The McCook tribune., 1896-12-11

| ms wife. lie Will answer before the
district court.
The Smithfield Farm News says now
| is the time for farmers to select seed
corn and put it away in the attic where
it will keep dry.
A Wayne county farmer harvested
3,4O0 bushels of corn from forty-acre
field. An average yield of S5 bushels
per acre, by weight
The creamery at Norfolk, which has
been closed for the past three months,
is in fair way of beginning opera
tions in the near future.
Last week the working time in the
railroad shops at Havelock was extend
ed from five days of eight hours to six
days of eight hours week.
The little stations on all the rail-
roads that have been abandoned and
boarded up during the three years
drouth, are being re-opened.
Knox county has gained 1850 inhab-
itants in six years. The result is ar
rived at by comparing the figures of
the last election with those of 1890.
| A prize fight occurred near Tecum-
ored man. Ten rounds were fought,
when the referee called the mill off,
Fred c. Schults, well known and
greatly esteemed business man of To-
| bias, died last week, aged thirty-elght
years. He leaves wife and five
| children.
Leonard Nae of Elmwood, while
husking corn, was kicked in tha stom-
ach by mule and rendered uncon-
scious for thirty-six hours. The doctor
says he will recover.
Officials of the proposed Yankton &
Norfolk railway, have been in the vi
cinity of Norfolk. They report every
thing in readiness to begin work with
the opening of spring.
Phil Armour of Chicago owned sew
eral corn-cribs in Furnas county but
the county treasurer caused them to be
sold to satisfy personal taxes which Ar
mour had neglected to pay.
The patriotic citizen who has been
saving the country by talking politics
all summer, says the Pawnee Press,
peal the potatoes and milk the cow.
Judge A. N. Ferguson of South Oma-
ha last week presented to the state a
portrait of Hon. Henner Ferguson, the
first chief Justice of Nebraska, who
was appointed by President Pierce in
1854.
Grandpa Long, says the Wilcox Her
aid, butchered shoat last week that
weighed only d trifie less than ZOO
dc nalr oh - i'll.
what it might have weighed when full
grown.
The schools of ambridge have been
closed, and will remain so until the
diphtheria epidemic has ceased it's raw
ages in that locality. Several deaths
have occurred, and new cases are re-
ported daily.
Superintendent O'Brien of the Ne
braska Fish commission was in Sidney
last week with the fish car and distrib-
uted black bass, catfish, croppie and
carp The waters of the Lodge Pole
are being handsomely stocked.
Thomas O'Connor was. arraigned in
the county court at Greeley for the
crime of mayhem. October 1st he and
Peter Cannon had an alteration, in
which O'Connor bit Gannon's nose off,
but eluded the officers of the law until
recently.
John and Henry Cook. sons of Jo-
seph Cook, German farmer living five
miles from Leigh, went to that town
and stayed about until evening, doing
some drinking. They laid down on
the way home and were nearly frozen
to death when found.
At Kimball Emlo Carpenter and VIM.
Shelter, charged with house breaking,
had their preliminary hearing before
Judge Prouty, and were bound over to
the district court Shelter furnished
$500 bond, but Carpenter was una ble to
furnish bail and will remain in the
county Jail until the spring term of
court
While shelling corn the clothing of
David Brown of Phillips caught on
knucl1le of the tumbling rod, which
threw him to the ground, terribly
bruising his head and shoulders, but |
fortunately, in throwing him under, |
his body caused the rod to leave the |
jack and become uncoupled. otherwise,
he might have been killed.
Ed. J. Hall, state oil inspector, died |
suddenly in Lincoln few evenings |
ago. He complained of a severe head
ache, and in two hours was dead, not
withstanding the attendance of num-
ber of physicians. Mr.. Hall was an
old newspaper man, having published
papers at Wahoo, Ashland, Grand Is
land and elsewhere, and was very
highly respected. He leaves a wife
and three children.
The chicory works at Fremont are
running at their fullest capacity, and
have much work ahead. They expect
to clear up all roots thus far dug by
Dec. Is. They will then commence
work on a large acreage of roots which
were raised near Hastings They ex-
pect it to take at least month to clear
them up. There is still quite an acre
age of roots that cannot be dug until
spring.
Fred johnson, his wife and two lit
tie children, travellers on their way
home to Storm Lake, Iowa, struck the
river at Decat1r Neb but were nm |