McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-02-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GEN BRAL,


quence Of low prices.
Reports from twenty-seven clearing
houses of the United States for the week
ending January Goth, gives the total clear
ances at 1911, 256, 404, being decrease of
81 per cent. as compared with the same
period the previous week.
Andrew Mangs, of Cleveland, four
years old, while poking shavings into a
after horribly suffering for an hour He was
the last of five children; the others died
within a short time of diphtheria. The
mother became q raving maniac when the
last one was taken from her.
The New Jersey house defeated the
joint resolution asking the Jersey congress-
men to favor national postal telegraph
law.
A dispatch from Matamoras, Mexico,
says Rev. Father Damazo Soto, of Concor-
dia, state Of Vera Cruz, has discovered the
key to the Aztec writings.
Martin Sellers, of Kendallville, Ind,
was summoned to testify against C. C.
Cain, charged with murder, now being
tried at Albion. He remarked that he would
kill himself rather than testify. Shortly
afterwards he went to his room and shot
himself, dying instantly.
A. Medarv, for a number of years
paymaster for the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton railroad, has been relieved. His
accounts are said to be $40, 900 short.
Twenty-seven men met at Green's
burg, Pa, and formed secret brother
hood not to buy French goods, and to boy
colt all dealers selling them until the en-
| barge on pork was taken off.
Able Chubert, at Montreal, was fined
the sum Of $40 or two months imprisonment
for kissing Mrs. Bezeau, his landlady, while
| she was in bed.
A strange and fatal disease has ap-
peared among the cattle in a. Texas county.
A large number have died. The cattle men
| will hold meeting with view to checking
the ravages.
Frank James attorney has applied
for change of venue in the Blue Cut train
| robbery. The decision is expected on the
18th of February.
The Phoenix glass-works at Phillips
burg, opposite Plttsburg, were destroyed
by fire on the s0th. Loss, about $125, 600;
insurance, $14, 600. The works were among
the largest is the country. The most I'M
fortunate circumstance connected with the
destruction of the works is that 500 hands
will be thrown out Of employment in the
middle of winter.
A Chicago and Northwestern train
was wrecked near Cedar Rapids on the Goth.
Three men were injured and the engine and
twelve cars badly damaged.
A large quantity of personal effects
belonging to passengers on the wrecked
steamer City of Columbus has been taken to
Boston for Identification. Reports from the
wreck state that the steamer is gradually
sinking into the water. But little of the
vessel is now visible.
The Texas house passed bill pro-
viding punishment for fence cutting of from
one to five years in the penitentiary, but the
person owning and residing upon land en-
closed by another, who refused iDgress and
egress may lawfully open passageway
through the enclosure.
Tilden G.. Abbott, cashier of the
Union Market National bank, of Boston,
has disappeared, defaulter to the amount
Of $S1, 100, possibly more.
A committee of labor organizations
from Pittsburg have gone to Washington to
urge the passage OF the bill restricting the
importation of foreign labor under con-
tract.
Ansen Linsenmerk has been arrested
at St. Louis for committing forgeries while
postmaster at Krotzingen, Dutch Baden.
Delegations of lobbyists are going to
Washington from Dakota to work for the
opening of the Sioux reservation.
GA large three story business house at
Rome, n. Y, burned on the Goth. Joseph
Alexander persisted in the flames.
Gould is taking hold of Northern Pa
cific to extend his influence with Pacific
roads.
The supreme court of Iowa has af-
firmed the judgment of the district court Of |
Polk county convicting Fountain w. George |
of murder in the first degree. He was sem
fenced to be hanged last August, but the
case was carried to the supreme court. 1t
now remains for the governor under the
statutes to fix the day of execution.
After heavy run on. the Merchants
and Mechanics bank, at Leadville, Colo.
it suspended on the 30th ult. 1t was imme-
diately attached, and $1,000 more attach
ments are to follow.
Patrick Harlmet, aged SO, laborer
living at Mt. Auburn, Ohio, brutaly killed