The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-01-14
NEBRASKA NEWS.

for his meanness.
The village of Dodge has outlawed
the slot machines and suppressed the
Sunday traffic in red liquor.
In Northwestern Nebraska several
stockmen are vaccinating their cattle
as preventive for black leg.
Two thousand head of cattle were
unloaded at Ewing In one week. They
are to be wintered in that vicinity.
Mr.. Strayer, of MARYLAND, a small
3town six miles southwest OF Geneva.
had hand torn of In O corn shelter.
A wedding was headed off at Cozard
by the girls mother, who appeared on
the scene and carried the prospective
bride home in triumph.
J. A. Hunter, ranchman OF Box
Butte county, will answer in the fed
eral court to the cnarge Of fencing gov
ernment land for private gain.
The South Omaha Live Stock ex-
change will have large delegation at
the national live stock grower cen
yention, which will be held in Denver,
Jan. 25 to %.
f. N. Merwin. secretary of the Ne
bslska Press association, announces
postponement Of the annual meeting
at Lincoln from January IL and II to
January 25 and 26.
A child of Charles Snooks. living at
Elm Creek, fell over pan of hot Goals
running her hand and arm into the
pan, burning her hand so that the skin
and finger nails fell off.
Harry HaseklI, wanted in Fort
Madison, Ia, for forgery, is now in
Jail at Beaver City, awaiting the ar
rival of officers from Iowa. He VS.
neatly captured by Sheriff Moulin.
Miss Pearl Richardson. of Wisner,
has been elected Cunning county's
maid of honor to Queen Polaris for
the ice carnival to be held in Omaha
from the 18th to the 22d of this
4 month.
Times seem to be reasonably good
on the frontier. The treasurer of Ban
ner county sent out 125 notices to de-
1inquent tax payers, and all but half
dozen called and paid up all del:n-
Quencies.
Work on the creamery and cheese
factory for Pender will begin at once
Some twelve or fifteen carpenters will
be employed and the process of build
ing and placing the machinery pushed
with TaDidity.
The post Office at Arapahoe was
again burglariZed the other night, this
being the second time within year.
About $50 in money and pos.age
stamps was secured. Mrs. Vickroy, a
widow, was also robbed of $15.
F. E. Ward, the county Judge of
Burt county, issued during the year
1897 ninety-nine marriage licenses
This is record breaker for this
county, as ninety is the largest num-
Der ever issued in a single year before
in Burt county.
Regardless of the fact that the larg.
est hay crop in the history of Kimball
county was harvested last fall, a
shortage is already in sight. This is
due to the demand for feed by those
who have brought CATTLE in to winter
from the west and south.
Mrs. job Heath, of Wallace. died
very suddenly. She went to bed appar-
emily in the best of health, awaking
her husband about 2 o'clock, telling
him she felt bad and before medical
aid could be had she was dead. She
leaves four small children.
A complaint of insanity has been
filed against James H. Gallien, eX-
sneriff Of Cunning county, who at
tempted suicide few days a-o. SiGce
the attempt Mr.. Gallien has been con-
fined in Jail by the authorities,
fearing repetition of the act.
A wedding was billed to take place
~
groom failed to put In an appearance.
A letter received some days laer
stated that the was called to the bed-
side of a sick brother in Kansas. The |
girl refuses to have anything mere to
do with him.
The store of Henry Williams. at |
Precept, Hitchcock county, burned to |
the ground with its entire contents. |
The building was nearly consumed |
when discovered. The postoffice was |
located in the store. All of the mail, |
stamps and a small sum of money |
were destroyed.
A reQuisition has been ISSUED for
the return of Otis Anselen from Kan
sas City to this state to answer the |
charge of burglary. Anselen has been
identified as one of the burglars who !
recently looted the bank, at Boe'us
Howard county, at which time $1,2S425
was carried away.
Christine Olson, the wife Of Jens F.
Olson, carpenter living in the south
east portion of Lincoln, committed
suicide by hanging in barn at the
family residence. She had been men
tally unsound for years, the ma ady
itself in moods OF morbid
CT spirits.
Pat Rooney, a resident of Norfolk,
has an ancient coin thai has come
down from father to son for 800 years.
the coin having been dug Up by the
ancestors Of the family in the bogs
of Ireland three centuries ago. Pat
received the coin from the hands OF
his father when he started for Amer
lea in 1859. AS near as can be dsci-
phered the coin dates bac-- o the four
teenth century.
A stranger in Grand Island. while
taking bath was robbed of SIS that
should have been in his inside pocket,
but was tucked away in his vest.
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