The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-05-21
NEBRASKA.

to make music for the state fair.
Two fatal cases of black diphtheria
are reported in Pawnee county, neal
Table Rock.
FRANK DUNLAP fell down an elevator
shaft in "a Grand Island business house
and was instantly killed.
A POOR man looked for work foI
months and finally found it last week
in Seward. The first day one of his
fingers was amputated by a buzz saw,
COLUMBUS is afflicted with an epi
demic of measles. New cases are
reported daily. And out of one school
room alone twenty-one pupils are
down.
A GRANARY on the farm of A. =.
Sheppard, six miles north of Fremont
was burned. About 600 bushels OF
wheat and 200 bushels of oats. belong
ing to Homer Merrill, the tenant, were
burned.
THE body of Andrew Anderson was
found floating on the Gothenburp lake.
The deceased was born near Stock
holm. Sweden, and was rs years old.
and rather childish in disposition. The
drowning is reported as accidental
II is denied at the state house that
the Legislative examining committee is
making any discoveries in the auditor S
Office. EX-Auditor Moore says the re-
port was started for the purpose of
preiudicing his cases now in the
courts.
MATT BEsCH. Bellwood farmer. had
eight hogs stolen on as many different
nights He watched his hog ward one
night armed with a shot gun. The
thieves came. but his aim was poor
and he did no more than frighten
them away.
HIRAM SMOKE. who has been feeding
flock of sheep at Battle Creek the
past winter, had eighty-three of them
killed last week by dogs. He has Sc
cured the services of Attorney kilburn
and will prosecute the owners of the
dogs if they can be found.
THE crop acreage along the irriga-
ton bitches in Lincoln county this
season will be unusually large. wheat
and corn being the principal crop.
Wheat at present promises a more
abundant yield than at any time since
the bitches We're completed.
Two TRAMPS were arrested in the
railroad yards at Beatrice and they an
swer closely the descriptions of the
chaps who robbed the postoffice at
Ames. The authorities have been wired
and the suspects will be held until an
officer arrives to identify them.
WALT POWELL. farmer, was found
on the B. q NJ. right of way near
Giltner shot in the mouth and nearly
dead. Opinion differs as to whether it
is an attempted suicide or murder.
Powell is pioneer resident of Hamil
ton county. The coroner is Investigate
ing the case.
BURGLARS entered NJ. Kohn's general
store at Aurora and robbed the money
drawer of $3 or 81 in change and car
ried away some clothing. They evil
IDENTIFY took fright before completing
their work, as they had dropped
bundle of clothing at the door. There
is no trace of the robbers.
A CARLOAD of corn of $50 bushels
was shipped from Pawnee CITY to New
York City. where it will be loaded into
a steamer and taken to the starving
people of India. This is only the first
move on the part of citizens of Pawnee
county to assist in relieving the suffer-
ing humanity of India.
p. Il. MoRGANTHALLI. travelling
liquor salesman. who tried to force an
entrance into the house of Mrs Olaf
Olson at Harrington. was arrested at
Wayne and brought before Judge
Weed of Harrington. Morganthalli
pleaded guilty and paid fine and costs,
which amounted to $50.
THE body of Leonard Guy. drowned
in the ElllhOrn river on the 4th of this
month, was recovered about $50 feet
from where it fell in. His clothes had
caught in a fallen tree and the body
was held under water. Some of the
searchers took a notion to shake this
tree. which released the body.
AT Arcadia the other day when Mrs.
i. Hill lighted the gasoline stove to
prepare supper. the stove and tank
which feeds it became enveloped in
flames. Mr.. Hill was present. and
with remarkable presence of mind
wrenched the tank from its supports
and threw it into the street. He then
threw ont the stove. Mr.. Hills hands
were slightly burned. but the house
was saved.
ONE of Uncle Sans large naval gums
passed through Columbus westbound
last week and attracted much atten-
ton while in the Union Pacific wards
for abont an hour. 1t was IA ten-inch
brccch-loading rifle of the telescope
pattern. was thirtytwo feet long and
was transported on Il specially built
1iatcar supported by eight pairs of
trucks. The gun throws :. projectilc
weighing 500 pounds Il distance of
seven miles.
WASHINGTON dispatch says the lands
comprising the abapdoned Fort RAN
dali military reservation in the O'Neill
land office district in Nebraska Will
shortly be appraised preparatory to
being opened to settlement. The res
cryatiOn includes about 81 600 acres in
Nebraska and something like 60 900
acres in South Dakota. In the latter
the state has one wear in which to
select lands for educational purposes.
Until that is completed the appraise-
ment and opening of the lands will
not take place.
The postotficc at .\rapahoc was
broken into last week by burglars.
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