McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-14
BRIEFLY TOLD.


There is great depression in the iron trade
at Pittsburg.
Forty-five distillers met at Peoria and
formed a Western Export association.
The Ohio crop report of the state statistical
agent is of a highly encouraging character.
Baldwin's locomotive works at Philadelphia
were destroyed by fire on the 4th. Loss, $50,
600.
Miss Eva Mackey, daughter of the Califor
mia millionaire, is betrothed to M. Colonna,
representative of the well-known family Of
Colonna.
A libel suit for $4,000 has been instituted
against the San Francisco Alta Californian. by
Sarah A. Sharon, plaintiff in the Sharon d.
vorce case.
Gen Hatch is about to move on the Indian
| territory intruders, and from this time for
ward blows falling thick and fast may be
looked for.
James Lay, 60 years old, and Bant Dalton,
aged so, met at the election polls at Somerset,
KY, and renewed an old quarrel. Dalton was
| shot and killed.
Frank Frisbie, employed some time as ex-
| change teller at the Portland (Me) First Ma
tional bank, was discovered to be defaulter
and has fled the country.
By falling of walls of the United States hotel
at Washington on the Sd, seven people were
killed and number severely wounded. Some
of the victims are still under the ruins.
John w. Mackey, the bonanza millionaire.
denies the truth Of the statement telegraphed
from Naples of the engagement of his daugh-
ter Eva to a member of the Colonna family.
The governor of Wyoming has issued pro-
| clamation quarantining on the southern and
eastern boundaries of Wyoming to prevent
cattle affected with disease from entering the
territory.
| Mount Sterling (Ky.) Times special says it
is reported that pitched battle occurred in
Elliott county, and that four men were killed
and sixteen wounded. The story lacks con-
| frmation.
The New York weekly bank statement
shows: Loans decrease, $406, 400; species de-
crease, S48O,9OO; reserve decrease, S4666,2225.
The banks now hold $50, III 800 in excess of le-
| gal requirements. -''Fa- .--
Six deputy United States marshals were dis
charged at New York by Marshal Erhardt,
acting under orders from Attorney General
Brewster. Whether the discharge has any
political significance could not be ascertained
An epidemic of malignant and pernicious
fever is raging at Carries, thirty-eight miles
| from Panama, Nine deaths occurred inside
| of thirty-seven hours. The inhabitants are
panic stricken and leaving as fast as possible
| Mrs. Langtry, who has arrived in London,
| he; &c
visit to America. She will probably return in
the autumn, but says she has no idea of build
ing theatre in New York, as has been men,
| toned.
Dispatches from the managers of the lead
| ing clearing houses in the United States show
that the clearances for the week ending Au-
gust I'd was S744, 032, 494, decrease of six and
| one-tenth per cent compared with the CORE
spending week one year ago.
1t is understood that the court of INQUIRY
investigating the navy department frauds dis
| covered a fraudulent voucher dated two
| months prior to Wales taking charge of the
| bureau, indicating that fraudulent practices
began earlier than had been supposed.
The management of the worlds exposition
to be held at New Orleans, authorize negotia-
| have the Bartholdi statue of liberty brought
| to New Orleans for short time before it is
| finally set up at Bedloe's Island, New York.
| Advices from Cottonwood, Montana, say
courier who arrived from near the mouth of
| the Muscle Shell, reports that Granville
| Stuart's cowboys have large band of horse
thieves surrounded. The band is too strong
| to be taken but can be held till help comes
| Reinforcements left Cottonwood and hot times
| are expected.
| AT the coroner's investigation of the United
| States Hotel accident at Washington, testi-
| mony was given showing that Bedding, the
| proprietor of the hotel, had known for long
| time that the building was unsafe, yet never
gave word of warning to the boarders. The
| owners of the building were aware of its dam
| gerous condition, but took no steps for its i'm
| provement.
There was great excitement in Schenectady,
N. Y, the other night, by the arrest of four
young men for disturbing the proceedings of
the salvation army. Fifteen hundred men
| followed the prisoners to the station, threat
ening to throw the officers into the canal and
threats were made to burn the salvation
| army's barracks.
Representatives of the Union Pacific: rail-
| way join in declaring the Texas cattle fever
scare over. Texas fever has ceased, and al
cattle yards along the entire line of road have
been renovated and fumigated, which is also
true of every car used for the transportation
| of cattle. The company has also notified the
Wyoming cattle growers association of the
trail taken by every herd from the southwest
| to enable them to warn all drovers, and thus
prevent any possibility of any spread of the
contagion. .r.
POLITICAL NOTES.
In the recent elections in Utah for county
officers the MOrmOnS were successful in near