McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03
Thrilling Wreck Of the Schooner
Babc0ck on the New
Jersey Coast.
Proceedings Of the Recently Held
Meeting of the Republican Ma.
tional Committee.
Election of Bishop of Nebraska-.Politi-
cal Matters. Criminal, Foreign
and Other News.

and Other News.
NEWS NOTES.
In arresting suspicious character at
the union depot In Milwaukee Policeman
Frank Piszek was fatally wounded, receiv-
ing two bullets in his body.
The Tammany committee on orgaui-
cation has decided to send 600 members to
the Chicago democratic convention on the
9th of July.
The Federal court at Austin, Texas,
has sentenced Jack Brock, the stage mail
robber, operating near Fort Sill, to impris.
onment for life at Chester. Ills, peniten.
tiary.
The row between Mayor Harrison,
of Chicago, and the gamblers, continues,
and 1t Is yet an open question which will
come out on top. The gamblers say they
propose to defeat him for delegate to the
national convention and for the nomination
for governor.
The Queens hotel, at Port Arthur,
Manitoba, was burned, it is supposed by an
incendiary, on the 2lst. Loss, $40, GOO.
William Mcpherson, commercial traveller,
was roasted alive.
The prospects for wheat and oats in
tering as previously reported. Harvesting
of wheat has begun in the southern section
of the state and will commence in northern
Kansas in about ten days.
Captain Drisko, of the schooner A.
v. Drisko, from Cardenas to Philadelphia,
reports that his vessel was fred upon by q
Spanish gunboat while he was entering
Cardenas harbor. The attack was made on
May 81. The captain says he cannot ac-
count for the firing, which was unexpected
and entirely unwarranted.
There was a disastrous fire on the
23d in the large wholesale bakery establish
ment of A. D. Haseman, in Williamsburg,
New York. The wal. of the burning struc-
ture fell into the alleyway where the fire.
men stood, and three were buried in the
ruins.
An immense deposit of natural gas
was struck at Steubenville, Ohio, by drill
ers at the Jefferson iron works. The pres
sure is so great the roar of the escaping
gas is heard a quarter of mile. The flow
is estimated to be greater than at any well
yet discovered outside of Pennsylvania.
Yale college has conferred the degree
of LII. D. upon Governor Hoadly, of Ohio,
and Ellis 81. Roberts, editor of the Utica
IN. " Herald.
The Lindell Hotel association, of St.
Louis, made an assignment for the benefit
of creditors.
Albertina Anderson was shot dead at
San Francisco by William c. Milton, who
then blew his own brains out. Her refusal
to marry him was the cause.
Andrew Long, the wife murderer,
was taken from Jail at Ioana, Michigan,
and conveyed to Muir for preliminary ex-
animation, where q mob took him from the
officers, got a rope around his neck and
were about to execute him, when the Of
ficers, by a desperate struggle, rescued
him and got him to hotel.
The steamship Arizona brought 500
men, women and children to the Port of
New York on the 23d. They were all ship
ped off to Utah under the care of twenty
five Mormon elders.
The river and harbor bill, as report
ed to the senate, is greater by 81, 1873, 900
than the house bill.
There is less prospect of an adj
journment of congress before the democrat
ic convention than there was few days
ago.
The Minneapolis Tribune publishes
full crop report of the country along the
line of the Minneapolis and St. Louis road,
fine condition and promising a bountiful
harvest.
Fire at New Orleans on the 26th de-
stroyed property valued at $500, ZOO.
On the sixth ballot in the Florida
democratic state convention Perry was
nominated for governor. For lieutenant
nominated by reclamation.
The advance guard of the democratic
host soon to assemble in Chicago is already
on the ground.
The assignment of the Lindell Hotel
association at St. Louis does not affect that
hotel, which is being conducted as usual.
Dick Walker, the murderer of Lucius
Grant, both colored, was hung at Texar-
kama, Ark, in the presence Of 1000 peo-
pie. To the last he asserted his innocence,
that his life was sworn away.
A boiler explosion in Won Behren &
Schafer's saw-mill, Striker, Ohio, injured
The body of a Mrs. Cook, at Mat
toon, ILL.,, was found at the bottom of a
we'll from which eighty five feet of water
had been pumped. Her throat was cut
from ear to ear and iron weights were tied
| to the victims feet. Her husband, Dan
Cook, is supposed to be the guilty party
and is now under arrest.
Maxey Cobb, former Nebraska
trotting horse, recently trotted in New
York, and the Sun says he s'trotted quar-
ter in 35K, making the half in 1:0S% and
the half in 2:21H. He was not pushed for
the mile, for the reason that he will trot at
the early meetings to beat the stallion rec
ord, which from his present form he bids
fair to do.''
FOREIGN.
The comments of the English press
on the republican nomination for the presi.
dency continue to be pretty steadily adverse
to Mr.. Blaine. kilograms announce that