The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-05-14
NEBRASKA.

CLARKs, heretofore minus saloons, is
likely oon TO have three of them.
YORK county will send 1900 bushels
of corn to the starving people of India.
AS A RESULT of the revival at Cort-
land thirty-eight persons united with
the Congregational church.
on INSPECTOR JOHNSTON has turned
over to the treasurer $500 excess fees
for the quarter ending March 81.
EVANGELIST SUNDAY, who made him
self quite obnoxious at Beatrice. is now
conducting u series of meetings at
Humboldt. /,
THE general merchandise store of
Byrne Bros, at Baden, was entered
by thieves and the store looted of
clothing, dry goods, shoes and other
goods.
THE Exeter national bank went into
voluntary liquidation April 30 and is
succeeded by Wallace 81 Co., who will
continue the business as a private
banking institution.
a CAMP of Royal Neighbors of Amer
lea was instituted at Mead on May l by
Mrs. ii. S. Schenck, deputy supreme
oracle of Lincoln. 1t starts out with
twenty eight members.
JOSEPH WEBER, the son of a pros
porous farmer living near Elm Creek,
died suddenly on the depot steps at
Kearney while preparing to take the
train for home. He had valvular dis
ease of the heart.
CHARLES WOODRUFF, living near Ne
braska City, was leading a cow with d
lariat when she became unmanageable
and in the ''miX-up" his hip was dislo-
Gated and the bone fractured. 1t may
cripple him for Life.
AS w. IL. CARSON of Osceola was
leading his mules out to water they
reared up and threw the old man to
the ground, %tramping on him, break
ing N of the bones of his leg and
otherwise injuring him.
Il. babe, proprietor of the packing
house at Niobrara, has been awarded
the contract for furnishing dressed
beef to the Yankton, Santee and Ponca
agencies, aggregating BIG, 900 pounds,
amounting to about $4,000.
ARCHITECT A. II. DYER and Engineer
7. DE Lameter were in Schuyler last
week and entered into an agreement
with the Nebraska chicory company to
furnish plans and specifications for the
plant that is to be erected there.
THE Acknowledgements office has
been notified of the election of VIM. II.
Hayward as captain, and Frank H.
Meyers of Lincoln as first lieutenant
company C., Second regiment, Nebras-
ka national guard, the Nebraska City |
company.
AN elegant souvenir has been re-
ceived by Gov. Holcomb. 1t is a souye-
mir plate designed and decorated by a
New York firm as a memento of the
dedication day of Gen. Grants tomb. |
The Grant monument forms a central
in the design.
LENNARD GUY was drowned in the
Elkhorn river six miles south of Elk |
horn. He was working in a field
adjacent to the river and went to the !
waters edge, when the bank caved in
and precipitated him into fifeeen feet
of water. He could not swim.
THE managers of The Warren live
stock association at Duncan have
the remainder of their sheep to |
Omaha. They made but one
to Chicago and four ship
ments to Omaha. The Omaha market
gave them by far the better returns.
JACOB MUNTz, an aged German of
committed suicide under pc
circumstances. He had ]a.ouarrel
with his wife and drove her from the
house, and after she had gone, presum-
ably in a fit of remorse, took poison.
He was found dead by his neighbors.
BURGLARS entered the saloon of
High Quaekenbush at Humboldt and
a large black leather p~ocketbook
and a small purse containing SIS in
bills and silver, two bottles of whisky
and some, cigars. They tried to force
open the back window but failed and
tEen forced IN entrance into the cellar,
from which they gained entrance
through the stairway.
THE adjutant general has received
from Washington that the
of desertion has been removed
from the record of Sylvanus S. Lock-
hart, who enlisted in company A, First
Cavalry dt Omaha. October.
q, 1863. Lockhart was charged on the
as having deserted on August
20, 1865. The discharge now granted
back to June Is, 1865.
A WASHINGTON dispatch saws that
Judge Strobe is ~endeavoring to secure
reinstatement in the bureau of
animal industry at South Omaha of
Capt. Phelps Paine of Lincoln. The
visited the secretary of agriculture
laid the case before him. Secre-
Wilson promised to investigate
the matter fully and said that if there
a possibility of reinstating Captain
Paine, as an old soldier, he wouldd do SO.
The men who broke into J.. w.
rranmer's dry goods store at Auburn
Dne day last week and who were caught
at Nebraska City, had their hearing.
pairs of pants We're found IN their
possession and to date twelve pairs of
pants and two o~vercoatS have been re-
covered. all having been found at Nc
Draska City. Mr.. Cranmer and clerks
positively identify two of the men as
persons who We're in their store during
late afternoon of the day on which
he burglary occurred.
NAY IA to 16 there will be in Schuy-
err the district convention of the Y. =.
c. f. About fifty delegates are ex-
to be present.
THE 8 9 session laws are being COM