The McCook tribune., 1897-04-02
NEBRASKA.

cuse was struck by lightning.
THE loan and building association at
North Platte is in a very prosperous
condition.
The Touring mill at Norfolk has
been idle for some time on account of
high water.
LINCOLN county assessors talk of
raising the value of irrigated lands
from SIS to $50 an acre.
ALONG the Platte river this year
sportsmen are bagging more ducks
than in any former year.
BY the premature explosion of gun
a young man named Beardsley, near
Fairmount, lost three fingers.
Nor farmer in Buffalo county. says
the Kearney Sun, has donated bushel
of corn to help the starving people OF
India.
FRADK WININIs of Lyons has myste-
riously disappeared and his wife and
friends are wondering what has be-
come of him.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for
the holding of the Table Rock Chau-
tauqua on the grounds near that place
from June 10 to 10 inclusive.
MRS. MARY V. Moss wants S25.O0O
damages from the Lincoln Journal for
something that paper said regarding
her accommodation from church.
ONE hundred and fifty ears of gravel
will be shipped from Wyoming daily
next season to ballast the Union Pacific
track between Cheyenne and Columbus.
GENEVA merchants have suffered for
the past couple of years from petty
burglaries. Every once in a while
some store is entered and articles OF
small value taken.
The women's club of York held its
first open meeting last week. An ad-
dress was made by Mrs. A. j. Sawyer
of Lincoln on '.The advantages and
disadvantages of being club woman. 81
Mrs. L. MORAN and her daughter,
Frances of Crete had narrow escape
from asphyXiation in st. Joseph. They
went to bed in hotel and blew out
instead of turning out the gas.
THE junior endeavor society of Bea-
yer City has raised a car of corn for
the sufferers of India. The corn will
be shipped free of charge by the B. &
M. to Denver and thence via San Fran
cisco.
EMERSON is now the headquarters of
the c., st. P, NJ. e. o. railway bridge
and carpenter crew, and the Enterprise
of that place says the change will add
about twenty families to Emerson s
population.
NEIGH is jubilant. The North
Nebraska G. A. R. reunion has been
located there for another year. This
will be the fourth year Neigh has had
the reunion and the city feels justly
Iro,8 oror tho fact.
A FEW days ago fine set of harness
was stolen from the barn of j. C.
SwartZ, farmer living two miles west
of Hastings. The police were notified
and VIM. Hardy was arrested. He
confessed and is now in jail
4 Rev. FATHER MURPHY of Tecumseh
has returned from Washington, d. c.,
where he went to present his case be-
fore the apostolic delegate, Martinelli.
The points at issue will probably not
be decided for month yet.
Mrs. HUBER, wife of Col John Huber
OF Columbus, died very suddenly of
heart disease. She was GA years old
and had lived in Platte county for
nearly thirty years. About year ago
she was stricken with paralysis and
had been in poor health since.
A LARGER number of cattle are being
fed in Gage county this spring and
summer than has been fed there for
years. The large surplus of corn, to-
gether with other advantages which
have been made available by farmers
to shippers, is accountable for it.
THE jewelry store of A. r. Weaver
at Harvard was robbed of $15O to $500
worth of watches and jewelry, and the
money drawer of Brown & Saule, who
occupy one side of the room with
stationery, was opened, and about So
in small change taken and some cigars
No arrests.
WORD has been received of the death
of Walter rs. Prickett, prominent
attorney of Alva, Cal. Mr. Prickett
wac one of the first attorneys in Lin
coin. He was for some time in part
nership with Attorney Seymour G.
Wilcox, now of Omaha. He was a
member of the first town council of
Fairfield, and was considered one of
leading attorneys of the state, and
took a very prominent part in republi-
can politics.
OMAHA Is W nave d DeeC sugar
factory. There is no longer any doubt
on this question. Notices have been
prepared and will be served on the res
idents of blocks 25s and 261 within a
few days. Altogether about fifty fam
lilies are living in little shanties on
this land, which has been leased from
the South Omaha land company. In
the lease the company reserves the
right to claim the land after giving the
occupants ten days notice.
Two masked men entered the home
of ID. Jones, an old bachelor who lives
a mile south of Wymore, knocked him
down and covered his head with a
sack, and then demanded that he tell
them where he kept his money He
refused. whereupon they heated irons
and applied them to his body, burning
him in horrible manner This treat
ment lasted two hours. Then the rob-
bers. leaving the victim in his helpless
condition. locked the house and took
the key with them. His recovery is
doubtful.
Rev. S. Fl. AYREs. who has been for.
the past three and half years engaged
in Sunday School missionary work in
Garfield and surrounding counties
under the direction of the American
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