The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-18
NEBRASKA.

over the crop outlook.
BUTLER countys district court opened
with one hundred cases on the docket.
THE home of Edgar McCarty, of Otoe
county, was destroyed by fire. Most OF
the contents were saved.
NEAR Wisner feed grinder fell onto
VIM. Wegner and crushed him SO badly
that he died soon after the accident.
A NEW bank has been established at
Atkinson by Gallagher & Co., who OPP
crate the First National bank at o'Neill.
TIE First State bank of Lushton has
gone into voluntary liquidation and is
paying off depositors. The officers say
the business did not pay.
A MAN in Cheyenne county started off
on a hunting trip and after going elev-
en- miles his horse broke loose and
started home. He had to walk nearly
a day to capture him.
K. T. GREGG of Crawford had four
horses badly cut and one killed by get
ting tangled up in a barb wire fence,
into which it is supposed they were
chased by gray wolves.
FIRE broke out in the livery barn at
Marquette, burning up six head of
horses, one colt and a COW, the harness,
alSO destroying Jue HOlel DdrH. Virgin
of the blaze is unknown.
PERRY & MATHEWS Syndicate circus,
Museum and Menagerie company came
to grief at West Point. 1t has been
travelling in hard luck for some time,
the weather and roads being against it.
j. s. WRIGHT, of Omaha, for endeav-
oring to bribe jurors, was given two
years in the Douglas county Jail. He
is &c years old and ought to have known
better, but then there is no fool like
an old fool"
R. KINMAN, an inmate of the asylum
for the incurable insane at Hastings,
escaped some days ago and made his
way to his home in Polk county. The
sheriff took him into custody and has
taken him back to Hastings.
REV. JONATHANC. REDDING, the evan
gelist, will begin special evangelistic
meetings at Nebraska City June 13.
Later on he will hold services in four
cities in southern Nebraska during Au-
gust and September, with Rev. John
Byron Beall.
The races which were to have been
held at Lincoln park during the third
week of June, have been declared off
on account of the small number OF en-
tries. The secretary of the association
has mailed checks to all those who had
made cash entries.
CHRIS RASMUSSEN, a young man who
for some weeks had been working for
a man by the name of Walstrom, near
Decatur, Burt county, stole one of his
employers horses. Sheriff Lanford
caught him near Argo, Washington
county. Rasmussen had the horse in
his possession, together with fine sad
die which citizen of Burt county has
been seeking for some weeks.
FARMERS in the vicinity of Fremont
report considerable damage to corn by
cut worms. The cold, dry weather and
the slow growth of the corn. make their
ravages particularly heavy. The worms
have cleaned out some fields entirely,
and much corn will have to be re-
planted. That which is up is looking
yellow and not growing. Small grain
is not doing well, owing to unfavora
ble weather.
MASTER GRELL BEss, aged II. and
Miss Manda Klipping, aged IA. disap-
peared from their home at Decatur
last week. Word subsequently came
from Onawa that they were there and
married. The parents of both the
young people are highly indignant over
the affair. The youthful couple, how
ever, have sent word that they are hap
py and taking life just as they find it.
which, of course, is perfectly delight
full during the honeymoon days.
A BEATRICE dispatch says that Sen
ator Mutz as assistant, and Silver, who
have been at work upon the books of
the state institution for several weeks,
nave concluded their laborS. and have
returned home. 1t is well understood
that both gentlemen are profuse in their
praise of DR.. Falls management of the
institution, and that Senator Mutz has
not refrained from expressing his ideas
about the trouble between Fall and the
state board to Governor Holcomb.
GEO W. BURTON. president of the de-
funct First National bank of Orleans,
was at the state house last week. He
is making an effort to reorganiZe the
bank under the state banking law, re-
ducing the amount of capital stock and
getting in some strong stockholders
He viii make proposition to the
state officials that the bank be reorgan-
lied if the state funds can be left on de-
posit in the new institution for a time
until they can be drawn with safety.
THE Butler County Sugar Beet and
Chicory association has organized by
the election of Thomas Wolfe, presi-
dent; John Klosterman, vice-president;
A. j. Evans, secretary. and Nick Ny
senburg. treasurer. The object of the
association is to secure contracts from
farmers and gardeners to plant from
5000 to 5000 acres of these crops in
1898 and use the contracts as an in
ducement to capitalists to build fac
tory in Butler county.
THE United Danish Evangelical Luz
theran assembly closed at Blair last
week, after seven days session. Off
GERS were elected and it was decided
that the national headquarters of the
church shall be at Blair. The college
located there, which has been closed
last year, will be reopened and all can
didates for the ministry, after passing
through preparatory colleges else
Mill 70 R1ai.