The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-04-08
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
NEWS IN Brief.

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The democrat. state central com
mittee will meet in Lincoln June /.
Citizens of Dale are taking active
interest toward securing a new depot.
The board of directors Of the Beat
rice Commercial club elected H. V.
Riesen secretary to succeed A. l..
Green, resigned.
Mrs. Ravens, an elderly lady of
Minden, while crossing the B. & NJ.
track was hit by train No. 2 and diea
within a short time.
The congregation of st. James Epis-
copal church, Fremont, has received
with regret q communication for Rev.
Tex, resigning the charge at this
place.
At a special meeting of the voters
of the Syracuse school district it was
decided to add twelfth grade work to
the course of study and make SyrG-
cuse a fully accredited school in the
state university.
Elmer Jackson, a boilermaker at
Harvard, took his two small sons out
hunting west of Havelock, and sue
ceeded in shooting two of his own toes.
He was sitting on a bank waiting for
ducks when the gun went off.
The Lang broom factory at Beatrice
is turning out about seventeen dozen
brooms per day at present. These are
all made by hand, but as soon as the
new machinery arrives the output
will be increased TO over 100 dozen
per day.
Servants OF Uncle Sam in Lincoln
will petition for two shower baths for
the p~ostofice help and will ask that
such a provision be made in the new
federal building. Federal authorities
there think the request will be
granted.
At a preliminary hearing before
Justic Gladwish at Seward, Burt
Meyers was bound ove to the May
term of the district court in the sum
of $1,000, on the charge of rape, pre-
ferred by Miss Livonia Egolf of Cor
dova, Neb.
The retail clerks of Norfolk have
organized themselves and have APP
piled to the officials in Omaha to be
admitted to the union. This action
on their part is caused by their dis
like to the prevalent Sunday trading
which is carried on in Norfolk.
Sixty farmers assembled at the
court house in Wayne and passed res
olutions requesting that restrictions
be placed upon the automobile of DR..
Leisenring, whom , it is said, has
caused many of the farmers much
un~easiness when passing a team with
his new auto. a test case will be
had.
Dr.. J. II. Crabs, the Oldest practic-
ing physician in Dodge county and
one of the oldest in the state, is Sc
~riously i'll with a complication Of dis
eases and his recovery is doubtful.
He is II years of age and has been
engaged in his profession for fifty
years and for t%hirty-five years in Ne
braSka.
The Odd Fellow and Rebekah
lodges of Table Rock are making ar
rangements for the celebration on
April &c of the ~eighty-fifth anniyer-
sary of the American Odd Fellowship.
Committees have been appointed
from each of the lodges to complete
the arrangements for its proper OBJ
%servance.
In the county court at Seward Chas.
Watgen was bound over to the May
term of the district court IN the
charge of wife abandonment. The
section of the criminal code under
which this prosecution was brought
is a new one, being passed at the last
session of the legislature and known
as house roll No. 329.
Deputy Food Commissioner Thomp-
son has ordered returned to the
merchants siXty-five barrels
of vinegar that analysis proved to be
adulterated. The vinegar was dis
covered in stores in these towns: Co
Madison, Norfolk, Wayne,
Emerson, Pender, Bancroft, Lyons,
Oakland and Tekamah.
The Indian Bureau is engaged in pre-
paraticn Of plans and specifications for
the improvement OF the water supply
at the Indian school at Genoa, and
will advertise for proposals for the
work. 1t is estimated that the neces-
sary work can be accomplished for
$4,000. This school is now drawing its
water supply from the city OF Genoa.
The proposed water system contem-
plates the sinking OF several wells, the
erection of tanks and a water tower.
Evangelist Sunday, who has been
holding meetings in Sterling the last
six weeks, has had a remarkable re-
vival, about 1,056 people being con
The collection for the minis
ter the last Sunday amounted to the
sum of SO, 900 and the women made
up a purse of $50 for his wife.
The team of mules, harness and
,uggy which was stolen from Lois