McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-03-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL.

CONSTITUTIONAL amen0ment making the pIo'
posed presidential term six years and rem
dering the president ineligible for re-elec-
ton for the next succeeding term.
Advices from Regina, N. w. T., say
the Indians at Crooked Lake still defy the
mounted police and allow no one to enter
the Center agency building. Gopher, the
leader of the File Hill Indians, is under ar
rest, and strong detachment has been sen
out to arrest others.
Judge Sawyer, in the circuit court at
San Francisco, decided the test the case Of
Cinnamon arriving without return certii-
cate who left this country between the pas
sage of the restriction act, May 8, 1882,
and the date it became effective, August 6,
1862. The court held that the Cinnamon
were unlawfully In the country.
The postoffice at Rich Hill, Mo-, was
burglarized, 81, 200 cash and stamps being
stolen. The safe door was drilled and the
bolts thrown back by means Of wire.
A petition signed by number OF
state officers and many lawyers and leading
business men of Colorado, has been pre-
scented to President Arthur requesting the
appointment of Judge Wagner, of st.
Louis. to succeed Judge McCrary on the
United States circuit bench for the Eighth
judicial circuit.
THERE'S terrible scourge among the
Zuni Indians. Over one hundred children
have died with the measles the past month.
The disease is still raging and the scenes
about the Indian villages are sickening in
the extreme.
The house committee on invalid pen
sions agreed to report favorably Represent
alive Matson's bill, increasing pensions Of
widows and dependent parents of deceased
soldiers and sailors from So to SD per
month.
The river at Shreveport, La, is the
highest since 1s49 and still rising. Steamers
merged plantations hundreds Of miles above
and below. The whole country is reported
under water, and great damage is being
done.
At Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Edward
Peckham invited Lena Spraight, only Is
years of age, to ride to her home, nine
miles from his uncle's, where she was en-
ployed as domestic. When on the road
he was joined by Alexander Peckham, and
hey forced the girl to submit to them in a
school-house. The girl was terribly in
jured.
Specials report the worst blizzard of
the season raging at Crokston, OAK, and
vicinity. Fears were entertained for the
safety of the passengers who left on the
stage for Red Lake Falls.
The Yellowstone river broke at Glen
dive, Montana, Oh the Goth, and ran out
without gorge. The river is higher than
at any time since the spring Of 1881. The
ice is about three feet thick. Trouble is
feared further below. when the Missouri
opens below Buford.
The house committee on railways and
canals has ordered favorable reports on
Hollis bill appropriating $1,000, 900 for the
construction of the Maryland and Delaware
ship canal.
A cablegram, received by the secre-
tary of state, announces the death of Min
lister Hunt. He died from dropsy superin-
duced by chronic Inflammation of the liver.
Alma Lyons and Alfred Slender, boys,
died in Chicago Of hydrophobia, after the
most dreadful agony. The former was Bit
ten January 18th and the latter January
31st.
The bill repeating the test oath,
the senate.
r. Ryan, supposed to be connected
with Fenian organizations in Minnesota and
Dakota, has been arrested at Winnipeg for
having signed the name of the adjutant gen.
eral of the district to call for 500 men to
do frontier service along the international
boundary.
The debt of Helena, Ark, amount
ing to $3.50, 200, has been compromised at
fifty cents on the dollars, eight-te nths of
the creditors agreeing.
General Gordon reports that the
Soudan is tranquil, and he is sending 800
invalids down the river.
: Passengers from northern Mexico
confirm the existence of so.called yellow
fever at Mazatlan and Manzanillo. They
say it is worse than last year.
The western nail association held
special meeting on the 2Sth at Pittsburg.
Reports from all sections indicate an i'm
proved condition of trade. Stocks have
not accumulated, the new card has been
maintained, and inquiries are more numer-
GUS than usual at this season..
Harry futile, wounded in the Stone
Vile fight, was taken from the hospital at
Spearfish, Dakota, by masked men, and