The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-04

The date for Nebraska's next fair i.
fixed for Sept. 90 to %.
Miss Ruth Dingee of Elwood died a
the advanced age of SO.
Ponca has but one vacant house anC
rents are tolerably high.
Fred Weise of Fremont was arrested
for buying stolen property.
Sixty per cent of the corn in Stanton
county is still in the field.
Platte Center has a man who takes a
bath in ice water twice week.
Ranchmen in Hall county are fatten-
tening their sheep on beet pulp.
The women of Fremont will hold q
charity ball New Years evening.
Consumption caused the death of c.
ID. Murphy banker at Humphrey.
The Syracuse cob pipe factory will
begin operating in about two months.
A correspondent at Phillips reports
corn selling there for ten cents "a
bushel.
Senator Thurston and a party OF
friends have gone west on a hunting
expedition.
A young lady living near Virginia
claims to be able to husk seventy-five
bushels of corn per day.
Township organization failed to car
ry in Cedar county, few votes being
cast either for or against it.
The snow has melted in the northern
part Of the state so that farmers are
again at work in the corn fields.
rhn hoe IaI 1;or
d. McHugh United States district
judge for the district of Nebraska.
The funeral of Bert Serf at Hastings,
who was killed in Il foot ball game at
Lawrence, Kan, was very largely at
tended
., The sugar beet growers in the vicin-
.ity OF Valley are feeling blue at the
loss Of their crop by being fgozen in
the ground.
DR.. Z q. Watson, elected to repre-
sent Saline county in the next legisla-
ture. wears diamond pin said to be
worth S7oQ,
Rev. CoFtoran has returned to Graf
ton from years vacation in Califor-
MIA. and will resume charge OF his
work at that place.
The 10-year-old son of J. Kroesing
of Box Butte was lost on the prairie
while returning from school and per
ished before morning.
The supreme court has granted a
new trial to Z. C. Hockenberger eX-
treasurer of Hall county. charged with
embezzling $1,000 of school funds.
A military board has been ordered to
convene at the adjutant generals Office
and inquire into and report concerning
certain property of the National
guard.
A man and wife from Oklahoma reg
istered at Platsmouth hotel the other
day and attracted considera BILE atten-
ton. Both being under three feet in
height
Fire was discovered in the large two
story brick occupied by Grays' hard
ware, Columbus. The rear part of
the first floor was Quilted in about thirty
minutes.
The sentence of Ford Wright from
Dixon county to two years and SIX
months in the penitentiary for man
slaughter, was last week commuted to
one year four months and two days by
Gov. Holcomb, which Communication, to-
gether with his good time. will iber-
ate him at once. Wright was received
at the penitentiary Oct. 21, 1895.
The annual meeting of the Nebraska
Jersey cattle breeders association will
he held Dec at Seward. 1t is hoped
there will be a large attendance and
an interesting and profitable meeting.
Papers on important subjects in line
with objects OF the association will be
presented and discussed.
Charles Meyers and George Freshe,
who were convicted of statutory rape
during the present term of the district
court of Seward county, were taken
into court for sentence, and Judge
Rates sentenced each to three years in
the penitentiary. Both cases will un-
doubtedly be appealed to the Supreme
court