The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-04-16
NEBRASKA.

Deen adJudged insane.
In the neighborhood of Phillips win
ter wheat is looking all right.
THE Hyannis school has closed tenn
porarily on account of measles.
THE Wilbur mill is shipping large
quantities of corn meal to the south.
THOMAS CARN, of Blair, fell down 9
cellar stairway, receiving severe in
juries.-
WORK on the irrigation bitches near
Bayard is being pushed as rapidly as
possible.
SCOTIA is now without banking IA
cilities of any kind, and the people
there are greatly inconvenienced as a
result.
ALL over Nebraska come reports to
the effect that Arbor day will be ex-
tensively observed.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for
a two days shooting tournament at
Minden, April IA and Is.
THERE is general complaint of too
much wet, putting farmers much be-
hind with their seeding.
THE school board of Niobrara have
decided, with one exception, to make
an entire change of teachers for the
coming year.
STEPHEN o. DAVIDSON is lingering in
the Jail at David City on the charge of
perjury in connection with divorce
ment proceedings.
THE county board of Gage county
has issued an offer of a reward of $500
for the apprehension and arrest of the
murderers of David Jones.
Il,
pioneer jeweler of Oakland died sud-
denly last week with heart failure.
He leaves a wife and two children.
IT has been arranged to tender ].
Sterling Morton an informal reception
when he reaches Omaha to make an
address on exposition Inauguration day.
ANOTHER attempt at incendiarism
was made at Beatrice. The fire was
discovered in time to check the flames.
One man has been arrested on sus-
picion.
THE Grand Army boys of Chester are
trying to raise enough to build them a
hall, and are circulating among their
friends and the public in general for
subscriptions.
w. G. Boston, one of the oldest set
tiers of David City, stabbed himself in
the abdomen with a ''Sir Knight"
sabre. The wound is very serious and
may prove fatal.
THE wife of l.. NJ. Keene, president
of the Fremont National bank, died
last week after few days illness with
peritonitis. She was 46 years of age,
and highly respected.
THEODORE FRIEDHoF, a prominent
merchant of Columbus, has filed his
petition in the district court for an alb
solute divorce from his wife, Mary B.
He charges adultery.
A MAN giving his name as VIM. Wine
ger is in Jail in Seward on the charge
of stealing the horses of John Brigham
from the hitching rack in front of the
M. E. church at Tamora.
1t is reported that the F. & E. rail-
road officials have invited several Boyd
county men to go to Omaha to confer
with them relative to the amount of
business there is in that county for
railroad, in case one was built there.
GAGE county has now thirty-three
patients in the asylum at Lincoln,
which is more than its full quota, and
two persons who should be sent there
now cannot be accepted until two of
FRED BRANDT, a 17-year-old German
boy who lives in the Indian creek bot
toms, Gage county, accidentally shot
himself with revolver. The bullet
went through his nose and jaw, break
ing out a couple of teeth, falling into a
vest pocket.
JOHN Mcneil of North Loup, who
sold his belongings about two months
ago and went to California in search
of better country than this, returned
last week. After travelling through
California, Oregon and Washington he
is satisfied with Nebraska.
NJ. E. Roe and Park Switzler, farm
ers living few miles west of Benedict,
were robbed of sets of harness and
trappings. So much of this sort of
work has been going ON of late in that
vicinity that a very determined effort
will be made to run down the thieves
A NEW mutual insurance company
has been organized in Lincoln under
the provisions of the act of the present
legislature permitting such companies
to insure property in cities and vii
lagos. The articles were filed in the
auditors Office and the incorporators
include the governor and several prom
inent state officers.
GOVERNOR HoLCoMB has issued a
proclamation offering the state reward
of $500 for the apprehension and con-
viction of the person or persons who
murdered David Jones of Gage county.
Mr.. Jones was an old gentleman who
died of injuries inflicted by two men
who robbed him of small sum and
tortured him to compel him to reveal
the hiding place of large sum of
money which he was supposed to have
in the house.
/. p. CHAPMAN, for more than twenty
years resident of Fillmore county,
died last week. Four years ago last
fall he had serious tussle with an en-
ragged bull on a neighbor's farm, in
which he was seriously injured in the
spine, which resulted the following
Christmas in paralysis of the spine,
which rendered him entirely helpless
for over four years. But for his iron
constitution. he could not have sur
vived the terrible affiiction but short
time.
A DEMENTED man jumped from a
moving Union Pacific train at Wood
River few days ago, and, picking up
his hat, ran at great speed. He imag-
ined detectives were after him, though