McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-25
sBR1EFLY TOLD.

land fire will reach $4,000.
Coke manufacturers threaten to put out the
fires in consequence of low prices.
Forest fires have broken out in Michigan
and are doing good deal of damage.
Baron Alvensteben the new German minis
ter to this country, has arrived at Washing
| ton.
Seven hundred cigar rollers at Binghamp-
| ton, New York, are on a strike for higher
! wages.
Isaac Jackson was hanged at Chicago on
Friday for the murder of George Bedell in
April last.
Both of the LANDER brothers, the Philadel-
phia bankers who suspended payment, have
been arrested.
| The extensive works at the CRANKY mining
and smelling company, at Oronogo, Mo-, were
destroyed by fire.
| Stafford s. Co., of Providence and Fall River,
cotton goods manufacturers, have failed.
Liabilities s25O,OOO.
| Portions of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and
Ohio were shaken by earthquake on the 18th.
| No damage was done.
| The annual reunion of the society of the
army of the Cumberland convened at Roches-
| ter, N. Y, on the 18th.
movement is on foot for making faster
time between Philadelphia and New York
| 100 miles in three hours.
! Bill Taylor, a negro, who assaulted Mrs.
Flipper in June last, was taken from the
| officers at Dallas, Texas, and hung.
Mayor Samuel Robinson, of Charlotte,
Michigan, was shot by tramp at night at
his home, and is now in critical condition.
News from Peru chronicle the complete de-
| feat of General Carceres, the principal revo-
| lutionary leader, which occurred at Lima on
| 9th ult.
The Atchison, Topeka s. Santa Fe road gave
Commissioner Daniels notice that it would
| withdraw from the Colorado and Utah pools,
| September 80.
John Nelson, printer of St. Louis, was shot
and killed by Mrs. E. G. Stewart while at
| tempting to enter her house during her hus-
| bands absence.
Oliver Mermaid, Buffalo fresco painter.
will go to Niagara to perfect arrangements
for going over the cataract in thick rubber
ball fifteen feet in diameter for purse Of
$1,000.
Sam Jackson, who outraged and murdered
white girl aged Ii, seven years ago, and who
was recently captured, was taken from the
Hamburg (Ark.) Jail by a masked mob and
hungto tree.
The st. Paul directors have declared regr-
lar dividend of 2a per cent, payable October
Il. The books will close September 90 and re-
open October %. The meeting was harmonious
and a full board present.
The eight-day bicyle-horse contest at st
Louis resulted in a victory for the horses.
The final score stood: Morgan AS miles, Ar
mainda 39l; total for the bicycles $50 miles.
Anderson and the horses, $50 milas.
Payne and the Oklahoma boomers have ar
rived in Wichita. They were indicted by the
United States grand jury. A meeting was
held at the skating rink at which Payne and
several others denounced the government for
arresting them.
Harry Taylor, VIM. P. Campbell and Miss
Maud Reed, of Colorado, were drowned while
crossing Grand river near Grand Junction.
They were all interested in stock raising and
were returning to their ranges when the acct
dent occurred.
The japanese government has proclaimed
neutrality during the Franco-Chinese war.
tits expected revision of the treaty between
Japan and foreign powers will be concluded
in October and new and important privileges
will be granted foreigners.
The failures for the last seven days, re-
ported to r. G. Dun & Co., were 220 as against
2l3 last week. Kiernan's agency reports the
failure of Stafford s. Co., of Providence and
Fall River, cotton goods manufacturers.
They are said to owe s25O0OO in Providence.
DIR. Robert NJ. Williamson, a druggist at
Shelbyville, S. c., contemplated getting out
life insurance policy. Finding his pulse too
high to pass the physicians examination, he
sought to reduce it by taking twenty-five
drops of aconite, but with fatal results.
The vicinity of Springfield, Mo-, is consider
ably excited over the fact that the multitudin-
GUS caves of southwest Missouri frequently
abound with guano, the product of bats. A
Lamar company is already shipping two car
loads of guano per week from Roark Cave,
near Ozark, to Atlanta, Ga, which brings SOS
per ton.
Two passenger trains on the Chicago, Mil |
waukee and St. Paul railway collided near
Freeport, H., and both were badly wrecked. |
One of the engineers had leg broken. The |
passengers all escaped without serious in
jury. Among them were half dozen Indians |
from Dakota, including Sitting Bull.
President Seelye, of Amherst college, has
declined the nomination for governor of Mas
sachusetts by the prohibition party. He told |
a reporter he was very much surprised when |
informed he had been nominated, as he had |
previously answered every inquiry on the |
subject that he could not accept either the |
nomination or the Office.
Lehen Fry proposed marriage to Mrs. Fen
rose Carmen, widow living near Homer
Center, in Medina county, Ohio. Being re-
jected, Fry drew a revolver and shot Mrs.
Carmen in the head, inficting a severe but
not necessarily fatal wound. Supposing he
had killed her he went to a neighbours, pro-
cured a shot gun, put the muzzle to his mouth
and blew his head Off.