The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-14

not include exchange or amounts due
from other banks, and is as follows:
Gold, S4S1, 865; silver, Sl2S, AS; cur
rency, S625, 800. This does not include
pennies or nickels.
Michals. the shirt thief, and John
Clark, his man, were tried on prelim-
mary examination for burglary and
bound over to appear at the Octo Der
term of the district court of Boone
county. Every day unearths new evil
dence of the wholesale thievery this
gang has carried on. It is said they
are wanted at Missouri Valley, Ia, for
the same charge.
Mrs. Catherine Driscoll of South
Omaha died last week at Neola, Iowa.
Mrs. Driscoll secured judgment against
South Omaha some time ago for 81, 500
for injuries received on account of a
defective sidewalk. The city confessed
judgment and the claim was about to
be paid when, through her attorneys,
she filed notice alleging fraud, and
thus stopped payment for time. Mrs.
Driscoll was about SS years old at the
time of her death.
A horse belonging to a pilgrim outfit
shot himself recently near Lexington.
His owner had left loaded pistol
lying on a quilt on the wagon seat.
When no one was around the horse
commenced nosing about the wagon
for something to eat and in doing so
pulled the quilt in such Il manner as to
throw the pistol out which struck on
one of the wheels and was discharged,
the ball striking the animal in the
flank, and causing his death in half an
hour
At Chadron Jack Bright, Thomas
Wilson and Bert Alguire were sentenc-
ed to four years each in the peniten-
tiary by Judge Westover. These are
the three men who pleaded guilty of
robbing the hardware store of Robert
McNair at Crawford Bright was the
only one of the trio who made any
statement, saying he had left home
two years ago and that upon arriving
at Crawford with his two companions
they were unable to obtain work or
anything to eat and were compelled to
steal.
A Granger (Wyo.) dispatch says:
The Omaha city officials special, con-
veying the city council and some tif-
teen citizens representing the Trans
Mississippi exposition, are en- route to
the principal cities in Montana. Utah,
Idaho and Colorado. All through Wyo-
ming today, at Cheyenne, Laramie,
Rawlins, Rock Springs, Green River,
~ i al hn R1f "
officials and citizens turned out in large
mum bers with bands of music and
much enthusiasm. All expressed great
interest in the exposition and gave as
surance OF cooperation.
While Attorney John V. Morgan of
Nebraska City was looking over the
papers of the lale Eugene Wilhelm at
his old home near that city he found
an Adams Express order for 81, 500,
issued in 1853 at Placerville, Cal, and
sent by Mr.. Wilhelm to his wife,
Martha Wilhelm, and payable to her
order. Why the order was never
cashed Mrs. Wilhelm, vino is very
old lady, is unable to explain. The
head Office of the company at New
York has been notified that the order
has been placed in the bank fer collec-
ton. 1t remains to be seen whether
the order will be ordered by the COM
pany after all these forty-three years
Coroner Victor Carlson of Stroms-
burg held an inquest on the body of
Mrs. L. Frerichs- She had been i'll and
becoming discouraged took 4 dose of
strvchnine with suicidal intent. She
was the mother of six children and
was we'll thought of by her neighbors-
A Washington dispatch says that as
the result of conference between
Secretary Smith and General Solicitor
Kelly and Land Commissioner Mccall
lister, of the Union Pacific Railroad
company, the former has recommended
to oAttorney-General Harmon dismissal
of the suits now pending in the United
States court of Nebraska against the
company and purchasers of lands said
to have been enormously certified to
the former.
murderer, received the first news of
the action of the governor in refusing
to interfere in his case he broke down
completely. He had been very con-
fdent that the governor would COM
mute his sentence and had talked very
of the possibility of ulti-
mately securing his freedom by good
behavior At no time has he given
way to the thought that the governor
would decline to interfere with the
carrying out of the sentence, and the
news that the last hope was gone and
that no further process could possibly
be exerted in his behalf carried away
the last stay and he seemed to realize
that he had but few days to live and
that an outraged justice must be salts
fed.
The last Nebraska crop bulletin re-
ports: The rainfall has been generally
heavy, falling in showers accompanied
by high winds. and in number of
small areas by destructive hail storms.
The rainfall to the extreme southwes-
tern counties was between quarter
and a half an inch, while more than an
inch fell over the rest of the state and
in the lower Platte river valley the
was from two to four and a
half inches The showery week has
been unfavorab ble for stacking and
small grain and some light
damage is reported from growing in