McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-10-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GENERAL.

service act.
VIM. Mears, a respected resident {
Galena, Ill.,, celebrated his one hundredt
birthday Monday evening by banquet
which was numerously attended.
A gravel locomotive on the Boston (
Lowell road was run into by freight trai
on Monday. The engineer and firema
jumped without shutting off steam. TIL
engine run along to Lowell, where the trac
ends, and buried itself in the cellar unde
the express office at the station, causing
much damage. Mary Nutter in the expires
office was killed.
Il stock train on the Milwaukee
st. Paul road met with an accident two
miles from GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, Monday might
| by train breaking in two. Five cars were
demolished and sixt, cattle and hogs killed.
A working model of the Bartholdi
statue was exhibited in New York on Tues
day. The $780, necessary to complete
the work has been guaranteed.
By the burning of Greenlaw's opera
house and Cole & Co.'s store at Memphis on
Monday night, the damage sustained was
$165, 900.
Surgeon General Charles H. Crane,
U. S. A., died Tuesday night at Washing.
ton.
The old board of directors of the
Western Union, with the exception of two,
were reelected.
The western edge of Nebraska had
a slight snow storm on Wednesday.
4Col. Morrow is to be court martialed
on charges of drunkenness, preferred by
Gen. Crook.
The net profits of the bonanza mems
bauk, the Nevada, in San Francisco during
the year, were $3.50, 600.
A cyclone struck Arcadia, Iremplain
county, Wisconsin, Tuesday night, causing
destruction of a number of barns and out
buildings and loss of considerable live stock.
No serious casualties are reported.
4California had an earthquake on
Tuesday night which was the heaviest eX-
perienced since the great one of 1868.
Buildings groaned, metallic roofngs crack
ed, and many persons rushed half undress-
ed from the houses and hotels. The recol-
lection Of its being within one day of the
or the earthquake of 1868 SEEM |
I'd to increase their fears, and many people |
walked the streets all night in preference to |
'e-entering the houses. Earthquakes are
'eported to have occurred during the night
md morning several places along the coast.
Wah Lee, the Chinese murderer, suis
ided in Jail in Sioux City on Thursday.
Sir John Mcdonald has been unseated
or the county of Lennox, Ontario, on ac
cunt of bribery by agitators at the last
lection. Sir John was elected for two con-
tituencies-LennoX and Carlton. He will
OF represent Carlton.
6There were 1877 failures in this ceun-
y and Canada during the past week,
sainst 1873 the week previous.
The Union Pacific has abandoned and {
,ased to operate the branch between Solo c
on City and Beloit, Hans. >, declaring the c
ties fixed by the state commission will not c
~ expenses. The road was leased from L
e construction company, but as that con- c
I'm has no rolling stock it cannot run it, t
I'd the road is therefore likely to remain a
lie. |,
Three German laborers attempted to
oss the canal at Joliet, ILL.,, Saturday, in n
aking boat, which sunk about the middle b
the stream, and two named George Sim a
IDS and VIM. Gilaski, were drowned. a
The following capitalists have filed q
ticles incorporating the United States
eamship Mail Company at Albany with a il
pital of $1,000, 600: G. w. Quintard, te
hn Roach, Ed. Quintard, Parker C. T
andler, Eugene L. Hance and John I. "
The line is to run from ATTAIN
to Pacific ports. p,
The United States man-of-war Y
niger, now at Mare Island, will leave the
OF this month for Central America, to M
nplete the survey began by Captain j. III
Hips. The uncompleted portion of the ef
'vey consists of about six hundred miles at
the coast north of Panama. The vessel en-
i be under Commander Clark. an
At 9 O'Clock Sunday night the pipe s sn
ID to conduct ammoniac gas used in no
erlin's brewery, Cincinnati, bust where . =,
assed through stable, where it liber- on
d gas and twenty-three horses were killed +io
reby in few moments. No other dam ~
les
CRIME. nc'
Eleven thousand dollars was stolen