The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-03-05
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fatened on Platte county corn.
IT is claimed that the cribs of Nelson
contain 700, 600 bushels of corn.
Miss JACoBINE ADDITT, of Omaha,
attempted suicide by means of drugs
On the 1st of April the creamery at
st. Edward will recommence bust
ness.
THE Humphrey fire has developed
strong disposition for a water works
system.
The West Point Republican believes
that horses will soon be in demand at
Old-time prices.
NINETY per cent of the people of
Franklin county, the Sentinel says, are
using corn for fuel.
A SHOE store at Wisner was robbed
of all the shoes a horse could haul and
the burglar got away.
LIQUOR is sold in Gering, but thus
far the authorities have been unable
to locate the offenders.
WILD geese on their way north stop
in the Nebraska corn fields TO supply
the wants of the inner goose.
THE salvation army will establish a
permanent barracks in York and en-
deavor to reclaim the wayward.
JAMES DELAND, who recently died at
Florence, was "a years old. He was
participant in the Mexican war.
WILsoNvILLE will employ a night
watchman to guard the town when
coneSt men are supposed to be in bed.
Mrs. CoNwELL sues the city of Hast
ings for S., 900 damages for injuries re-
ceived by falling ON defective walk.
A NORFOLK merchant sent car con-
tanning six thousand dressed chickens
and ducks to a customer in California.
THE Third congressional district has
chosen Mrs. HollenbeclS and Mrs Glenn
mons as members of the board of mana
gers of the Trans Mississippi eNposi-
ton.
THERE are a number of dry wells in
Banner and adjoining counties that are
a constant menace to life and property.
Stock is constantly reported as falling
in these death traps.
THE rate on hay from western Ne
braska to Chicago has been reduced by
from 40 to so cents per ton. This on
ly applies from the immense hay fields
in the western part of the state.
Mrs. MARY A WOODS, an inmate of
the asylum at Lincoln, whose home
was at Seward, was found dead in her
bed. She is supposed to have died
from the rupturing of a blood vessel.
T. S. CRIsMAN, an old resident of Au-
burn, was found dead in hay loft last
week. He was at one time numbered
among the wealthy of Auburn. Of late
ha 70
drink.
THE Northwest Nebraska G. A. R en-
campment will be held at Norfolk on
March IS, that date having been fixed
by Col. H. b. Stafford of Plainview.
The district w. Z. c. will meet at the
same time and place.
If Representative Stebbins, says the
Wallace Tug, will steer bill through
providing for an experiment on arte-
sian wells on the table lands of Lincoln
county, he will not have lived more
than sixty years in vain
THE village of Battle Creek has is
sued a warning to parents that their
children must not loiter about the de-
pot or railroad yards in that town. and
also that they must prevent their boys
from carrying sling shot guns.
J. L. RICHARDS, living near Dewitt,
found frozen rattlesnake that 'ap-
peared to have been struck by biz
Zard while posing for an attack. Fear
ing it might prove case of suspended
animation, he put it in the stove.
GOVERNOR HoLCoMB has honored re-
QUESTION issued by the governor of
Iowa for the extra dition of George Big
,fo ,f nIo fc, tod
county of Franklin. Iowa, to answer to
the charge of criminal assault prefer
red by Julia Selix.
THE body of Peter Strandal, bache-
1or, living ten miles south of Niobrara.
was found hanging by the neck in his
house. He is supposed to have been
hanging there for several monshs, as
his neighbors claim they have not seen
him since last April.
ARTICLES of consolidation were filed
with Secretary of State Porter by the
Grand Island, Hastings and Southeast
ern railway company of Nebraska. and
the st. Joseph, Hanover and Western
railway company of Kansas. The con-
solidated road forms continuous line
from Grand Island to ST. Joseph. and
the new name assumed is the st. Jo-
seph and Grand Island railway COM
pany.
A BOHEMIAN lad by the name of
Tourney, living on the Ponca reserva-
ton, about two miles west of Niobrara
was playing with a revolver, showing
his father how it worked, when it was
accidentally discharged, shooting the
old gentleman through the hand and
then striking his little daughter just
below the first rib on the left side The
ball could not be located by the doc
tors and the injury is almost certain to
prove fatal.
STEPS are being taken for a bird day
In Nebraska. On that day it shall be
the duty of schools within the state to
observe the occasion by exercises in
the form of lectures, readings of bird
literature, the writing of essays and
singing of songs about birds as well as
the recounting of personal experiences
with these creatures. The date for
such observance to be on the Friday
falling nearest to the middle of the
month of May each year.
Miss CLAUD B. PHILLIPS, daughter of
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