McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-08
A Compromise Between Friends OF
the Morrison Tariff Bill and
It's Opponents.
Fourteen Paupers Burned TO Death in
Michigan...CrimiDal, Foreign,
Political and Other News.
NEWS NOTES.

Inc new 1Ork Dduk Sldl6tlleuL SHOWS
deposits decrease, $i,978, 900; reserve de-
crease, $146, 900. The banks now hold ST.
419, 600 in excess Of legal requirements.
The butchers of New York are trying
to boycott Chicago dressed beef. 1t Is pro-
posed to canvas the city and furnish the
different trades unions with the names OF
those who refuse to aid in the movement
and have boycotted all tradesmen who per-
sist in purchasing shipped dressed beef.
Harry Deakin, manager of the Mil
waukee Academy of Music, has sued George
B. Min, the eX-preacher and actor, for
$40, 600 for breach of contract in failing to
play at the academy in October, 1888.
Two colored politicians, Isaac Liggin
and James Porter Spiers, were arrested In
| North Carolina when about to engage in
duel. Liggin had on two Overcoats and
sheet-iron plate eighteen inches square as
| chest protector to keep out the cold. He
explained that bad blood grew out of diff
ference as to presidential candidates.
Sadie Reign, the young woman who
pleaded guilty to having Shot and killed
| Patrick Kingley, the head waiter at the
Briggs house, Chicago, for defaming her
| character, was sentenced to one year and
half in the penitentiary.
Near Hermansville q freight train
running out of time on the West Pennsly
vania railroad collided with q passenger
| train. The engines were demolished,
number of cars damaged and Engineer
Hicks and Fireman Bissell fatally injured.
Fireman Gallagher and Engineer Gallagher
were dangerously hurt. The passengers
were badly shaken up.
John B. Tolman, veteran printer
OF Lynn. Mass, has given the Young
| Mems Christian Association Of that city an
estate valued at $50, 900, STIMULATING that
the income shall be used in promoting the
cause OF temperance.
A water spout burst over Hutchins
station, on the Central railroad, in Texas.
The water was ten feet deep on level.
Farm implements, fences and crops were
destroyed and not a bridge remains. No
| lives were lost.
| Virginia, was waylaid and murdered and
his body horribly mutilated. There is lit
tie doubt but that the deed was committed
| by an organized band of outlaws, known as
the 'James gang"
Samuel Phillips has been appointed
assistant general freight agent of the Mis-
| souri, Pacific railroad, vice j. j. Rogers,
resigned. Mr.. Phillips has been chief clerk
for Third Vice President Hoxie for several
years.
In the United States circuit court at
|
| in the suit OF the United States against the
Union Pacific railroad company to recover
| 81, 1S1, 619, being per cent. Of the net
| earnings for the five years preceding 1870,
as provided by contract. The court allows
the defendant to plead judgment in its own
favor.
Whisky for foreign export is pour
ing into Baltimore. As the time Is ap-
preaching when the distillers must either
pay taxes and take out bond, or sell it out
Of the country, they are rushing it to sea-
board. There is too much whisky in the
country for the demand.
The public debt statement shows the
decrease of the public debt during April to
be 81. 232. 0T5; decrease since June 80. 1888,
1877, 060, 474; cash in treasury, $399, 753, 206;
gold certificates, 101. 116. 200; silver certifi-
Gates, SIG, 3I4, 231; certificates on deposit,
, Is, 625 900; refunding certificates, $298, 400
legal tenders, $346, 6S1 ,016; fractional cur
rency, sc. 1888, 107.
The Western Union telegraph com,
pany has ordered reduction of from 20 tC
80 per cent. in rates to prominent points
south and west.
"Parson" Davis has accepted Sulli
: vans challenge offering to any man 81 ,00(
7 and the receipts of the exhibition who viii
: stand before him four rounds. and will pu
Jem Good against the champion.
The Greeley expedition flagship
"Thetis,' sailed from New York on thu
: LIST. Secretaries Chandler and Lincoln
: General Hancock and other celebrities &C
companied the vessel to Sandy Hook on th'
t gunboat "Tallapose." Harbor salute!
t were given the departing craft.
; Mayor Stephens of Cincinnati tele
graphed from Vincinnes, Ind, to his secre
tary to permit no sparring or sluggin,
, matches on the Sabbath. This is intended
to prohibit the proposed exhibition Of Johl
, l.. Sullivan.
: Thos. Brown (colored) was executed
at Halifax court house, North Carolina, TO
3 wife murder.
The United States revenue steame
"Corwin" sailed from San Francisco TO
Alaska with Lieutenant Lofty and party
who have been specially detained by tn
{ treasury department to explore the new
river discovered last year in Alaska b,
Lieutenant Stony.
The ship 'sAtlantine," of Drammen
8 Norway, was wrecked off the Magdale1
islands during sleet storm. She broke VI
Immediately. Nineteen lives were lsot
, The second mate is the only survivor.
I The new pool contract of the st
Louis lines was signed in New York by rep
\ resentatives of all the roads on the ID. /
, provides for distribution of east bount
! business at fixed percentage and regula
settlement of balances. The percentage
and terms of settlement have not yet beef
, agreed upon.
A gentleman just returned to Ottawa
2 Ont, from the Rocky mountains, state
3 that on bis way east he visited Battleford
t where the Indians have congregated to de
] mand food. The recent trouble at tina
3 point, he says, was entirely due to thei
hungry condition.
Gertrude Ash, the accomplice o
! Jesse Williams, the negro who committed
the robbery and assault upon Miss Maggie
Harvey, at Sloan Flats, Broadway snc
Twenty second street. New York, on the
, 9Th of March last, has been found guilty
and sentenced to eighteen and half years
In the peDitentiary.
A Georgia postmaster has sent let
: fer to Washington inclosng circnlar re-
questing q contribution OF S24 for campaign
, purposes. The circular was shown to Post.
| master Generai Gresham. who saws he will