McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-06
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Patti and Nicolini have sailed for America
on the Oregon.
The roof of the union depot at Pittsburg,
Pa, caught fire and was damaged 5000.
Mark Simon, wholesale notion dealer, Chi
cago, has failed. Liabilities $4,000, assets
$4,000.
The Reading railroad will, on November list,
mile.
General G. N. A. Black, retired, of the
United States army, died at Washington on
the 2Sth.
No less than twelve hundred miners have
been sent from Pittsburg to the Hooking val
ley of Ohio since the strike in July.
Mrs. ]. H. Moshier, who a few weeks ago
celebrated her one hundredth birthday, died
on the 2Sth at LockpOrt, N. Y.
The iron propeller Scotia went aground
at Keeweenaw, a point near Marquette, on
Lake Erie. The last account was that she was
leaking badly.
There were over 100000 persons present at a
radical meeting in Hyde park, London.
Speeches were made advocating the abolition
of the house of lords.
Captain D. B. Kenyon. of the Chicago fire
department, died from injuries received re-
Gently in going to fire. He had been twenty
years in the service.
Lydia, the second wife of Clawson, the poly
gamist, after spending night in Jail at Salt
Lake for contempt of court, answered three
questions by the prosecution, giving the place
and date of her marriage.
The Central Pacific road, under acts of con-
gress, has selected 100000 acres between San
Jose and Sacramento, Cal, most of which is
already occupied under the presumption and
homestead laws of the United States.
Chas. T.. L. Briggs, of Worcester, Mass, a
young postoffice clerk, who recently confessed
to stealing letters, has been proved innocent.
After his arrest it is claimed bis confession
was extorted by threats and promises.
A number of English capitalists are making
arrangements to import butchers meat from
Poland. Railway refrigerator cars are to be
used, and the meat will be delivered in Lon
don three or our days after shipment.
The Chicago s. Northwestern road has made
preliminary surveys for an extension from
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T. Ninety miles of grading will be finished
this season, and ties are being received at
Valentine for a track to White River.
AT Bristol, Tenn, John Pike drove his two
daughters from home. Night overtaking
them, they went into camp on the railroad,
built fire, and laid down to rest Matte,
beautiful young woman, caught her dress on
fire and was burned to a crisp, dying in an
hour.
Judge Butler, in the L. s. circuit court,
Philadelphia, refused to grant an injunction
restraining the Pennsylvania railroad. COM
pany from abrogating a contract with the
Baltimore s. Ohio with reference TO passenger
and express car service between Baltimore
and New York.
A bare knuckle contest for 800 q side took
place at Rochester, N. Y, 5stween Jim Buris
and Jack McDermott. Five fierce rounds
were fought in eleven minutes, when McDer-
mott was knocked senseless for twenty min
utes. Buris is eighteen years old and McDer-
mott twenty-nine.
In Calhoun county, West Virginia, Mrs.
Johnson, while temporarily insane, mixed
some arsenic with sugar and gave it to her
three OIc TcluStu III tat, DuL
the other two partook of the fatal compound
and died in few minutes. Mrs. Johnson then
swallowed some poison herself and soon died.
John T. Peasants, editor of the Mail, an af
ternoon paper published at Petersburg, Va.
who was indicted by the grand jury at the
last term of court for publishing on June II
last libelous card rejecting on the character
of W. T. Lawrence, was convicted at Hastings
court of misdemeanor. The jury imposed
fine of So, and sentenced him to one minute
in Jail.
At Bloomington one Jno. Schultz, while
drunk, threw stone at the republican process
sion which struck man on the head and rem
dered him insensible. Mounted men from the
Hudson cavalry company at once dismount-
ed, chased and caught Schultz, beat him Sc
verely and putting rope around his neck
hauled him up ON a lamp post and left him
banging and strangling. He was cut down by
a policeman just in time to save his life.