McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GENERAL.

!. The Chicago press club held a memo
rial meeting on the 18th and unveiled
portrait Of the late Samuel j. Medill, man
aging editor of the Tribune and president o
, the club. An eloquent memorial address
was delivered by Congressman Finerty ant
several feeling tributes uttered by old mem
bers Of the city press.
In the greater number of the Protest
ant churches In New York on the 18th ser.
} mons on Luther were preached. Robert
Collyer's sermon was entitled sour Saint
Martini DR.. Leman preached on ''Luth.
er and Leo.'
All banks at Des Moines, Iowa,
adopted meridian time on the 18th.
At Mirabile, Mo-, on the 18th, Homer
Bolton beat out his fathers brains with a
club. No cause IL assigned for the murder
GUS act.
Charley Ford, of the James gang
notoriety, fears his brother has met with
foul play. He says Bob was last heard
from at New York, Oct. IA. He had money
and valuables amounting to $500.
Owing to inadequate railway mail
service, $50 sacks of mail from St. Paul and
eastern cities, for points between Helena
and Portland, were lying at Portland, Ore
gon, on the 18th, and the quantity was daily
increasing.
At Livingston, Montana, on the night
of the 18th, the Flathead Indians visited
the Crow agency and stole fifty ponies. Tie
Crows pursued them, overtaking the party
at daybreak. A severe fight followed re-
sulting in the killing of two Flatheads, one
Crow wounded and the ponies recaptured.
Hanlan gives an exhibition row in
San Francisco on Thanksgiving day.
A naked light upon a miners head
at the West End, Pennsylvania mine on the
10Th, caused terrific explosion. Michael
Barcoski, John Escolus and John Roller
were killed.
The first snow of the season fell in
New York on the 18th.
John Schermer was killed and several
persons injured in collision on the West
Shore railroad near Troy, N. Y, on the
10Th.
Charles Wilson, Swede, fifty-two
idence in North Leavenworth on the morn
ing of the 18th. He was found with his skull |
smashed. The weapons used were two
stone jugs, one of which was broken.
A Springfield Qll.) special of the 18th
says: Governor Hamilton has forwarded |
fho ,f off Ioo of NJ fho
lature ceding the Illinois and Michigan canal
to the federal government, and the vote of |
the people upon the proposed transfer, to
the president of the. United States, with a
request that it be presented congress with
such recommendations as he may deem
proper in view of the Importance of the ces-
sions.
The Mexican excursionists arrived at
St. Louis on the 18th. The party were then
taken to the new custom house, number
Of large business houses, the bridge, and
cotton merchants exchange, where they
we're cordially received and introduced to
The members.
The Western Export association held
; secret session at Chicago on the 18th,
which was unusually largely attended. Diff
ierences which have existed between vari-
ous members of the association as to the ca
pacity of their respective distilleries were
smicably settled. The association took
Under consideration resolution offered by
q. B. Miller, president Of the association,
providing that the prices fixed by the asso-
,iation be maintained under all circumstan-
les, and authorizing the executive commit
zee to use the funds of the association, il
ound necessary, to accomplish that end.
Mortimer Deneher, aged 121 years,
lied at the residence of his some in Derry
lane, Lesueur county, Minnesota, OH the
18th. Daneher was the last surviving brother
If remarkable family, which for down.
light longevity surpasses anything in the
'ecords of modern times, not only in this,
,ut in any other country. Mr.. Daneher's I
mother died in her 101st year, his eldest /
brother at the age of 10s years, his second {
It the age of Iii years, months and 20 .
lays, and himself soon after at the age of !
21 years. The father was the shortest Lived E
II the family, having died at the age of 50. t
Fhe combined ages of the three brothers t
cached $40 years; including the mother, t
A6, and taking in the father, 526. 6
A strike anong laborers and freight l
handlers on the Panama railway eliminated
n the wreck of train.
J. H. Haverly verifes the report that t
,e is to build two new theatres, one in New q
FORK and the other in Philadelphia. The &
money for the enterprises will be furnished t
~ Chicago capitalists, but he will have the {
of the building and furnishing 1
# the theatres.