The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-10-15
NEBRASKA.


been opened to settlement.
The Brown county fair was well at
tended and the exhibits highly credit
able
JOHN GETz of Omaha was found dead
in his store, having suicided by shoot
ing himself
THIEVES focl1ed to Auburn in great
numbers during the fair and number
of arrests were made.
THIEVES entered the store of Gard
ner Bros. at Edgar and took about $500
worth of pocket knives and razors.
A CORPSE, partially exposed, was
discovered on Missouri river sandbar
n few miles above Niobrara by Ed
Barton and an Indian named Bird.
THE September mortgage indebted
ness of Gage county is as follows:
Farm mortgages filed, %, $133, SIT: re-
leased, SO, $43,549. City mortgages
filed, 10, $11, ,465; released, IL, S6,659.
TIE creamery at Shickley burned to
the ground. There was no insurance.
Sparks from a hole in the smoke stack
near the roof is supposed to have been
the cause. 1t will bea great loss
10 the farmers.
TIE business handled by the B. & NJ.
at Nebraska City station amounted to
S33, 900 during the month of Septem-
Der. year ago the business footed
mp 81 | 900. which is certainly a very
fiattering increase.
WARREN HAY lost his barn, onc-half
mile east of Seward. together with six
hundred and fifty bushels of oats, hay,
corn, buggy, farm implements, several
hogs and many other things usually
found around Il barn. He had no in
,surance.
Henry Gass Of Columbus met with a
painful accident His team became
frightened and ran away. In attempt
ing to get ont of the wagon his clothes
caught and he was thrown violently to
the ground. sustaining compound
fracture of the left leg.
TIE United Presbyterian parson age
was burned at Rushville. 1t is sup
posed a defective fue was the cause
The building cost about 81. 500 and was
insured for 81 900, the policies being
held by one of the aid societies of the
church that helped erect the building.
FRIDAY, October Is, has been desig-
mated as Children's building day for
the public schools of West Point. In
the afternoon of this day special eXer-
cises will be rendered in all the depart
ments of the schools. The object of
the day is to arouse interest among the
pupils in behalf of the children's build
ing. which is contemplated by the
board of lady managers of the Trans
Mississippi exposition.
HARLEY SAILING and Nettie Sprague,
two young people of Lexington, arres-
ted at Beaver City, were taken back in
charge of the girls father and deputy
sheriff. They arrived in Beaver City
q week ago and had been living at
a local hotel as husband and wife.
Sailing was taken back on a charge of
seduction. The father says his daugh-
ter is under 16 years of age and that
the young man is but 20 years old.
THE funeral of Miss Daisy the young
daughter of Maj. NJ. L. Pcmbleton of
York, who died of typhoid fever, was
held in the Methodist church, and was
largely attended by the friends and
schoolmates of the young lady. Miss
Pcmbleton was an expert drummer,
having while quite a small girl exhib-
tied a wonderful talent for drumming.
She was well known in this and other
states as the drummer girl of York.
The governor has issued his procla-
nation declaring that on Tuesday, the
2nd day of November, 1897, there will
be an election held at the usual places
OF voting in the state for the purpose
of electing one Judge Of the supreme
court, two regents of the University of
Nebraska, one state seuator for the
First senatorial district and one rep
rescntative in the Eighteenth repre-
sentative district. The two legislative
offices are to be filed because of the
resignation of Senator Osborne of
Pawnee county and the death of Rep
resentative Schram of Dixon county.
JOHN III. GRUBEN, who went to st.
Louis some three weeks ago with a car
toad of dirt from the Muff farm in Sa-
line county, to have the same smelted
and assayed, returned last evening
very much elated over the results of
the trip. The dirt run between SIG
and $40 worth of bullion per ton, ac-
cording to the assayists at the st.
Louis refining company. Considerable
delay was caused in smelling on ac-
count of a lack of water and Mr.. Cru
ben was compelled to leave before all
was run through, about five tons left
to smelt. Interested parties are anx-
iousiy waiting further developments.
A Marshalltown iowa paper says:
| a travelling man who has been out in
| Nebraska says that potatoes are plenty
and cheap at Rushville, Hay Springs
and Gordon. One farmer had 400
bushels and was offering to sell at 20
| cents bushel As these towns are on
| che Chicago & Northwestern it may be
| !, good thing for some of our dealers to
| write to these towns and find out if
they cannot be shipped into Iowa.
This same man says the dry weather
of September has made the sugar beet
crop raised there the best ever known;
! that usually the beets grade IL per
cent, sugar test, but this year all are
testing IS and 90 per cent; that the
factory this season asks no questions
| and takes all that comes.
The Presbyterian church of Fair
mont celebrated its 25th anniversary