McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-02-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GEN ERAL.

GENERAL.
The international Working Peoples
association of New York has commended the
assassi alton of Detectives Rloch and Klu-
beck. In Vienna.
Officials of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe deny the report that combination
has been formed between their road and
the Burlington.
A factional fight occurred among the
Creek Indians few days ago, in which Yo-
hola was killed and several Others wounded.
There are fears of further bloodshed. The
cause of the trouble is not stated.
The locomotive engineers ofthe Mex
lean National, between Laredo and Saltillo,
Mexico, have organized as body and will
present the company their designations en-
masse, unless some protection is guaran-
teed them against arrest and indefinite i'm
prisonment in Mexico, when, In discharge
of their duty, they inadvertently run over
and kill a Mexican.
Reports from twenty-four leading
clearing houses in the United States for the
week ended Feb. 8, give clearances of 81 ,020,-
793, 1854, being a decrease of 7.5 per cent.
compared with the corresponding week
last year.
The St. Paul chamber of commerce
passed resolutions Of sympathy with the
farmers in their fight against the railroad
| opd olavator eystoun If tho norfbuocf pooo
lutions were passed calling upon Minnesota
senators and representatives in congress to
do all in their power to secure immediate
opening of the Sioux reservation, Dakota.
A resolution was also passed praying con-
gress not to forfeit the land grant of the
Northern Pacific, as it would be of great in
Justice to farmers who have purchased lands
from the same.
Hon. Thos. Kinsella, editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle, died on the 18th, after
twelve weeks illness.
A fire at Fort Sully on the 18th de-
stroyed the military quarters. No assist
ance could be rendered. The nearest water
was in the Missouri, nearly mile distant.
The Lincoln club OF Meridian, Conn,
composed of leading colored men of Con.
necticut, have Endorsed Logan as a presi-
dental candidate.
The Illinois state republican conyen-
ton will be held at Peoria April 10th.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has contributed 81 ZOO for the sufferers of
the western floods.
Petitions are being circulated in Cali
fornia requesting congress to pass, without
amendment, Summers postal telegraph
bill.
At Milwaukee, ]. A. St. Arnold,
telegraph operator, while out walking with
Miss Bridget Eagan, shot the girl, firing two
bullets into her head, and then shot himself
through the brain.
A bell boy at tie Sherman house,
Chicago, was crushed to death by the ele-
vator.
Two sections of freight train on the
Cincinnati Southern collided. The caboose,
cars and engines were badly damaged. F.
Burke, brakeman, was killed.
Twenty-Five hundred circulars were
sent from Sacramento to the democrats of
California, inquiring their preference for
presidential candidate. One thousand an
swers have been received, giving 800 for
Tilden, 195 for Thurman and five for Field.
1t is estimated that 10000 people
along the banks Of the Ohio river, within
twenty fye miles Of Galliopolis, will have to
be fed by charity for at least two weeks.
Irontown, Ohio, is two-thirds under
water, and the destruction is beyond all es-
innate. More than half the people are
homeless and out Of food.
The department commander of New
New Hampshire appeals to all Grand Army
posts for aid for the sufferers by the floods.
Greenleaf, Ky, is completely sub
merged and great suffering is experienced
by the poor.
DR.. George II. Marshall, charged
with attempting to blackmail Mary Ander-
son, was acquitted in the United States dis
trict court at Pittsburg.
The glove fight between the heavy
weights, Capt. j. C. DAILY and H. H. stod-
dard, few nights ago, in New York, |
Queensbury rules, was avery bad encounter.
In the third round Stoddard clinched his |
antagonist and hurled him from the plat
form. Police then stopped the row.
Tom Allen, the pugilist, was. dis
charged by the St. Louis criminal court on
the ground that the old charge of fighting |
prize fight in Kentucky, in 1876, was made
for the purpose Of collecting debt.
The gross receipts of the matinee
given by the Mapleson company at Chicago,
Patti and Gerster, for the benefit
Of the Ohio flood sufferers. was over s.. 900.