The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-04-07
News in Nebraska

Fifty dollars and costs is what Thos.
A. Tucker of Lincoln must pay for in
sulting a woman while drunk.
Modern Woodmen of America have
just celebrated the sixteenth ~anniver-
sary of the organization in Osceola.
During a strong south wind a prairie
fire south of Elwood destroyed the
barn and hay stack on the Mcfarland
farm.
William Steffen of Beatrice left for
Indiana and Ohio, where he will meet
a colony of Mennonites and conduct
them to Canada.
The young ladies of the Dawson
Evangelical church of Humboldt have
organized a Young Women's Christian
Temperance union.
Joe Skilinsk, a school teacher at
Butte, eloped with Fanny Richardson,
Is years of age, a daughter of Thomas
Richardson of Grand Rapids.
A number of York people were in
the wreck which occurred on the B.. &
NJ. near Lincoln, most of them receiv-
ing a number of bad bruises and cuts.
Rev. w. H. Mckee has arrived from
Wexford, Canada, to supply the Meth
odist pulpit at Schuyler, vice Rev. T. c..
Webster, who has taken up evangelis-
tic work.
Private Maxwell, colored, of the
Turnn fffL infarfryy 1,,nytnrAl of
Fort N%iobrara, committed suicide.
Being Tilted by his girl is supposed to
be the cause.
Fremont will have one of the best
ent plans mater, alize. A scheme of
raising $500 to start it with is in oper-
alton with good success.
The pupils of the city schools of Ne
braska City have donated $40 to the
Sisters of Charity to assist in building
a new hospital building east of the
present st. Mary's hospital.
Miss Emma Boltz, aged %, was prob
ably fatally burned while assisting her
father in putting out a fire in some
stubble and weeds in a field in the
eastern outskirts of Grana Island.
Discharges in bankruptcy have been
granted to Tucker Brothers, merchants
of Lincoln; w. R. Bennett of Omaha;
Harry Reese of Grand Island, and
Samuel Diarmant of South Omaha.
Henry C. Mahanna, for thirty-seven
years an employee of the Northwestern
road and for fifteen years superintend-
ent of the South Platte division, with
headquarters at Fremont, died last
week.
The Falls City Tribune is defendant
in a damage suit filed last week in the
district court wherein Lawrence Sher-
bin asks for $1,000 on account of an
article which the paper recently pub
lished.
Paul Walton of Omaha, ten years Of
age, was struck by Burlington passen-
ger train No. % and sustained injuries
that resulted in his death half an hour
a%fterward. He was struck while play
ing on the track.
A1OIIlS 41CIAIDUOH, a iIuu1 oSCu
man, who has been paying attention to
Freeda, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Freese of Exeter, is said to have
eloped with the young lady, who is
but sixteen years old.
At Valentine Judgt Harrington SEN
fenced Moore, a cOIored soldier, to one
year and 81 fine and costs, for forging
a note to which the name of DR.. Ira
Brown of Fort Niobrara was signed,
which he cashed at the First National
bank of Valentine.
The Ansley Business Mems associa-
ton of Ansley held a meeting and
adopted a similar constitution and by
laws to that controlling the Kearney
association. Many good suggestions
were made to promote the interests
and prosperity of Ansley and vicinity.
Receiver Biglin of the defunct Elk
horn Valley bank at O'Neill, says he
has hopes of paying out a larger per
centage on the deposits than when hes
took charge of the affairs, some
months ago, and expects in the near
future to pay off at least a small por-
ton.
Mrs. Cody of North Platte. speaking
of the result of the divorce trial, says
she is truly glad of the result, mas
much as she has been indicated and
she feels quite a load of care lifted
from her. She still says she loves the
colonel dearly and that reconciliation
would be the next great event of her
life.
While switching at Whitman, James
R. Ryan. a Burlington brakeman, was
severely crushed between the cars
that he died within an hour. Mr..
Ryan was secretary of the local lodge
of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, and was very popularity known
throughout the city and along the
road.
A peculiar case of insanity has de-
veloped in Cunning county. A man
named Fritz Pancoast was arrested
and lodged in jail. His malady takes
the form of a h~allucination that he is
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