The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-03-19
NEBRASKA.

prODdDi DC reOTRdHlZcu.
FRANCIS SCHwEDHELM, a pioneer of
Cunning county, died last week.
Party lines will be closely drawn
in the election at Tecumseh this spring.
IT is probable that the city council
Of Kearney will pass a curfew ordi-
nance.
o. j. FLOYD of Elm Creek has 40. 900
bushels of corn, and is building cribs
for more.
JOHN TUERoY of Nebraska City had
his arm and shoulder badly crushed in
a runaway.
FIFTY cases of measles and grip are
reported among the pupils at the Win
nebago agency.
WASHINGTON dispatches report many
NebraskanS on hand looking after
political place.
CAPITALISTS are figuring on a new
hotel at Fairbury, which is to be first
class in all particulars.
j. STERLING MORTON, late of Cleve-
lands cabinet, will not return to Ne
braska for some time owing to illness
of his sister.
THE Missouri river is expected to
ave a high stage of water this year
because OF the unusually deep snow in
the mountains.
THE Burlington has commenced work
on its new depot at Omaha. Its dimen-
sions will be SOx20O, and all roads that
want to can come in.
JOHN CONWAY, of Johnson county.
while trying to escape from al officer.
was shot in the leg. The charge
against him is statutory rape.
THE bar of Fremont will give a ban
quet to Judge w. II. Munger, in honor
of his elevation from an attorney to
the United States circuit judgeship.
THE toughs who assaulted a defense
less citizen at a dance near Dakota
City some weeks ago., were lately given
jail sentences ranging from thirty to
ninety days.
NEAR North Loup a pile driver shot
down when there was no piling in
place and buried itself so deep in the
sand that resurrection will be difficult
and expensive.
HOUSE roll No. 224, is a bill provid-
ing for the appropriation of $25 900 for
the erection of an additional wing to
the Norfolk hospital. 1t has been
placed on general file.
REX, the 6-year-old son of w. L. Ran
dali, agent for the Union Pacific at
Duncan, was kicked between the eyes
by a horse INC badly hurt. Had the
animal been shod the boy would have
been killed.
The state meeting of the Home Forum
benefit order will be held at York
h-.1 ~ TI~,o z.o-o- .I-,,x
fifty forums in Nebraska and each one
will probably be represented by at
least one delegate.
THE Nebraska lumber dealers asso-
citation will meet in Lincoln on March
16 and IL. It is expected that 200 or
300 solid business men will be present.
The local lumbermen are planning to
entertain the visitors.
w. w. Dunn of Pierce, was caught
stealing money out of the drawer of
Herman Manske's saloon in hat place.
Dunn was suspected and a watch was
set, resulting in nabbing him in the
act of robbing the till.
WHILE Mr.. thinner, bridge tender
for the Missouri Pacific at Louisville,
was punching at a chunk of ice with a
P1hS PoiS IN loSO IS pdldliSC AiO 1Cll
head first into the water. He was not
hurt and managed to swim ashore.
MATT NJ. CLAIR, the postmaster at
North Platte, had his leg broken below
the knee while assisting in loading
some of NJ. c. Keithis stock at the
stock yards. A horse kicked him,
knocking him over and causing the
fracture.
The damage suit of Z. Fl. Benedict
against the city of O'Neill for $4,000
was tried before Judge Kinkaid. the
jury returning d verdict for the plain
tiff for $500 and costs. amounting tc
about 5000. This was the third trial of
the case.
MRS. HENRY B. HAYES, residing
about five miles west of Wisner, com
mitted suicide by swallowing a large
dose of Paris green. She leaves a hus-
band and five children. Domestic
trouble was the cause of her self
destruction.
c. j. ANDERSON and Charles Ander-
Son, father and son. were brought to
Omaha from Oakland, charged with
selling liquor without a government
license. The father was discharged.
but the son will have to answer before
the federal court.
VALLEY county's mortgage record
for the month of February is as follows:
Thirteen farm mortgages filed amount
ing to SS,559.50; t~wenty-nine satisfied,
S12,456.10 Ninety-six chattle mort
cages flied amounting to S33.276.33
seventy satisfied, S30,343.O1.
THE boys history club of Platts-
mouth gave an enjoyable entertain
ment at the home of United States
Marshal Frank E. White. DIR. Miller.
president of the humane society OF
Omaha, who was the guest of honor,
tittingly addressed those assembled.
A GERMAN farmer, living in Grand
Prairie township. Platte county. was
examined by the commissioners of in
sanity and adjudged insane. He is 80
years of age and his strange hallucina-
tons lead him to believe that everyone
is pursuing him seeking to take his life.
THE 3-year-old son of Mr.. Vangen. a
Bohemian farmer living six miles
south of Burwell, was fatally burned.
The child's clothing caught fire from a
stove and before assistance arrived