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Fremont Salvationists are going to erect a permanent barracks. The railroads will make a one-fare rate for the Omaha June races. THE Stanton school board has em ployed all of last year’s teachers Lhe question of voting bonds for a new court house for Sarpy county is being agitated. ‘Tmt teachers’ institute for Cheyenne county will be held at Sidney July 6 to 18, inclusive. Ther board of education of Nebraska City last week elected teachers for the ensuing year, making that few changes. THERE was a great deluge attar tington and vicinity. Sidewalks, bridges, small outhouses, etc., were set afloat. ANNA Diteprick, 18 years old, jumped from a moing train on the Union Pacific and fell upon her head, sustain ing severe injuries. OLp settlers of Otoe county will hold their picnic June i!th. Governor Hol comb and other distinguished Nebras kans will be present. New York capitalists are looking over the property of the Beatrice Rapid Transit and Power company with a view to lease or purchase. At this writing the body of young Fowler, drowned at Ashland, has not been recovered, although the body has been in the water three days. West No. 10. Grand Army of the Re public, David City, has secured De partment Commander Culver to deliver the Memorial address May 30. ADJUTANT-GENERAL Barry sent out 20 rounds of blank cartridges to each company of the national guards for use on Memorial day for firing salutes. IN the district court of Hyannis coun ty, Elmer Hardy, charged with shoot ing with intent to murder a brakeman on the BK. M., was tried and acquit ted. Mr. Warner, a farmer living five miles northwest of Columbus, sold some hogs to Wiggins Lewis and one of the porkers tipped the beam at 740 pounds. At Omaha one Claycomb was found guilty of grave robbing. He stole two bodies from Mt. Hope cemetery, ship ping them to the medical college at Des Moines. Martin Goopr, a 16-year-old Omaha boy, was drowned while bathing in a pond near the city. His brothers were with him, but were unable to render limely assistance. Mike LANGDON was run over by the Union Pacific freight at Platte Center and when found was in a mangled con dition. Doctors amputated both legs and he died in a short time. A Taste Rock dispatch says the sev enteen-year locusts are hatching out in great numbers. ‘They were present last in 1879. They have the proverbial letter ‘*W' on their backs, which is said to stand for war. The 6-year-old son of George Shaffer, living four miles north of Odell, was playing in a hay loft and in some way fell backward, striking his head against a sharp nail, from the effects of which he died in a few hours. Doucas county commissioners are talking of providing a cinder path for bicycles from the city to Florence, six miles distant. The only thing that stands in the way is the reduced condi tion of the county treasury. MR AND Mrs. Barney Lewis of Mc Cook last week buried their little son, Edward, making the fifth child they have lost from whooping cough. Their only remaining child, a bright, pretty little girl, is very low with the same strangely fatal malady. SHERIFF Edwards of Dodge county went to Scribner and arrested Carl Behrendt on a complaint charging him with committing an assault and threat ening to kill his brother, Fred Beh rendt, using a knife for the purpose. Tuer beet sugar company of York has filed articles of incorporation with Sec retary of State Piper. The authorized capital stock is $5,000 and the object of forming a corporation is the propaga tion of sugar beets A. C Montgomery and nineteen others are the incorpora tors. The people of Piper and surround ing country gave the Methodist minister of that place a generous pounding. Well filled baskets came from many quarters and after they were deposited at the parsonage, all repaired to the church, where a social evening was en joyed. Joan CC. PETERSON. 2 prominent Swede farmer, living six miles east of Minden, when returning home about 11 ovelock at night, lost control of his team. They ran across a ditch, throw ing him out and the wagon box on top of him, breaking his ribs and driving them into his lungs. His recovery is doubtful. A SLEEPING room occupied by five young men was entered at Wausa A sack containing $40 was stolen from under the pillow of Nels Linquest. One of the young men sleeping in the room was disturbed by a slight noise made by the intruder and so caught a glimpse of the man. The marshal has a young man of the town under arrest on sus picion. SEVERAL days ago Chief Faance of Nebraska City received a telegram from the sheriff of Lancaster county, telling him to keep a lockout for a man, wo man and a 3-year-old child named Sut ton, stating that the man was wanted for horse stealing. Next day the chief spied a couple answering the above de scription and immediately placed them under arrest. Mrs. P. Guretee of Hall county, the lady who was dragged about a mile in Brunaway last winter, has so far re covered as to be able to leave the hos pital and is at present stopping at the residence of friends in Grand Island The recovery is a most remarkable one, as she was most severely injured. The G. A. R. reunion for Cass, Lan caster, Otoe, Sarpy and Saunders coun ties, will be held this year at Weeping Water, July 1 4, inclusive. The great success attending the one held there two years ago, promises to be eclipsed by the present one. Everything will be done for the comfort of the guests and their friends. AvuBURNS is without a saloon, notwith standing the late election went favor able thereto. GEORGE NELSON, the Sheridan county convict, who was given his liberty by the supreme court, because of irregu larity in his trial, is out of the peniten tiary, and will not be molested further. His freedom is largely due to the devo tion of his sister Rosa, now of Omaha, who was on hand to welcome him back to the world. SUPERINTENDENT Annette, with the assistance of Prof. W. A. Jones, the orchestra and band from the institute of the blind, provided a most enjoyable afternoon and evening for the inmates of the insane asylum at Lincoln. A large number of invited guests were present to enjoy the entertainment with the inmates. Dan HlAnpy, who was shot while trying to enter the store of Willits Co. at Alma died from his wound. Coroner Rush impanelled a jury which found that Hardy died from the effects of a gunshot wound received at the hands of Ralph Mack while he was try ing to gain an entrance in the store of Willits Co., and that said shooting was justifiable. 4) R. McLean, of Juniata, perfected a string of nine knites, two large box pattern and several of the Eddy style, that he sent into the sky some 2,000 feet, and to them he attached two flags, one 8x8 feet in size, the other, 4x6.The larger kite went up over 1,000 feet, and thus Old Glory got an altitudinous airing not often accorded to the stars and stripes. A Washineron dispatch says that Representative Hainer has presented a bill in the house for the purpose of confirming the title of the old settlers on the Otoe and Missouri Indian lands and securing the payment to the Ind ians on the appraised value basis. The secretary of the interior is authorized and directed to revise and adjust on principles of equity the sales of the funds sold at Beatrice in 1583. Two tramps at Clartsmouth picked up a grip which belonged to a travel ing man which was standing in front of the Riley hotel. ‘The theft was not discovered for some time, when it was reported to the police, who soon suc ceeded in locating the men, and cap turing them, after a hot chase. When arraigned in police court they pre tended to be very drunk and were given time to sober up before giving an account of their shortcomings. ‘Tus town and neighborhood of Peru is very much excited over the disap pearance of one Haden Roberts, a farm er near there. He left home Friday night between 12 and 2 o'clock, taking only two revolvers. He was in Peru the day before and paid up his life in surance. Some notes were found after his departure, saying he had left the country forever. But parties who claim to know say they are not in his writing. Foul play or suicide is feared. GoVERNOR HoLcoMB has received two World’s fair medals and diplomas. These were issued to the state of Ne braska, one for the collection of grapes and the other for exhibition in the tree section, display of forestry re sources of the state and statistics and photographs relating to the exhibit. The medals are for the present in the possession of the governor, and will be finally disposed of by being turned over either to the historical or some of the other state societies to which they belong. Deputy United States Marshal Hub bard and Revenue Collector Parker were in Syracuse the other day, having with them two complete whisky stills, one of which was found on the farm of George Roos, ten miles west of Dunbar, and the other on the farm of Mr. Wil helm, about eight miles south. One still was six or seven feet below the surface of the ground. The marshal says the stills are worth several hun dred dollars and are the most complete outfits ever found in that part of the country. Cons. J. JONSON, a patient at the Lincoln Hospital for the Insane, died the other day from the effects of a blow administered by P. D. Davis, another patient. There had been some hard feelings between the men for some time, although neither was considered violent. Suddenly, as they were going upstairs, Davis seized a small box and struck Johnson a heavy blow on the head, which caused a fracture of the skull.Johnson never recovered con sciousness. He is from Saunders coun ty and has a family. Davis is a patient from Douglas county. Paol. Mraz, a prominent Bohemian farmer,residing on his farm situated five miles southeast of Linwood, com mitted suicide. After performing his usual work Mraz wandered away from the house and was found two hours later by his wife, hanging from the limb of a tree about a quarter of a mile away. He had ascended the tree to a height of twenty feet and fastened the rope around his neck and threw him self off. His neck was not broken and death resulted from strangulation. He had lost two wives and four children within the last two years and this it is thought tended to self destruction. Senator Superintendent H. R. Corbett has issued his annual report in the form of advance sheets of his biennial report for 1895-6. The report shows that the total resources of districts at the end of the last year amounted to $4,241,231: indebtedness, £ 3,262,224; value of district property, $8,889,541. the number of teachers necessary was 8,501; number -employed, 2,548 males, 6,943 females; total 9,491. The total wages earned was: Males, S778,885; fe males, $2,742,894. The average month ly wages was: Males, $44.18; females, $38.66; total $10.21. There were 9,693 districts having a total of 6,68 ™ school houses. Children between five and twenty-one years numbered 351,S45 and the total enrollment was 274,852, with an average daily attendance of 171,859. There were 212 private schools report ed. The cost of education on enroll ment was $13.74 and on average daily attendance $21.91. THE impression prevails in some sec tions of the state that only members of the Nebraska Club may enter the ‘**Vol unteer Home Newspaper Correspond ents’ Bureau” of the Club. The Exec utive Committee desires to corect this. Any one of good standing who can and will secure regularly the publication of one letter per month in one or more Eastern papers of any city, town or village, also send marked copies of the same to the Secretary and will] so write the Secretary naming the papers and where published, will be enrolled as a member of the Bureau. No cost at taches to this and outline letters are furnished on request to the Secretary.
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McCook Tribune
Mccook, Nebraska, US
Fri, Jun 05, 1896
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