McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-12-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GENERAL.

The printed statement that Governor
Hendricks has gone abroad for medical ad
: vice and treatment is denied by members o
= his family.
f While playing ball near Paris, Ill.
o the bat slipped from the hand OF the batter
{ striking a boy named Asa Mapes, 16 years
e old, bursting his eye-balI, from the effects
, of which he died.
e Asa B. Baker, of Brockton, Mass,
plead guilty to the murder of his wife, and
was sentenced to imprisonment for life.
} A dispatch from Santa Fe says the
Navajo Indians are running off the stock OF
the settlers, and that the latter are highly
: incensed and threaten to shoot the Indians.
} The anti-administration democrats
in caucus agreed TO support General Fran
els II. Nichols for the nomination for gov
ernOr of Louisiana.
! The Creek council at Jkmulgee or
! dered recount of the votes for principal
chief. and the count elected Spieche chief
by thirty-seven votes. He was duly in
augurated and took the oath of office. The
second chief, who had heretofore refused to
take the oath on account of the fraudulent
count, under which Perrpman was chosen,
was also sworn in.
A tract of 1900 acres of coal lands
northwest of Peru, Ill. has just been pur-
chased by n syndicate, said to include the
Northwestern and Burlington roads. Bor-
h,i,,
be sunk in the spring.
Efforts ale being made by the Catho-
lies of Denver, Colo, to make that city the
seat of the largest Jesuit college in Amer
lea.
The western nail association met at
Pittsburg and decided to close down for a
period of six weeks, from December 10Th
till January 18th. The meeting was one of
the largest ever held, every mill in the west
being represented by person or by letter.
The stoppage is for the purpose of restrict
ing production.
The obsequies of the late Dudley
| Chase Haskell at Lawrence, KS, were held
on the Goth. The business part of the city
and many residences were draped in mourn
ing. Flags fiOated ut halfmast, bells tolled
and the entire city gave itself up to paying
respects TO the honored dead.
Sullivan and Slade were advertised |
for a sparring exhibition at Kansas City, |
but the chief of police called their attention !
to the statute forbidding such displays, and !
as result the exhibition took place across |
the river in Wyandotte, rs. !
Miss May Fairfield, daughter of Prof.
f. B. Fairfield, was married at Grand Ha-
ven, Mich, on the Goth, to Hon. A. w.
Field, of Lincoln, Nebraska.
The corn mill, elevators and ware
house Of Tyson Bros, on the south side of
Baltimore harbor, were almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the Goth. Loss about
$40, 900; insured.
A reduction of ten per cent. has been
made withou. notice in the wages Of labor
ers at the New Jersey steel and iron works,
Trenton.
Lewis Kraber, of York, Pa, is held
in 81 900 for trial for forgery in connection
with i pension issued to him.
San Francisco merchants are COM
planning that their trade with the northwest
is rapidly declining.
A.large meeting of Salt Lake Gen ;
tiles, both democrats and republicans, was
held at Salt Lake to appeal to congress to {
pass the laws recommended by the presi-
dent.
The Fitzgeralds and Webb, Washing
ton pension attorneys, have given bail in
8, 900 to answer to the indictments against !
them. They have been suspended from S
practice before the commissioner of pen l
sions.
Great distress exists from smallpox .
1t Gadsden. Tennessee. Out of "a cases IA Il
nave died. An appeal is made for nurses t
md virus. o
The Reading (Pa.) rail mills will :
lose down indefinitely on January 1st. This
will throw 800 men out of work.
The New York weekly bank state
nent on the 22d reports as follows: Loans,
Increase, ST., 030; specie, increase, s., 060,
90; legal tenders, decrease, 1922, 800; de-
,osits. increase, So. 1879, 800: circulation, in D
rease, $44, 100; reserve, increase, 1,63S,
%. The banks now hold 1894, 80 in excess u
# legal requirements.
The landing of the Pilgrims was OBJ =,
erved on The I'D at Plymouth, Mass, by
he Pilgrim society on Pilgrim hill, Thos.
Russell presiding. ~
The Burlington Gazette publishes a :
omplete description of the buildings and II
improvements of Burlington during 1888, n
,hich foot up in cost over 81 900, COG, the n,