The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-08-06
NEBRASKA.

huc opera QUILTING cdiuc near ociuS
wiped out.
G. w. 4. DORSEY issaid to be making
great deal of money from his gold
mine in Utah.
THE Omaha police can find no trace
of the man who stabbed and robbed
J. A. Creighton.
WAYNE CHAPMAN, a Broken Bow boy,
got his foot in lawn mower and was
painfully injured.
l.. +. DEGETTE, an old and prominent
citizen of Nebraska City, died last
week at Forest Lake, MINI.
The sixth annual reunion of the
Dodge County Veterans association
will be held at Scribner, august H.
On July Is the State Bank of O'Neill
notified its depositors to call for their
deposits, as it intended to go out of
business.
A UNITED STATES geological survey
party is at work near Chappell. They
expect to be in camp for about three or
four weeks.
THE Ponca coal mine has been pur-
chased by the captain bold Of Missou-
ri river steamboat and will be worked
on large scale.
A RATE of one fare for the round
trip from all Nebraska points has been
authorized for Lincoln for the Grand
Army OF the Republic reunion, Sep
tember IA to IS.
FRANK SwANDA, a Seventeen-year
old Bohemian boy living three miles
southwest of Humboldt, was overcome
by heat while threshing, since which
time he has been a raving maniac.
THE old settlers that left Brown
county are coming back as fast as they
can raise the means to return, and say
that when a man leaves Brown county
and Nebraska he makes the worst mis-
take of his life.
LAWRENCE II. LEE, the 22-year old
son of c. III. Lee, was drowned in the
North Fork of the Elkhorn river at
Norfolk. The young man graduated
at Doane college this year and had but
recently returned home.
NEAR Atlanta, the little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Scott, about year
old, accidentally fell into half barrel
of water. By the time the child was
discovered life was SO far gone that
resuscitation was impossible.
III. c. HEATH, teamster at Grand
Island, was thrown from high
wagon, a distance of thirty feet and
against the curbing. His breast bone
and two ribs were broken and his
neck injured. He is in a serious con-
dition.
THE seventh annual Ancient Order of
United Workmen picnic of Butler
county will be held at Rising City, We'd
nesday. August II. Sixteen lodges
will be represented and large crowd
from adjoining counties will be in at
tendance.
4 NEW fair association has been or
ganized under the name of the Dawson
County Fair association. the object be-
ing to promote the agricultural inter
ests of the county as well as hold fairs.
The capital stock is fixed at five thou
sand dollars.
MARK HOFFMAN, the 16-year old son
of Councilman John Hoffman, was
brought to West Point from a farm he
was working on in an insane condi-
ton. He has an idea that people want
to poison him and refuses therefore to
eat anything.
ALL the railroads in the state have
agreed on rate of one and one-third
regular fare for the round trip for the
picnic of the Modern Woodmen at Wa
hoo on August Is. The rate will apply
from Omaha and from points within
fifty miles of Wahoo.
HENRY DURsT, prominent farmer of
Merrick county, was killed while
stacking grain. In some manner he
slipped and fell from the wagon, scar
ing the team, which ran away. One
of the wheels passed over his neck,
killing him instantly.
THE Loup Valley Veterans associa-
ton will hold it's first annual encamp-
ment at the grove of E. Stewart, near
North Loup, lasting for three days,
August 10, II and IL. All old veterans
are invited to be present and to have
their families with them.
JOHN HOWARD, an old citizen of Fair
mont, met with painful and possibly
fatal accident. He was standing on a
ladder six feet from the ground, when
his support gave way and he fell to the
ground. He struck on stake about
three inches wide and one inch thick.
KNoNDYKE has been the subject of
conversation on the streets of Nebras-
ka City. The famous Eldorado has
been marked out on the maps of Alas
ka, and several moneyed men have
manifested much interest in the mat
ter. Several of the old ''49ers" still
live in that city, and it is highly prob
able that a company may be organized
and start from that part of Nebraska.
THE deputy United States marshal
went to Niobrara the other day and
took another batch of bootleggers be-
fore the United States commissioner at
Norfolk. He promises to return and
take with him others on second of
fense, which the law doubles up in fine
and Imprisonment. No cases have yet
come up before Judge Munger under
the new law, and considerable specula-
zion is INDUCED in as to what disposi-
ton he will make of them.
A YOUNG man by the name of Fred
Burmood was struck by lightning in a
field near Wood River and instantly