The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-08-07
NEWSY a BRIEFS.

vicinity will hold their picnic at Bar
neston August 20.
Hagenow's band of Lincoln will give
a three days concert in Fremont
during September.
No hot winds have visited Nebraska
thus far this year and corr all along
the lire is doing nicely.
Section Foreman Warthen Of the
Missouri Pacific railway, was thrown
from his car near Julian and fatally
injured.
Mrs. Harry Giles was brutally as
saulted by her husband at Wymore,
and the authorities are looking for
the transgressor.
Thieves raided the merchandise
store of White Bros. at Lewiston, but
all they got for their trouble was sew
eral pairs of shoes. Bloodhounds fail
ed to locate them.
Tie chicken shooting case came up
for trial at CoZad. Brazil Chapman
was fined $3.50 and Ray Wilkinson
$3.50 for shooting prairie chickens
out of season.
Mrs. A. G. Wagner, who has held
the position of librarian of the Lydia
B. Woods library at Falls City since
it was opened, has rendered her resig-
nation. 20 take effect August 1.
During a hard electrical storm the
Missouri Pacific depot at Portal was
struck by lightning and burned to the
| ground. This depot vas considered by
railroad men to have been the finest
local station on the line.
]. l.. Speck is now superintendent
of the state property at Norfolk hos
pital grounds. A. NJ. Thomas, former
superintendent, has resigned and gone
to the western coast. There are no
signs yet of any action upon the new
building.
Ine result of the bidding for the
new normal school," said Governor
Mickey, demonstrates that a healthy
public sentiment exists in the west as
we'll as in the east. A state where
such rivalry for the location of an ed
vocational institution is possible must
be congratulated"
Mrs. W. T. Boydston, wife of w. T.
Boydston, a postal clerk running be-
tween Grand Island and Ord, attempt
ed to commit suicide. She tried to
END her earthly existence by taking
~6trychnine. After taking the drug she
informed her husband of the affair and
otter several hours work the doctors
saved her life.
Just as Erick Engel had completed
his three-year sentence in the peniten-
tiary for burglary and was about to
breathe the free air once again, he
walked instead Of into liberty into
the arms Of a sheriff armed with a
warrant for his address on the charge
of burglary Of the jewelry store of R.
S. Thornton at CoZad three years ago..
Jacob Miller, a welLto-do farmer
living six miles northeast of Scribner,
met with an accidental death. He
and his son brought to town two wag-
on loads Of corn, and when on the
elevator dump his <eam started up.
He reached for the lines, when he
overbalanced himself, falling out Of
the wagon, the wheels Of which went
over his left breast. He died in an
hour.
There will be a cadet appointed from
the Fifth congressional district to the
United States Military academy at
West Point, who will be admitted into
the academy on June Is, 1904. In or
Ger that all applicants for this posi-
ton may have an equal opportunity
to obtain the appointment, Congress
mar Norris will hold a competitive
examination at Hastings the latter
part of August.
Some interesting figures will be
presented by a crop report soon to
be issued by the department of labor
and industrial statistics. This will
give the acreage by counties through
out the state of all the principal crops,
together with a census of the live
stock. Comment on the outlook for
the yield of the various crops garner
ed by a recent trip across the state
will also be incorporated in the report.
Several changes were made in the
D. T. Hayden, one Of the pioneer
members of the bar of Otoe county,
is dead. He was county attorney OF
that county for a number of years,
and for the past four years president
of the Otoe county bar association.
Three unknown men attempted to
hold up Joseph Schneider, a farmer
living five miles east and north of Ere
mont, at his home. They not only
failed to accomplish their intent, but
We're driven off the premises by Mr.