The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-01-08
NEBRASKA.

Soth hohho
Delayed corn huskers are taking ad-
vantage of pleasant December days to
fill up the cribs.
One grain dealer at Hebron has al
ready shipped twenty thousand bushels
of corn to the eastern markets.
Mr.. Reese, a farmer living a few
miles moth of Chapman, lost $500 worth
of hogs recently from cholera.
The Furnas county man who secured
n divorce from his wife because she
kissed the hired man, is now married to
another.
The recent converts at Superior made
up a purse of $40 and presented it to
the lady evangelist, Miss Phillips, who
has been doing religious work there.
Fifty thousand head of sheep being
fed in the western and northwest part
of Hall county is making a splendid
market for corn in that neighborhood.
At Valley Christmas afternoon while
skating on the lake, Earl Campbell and
Jay Van Syoc, aged 81 and 10 years,
sons of c. E. Campbell and Samuel Van
Syoc, farmers, were drowned, the ice
breaking.
For being accused of undue intimacy
with Chas. G~reiger's wife, a young
farmer north of York, was pounded on
the face and head by the irate husband,
from the effects of which he has since
been under the doctors care.
Mrs. w. II. Webster of Hastings in
attempting to alight from a moving
train was thrown violently to the
ground and seriously injured, sustain
ing a fracture of one of the bones Of
leg and severe bruises about the Shout
deIs.
Nebraska is her old self again and
challenges the admiration of the world
and comparison with any state in the
union" is the statement displayed on
a circular just issued by the North
western to advertise the homeSeekerS'
excursions to points in Nebraska that
will be given at reduced rates on the
first and third Tuesdays of January,
February, March, April and May.
A. l.. Reeder, foreman at DIR. Dunn's
hemp farm, in Lancaster county, mar
rowly escaped death recently. He was
working about the machinery in the
hemp mill. when his coat somehow
caught in the machinery. He was re-
volving with the shaft when a fellow
workman saw his predicament and
threw off the belt. He was badly
bruised and his o torn into shreds.
The st. Joseph and Grand Island
railway was sold at auction at Hastings
last week in front of the company's
depot in that city. The sale was made
by Master-in-Chancery Edward Sine
onton of St. Paul and was bid in for
3d. GOO, 600 by w. L. Bull of Edwards,
Sweet & Co. of New York, representing
the first mortgage bondholders. The
whole transaction occupied but a few
minutes.
improvements are going on in Oak
dale in a very satisfactory manner.
Farmers nave about finished gathering
their corn, which is 4 mammoth crop.
The Torpin elevator company is putting
in a new engine in it's elevator and
building large corn cribs to store the
crop after it is gathered. A new bridge
is being built over the Cedar creek at
that place. and evidences of prosperity
abound on all sides.
One Scow was arrested at Genoa
charged with assaulting Miss Mabel
Shaffer near Belgrade. Scow waived
preliminary examination and was
over to the district court of
Boone county. He says that he is in
nocent and can %accoun for his where
abouts all the time, and that he was
far from the place when the crime was
committed. He is a stranger in AL
bion and no one appears to know him.
James Evans, the boy who was shot
at the charivari party at Ogalalla, died
from his wounds. Nj. Evans, the
boys father, is commander of the
Oalalla Grand Army of the
Republic post. Mrs. Evans is prostrat-
ed and it is feared she may lose her
mind. Frank Iocum, the young man
who did the shooting, is in Jail on the
charge of manslaughter. He is about
% years old and is said to have been
id the habit of carrying a gun.
The preliminary examination of DR..
j. S. Goodmanson, the young dentist
who was charged with administering
s~trychnine to his wife in Fender last
September, after several continuances,
was calleQ IdSC week before JuQge Cur
ry, in the presence of a large assem-
blage of eager spectators. DIR. L. L.
Ralph, the resident physician, testified
that he was called to administer to
Mrs. Goodmanson, and that she lived
about fifteen minutes after he arrived.
From this witness it was shown Thai
the medicine was such as is usually
used in cases of ~strychnine poisoning.
The trial of all the saloon keepers of
the village OF Dodge on a complaint
filed by Louis Schinkle, charging them
with violating the Slocumb law by
keeping open on Sunday, came up be-
fore a justice of the peace in Fremont.
The complaining witness introduced no
evidence to establish the charges and
the cases were all dismissed and costs
taxed to him. The men were arrested
about a month ago and took a continu-
ance. This is the second time the
same men have beer arrested ON that
charge, and each time the complaining
witness had no evidence.
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