McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GENERAL.

entailing loss Of $130, 900, with slight insu
rance. Two persons were killed, Charlie
Legga and his aged aunt, Miss Lizzie Wat
kins, whom Legga, after he was out Of tn
house, went back to save.
In the suit of the Muskegon (Michi
GAM National bank against the Northwest
ern Mutual life insurance company of Mil
waukee for the recovery of $40, 900 INSURANCE
on the life of Erwin G.. Comstock, formerl.
cashier Of the bank, the jury rendered
verdict for So, 905 for the bank. The insu
rance company sought to prove that Com
stock was habitusl drunkard and that hi
death was caused by his own act.
Thirteen buildings were destroyed by
fire at Miles City, Mont, Monday night
The flames were checked by blowing W
buildings in their path.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Canada'i
new governor general, was inaugurated OF
Tuesday.
The l.. & N. passenger train in to St
Louis Tuesday morning was derailed by g
broken rail few miles out of East St.
Louis, and two coaches full of passengers
were urned over and dragged distance.
Thirty seven persons were injured, none
fatally.
Smiths squib factory at Kingston,
Pa, exploded on Tuesday morning, and
eight girls employed there were injured, five
Of them fatally.
The latest Charley Ross has turned
up in Portland, Me. He says he was kept
in darkened room four years, and then
taken to Brazil.
The board of aldermen of New York
ask $40, 900 for the celebration of the cen
tennial of the departure of British troops
from New York, and ask the mayor to pro-
claim general holiday.
A well attended meeting of the col
ored citizens of Chicago was held Wednes-
day night for the purpose of protesting
against the recent decision of
the supreme court on t1e civil
rights bill. A number Of speeches
were made. The one which met with the
most favor was delivered by Rev. J. w.
Polk, pastor of the church in which the
meeting was held. In the course of his re-
marks he said: ''The decision Is an insult
to the race. l have always been good
republican, but believe we should give our
allegiance to that party which will give us
our rights, even If it runs the devil g ticket
or Ben Butler.'
Mundorf's planning mill at Pittsburg,
containing one million feet of lumber, and.
five 2-story frame dwellings were burned
early Thnrday morning. The fire started
in the furnace room Of the mill. Loss,
500, 600; insurance, $4,000.
Diphtheria has carried off, it is
thought, no less than 300 children near
Greensboro, N. C. So alarming was the
condition of affairs for time that there was
quarantine by the people of some counties.
A wildly insane man named Keeney
was placed in large room adjoining under
the court house by the authorities,
at Warrenton, Missouri, who had ia
ken him out of the wet. While the jailer
was at supper screams attracted the people
to the window, where they saw Keeney in
an insane frenzy hugging red hot stove,
He was taken away, but death soon ensued.
A new Chinese defrauding dodge has
just been discovered at San Francisco. Sew
eral packages containing between three and
four thousand unstamped letters were
brought over on the Toxic from Hong Kong,
by self-appointed Chinese mail agents.
They were seized by the postal authorities.
It was remarked that the Chinese CORES
pondence was decreasing. Watch was set,
in the above discovery.
Chicago pressed brick are being used
In Cleveland at nickel apiece.
A tract of Arkansas timber contain
ing AGO, 900, 900 feet, has been sold to a for
eign capitalist.
Thirty oil mills in the Allegheny dis
trict have ceased flowing.
Mrs. David Moses, the fat woman
married a few weeks ago, was found dead
in bed at Baltimore Friday.
The skating pavilion at Salt Lake
burned on Sunday morning.; loss, $40, 900
At noon of the same day the Railroad Ex-
change hotel stables also burned, and the
flames extending to the hotel, that was also
destroyed.
Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise
shook the dust of Canada from their feet
Saturday and sailed from Quebec to old
England. The usual demonstrations of
loyalty were made.
Advices from Jamaica state that the
port of Antonio was almost entirely destroy
ed by fire October 18th. The residence of
the American consul escaped total destruc-
ton. Loss, over S., 0O0, 200.