southwest of Louisville has been dedi-
Gated. The building, which is a sub
notwithstanding of brick and stone,
has been in process of erection since
last spring and cost $40, 600.
VIM. Dolson, Lon Graves and Mr..
Pool of North Platte went South of
Brady Island n day last week and
week and bagged 102 quail, two rab-
bits and two chickens, the most game
ever taken from thase grounds in one
day.
Traffic Manager Munroe, of the q.
p. has given out his official declination
of the offer of a position as freight
commissions of the new traffic associ-
alton. He considers it to his best in
terests to remain with the Union Pa
cific.
Washington dispatch: Mahoney &
Stangler of Omaha have been awarded
the contract for constructing the drain
e around the outside of the public
ldilding of Omaha for 81, 99S. They
agree to complete the work in two
months.
j. August Kuhn is, the name of the
general agent Of the C. & NV. who
will on Nov. Is assume charge of the
freight and passenger business of that
road in Omaha. He will succeed R. R.
Richie, who has been transferred to
San Francisco.
Two men in the. county jail at Cen
trail City, charged with Stealing over
coats, tried to break jail. They give
the names of.John Morrison and Bill
jackson. They have the appearance
of criminals and il. is believed they are
wanted elsewhere.
General Solicitor Kelly of the Union
Pacific has returned from New York
City, where he attended a meeting of
the receivers and the reorganization
committee. He saws that the segrega-
ton of the Oregon Short Line from the
rest of the u. 7. system is an assured
TACT. the only thing in question being
the time when the event shall take
place.
Last Saturday night the family of
Joe Harper, who lives east of Allen,
awoke to find the house full of smoke.
They succeeded in putting out the fire
in sight, but later ON found the floor
was all aflame underneath and which
could not be reached. The house was
burned to the ground, together with
Some household goods. 1t was well in
.sured.
The Fishing Gazette OF New York
prints the following complimentary
notice of the fish exhibit at the recent
state fair: The fishery exhibit at
the Nebraska state fair attracted great
attention, and was pronounced by
every one 9 success. Fish Commission
er ". L. May will be proud of mis- work.
Other states should follow Nebraska
and make their fairs more attractive by
a display of good fish. which will edu-
cate the people and encourage the eat
ing of fish"
During an attempt to burn out fire
guards On the Milligan ranch a few
miles west of Notth Loup a prairie fire
was started, which ran for several
miles and destroyed a quantity OF hay
and grain belonging to A. L. GresS.