The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-03-11
THE STATE AT LARGE.

al ice SOTSe.
Claud Carpenter is in Jail at Beat
rice for thirty days for stealing q
meerschaum pipe.
Some of the sheep feeders in Dodge
county are shearing their sheep and
sending them TO market
The ice and high water in the Platte
river have taken out most of the
bridges north of Kenesaw.
w. II. Platner of Omaha, civil war
veteran, dropped dead on the streets
OF that city few days ago.
The county bridge across the Platte
river, about three miles from Colum.
bus, was washed out by the high wat
er and ice.
The Lincoln Implement and Trans
fer company, $4,000 capital stock, has
hled articles of incorporation with the
secretary of state.
Cass county's mortgage record
shows the amount of farm mortgages
filed to be $59,992; released, $63, ,316.
City mortgages filed amounted to 81
100; re- eascd. $7,092.
AT a meeting of the board of super
visors held in Beatrice J. II. Sparks of
ST Joseph was awarded the contract
lor building the bridges in Gage coun-
ty for the coming year.
w. F. Cook of Cheyenne county, SEN
fenced to three years in the peniten'
tiary for obtaining money under false
pretenses, has secured a reversal and
will be given a new trial.
The home OF John Donner, four
miles northwest of Elgin, burned to
the ground in the late wind storm.
Nothing was saved. The family bare
ly escaped with their lives.
George Casey, farm hand employ
ed by Frank Bartels, near Portal, Sar-
py county, attempted suicide by drink
ing six ounces of iodine. The doctors
saved his life by pumping him out.
An ordination service was held in
the Congregational church at Linwood
before a crowded house, in which Mrs.
NJ. ]. Dickinson, pastor of the Congre-
gational church here, was ordained.
The Woman's club at Fremont has
forwarded to Prof Barbour Of the Uni
versity of Nebraska a number of in
teresting articles which will be includ
ed in the state exhibit at the st. Louis
exposition.
A prairie fire north of Elwood de-
stroyed H. o. Haller's house, barn,
horses and all outbuildings; J. S. Tew
ellis barn, all outbuildings and 1900
bushels of wheat; Mrs Corders house
and buildings.
Fire destroyed about forty tons of
hay on the farm of George Drake, "a
farmer living south of Red Cloud.
Drake swore out a complaint against
his brother-in-law, JEFF Beauchamp, for
setting fire to the hay
Articles of incorporation of the Dole
Floral company have been filed in the
office of the county clerk at Beatrice.
The company is capitalized for SIS,
900 and the principal place of doing
business is at Beatrice.
The women of the local Relief corps
at Schuyler have set a movement on
foot to secure funds to erect a sol
diers' monument. They have placed
the amount they desire at $3.50, and
some have signified their willingness
to contribute literally.
Secretary Bennett of the state board
of equalization is confident that the
assessors of northeast Nebraska will
not meet to agree on a basis of valu-
alton He declared that an agreement
on values would disqualify the officials
from holding their positions.
Little Vincent Sloggett, aged 6, son
of Mr. and Mrs. M. ]. SlOggett of Ere
mont, was killed by falling downstairs
at his home The boys death was not
the result of internal injuries, but
followed the bursting of a blood vessel,
which threw him into commissions.
A scheme is on foot at Fremont to
hold regular cattle and horse sales.
Two Grand Island dissolute women
from the prescribed district and a man
whose identity the police have not
learned drove horse to death. When
the horse was turned into. the barn
it's back showed the heavy welts of the
whip and it could scarcely wabble to
it's stall, where it died in thirty min
utes.
Forty feet of the Hamilton-Hall
county bridge, owned and maintained
jointly by the two counties, went out
the other day, the result of an ice
gorge and more of 1t is out of line,
or has the piling cut from under it.
The bridge is about mile long, the
most serious damage being on the Hall
county side.
By an order of the supreme court,
based on a decision handed down at
its last sitting, the Union Pacific Rail
road company has just paid out $4S..
600, of which sum S35 200 was for the
value of lot which the company tried
to secure from Mrs. Sarah n. Stan
wood for $3.50 The remainder of
the amount was for interest and Incl
dental expenses.
George Keller, Thomas Gray. alias
Thomas Rogers, and Samuel Bradley
alias Sam T. Bulls, charged with rob-
bing the bank at Lyons, were bound
over in the sum of $4,000 each. keeler