The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-01-28
NEBRASKA.

u religious revival.
A system of sewerage is being plan
ned for Columbus.
Shelton people are moving in the
matter OF public library.
Sheep owners of Kimball county
have perfected an organization.
The Otoe County Fair and Driving
Association, has been organized and
officers chosen.
Fillmore county has just paid an in
etallment of $4,000 On its court h-u e
bonded Indebtedness.
County Treasurer Eikenbarg, of
Cass county, is minus one foot from
wounds received while hunting.
The population of Alliance =. said
TO be nearly, or not quite, o,vOJ.
A creamery, to cost $1,000, is to be
built at Calhoun.
Nearly 100000 feet of lumber was
sold at the Alliance yards during the
last year, and nearly 10000 tons of
coal sold at the coal yards.
A small barn on the premises rented
by David Signer, of Norfolk, burned.
A team of horses, harness and all
other contents of the barn were con-
sumed
Burglars broke into T. T. McDon-
aids store, at TiIden. About 5000
worth of goods were stolen, including
several watches, chains, rings, cloth
ing and shoes.
The farmers Of Southwestern Ne
braska will hold their third annual
convention at McCook, February 2,
They expect to have the star meeting
of their organization.
A farmer near Humboldt was sur
prised the other morning to find two
valuable horses dead in their stalls.
He attributes their death to eating
bearded wheat straw.
There is a man at Alma, Harlan
county, who has been putting in his
spare time the past year washing out
gold in the Republican river, and he
declares the work irritable.
The aged mother of H. Boettcher,
a Union Pacific section foreman at
Gardiner, dropped dead while eating
supper with her daughters family in
Columbus. Heart failure.
ST. Paul has been chosen as the
location for the next district reunion
of soldiers, to be held from July 4 to
z, inclusive The district is composed
of Greeley, Wheeler, Valley, Garfield
and Howard counties.
The appointment of Henry Gibbons
as postmaster at Kearney was a great
surprise to many Of the denizens Of
that place. There were several can
didates, all of whom were supposed to
have a better pull than the man who
got there.
Robinson, who is supposed to be the
man that tried to criminally assault a
little girl at Hastings, was arrested
in Juniata. He made an attempt to
escape, but was recaptured after an
exciting chase. He was taken back
to Hastings.
Fred Rasmussen, young man liv-
ing at Leigh, was caught in corn
shelter, mutilating his right arm be-
tween the wrist and elbow. The ar
teries were severed, tendons torn from
the muscles, and the wrist bone
ground in two.
John Woods, a son of Ross Woods,
a prominent farmer of the neighbor-
hood Of Burwell, dropped dead in the
door yard. The deceased was about
% years of age, and was bright,
prominent youth. He was addicted
to no bad habits, nor had he been all
ing Death is attributed to heart fail
ure.
The case of Bishop Bonacum of Lin
coin, VS.. the old trustees of St. An
drew's Catholic Church, at Tecum-
Shaughnessy and Mi
chael Murphy-for possession of
church property, was decided in favor
of the bishop in the district court at
in special session, by Judge
G. B. Letton.
There was a robbery in the court
house at Osceola, while Judge Gets
was settling up an estate. He had
stepped into the vault, leaving his
box on the table or window
sill. There were but four persons in
the room, and search revealed the
guilty party. He was allowed to go
prosecution.
The annual report of Recorder
Charles c. Brant, of Otoe county. has
been completed, showing that during
the past year there was filed on city
and farm property mortgages amount
ing to 1854, ,990. OIL, and mortgages sat
isfied to the value of $461, 1902 thus
reducing the mortgage Indebtedness of
Otoe county S106,970.21.
Henry Linwood, of Lexington, a
young man of about 81, was seriously
and probably fatally injured. He
rooms on the second floor of one of the
business blocks. In some manner he
fell from the roof to the ground,
distance of twenty-four feet. His
skull was fractured and the internal
injuries are thought to be fatal.
Burglars made a great haul On
Glenn Zieglers store at st. James.
They took the entire line of mems and
fine clothes, every bolt of fine !
dress goods, and completely gutted
two large show cases, which were fill
ed with notions, trinkets and jeweIry.
Anna Vrana, a 4-year-old daughter
Of John Vrana, was burned to death
1t her home, six miles south of Morse
Bluff. The little girl was left alone
n the house while her father went out |
20 do some chores.
While the Bartels boys were cross
ng the Missouri river from Sioux |
City to Dakota City, with forty-five |
head of stock cattle, the ice gave way |
md all but three head went into the |
irfo non ont Of