The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-09-11
NEBRASKA.

clubs in the state.
An apple exhibited at Nebraska City
recently weighed one and one-hal1
pounds.
good many sneak thieves and bur-
glars found their way to Lincoln dur
ing reunion week.
Ross L. Hammond of the Fremont
Tribune has been nominated by the
Republicans for congress
The Seventh Day Adventists are
holding a camp meeting at Fremont
with very large attendance.
Wausau has voted $l0,O 900 bonds to
assist in the construction of the pro-
posed Yankton & Norfolk road.
The packing houses of South Omaha
have not yet subscribed anything TO
the Trans Mississippi exposition.
Regular railway mail service has
been put on the Sioux City & Omaha
road between Omaha and Emerson.
Washington county sent two loads of
products to the state fair, and at this
writing has an eye on the first prize.
1t is estimated that there are over
400 bicycles in York. And the Times
is agitating the question of wheel
club
Buy home made goods and build up
home industries, is good policy. Far
rell's Fire Extinguisher, made by Far
veil & CO.. Omaha
The Cass County Endeavorer Union
held its twelfth semi-annual conven-
tion last week. Hereafter the union
will meet annually only.
John Jones of Bladen has radish
taken from his place which grew with
out cultivation, measuring in circum-
ference tifte>~ and three-quarters
inches.
Little Roy Baden, living near Ar
cadia, burned his foot very badly by
pulling the plug out of the washing
machine ana letting the boiling water
onto it.
Barney ORourke, n prosperous Otoe
County farmer, residing near TalInage,
met with a runaway accident last Mon
day. which resulted in his death on
FRIDAY.
A young man named Wallace, work.
ing for William Cooper, farmer in
Fillmore county, while stacking oats,
stepped through, the rack and broke his
leg at the knee joint.
While on a fishing trip to the Elk
horn. Father Boaz of Dodge killed an
eagle that measured six feet from tip
to tip of its wings. The bird was sent
TO Omaha to be mounted.
Thousands of tons OF hay ere now
being put up on the Buffalo Flats and
and in the Beaver Valley. The hay in
these places is free from weeds and
will make four tons to the acre.
The heirs of the late Julius Schroe-
der of Millard received $4,000 insur-
ance money last week from the X. OF
p. lodge, Omaha, of which deceased
was member in good standing
The State Loan and Trust company
at Ogallala closed it's doors last week.
ii. l.. Gould was president and j. A.
yet been learned regarding financial
conditions.
A young man named Hodgins. work
ing for Clay Howard near Dakota City,
was kicked in the face Thursday morn
ing by horse and received serious in
juries He was taken to the Sioux
City hospital
w. A. Minhear of Danbury, lost $50
of this years pigs out of $50, from chol-
era, and had 60 drowned. He also lost
a lot of old hogs and is beginning to
think that luck is against him as a
pork producer
The August mortgage record for
Gage county is as follows: Farm mort
lol G.
leased, 13, amount, S15. .293; city mort
cages filed, 5, amount, sci. IL; released
10, amount, S5,6l4.
At Berlin, Charles C. Taney, grain
buyer for Duff & Co, also constable
and village Marshall, was arrested.
charged with the embezzlement of SIT,
upon complaint of Willis Walker, the
barber of that place.
John c. Worthington, brother of
Bishop Worthington, died suddenly in
Omaha the other day, from stroke of
apoplexy. Deceased was about 40
wears of age, and had been a resident
of Omaha since 1856.
A hunting party consisting of Frank
Miller, Bert Hollingsworth. Tom, Wal
ter and Charlie Rudd, started out
Thursday morning TO drive to the Dis
NAL country, where they expect to re-
main five or six weeks.
The broom-corn harvest began last
week. A large acreage of broom corn
was planted in Polk county this year
and it all promises to turn out we'll 1t
is estimated that the crop will be a bout
a ton to every three acres.
l.. j. Hausman, the man who was
arrested at Harrington short time
ago for whipping his wife, vacated that
town between the suns of Sunday and
Monday. taking with him suit of
clothes belonging to his employer.
Last Sunday was great day for the
Lutherans in Pierce and neighborhood,
about 1,sOo being present to celebrate
the twenty-ffth anniversary of the or.
ganizatio there. Exercises were held
at the church, the pastor who preached
first sermon in the church u quarter of
century ago being present and ,deliv-
ering the sermon.
W. B. Keith, farmer of Richmond
precinct, Furnas county, and promi-
nent citizen, tried to end his life. He
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