The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-09-03
NEBRASKA.

fHE swine plague is prevalent in
come parts Of Butler county.
EXTRA men are being added to the
Union Pacific shop force at North
Platte.
THE Antelope county old settlers
will have their reunion at Neigh, Sep
TENDER 10th.
EWING expects to have a bank in the
near future. Eastern parties will start
the institution.
The Bennett camp meeting by the
state holiness association was the most
successful that has yet been held.
TnDEN people have subscribed al
most enough stock to start a creamery
and expect to raise the remainder in a
few days.
A SERIES of religious meetings will
be held at Table Rock by Evangelists
Beall and Redding, commencing Sep
TENDER 9th.
GEORGE Harlan, a Saunders county
boy was seriously injured by being
thrown from a Union Pacific train be-
tween Ames and Fremont.
THE miscreants who have an appe-
tite for chickens raised by their neigh
bors that there is now a law on the
statutes making it burglary to break
into a chicken house.
THE proposed mobilization of the
federal troops and state militia at
Omaha during the exposition, IN en-
terprise of generally unsupported mag
aitude, is receiving substantial n
couragement.
MANY farmers were in town this and
last week looking for helpers, says the
Pierce Leader, but generally found all
spoken for. Any one that is in the
least inclined to do an honest days Ia
Dor need not be idle.
FREDERICK SHEPHERD, receiver Of the
State bank of Havelock, has fled his
report of the banks assets and liabil-
tiles. He figures the total assets of
the institution at $6,937.40 and the
liabilities at "a, 1928. 33, leaving an ex-
cess of assets of So. 714.07.
AN Atkinson man, while digging a
post hole, unearthed about thirty pew
ter coins which, when washed with the
yellow metal, were intended to be pass
ed for SIS gold pieces. The question is,
who could the c~ounterfeiters have
been and when was the spurious stuff
planted?
A NEW steam threshing engine and
separator, purchased by a syndicate at
O cost of 81, 400, lies at the bottom Of
Omaha creek, a small stream running
through Dakota county. The engine
was being taken across the creek at
that point when it became unmanage-
able, caused by an inexperienced en-
gineer, crashed through the bridge
and went down twenty feet to the
bottom. The machine men escaped
without injury. but the separator and
engine are nearly a total loss.
THE stockholders of the defunct Ne
braska National bank at York held a
meeting the other day and decided By
a two-thirds vote to go into liquidation.
The proposition from the City National
bank of that city to assume the obliga-
tons of the insolvent bank met with
favor, and if a few depositors can be
induced to assign over all claims in the
bar.-and accept the offer of the City
National bank to pay depositors in
four equal payments, at intervals of
six months each, the deal will be con-
Eliminated.
LOUIS OLNEY, a colored man now Of
Falls City, and formerly of Tecumseh,
has applied to Deputy Land Commits
sioner Nelson for an order releasing
his daughter from the industrial home
at Geneva. 1t seems that the mans
wife died a few years ago and left sew
eral children. The father was away
o, .-~1- - H. l1. Tho
children were Sent to the home for the
friendless and afterward to Geneva
and Kearney, according to their sex.
Now the father is fixed to care for
them-tilling a farmland he wanted
the girl out. The order was granted.
THE republican state convention was
held at Lincoln on the eth. Business
was dispatched quickly and harmoni-
ously. Judge A. NJ. Post was renomi-
mated by reclamation for his present
position on the supreme bench. G. w.
Haley of Webster county was renomi-
mated by reclamation for his present
position on the board of regents of the
University of Nebraska, and John N.
Dryden was nominated for the second
place before the ballot was taken.
There was but one real contest in the
convention, and That was o the honor
of presiding over it. In this good-na-
tured test of strength j. L. McPheeley
of Kearney county received forty mor
votes than Ben S. Baker of Douglas
county. The convention was in ses-
sion but a little longer than three
hours. Nine hundred delegates were
in attendance. Resolutions reafirm
the principles enunciated by the ma
tional republican convention of 1896;
the recent tariff legislation is COM
mended, return of business confidence
is hailed with satisfaction; crimes of
the late state auditor and state treas
urer are condemned, and demand is
made that steps be taken to o all
funds by them wrongfully diverted;
the present state administration is
criticised for sins of omission and COM
mission; regret increase of freight
rates to the seaboard and cali upon the
interstate m commission to