McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GENERAL.

forwarded to the Canadian Pacific railroa
company a receipt for eight million dollars
the amount deposited with the Bank of Mon
treal to the credit of the receiver-geaeral OF
account of the stock guarantee.
Excitement prevails at Wheeling, Va
because of the announcement that Samue
B. McCulloch, clerk in the circuit court
has mysteriously disappeared. He left To-
his home few miles in the country about 1,
O'Clock on the night Of the 10Th.
The new standard time generally
went into effect on the 18th.
Owing to the continued decline ir
iron the Pottstown, Pa, Iron company
employing several hundred hands, announce
a reduction in wages of ten per cent, be.
ginning December 1st. Other mills in the
Schuylkill valley contemplate similar action.
Seven frame tenements, thickly peo-
pied, were burned at South Chicago on the
18th, and there were number Of narrow
escapes, as the flames spread very rapidly;
The committee of forty appointed by
the people Of Danville, Va, invites all per-
sons having information aOout the distur-
Dances there on the Sd inst, and the con-
| duct of white people from that date to the
close of the day of election, to give their tes-
| timony.
Mrs. Zoe Hayward, of Philadelphia,
wife of the opera singer, attempted suicide
at the Mason house, Baltimore. She fired
seven shots, one of which took effect in her
left breast. The wound is serious. Deser-
ton was the cause.
The ship Portland, lumber laden
schooner, and two brigantines, bound for
France, were driven upon the reefs and
wrecked near st. Johns. Several vessels
were driven from their anchorage and par
TALLY wrecked. Tepassey advices report
that several bodies have come ashore there
and at st. Shots. No identity as yet. All
were mutilated about the heads, and the
arms and legs being severed from the trunk.
At s.. Shots a large vessel drove by and
looked to be abandoned. The steamer
Caspian was detained four days by the hur-
ricane.
In pursuance to resolution adopted
by the last annual meeting Of the Grand
Army of the Republic of Kansas, Captain
W. Shockey, chairman of the committee ap-
pointed for the purpose, has sent circulars
to all points of the G.. A. r. in Kansas,
Missouri, Arkansas. Nebraska, Colorado,
New Mexico and Indian Territory, asking
the signatures of all comrades to memorial
to congress praying for the establishment of
a soldiers and sailors home in Kansas.
Articles of incorporation for the
Freeport g. Mississippi river railroad COM
pany were flied at Freeport, Ia, en- the
Goth, capital So, 000, 200. II is to run from
Freeport to Galena with branch to Fulton,
on the Northwestern road. The incorpor-
ators are Northwestern officials, which road,
it is understood, will be the constructors of
the line.
The saving season on the Chippewa
and Eau Claire rivers virtually closed on the
Goth. The saving season has been a long
and prosperous one for the Chippewa valley
and they have reaped their re-
wards.
There is a general wish among repub-
ican members of the next house that ex-
Speaker Keller should refuse to be candi-
date for the empty honor Of denomination.
The supreme court of Wisconsin sus-
tains the Washburn bill. This cuts off the
widow, except that the executors are au-
thorized to set aside a sum for her support.
The fat stock show in Chicago was
very largely attended.
4Workmen at the Ludington (Mich.)
mine joined the Chaplin mine strikers at
Iron Mountain on the 10Th and paraded the
streets with brass band, 800 to 1000 !
strong, till forced to dispense by the cold. |
Four hundred men then surrounded Scper- |
intendent Stockbridge, of the Ludington |
mine, and upon his refusal to yield to their |
demands, kicked and beat him till he prom
ised them anything they wanted. |
An overproduction of knit goods
seems to have made regular standstin in |
that line Of articles.
Patrick William O'Brien, the Irish |
giant, and Christiana D. Dunz, the Ger
man giantess, were married in Pittsburg on |
the Goth. The bride was dressed in white |
satin. In her hand she held boquet of en-
ormous size. The wedding cake was nine
feet in circumference and three feet thick.
The combined height OF the bridal pair is
fifteen feet and three inches, and they tip
the beam at $40 pounds.
Strong probability now is that the
steamer Manistee was lost with all on board.
She left Duluth on the 10th, but owing to
The great storm she did NOT leave Ashland