McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-10
AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
An Opinion by the attorney Gen.
eraI Concerning The Fiiz
John Porter Bill.
The President Vetoes the Measure
and Congress Sustains Him
in the Act.
Anticipated Indian Troubles...Crimi.
nal, Accidental, Political and
other Matters.

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other Matters.
NEWS NOTES.
The coinage executed at the United
States mint at Philadelphia during June ag.
gregated 81, III, 4S5, including /, 14O, 900 sill
yer dollars, 200 bali dollars, 200 quarter
dollars and $50, 200 dimes.
There is great CONSERVATION among
the stockmen having ranches in the Indian
territory The sheriff of the Cherokee ma
ton, with SQUAD of Indians, has been TAX
ing down all the wire fencing that encloses
larger tracts than fifty acres, that being the
limit allowed by the act Of the Cherokee
council. The sheriff confiscates all the wire
he takes down.
Lizzie Bradley, of White Cloud, Doni-
phan county, Kansas, who started to COM
NIT suicide by starvation, succeeded few
DAYS ago. She wholly abstained from food
for period of ffty-three days, during
which time she stubbornly refused to speak.
Heavy forest fires are raging in va
rious parts of Maine.
Theresidence of Mrs. Patrick Murphy,
of Brier Hill, Ohio, caught fire in the morn
ing at 1 O'Clock. Mr.. Murphy and one
child escaped. Three children, sleeping in
the second story, aged 5, ard 8 years,
were burned to death. .
Allen Pinkerton, the famous detect
i've, died at Chicago on the LIST.
Preparations are making on an ex-
tensive scale for the meeting of the So
ciety of the Army of the Tennessee, at Lake
Minnetonka, August 18th and 18th. Gen
eral W. T. Sherman will preside. General
Grant has signifed his intention to be pres
ent. u-f... .
The president has approved the joint
resolution to provide temporarily for the
expenditures Of the government.
Yarnell & Co., manufacturers of
pickles, etc., st. Louis, have assigned. Re-
ported liabilities, $62, 600; assets, $50, 200.
James G.. Blaine delivered diplomas
| to the graduating class at the Hollowell clas-
steal and scientific academy at Augusta. &C.
| companying the ceremony with brief re-
view of the history and progress of the in
and for many years president OF the board
of trustees.
&C. II. Chappell, of the Chicago and
erat manager of the Wabash railroad, de-
clined to accept.
The receiver of the Newark savings
institution began the payment. Of 60 per
cent. dividend on the LIST.
As q train on the Cincinnati & East
ern road was crossing trestle over ravine
east of Winchester, w. R. McGill, presi-
dent of the road, fell from the door of the
baggage car to the ground, distance of
fifty feet, and was instantly killed.
The 15-year-old boy sent to Philadel-
phia from Quincy, Ills. under the SUPPOSE
ton that he might be Charlie Ross, was
questioned by Mr.. Ross, who positively said
the lad was not his missing son.
Col. Robert M. Goodwin, confined in
the state prison at Jeffersonville, Ind, COM
mitted suicide by taking poison. Goodwin
was dissipated man, and about five years
asylum as restraining measure. He was
released in May, 1880, and five days later,
while intoxicated, killed his brother, DR..
John Goodwin, at Brookville.
The commencement dinner at Colby
was given most enthusiastic greeting. In
| the course of his remarks he said he had not
heretofore been in favor of co-education,
but evidence in the past few days had more
than half convinced him of its wisdom.
President Arthur, his son and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Sheridan, General Rucker, Mrs.
Davis and party of friends, numbering
about hfty, attended the afternoon per-
Torrance of W. F. Cody's Buffalo Bill's)
troupe of Indians, Mexicans and cowboys,
| who have been illustrating at Athletic park,
Washington, life in the ''Wild West.'
The president has issued proclama-
ton warning all persons intending to take
forcible possession of the Oklahoma lands,
In the Indian territory, that the military
forces of the United States will be used, il
necessary. to remove all such intruders.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, reported
| to the senate, with amendments, the bill
introduced by Senator Cullom to provide
for the construction of the Michigan and
Mississippi river canal.
Humphrey and Bill Best, brothers
and notorious desperadoes, brutally killed
an inoffensive colOred man named Green
Bailey, in Girard county, Kentucky.
The Northern Pacific sold $3.50
acres of land during the month of June, at
an average Of $3.50 per acre.