The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-05-08

600. The jury disagreed, nine being
for conviction and three for acquittaL
The case will be at once taken up by
the present term of court
JOHN TRAUsCH, a young nan of
Hastings, living upon a farm near
Roseland, started to go out hunting,
and as he was leaving the house with
his gun over his shoulder it was dis
charged by some unknown means and
the contents struck and killed Edward
Trausch, a younger brother, who was
standing at the table assisting his
mother to wash the breakfast dishes.
THAMAs WYMoND, a character who
has been known in Nebraska City and
vicinity for many years, died in a small
room with scarcely a friend to care for
him. AT one time he was quite infiuen-
tial in the politics of that section and
had a fair portion of this worlds goods,
but lost it all, and for a time was in
the county infirmary. He vas three
times married.
GENERAL MANDERsoN returned last
week from Washington, where he
argued the sugar bounty case before
the supreme court, and a decision from
that tribunal will settle that question.
Associated with him as attorneys for
the plaintiffs were Judge Symmes of
New Orleans, and Joseph FL. Choate of
New York, while the attorney generals
department appeared for the govern
ment.
J.. G. TATE, grand master workman
of the A. O. U. w, through his attor-
ney, has filed his answer to the petit
ton of Mrs. Alice Scott, widow of the
late Barrett Scott The answer denies
all the allegations set forth in the pc
tition, except that at one time Barrett
Scott was a member of the organiza-
ton. The case will probably come up
for trial in the district court of Holt
county in September.
Owing to a mistake in printing the re-
funding bonds of Greedy county, re-
Gently purchased by the state board of
educational lands and funds, on &C
count of the permanent school fund,
the whole issue will ave to be reprint
ed. The county commissioners tried
to correct the mistake by an interline-
alton, but the board declined to accept
the bonds in that shape. The amount
of the issue was $36, ZOO.
The secretary of the interior has re-
commended to the attorney general to
dismiss the suit against the purchasers
of and from the Burlington road, but
to continue it as against the road, and
it is thought the attorney general will
act on the recommendation of the sec
rotary. If this is done it will elimin-
ate the 1 LOO individual defendants
from the case, and leave the road to
settle it's misunderstanding with the
government alone.
JUDGE w. H. MISSIONER appointed
A. A. Record of Chadron receiver of
the Chadron Banking company. The
report of Bank Examiner Cowdery
shows that a number of persons owe
the bank from So, 600 to Sc, ZOO each on
their unsecured notes. MI. Cowdery
figures a large loss on these, and on
the total assets of $50, 900 he estimates
a loss of S35. 600. leaving SIS, 900 net as
sets The deposits amount to $40, 600,
of which there is due the county 81, ZOO.
E. W. LYMAN, who recently escaped
from the county Jail and fled to Iowa,
desires the county attorney to allow
him to enter a plea of guilty and take
three years in the penitentiary. That
official refuses to do this, as, he says,
he has a sure case of robbery against
LYMAN and can secure a sentence of
five years, if not longer. Hymen held
up c. V. Fisher, a st, Louis travelling
man. a short time ago and relieved him
of SIS, at the point OF a wicked-looking
knife.
AT a meeting of the board of man.
ayers of the Nebraska Irrigation fair
in North Platte it was decided to give
the first annual fair at North Platte
October 9 to Is, inclusive. Every mem
how ~ tho hO,~I r,oc rrocanf inol,,1.
ing E. McLemon of Cheyenne county,
Matthew Daugherty and Ed Searle of
Keith county and o. G. Smith of Buff
falo county and the local members.
Twenty thousand copies of the premium
list were ordered gotten out, and COM
mittees will be sent through the east
to work up interest in the fair.
CHARLES K. CRADLE of Crawford, re-
presenting the Crawford Irrigation
company, fled in the clerks Office a
petition, covering seventy pages of
typewriter matter, asking a perman-
emit injunction restraining about fifty
defendants from using the water of
granted by County Judge Kicker. The
water and allege that they nave eX-
pended some $50, 900 in cash in the con-
struction of the ditch. 1t promises to
be the biggest law suit ever tried in
the county.
POLICE JUDGE THOMAS JOHNSON of
Ashland committed suicide by hang
ing. Squire Hardin happened into the
office about 3:15 o'clock in the after
noon. and just back of the room under
the fire tower sat Mr.. Johnson, a rope
about his neck and his hand up to his
face. The body was vet warm. John
son was a Dane. about so years of age.
He received notice some ten days ago
that a mortgage on his home for 81, 400,
with interest for several years, would
be foreclosed to satisfy the note. This
is supposed to have superinduced the
suicide.
On the application of Thomas v.
Jacques, a citizen of keya Paha county,
supported by the petition of a large
number of other citizens of that sec
ton, Governor Hoicomb paroled from
the penitentiary w. A. Chaplin. who
was undergoing a sentence of two
years on conviction of horse stealing.
The papers in the case. which consist