McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-09-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GENERAL.

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home at Chicago from Its European tour or
Monday.
The international convention Of cigar.
makers began at Toronto on Monday.
District Judge Edgerton of Dakota
has given decision declaring capital remov-
al proceedings illegal.
The first through freight from Port
land, Me-, to Portland, Ore, started on
Monday. 1t consisted of ten cars, laden
with canned corn.
The New Jersey republican conyen-
ton nominated Judge Jonathan Dixon for
governor on the first ballot.
Scarlet fever in mild form is an
nounced by the state board of health to be
epidemic in Illinois.
On Tuesday afternoon, while at work
at new barn building at Belmont's farm,
Babylon, n. Y, five men on a scaffold were
precipitated to the ground by the breaking
of supports. John Metz was instantly
killed and August Nichols fatally injured.
The other three were seriously injured.
The iron-clad Monadnock was sue
cessfully launched at Mare island navy yard
Tuesday afternoon. In order to meet the
requirements of congress, the vessel Is sup
posed to be the old Monadnock repaired,
but with the exception of one plank every
thing Is new. The old ship lies in the same
spot where beached when brought to the
navy yard
The Fairlawn breaker, in which the
accident occurred two weeks before at
Scranton, Pa, resulting In the death Of two
men, burned Wednesday morning. Incen-
diary. Several dwellings are damaged.
The loss is estimated at $50, 900. Five hum
dred men and boys are out of work.
Early Wednesday morning the works
of the Enterprise carriage company at Gin
cinnati were burned. The company en-
ployed 200 men. Total loss, $50, 600; par
TALLY insured. -
Hon. William Faxon, assistant secre-
tary of the navy under Gideon Welles, died
suddenly at Hartford, CT, Wednesday
morning Of heart disease, aged g..
The Diamond match company has
broken the manufacturers combination by
reducing prices to dealers 80 per cent.
5The supreme lodge of Odd Fellows in
session at Providence, Il. l., refused to
strike the word s'white'' from the consti-
tuition. The next meeting will be held at
Minneapolis. ...
Junius Brutus Booth. the actor, is
dead.
The Northern Pacific annual earnings
for 1888 are given as follows: Gross, S, 1885,
459; expenses, $3.50, 929; net s., 51s, 500.
The water in the river at Minneapolis
is lower than ever before, and saw-mills
that run by water power have been COM
PEELED to shut down.
B. II. Church, n prominent citizen of
Sterling, ILL.,, was found dead in the closet
Of Pullman car on the st. Louis & Rock
Island road Wednesday night. .e. .....
The new. Masonic temple at Peoria,
ILL.,, was dedicated on Thursday. 1t cost
S1OO, 900.
A serious collision occurred on the
Ohio & Mississippi road near Seymour, Ill.,,
early Sunday morning, train running at a
very high speed celliding..with the train ahead
ofit. A passenger coach was the last car on
The forward train, and it was driven half
way through and on top sleeper ahead of
It. The engineer Of the rear train and a
little child of passenger were killed, and
\ dozen others injured.
An entire block at Marengo, ILL.,,
burned on Saturday night. Loss, 1870, 200.
By the falling of scaffolding in the
Woodward shaft of the Delaware, Lacka- |
wanna g. Western mine at Kingston, Pa,
four men were precipitated to the |
bottom, which was covered with water, and |
we're drowned. All left families.
The journeymen plumbers of Pitts
burg went out on strike against reduction |
If so cents day on Saturday.
The Gem City, q handsome passenger
BOAT in winter quar- ers at st. Louis, burned |
o the waters edge on Saturday morning. |
Loss, $50, 900.
CRIME.
Henry Mosier. alias Moore. who MR.