McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GENERAL.

tered to convey passengers for Providene
via the stonipgton line, attempted to ente
Stonington aarbor Sunday morning an
ran ashore, knocking hole In her bot
tom and causing panic among a large mum
Der Of passengers. Many donned life pre-
servers and prepared to jump overheard
Order was restored, and by small boats an
the revenue cutter the passengers wer
landed at Stonington. No one was injured
The boat was badly damaged.
The possibility of European war il
being closely calculated at the present mo
ment by English ship owners. Orders hav'
been lately received at San francisco by sew
eral captains of vessels that if the whea
charters they have been negotiating for arr
not closed, to refuse to proceed further ex.
cept at much higher rates, the calculation
being based on a sharp advance in freights
In the event Of war.
There was an alarm of fire at the
Elm street school, Waterbury, Conn. dur
ing the session. Six hundred children
rushed headlong down stairs in panic.
Many were knocked down and trampled on.
One girls collar-bone was broken; another
had an eye badly hurt; a third was insensi-
BILE, receiving severe internal injuries. Many
others were bruised. The fire caught in
waste paper in room near the furnace. 1t
was easily subdued.
At the session of the house of bishops
of the Episcopal church at Philadelphia on
Tuesday, Bishop Clarkson, of Nebraska,
rendered his resignation as bishop of the
jurisdiction of Dakota. The reason for this
action is that Dakota was divided into North
and South Dakota, the title of Bishop Hare
being now that of South Dakota.
A delegation of Sioux from the Spot
ted Tail reservation has gone to Washington
to protest against opening part of the re-
serve to white settlers.
Rev. Allen Allensworth, a colored
Baptist minister of Bowling Green, KY,
has issued an address to all colored ministers
of the gospel of all denominations In the
United States and territories Of America, in
which he suggests national convention to
give moral force to tho work begun by the
late convention of colored men.
Ex-senator Sessions, on trial for at
tempt to bride Assemblyman Bradley during
the senatorial contest at Albany, testified in
bis behalf that in conversation with Bradley
nothing was said about money. No money
was offered and no money passed between
hem.
The First National bank, of Chicago,
mas notified its 100 clerks that they must all
procure bonds, which will range from ST.
700 to S. 200 each. The aggregate is over
S320, 200.
The town of Weston, Washington
;erritory, was destroyed by fire on Wednes-
lay night, only few brick buildings re-
naming.
Lack OF hotel facilities at Milwaukee
lecessitates postponement Of the national
angerfest to have been held in that city in |
1856 until the next year. Il
The African Methodist Episcopal
Conference at Detroit denounced the recent |
upreme court decision in very strong terms.
\ bishop declared If the negroes rights were |
o be thus trampled upon there would be a |
evolution. a.
The centennial celebration at New
'urgh, n. Y, on the 18th was participated
n by nearly one hundred thousand people. /
The procession in the parade was four miles |
ong. At the exercises, Senator Bayard |
resided, and Hon. W. NJ. Evarts delivered |
he Grafton, his subject being ''Wsshing- !
on.''
An employee of lHaVemeyer's sugar
efnery named DIETRICH Guthoof was caught
q the centrifugal machine on Friday morn
ng and killed. All the upper half of his
ody was ground into pulp. He left small
amily. '.- so
Business failures of the week were
~, an increase of 30 oyer the previous
7eek. *. . -.
Chief Justice Coleridge visited the
upreme court at Washington ON Friday.
The conductors association in session
Kansas City adopted a resolution to dis
ountenance the use of intoxicating liquors
mong the brotherhood while on duty.
A platform crowded with spectators
-atching the scrub races of Harvard, on the
harles river, broke down Saturday and
sveral seriously injured, having legs and
rms broken. Most of the injured are Har-
ard men. A student named Mead, of
outh Boston, class of 'S7, had his skull
'actured and both legs broken and will
robably die. The injuries of nine others
Re principally fractures of limbs.
Washington experts sent to Brewton,
Ia, by Surgeon General Hamilton of the ,
% rim q hosnital saryina to make inuostina |