The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-02-20
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.

DdTucSIoH, March ISL.
The Nebraska Editorial association
meeting at Hastings was unusually
well attended.
The telephone company at Arlington
will erect a suitable building for car
rying on its work.
York county farmers are organizing
to handle their own products by ele'
vator and otherwise.
| Fire destroyed four buildings In
BARLEY and scorched another so badly
as to practically render it worthless.
The Y. NJ. c. A. board of Fremont,
has decided to build a two-story build
ing with basement, to cost about $685.
600.
| The Fremont public labrary build
ing, the cost of which, $4,000, was do
mated by Andrew Carnegie, has been
completed and accepted by the library
board.
Cyrus Kelley, a young man Of Bur-
well, was instantly killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of gun. The re-
mains were taken to Tekamah for
burial.
The two children Of Mrs. James
Lyons, Lincoln, were burned to death
while the mother was temporarily alb
sent. She had locked them In the
house while making a neighborly call.
While trying to start a fire in the
| furnace at the home Of Mrs. Wads-
worth at Beatrice, Miss Bessie Nc
Kinney was badly burned about the
gas.
Mrs. Nancy J. Taylor of Fremont,
has sued the Union Pacific Railroad
company in the district court for $780,
| 600 damages, alleged to have been sus-
tanned at the passenger station in
Council Bluffs.
The Lange Canning & Preserving
| company of Beatrice, which contem-
plated moving it's plant 70 Fremont,
has decided to remain in Beatrice and
will erect new factory north of town
which will cost about SIS, 900.
Fred Sibert, young man living
fourteen miles southwest of Red
Cloud, was killed while chCpping down
trees. A tree fell carrying him and
pinning him to the ground. His arms
and legs were broken and His body
horribly mangled.
H. c. Grese, representing the Ames
beet sugar people, has been at Tren-
ton interesting the farmers in sugar
beets. He secured a number of con-
tracts and large acreage will be put
in. Culbertson has organized a sugar
beet association.
Otto L. Gibson, former prominent
resident, met death in a peculiar man
ner near Blackfoot, Idaho, recently.
He ate from raisin stew prepared in
a galvanized iron vessel. By some
causing death during the night.
Sven E. Benson, an Elkhorn section
man, was run over and killed in the
companys yards at Fremont He was
clearing the ice from a switch and was
struck by some cars that were being
kicked back The dead man was 80
years of age and leaves four small
children.
John Krema, prominent Bohemian
and former business man of Schuyler,
shot himself fatally. He had been
brooding over financial matters for
some time and was, it is alleged, short
in his accounts as treasurer of the
Woodmen of the World. He leaves
wife and three children.
At Anoka, during a quarrel between
Clarence butcher and F. L. Williams,
bus drivers OF Butte, as to the proper
places to have their buses at the de-
pot, butcher drew 45-caliber revolver
and shot at Williams but missed. He
was arrested, charged with shooting
with intent to kill and bound over
under bail of $500.
Albert Gerling, a farmer residing
twelve miles north of Humphrey, made
an attempt to commit suicide by TAX
ing strychnine. 1t seems that an over
dose was taken and with medical as
sistance he was saved. Gerling has
been ailing for the past two years is
the only cause given for his attempt
ing to take his own life.
Raymond Brooks, carrier on rural
rural route No. 1, was killed by train
No. at Glen Creek. He arrived in
town at 1920 and was struck at the
crossing by the train, which was 60
ing forty-fve miles an hour. The en-
gine struck the middle of the carriage,
demolishing it and carrying him
eighty feet. He fell close to the track.
Sheriff Hodges took Joseph Robin
son to the penitentiary from Nelson,
to begin serving a sentence of seven
years at hard labor for setting fire