The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-05-28
NEBRASKA.

IRON Palmyra to Auburn.
WILLIAM PARISH is in Jail at Ponc;
charged with stealing $50 worth o
pork.
TIE Latter Day Saints are preparing
TO hold camp meeting at Inman mex
month
THE Falls City school board ha.
granted an increase of salary to It's
teachers
ADJT. GEN. BARRY expects new guns
45-caiibre, for the national guard in q
few days.
THE graduating class of the Juniata
high school is much larger this spring
than usual.
A HORSE that was stolen in Burt
county in February, has been located
near Omaha.
THE TELEPHONE is the name of a
new publication issued in the interest
of York college.
WM. WILSON and Frank Smith of
Central City. charged with arson, have
been found guilty.
OMAHA's federal building is expected
to be completed and ready for occu-
pancy in about year.
ALL pigs have been removed from
the city limits of Harrington by order
of the city authorities.
CUNNING county viii contribute at
least two carloads of corn for the
famine sufferers in India.
THE 3-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
Blomquist, South Omaha, lost it's life
while playing about a bonfire.
THE mayor of Kearney has snap.
All the cigarette dealers must furnish
him with samples of their goods.
THE razor-back hogs imported" by
Madison county farmer, are rapidly
dying from some unknown cause.
III. d. MILLER of Stanton county has
broken three hundred acres of prairie
this spring and will SOW it to fax.
JOHN SPULAK, Bohemian Cunning
county farmer, has become insane and
been taken to the Norfolk asylum.
Mrs. WM. MURNAME of Fremont
wants 1000 from the city for injuries
received from a dilapidated sidewalk.
THE Union Lumber & Grain company
of Elmwood, received an order last
week from firm in Mexico for so, 900
bushels of shelled white corn.
THE court has granted leave for the
fling of the petition in quo warranto
in the case of Broatch against Moores,
involving the title to the Omaha
mayoralty.
A YOUNG farmer named Neuman, liv-
ing near Murdock, carried rifle with
him in the wagon. The gun was acci-
dentally discharged, the ball entering
the mans side. He cannot live.
ALFRED WATKINsoN of Loup City, a
hardware merchant, fell out of mis-
back stair door down fight of cellar
stairs. and is thought to have broken
several ribs loose from his backbone.
THE supreme court has reversed the
judgment of the district corrt of
Douglas county in the case of John
Rooney. convicted of larceny, the
ground that the evidence was insult
fcient to sustain the charge
A PETITION has been signed By fifty
three free holders out of ninety-eight
county irrigation district asking that
tax be levied to pay up the indebted
ness of said district and to stop the
canal.
SOME OF the young men of Falls City
have been at work the last week get
ting signatures to form a company of
the Nebraska National guard for that
place. The names, sixty-fve in num-
Der, have been secured and forwarded
to Lincoln.
THE Northwestern library company
of Fremont has Incorporated with a
capital stock of $4,000. The company
will sell at wholesale and retail books
and stationery and rent circulating
libraries. The incorporators are j. II. |
Simonton and w. II. Park.
A LITTLE daughter of J. f. Warner,
travelling with her parents in prairie
schooner from Missouri to Banner
county, fell from the wagon near Lex
ington and the front wheel of the |
heavily loaded wagon passed over her
breast, injuring her badly, but prob |
ably not fatally.
WILHELM FISHER was arraigned in |
the district court of Otoe county for
stealing a team of horses from farmer |
near Nebraska City. He pleaded |
guilty and was sentenced to six wears |
in the penitentiary He is rs years |
old, decrepit and bent with age. He |
is said to have served several terms in |
the Kansas penitentiary for similar
offenseS.
THE Nemaha Valley bridge company,
being the lowest bidder, was awarded |
the contract for building eighteen new
bridges in Cedar county washed out by
the spring floods, at $500 per lineal
foot. John Gilligan of Falls City, vice
president of the company, was present
and put up the required bond of S., 900,
which was accepted by the county
THE state medical society held a
meeting in Lincoln last week. Officers
elected are: w. o. Bridges, Omaha,
president; Robert McConaughey of
York, first vice-president; f. A. Long
of Madison, second president;
George III. Simmons of Lincoln, secre-
tary; Ii. B. Lowry of Lincoln, librarian
and corresponding secretary; w. nj.
Knapp OF Lincoln, treasurer. The
next meeting will be held in Omaha.
AT the annual meeting of the Ne
braska children's home society, held in
Fremont, G. S. Benawa of Omaha,
state treasurer, reported: Balance on
hand May j, 1896. S213.26; received dur
ing the year, So, ,445.12; disbursements,