McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GEN ERAL.

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tors of the Union Pacific shows the floating
debt of the company reduced $1,000, 600 by
the proceeds of the collateral trust loan
created for that pu pose. The report also
shows great improvement in net earnings
for December as compared with several pre-
ceding months; also, that there will be a
surplus largely over 81 ,000, 900 for the year,
after the payment of all fixed charges and
per cent dividend.
The new Christian church in Wash
ington known as the Garfield Memorial
church, was dedicated last Sunday.
E. S. Peck, cashier of the wrecked
Patchogue q. H. bank, shot himself on
the 10th just after leaving the bank.
Commodore Timothy A. Hunt, United
States navy, died of congestion Of the kid
neys on the 21st.
j. A. Rogers, a prominent young cit
izen of Norfolk, Va was murdered on tho
Goth. Four arrests have been made.
"Steve" Alexander, a colored gam
bier, was shot and killed by Geo. johnson,
also colored, while seated at faro table in
gambling house In Chicago, Of which
johnson was the principal owner.
The grand jury has begun examina-
ton of witnesses in the Fora Burrs murder
case at Lincoln, Ill. The opinion is
strengthened that o. A. Carpenter will be
indicted.
At Canton, Ohio, while safe was
being hoisted to second story, the chains
broke and the safe fell, crushing Renhold
Rochers and VIM. Miller, fatally injuring
both.
E. +. Bernard, astronomer of the
Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn,
reports remarkable change In the Brooks
comet on the nights of the 10th and 2lst.
The gas works of the village of
Malone, n. Y, exploded, demolishing sew
eral buildings. The Waterman and boy
were injured.
James P. Flynn, aged q, was crush
ed to death between cars in the switch yard
at Minneapolis. He leaves a wife residing
at Cherryville, Ills.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, was re-
elected to the senate or the 22d.
Nearly all the rail mills and iron
works, furnaces and stove foundries in St.
Louis have either closed or are running at
half their capacity.
At Socorro, n. M, Joel Fowler, a
notorious desperate, was taken from Jail
and lynched.
George A. Wheeler, native of
Maine, respectfully connected, was hanged
st San Francisco on the 22d for the murder
of his sister-in-law, Adele J. Tllloston, on
October 20, 1880.
At Carthage, on the Upper Cumber-
land, raft was drawn into whirlpool and
nine men were drowned.
An Arkansas City fire broke out in
Lowman Bro. g store, consuming nearly a
whole block of business houses. Loss,
$4SS, 900; insurance, ST 200.
At gainesville, Ohio, Cornelius Van
schaak, attorney. of Chicago, violently In
sane and confined in the Riverside sanitari-
UNI, forced the lock of his room and es-
capped. Next morning his corpse was found
underneath the Nickle Plate bridge at Will
loughby. His skull and both arms were
broken. 1t is unknown whether he was
struck by a train or fell through the trestle.
A preliminary conference was held
between the Burlington and the tripartite
roads relative to the new western alliance.
1t is understood the Burlington will enter
the alliance if Its demands are acceded to.
Judge HAYES, of Chicago, made a
ruling that telegraph messages could not be
withheld from courts when the promotion
of justice requires their production1
The national prohibition home pro-
lection party will meet in a convention at
Pittsburg, May 81, 1884.
Several railroads, including the Bur-
liugton, Alton, and st. Paul, are declining
to take grain for transportation to Chicago
unless for sale on the track, because all the
elevators are full.
Henry Bankenect, a well-known citi-
zen, rushed into the sheriff's Office at Mani
towoc, Wis, saying he had shot his wife
while showing her how to handle a weapon
in self-defense. The woman was found
dead, sure enough, and the husband was
locked up on suspicion of foully numbering
his wife.
General Grant denies having any per-
sonal interests in Mexico.
Gideon I. Stewart, chairman, and
r. W. Nelson and A. j. Jatkins, secreta-
ries of the national committee of the pro-
hibition home protection party, from their
headquarters in Chicago, have issued a call
for national convention of the prohibition
home protection party, to be held at Pitts
burg, Wednesday, MAY u. 1884, to nomi-