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

VINO emp Sulclue, VA iCSoNSi'
No ADDITIONAL gold finds are re-
ported on the Wagner farm near Fort
Calhoun.
A HEAVY wind in the vicinity of
Ogalalla did considerable damage to
buildings.
A NUMBE of people in Omaha lost
quite heavily in the recent fire at Grip
pie Creek, Colo.
THE fire in the Commercial block at
York is supposed to nav been started
by incendiaries.
CHARLES TEIPEI, of Plattsmouth, has
been declared insane and lei to the
asylum at Lincoln.
MRS. BARNHART of Pierce county en-
deavored to drown herself. She and
her husband had quarreled.
THE editor of the Fairbury Times is
out his Sunday-go-to-meeting suit at
the hands of a sneak thief.
CHUCK WOOSTER, of Nebraska City,
found guilty of rape, was given two
years in the state ~penitentiary.
A HEAVY gale from the northwest
did considerable damage near Phillips
to corn cribs and other buildings.
FRANK FRINK of Adams county was
knocked down by lightning and lay in
the road half an hour unconscious.
THE republican state convention for
the nomination of state officers will be
held in Lincoln, Wednesday, July LIST.
THE state banking board has issued
a charter to the German bank of Muir
dock. The capital stock authorized is
$500.
ROBERT MCCONNELL, of Omaha, for
many years master mechanic of the
Union Pacific railroad, died last week,
aged three score and ten.
HUFFMAE & RAwLINs, nea Neigh,
are sowing 200 acres of alfalfa. Elk
p%erience convinces them that its culti-
walton is a great success.
AT no time since the settlement of
Chase county have there been such
fiattering crop prospects at at this time.
There will be an increased acreage.
THE Methodist church at Schuyler,
which has peer rebuilt during the last
three months, was dedicated last Sum-
day. 1t is a splendid building, with
ample room for every need.
JOE WERNER, of Grand Island, who
had been on a drunken debauch, made
an effort at suicide by hanging while
in Jail He was discovered and cut
down before life was extinct.
THE southwestern veterans reunion
association has decided to hold its next
reunion at North Platte at the same
time as the western Nebraska irriga-
ton fair, October. 10, IA and Is.
JOAN HYNCK, a well-to-do farmer re-
siding northwest of Pierce, accidentally
shot his little girl in the abdomen with
his shotgun. while taking the gun
from the house to kill a hawk. The
child will die
THE general merchandise store of
Edward Bros. of Louisville was enter
ed by last week and about $50 worth of
goods, consisting of silk handkerchiefs,
shoes, pants, jewelry, tobacco and
some groceries taken.
THE drug store of DIR. Charles Band
at Crete was closed under chattel
mortgage for 81, 200. McPike & Fox,
Peregoy & Moore, and L. A. Ireland
are the main creditors, to whom the
chattel mortgage reads.
THE jury at Pawnee City in the case
of II. q. Brown against the city for
81, 600 damages on account of a defec-
tive sidewalk from which he sustained
an injury about a year ago, brought in
a verdict awarding Brown $500 dam
ages
PROSPECTS for fruit and crops of all
kinds in the section about Hastings
have not been more promising for
years than at the present time, and
unless causes unforeseen arise the hus-
bandmen will AVE no reason for COM
plant at the time of harvest.
JOHN w. B~ooKwALTER of New York
city, is now on his way to Nebraska to
make arrangements for the establish
ment of a lumber of farming villages.
He owns about 60, 600 acres in this
state and proposes to gather agricul-
turists into wv of about 500, provide
a good library, theater and give them
many advantages of city life.
GEORGE DRAKE of Red Cloud, who
was arrested several months on a
charge of rape and who was bound
over in the sum of 50, 900 for his APP
p%earance at the last term of the district
court, but who jumped his bail and left
for parts unknown before court o n
vened, returned several days ago and
was turned over to the sheriff by his
bondSmen.
c. j. ANDERSON, a prominent stock
man of Neigh, states that never at any
time in the past our years has the soil
been SO thoroughly soaked as at pres
emit. and all of the ponds which nave
been dry for a couple of seasons now
contain water and those which have
been nearly dry have assumed their
former dimensions. Not only is the
surface thoroughly wet, but the subsoil
is saturated affording a reserve supply
of moisture for the hot weather of sum
mer. Farmers are feeling happy and
are putting in a large acreage
Don't loaf around the corner grocery
arguing with your neighbors abont the
best tool to use in surface cultivation,
but buy a new Pivotal Frame Captain
Kidd Disc Cultivator, which will render
it easy to dodge the crookedest corn
and unnecessary to dodge the Sheriff
next Fall. If you use the Captain Kidd,
you will have money to pay your bills,
and won't have to dodge. Write US for
descriptive circulars and ''What Others
Saw" NEBRASKA MOLINE Prov Co.,
Omaha, Neb
DURING, a thunder storm the barn of
Charles Maronville, about five miles
southwest of Aurora, was destroyed by