McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-06-19
Disastrous Accident on the
Camden Road in Penn
syIvania.
Several OF an Excursion Party
Killed and Others More or
Less Injured.
Condition Of the Growing Grain...Mat.
tiers POlitical...Affairs in the
Old World.
NEWS NOTES.

| NEWS NOTES.
General James Watson Webb died al
New York on the Sth.
Judge Cox, of Washington, on the
ground Of adultery, granted divorce, with
alimony at 500 per month, to Helen NJ
Carroll (nee Bennett) from Gen. Samuel s.
Carroll, United States army (retired). The
custody of the children is given defendant.
The city of Cuzco was taken on the
18th ultimo by Caceres, the project and
other government officials being made pris-
oners. The Indians taken by Project Mas,
of Junius, during the encounter at Valca-
bambs, were tried and instantly shot.
The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph
company has reduced rates from Chicago
and St. Louis to New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington to forty cents
per message.
The residence of Alexander Carroll,
twenty miles from Ottawa, was burned by
lightning. Four children persisted.
Gen. Abe Buford, of Kentucky, sui
cided at Danville, Ind, on the 9th, at the
residence of his nephew, Benz. E. Buford.
He retired to his room just after breakfast
and had been there but short time when
the report of a revolver was heard and he
was found In dying condition, having shot
himself in the head. He died without a
struggle. Two statements are made, stat
ing that financial misfOrtunes and the death
of his family and trouble with his brother,
Tom Buford, who killed Judge Elliott,
were the causes OF the act.
Henry G. Work, the noted song
writer and composer, died at Hartford,
Through Georgia, my Grandfather's
Clocks and ''Dear Father, Come Home
With Me Now' were written by him.
Last week the wife of farmer
named Enicka, living near Germantown,
Mimi. went to neighbours for milk. Not
returning, search was made and continued
several hours, when the woman's body
was found most horribly mutilated. She
had been outraged, then shot twice in the
| head and thrown across a log and her bow
els cut open, portions of her flesh cut off
and thrown aside and other nameless atrOc-
tiles committed upon the remains. The
community is thoroughly aroused.
The Giant Powder company's maya
zine, containing 10000 pounds of tonite
powder, located three and one-half miles
east of Denver, exploded with terrific force
fronts in the business portion OF Denver
were wrecked. A new farm house 300 yards
distant was completely demolished. The
occupants miraculously escaped injury.
Hardin Coons, living near Jackson
vile, ILL.,, suicided by hanging. Grief oyer
the recent death of his wife was the cause.
The magnificent Union depot at St.
Paul, Mimi, was destroyed by fire on the
10th. Loss, 5000, OOe.
General Manager Potter, of the Bur-
lington road, denies the truth of the re-
port telegraphed from Omaha to the effect
that the Burlington and Missouri River
road had given notice of withdrawal from
the Transcontinental association.
Samuel Gregory, commodore of the
navy, died at Boston on the It'll, aged II.
A special from Springfield, Dakota,
says: ''The Indians bring reports that last
week some Brule Sioux at the Rosebud
agency got into fight among themselves.
Three were killed and the balance of the
band, which numbers about 5000, has
progress. The Indians are all we'll armed
and mounted. The information comes
wholly from Indian rumors and is not re-
garded reliable.
At Picton, Ont, Joseph Tompsett,
and George Lowder were hanged in the
county Jail for the murder of Peter Lozier.
The execution took place inside the Jail,
and was witnessed by two dozen persons,
including the officials.
The International Sunday school
convention of the United States and Provin-
ces began its session at Louisville on the
18th with over 100 delegates present.
Hon. P. S. Blake, Of Toronto, Canada, was
made temporary chairman. The address
of welcome was made by DR.. j. A. Broo-
dus, of Louisville, and responses by FL. s.
Blake, DIR. Wharton, of Georgia, and Hon.
81. NJ. Becker, Of California.
Col. Morrow, whose name figures
prominently in the Swain case in eonnec-
ton with duplicate pay accounts, is to be
court martialled.
Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Herbert, of
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, and Sarah Amelia
Scull, of Washington, D. c., author of a
textbook on Greek mythology, have been
given the degree of Doctor Of Philosophy by
the Wesleyan female college, of which they
are graduates.
VIM. G. Morgan, defaulting agent of
the New York banking firm of Putnam &
Earle, was sentenced at Hartford, Conn.,,
to three years in the states prison.
Points along the Allegheny valley
were visited recently by one of the heaviest
rain storms known for many years, causing
the most destructive flood since 1865. AT
Brookville, Pa, water spout burst and in
less than an hour the creek rose ten feet,
Transforming it into a seething, foaming
torrent. The rapid rise gave the mill men
no chance whatever to save their stock.
William G. Morgan, who conducted
the Hartford branch of Putnam & Earle,
brokers, of New York, was sentenced in
the superior court to three years. imprison-
ment in the states prison, for making false
entries in the books of the firm.
The last concerts of the June festl-
walls at Minneapolis was held amidst storms
of thunder, lightning and rain. Lightning
struck the coliseum in the afternoon, caus-
ing panic in the audience attending the
children's concert, but prompt action on
the part of several resolute men and women,
especially Theodore Thomas, who, finding
the building was not on fire, signalled the
orchestra to proceed, prevented any one
being seriously injured, though several
ladies were carried fainting from the room.
Acting Governor Thomas, of Utah,
granted a reprieve to Hopt until the appeal
can be heard in the United States supreme
court. Hopt was to have been shot on the
14th.
Judge Edgerton, of Dakota, has
granted the motion made to quash the in
dictment against Gov. Ordway on the