The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-05-22
THE 4 IN BRIEF.

a fire loss of $4,000.
The G. A. r. encampment in 1904
Will be held at Kearney.
The Wymore board Of education re
elected most of it's old teachers.
w. ]. Bryan is billed to speak at
the commencement exercises at Beat
rice, June 5.
The next state reunion of old sol.
diers will be held at Omaha. The date
has not yet been fixed.
The apple crop in Cass county, it is
said, will be a normal one notwith-
standing the cold weather.
Cedar Creek, Cass county, must get
along this year without a saloon, Ii
cense having been refused.
The Grand Army encampment at
Fremont elected Judge Lee Ssteele of
Omaha department commander.
A farm of 100 acres one mile south
of Geneva sold a year ago for $4,000
and was sold last week for $1O,250.
A three-year-oId child living near
Elmwood died from eating tablets
used as a preventive for chicken chol-
era.
The saloon fight at McCool Junction
has resulted in a withdrawal of both
the remonstrance and the petition and
McCool will go dry.
A special freight train on the Rock
Island went into the ditch nine miles
west of Fairbury, nea Thompson. No
one was seriously injured.
Thomas Masur, q popular young far
mer, who lives five and one-half miles
northwest of Tecumseh, shot and kill
ed himself. The shooting is thought
to be accidental.
Sheriff Mcbride of Cass county was
notified that a team, carriage and har-
ness were stolen from NJ. s.. Peterson,
a farmer who resides in the western
part of the county.
There is much push toward getting
the new building for the Young Mems
Christian association at Beatrice.
Twelve thousand dollars has been
raised; $4,000 more is needed.
At Omaha, Judge Dickinson issued
a temporary restraining order against
the mayor and city council, restraining
them from passing or approving the
ordinance having for it's purpose the
redistricting of the city.
An insane nan giving his name as
Clancy was brought to Beatrice from
Liberty by Deputy Sheriff McGier and
lodged in Jail. He is badly deranged
and has been sleeping in hay stacks
and roaming about from farm to farm
in that vicinity for some time.
Believing a collision to be imminent,
William Batten of Wymore, conductor
of Burlington passenger train Nc. 80,
jumped from his train near Lincoln
and received injuries which a few
hours later resulted in his death.
Charles F. Brundage, engineer, was so
severely injured hat he may die.
The Forepaugh-Sells circus was
stuck in the mud At Nebraska City
and vas unable to give a performance.
Thousands of people from surround
ing towns and the country packed the
all day and were sOrely disap-
pointed by the failure of the circus
people to provide entertainment.
Louise Moore, an ~18-year-old mail
carrier for the rural service, was
struck by No. 4 Great Western train
near Bondurant, while driving across
the track, and sustained serious inju-
ries. Miss Moore was coming in from
her daily trip, and did not see the train
until it was too late to avoid the dan
ger.
DR.. Candy of Humboldt last week
made a shipment of a carload of bees
to the Watson ranch, near Kearney,
which shipment makes the people at
the ranch the second largest bee keep
ers Of the state.
Rev. W. L. Porter of Salem, presi-
dent of the Richardson County Sunday
School association, has issued a pro-
gram for the coming meeting, which
will be he'd in Falls City, June 1-3.
The Beverages have a place on the
list, as do also Field Secretary Steid-
and Miss Mamie Haines of st.
Andrew Nelson, a Norwegian farm
er living near Ewing, Holt county, IS
the county jail at O'Neill, having
confessed to a criminal assault upon
lis daughter Mary. Is years of age.
A complaint charging him with the
crime was filed by two other daugh-
,ers of the accused. Nelson is said
have made a clean breast of the
rhine TO County Attorney Mullen, who
lied a complaint against the man,
charging incest.
The board of regents of the State
louis.
University met and denied the request
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