The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-08-26
NEBRASKA.

Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Ayres of FIRE.
mont last week celebrated their goiuen
wedding.
An auxiliary to the national Red
Cross society has been organized at
Holdrege.
There is a afloat in Hastings
to the effect that the b. & NJ. Railroad
company contemplates erecting a large
new depot in Hastings before long.
The Duncan creamery is fast nearing
completion under the efficient manage
ment of Mr.. Lupton, an expert me-
chanic who has charge Of the plant.
The city of Harrington is making ex-
tensive preparations to entertain the
third annual log-rolling picnic of the
Modern Woodmen Of northeastern Ne
braska.
Mrs. Cora Cox, who was engaged in
washing, undertook to pour some gas
cline into a boiler of boiling water,
when it took fire and exploded, burn
ing her severely about the face and
neck.
The Nebraska fish car in charge Of
Commissioner Oberfelder and Super
IlJtIlutUJ VIZ Ia lSh a. 'tN
ney. 1t unloaded a car of assorted fish
at Krueger's lake, six miles east OF
that place.
George Wright of Rock Creek pre-
cir1t, Otoe county, had 1000 bushels
of pats in stack burned. Indications
point strongly to willful burning. The
Lincoln bloodhounds were sent for and
will be put on the trail.
William Daily, one of the leading
stockmen of the state, IS urging the
organization of cattlemen to control
the price of feeders, and will probably
issue a call SEQ for a meeting the lat
ter part Of next month.
In response to Governor Holcomb's
request to get the Second regiment
into a Porto Rico expedition, Congress
man Stark ~telegraphed: Presented the
request for active service for the Sec
end Nebraska. Department advised
that in event of another expedition, the
claim of that regiment would be con-
sidered among the first"
Mrs. Delilah Cromwell. the Oldest
woman in Nebraska, is dead, at her
home near Table Rock. She was a
small girl when Washington was pres
ident, and insisted that she was born
in 1878. Neighbors who have known
her for thirty years believe she was
about 10 years old. Her fourth hus-
band died Of old age a quarter of a
century ago.
The n~fne-year-o1d son OF William
Carroll, a farmer living four or five
miles southwest of Table Rock, was
thrown from q calf he was attempting
to ride and was injured about the hip.
TWAS not supposed he was much hurt
and little attention was paid to him
until symptoms of blood poisoning
made their appearance and he grew
rapidly worse and died.
The corn crop of this locality, says
a Columbus dispatch, has been careful
ly examined the past week by men OF
good judgment and it has developed
that the heavy rain of a week ago was
worth thousands OF dollars to the crop
of this county. 1t is conceded now by
good competent judges that pieces
which were given UP as absolutely
ruined will return a fair crop and some
that were thought to be partly de-
stroyed will yield a good large crop.
The lands under the Harris & Cooper
irrigating ditch in Dawes county offer
some evidence of the benefits derived
from irrigation. About 800 acres un-
der this ditch will yield this year the
largest amount of crops ever raised
in the state of Nebraska from that
amount of acreage. Three crops Of
hay will be cut from the alfalfa fields,
yielding not less than eight tons per
acre and oats as high as 100 bushels
per acre. The coming year about 1000
acres of land will be brought under fr-
rigation from this ditch.
Lightning did considerable damage
throughout Seward county during a
recent storm. Rev. w. L. Boyd's house
in Seward was struck. demolishing a
chimney, and H. Bloomenkamp's house
in I town was struck. but did little
damage. A number of grain stacks be-
longing to Jesse James, four miles
southwest of Beaver Crossing, were de-
stroyed, and a stack of wheat belong
ing to William Morford in n. town
burned. Two horses we're killed
in a pasture on the Captain Seals place
north of Seward, belonging to Fred
Allgaier. Perhaps the heaviest loss
SuSIdlu6u Nv SICl 1ASiiSi, hCoi
Germantown. His barn was struck
and burned up, with four horses and a
lot of hoes.
The Nebraska State Bill Posting as
ISOLATION filed articles of incorporation
under the state law, the headquarters
to be 1T Lincoln. The stockholders
are w. I. Spere, F. L.. Coster, Julia Oil
yer, F. NJ. Blanchard and A. H. Wier.
A telegram was received at Fremont
by Miss Ida Sidner from Captain Gull
ver Of Troop K. Third United States
cavalry that her brother,
CORPORAL Sidner, of that troop was very
low with typhoid fever at Chickamau-
pa. His parents, who live about eight
from Fremont, were at once no
tifed and Miss Sidner and her father
left for Chickamauga. Corporal Sid
ner was a graduate of the Fremont
school and at the date of his
was a law student in the
flee of w. J. Courtwright.
september 16 is the day designated
&c oklahoma Day at the Transmits
rissippi Exposition, and it is believed
the territory will be much in evil
1pnce on that occasion.
u .Jackman. a Burlington express
accidentally shot himself
u.biIe on his run. He was on train No.