McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GENERAL,.

Culver, Page, Hoyne ! Co., of Chi
cago, closed their doors on Monday. AS
sets, $s2s, 900; liabilities, $780, 81
Louisiana, Kentucky and Indiana had
cyclones early on Monday, great damage be.
ing done to life and property in the former
state.
A passenger train bound north on the
Pan Handle road and an outgoing freight
on the Michigan Central cOllided Sunday
morning at Joliet crossing, thirty miles
southeast of Chicago. Both engines were
thrown from the track and wrecked, falling
upon and setting fire to the fag-man's box,
into which the flag man, Peter Collie, re-
treated upon seeing a collision inevitable,
and was burned to death. VIM. Morris, of
Logansport, engineer of the Pan Handle
train, and John Kellogg, Of Michigan City,
head brakeman of the Michigan Central
train, were killed. John Dengan, engineer
of the Michigan Central train, was severely
injured, and, crazed by hurts and fright,
ran four miles to Dyer, Indiana, where he
arrived lunatic. John German, Michi-
gan Central fireman, was also hurt. Pas
sengers on the Pan Handle train were badly
shaken up by the shocks but no one was
seriously hurt. 1t is impossible to locate
responsibility for the accident.
The Jacksonville Qll.) council pro-
hibited the Jesse James troupe from per-
forming. ---s
Fifteen hundred bales of cotton at
Charleston, S. c., consigned to New York,
burned on Monday morning.
Articles of incorporation of the United
States Central railway, with a capital of
$40, 900, 600, were filed at Denver on Thurs
day. The road is intended to be rival of
Francisco to Denver, via Santa Cruz and
Crystal Springs, Nevada; thence to Mil
forf,, the southern terminus of the Utah
Central. and onward in an easterly direction
to Denver.
Fifty hanson cabs have been Or
dered and will be run in Chicago by COM
pany organized for the purpose after JAN
uary LIST. Z TE.
3The National, the new hotel at Peo-
ria, ILL.,, was opened Tuesday. It cost
$3.50, ZOO to build and $50, 900 to furnish.
Gen. Schofeld took command of the
military division of the Missouri on Thurs
day.
Tuesdays fires were three small ones
at Minneapolis entailing loss Of 5000;
the Michigan Central depot at East Saginaw,
$15, ZOO; and confagration that destroyed
the greater part of the village of Homestead,
Pa.
Christ. Dockson, employed in an Al
leghany City, Pa, tannery, went down a
well to examine the water on Tuesday. 1t
was very foul with gas and his cries of alarm
brought two fellow-laborers to the rescue.
They went down and were in tnrn suffoca-
ted.
A company of nine persons, citizens
of Cherokee, Indian Nation, has been or
ganized for the purpose Of establishing
national bank at Vinita, Indian Territory,
with a capital of $50, 900. ...
Advices from Deming say "Juh,"
the head chief of the Apaches, is not dead,
as reported, but is now raiding the southern
Chiricahuas. Jose Lepas, a Mexican, who
has half brother with Chief Geronite, re-
ports little Charley McComas recently killed
by the Indians. The Indians who have been
lowering around both sides of the boundary
line, having been disappointed in receiving
reinforcements from the San Carlos reserva-
ton, have now split up into small raiding
parties and a good many horses have been
stolen from various places.
Fourteen persons in different families
living in the western part of Cincinnati have
been attacked with symptoms of poisoning.
One child died Thursday. A number of
others are seriously ILL.,. 1t is thought the
poison was administered some way through
food bought at grocery. -. FHEf}
The Katie P. Kountz and cargo were
destroyed at Davis Landing, just above New
Orleans, on Thursday. 49,
Two small children of John Earness
were suffocated during fire in the dwelling
at Middletown, o., Thursday, and Mrs.
Mary WEIGH and grandson suffered a similar
fate at Cincinnati the same day.
There have been fifty cases of diph-
liberia and five deaths within a week In the |
West Boylston CMass0 schools, which have
been ordered closed in consequence. Es
Adjutant General King, Of Texas, re-
ports that negroes are dissatisfied with |
exclusive cars for their accommodation, and |
says trainmen on the Texas Central, where |
the system is just inaugurated, were COM
PEELED to take the colored people; out Of the
cars assigned to whites.