McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-03
AFFAIRS At home.
A Reign Of Terror Inaugurated
at Cincinnati by a
Mob.
Property Destroyed and Many Peo.
pie Shot Down on the
Public Streets.
The Court House, With All Its Valuable
Records, Destr0yed---How the
Trouble Originated.
NEWS NOTES.

the secretary of the interior for commits
sion to examine the completed 240 miles
between Mojave, Arizona. and The Needles,
Colorado.
The National State bank of Boulder
suspended on the 22d, after a short run.
The failure had been long anticipated.
Notwithstanding the heavy blizzard
in Wyoming no reports of losses of cattle
or sheep have been received.
1. l.. Chamberlain, of Cleveland, a
sportsman of local celebrity, has perfected
a machine capable of charging fifteen hum
dred shotgun cartridges per hour. Promi-
nent Pittsburg and Cleveland capitalists
have organized a company with quarter
of a million capital to manufacture the ma
chine and make cartridges.
Information has reached San Fran
cisco that yellow fever has broken out on
the United States steamer Iroquois, now on
the way to Alaska.
The epizootic prevails at Dayton,
Ohio, to a remarkable extent, and is re-
ported worse than ever before.
Buford reports a further rise in the
Missouri Of two feet, making twenty lone
foot rise altogether. The ice is expected to
break at any moment. The rise at Wash
burn is decreasing to such degree as to
|. give rise to the apprehension of a gorge
above, which would portend disaster.
A cyclone passed over the county
three miles northwest of Colu nbus, S. c..
Considerable damage was done to farm
property.
Howard Gentry (colored) a farm
hand at Carmi, ILL.,, shot and killed his wife
and then blew out his own brains. Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
The passenger agents of the east
bound trunk lines, at a meeting at Chicago,
| considered means for driving the ticket
scalpers out of the business.
Yellow fever is frightening many
European canal employees from the isthmus
of Panama. One hundred and fifty returned
to France by the two last steamers.
Thirty-one cars of corn, contributed
by the citizens of Sedgwick county, Kan.
to the flood sufferers, was sold at auction at
Cincinnati on 'change. There was a large
attendance and bidding was spirited. The
first car was bought by the Adams express
company, and the remainder was sold at
outside prices.
General Land Commissioner San
born, of the Northern Pacific road, in an
interview with an associated press repre-
sentative, stated that the agitation in con-
gress looking to the forfeiture of land grant.
ously retarded emigration to and settle
ment of the new lands.
The Union Catholic library societies
of the arch diocese of Baltimore celebrated
the 250th anniversary of the landing of the
Maryland pilgrims in St. Marys county,
Letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes, John
G. Whittier, Charles A. Dana and others
were read.
The movement on the part of the
friends of Carl Schurz to raise him testi-
monial of 500, 900 has been abandoned, at
the earnest request of Schurz.
Archbishop Heis was welcomed home
to Milwaukee from Europe by a torchlight
procession and grand ovation.
The grand jury found thirteen in
dictments against Prentice Tiler and Geo.
McFadden, the Pacific express robbers.
The Boston Transcript is informed
that President Perkins, of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy, and Ames, man.
aging director OF the Union Pacific, will
present, in few days, plan for settle
ment which will be Immediately ratified by
the full boards of both companies.
Augustus Schell died at New York on
the 9th. Mrs. Sherwood E. Stratton,
mother of the late Tom Thumb, died at
New Haven on the same day.
A peculiar malady, termed 'sgrub,"
is just now carrying off many sheep near
Newcomerstown, Ohio, and sad havoc is
being made among some of the wool grow
ers' flocks.
Fifty buildings of all sorts were I'M
rooted by the recent storm at Denver.
A prairie fire broke out in Castle
ton township, Kansas, and burned over a
territory OF ten miles in length. Every
thing in its path was destroyed, including
houses, barns, stock, grain, etc., one man
losing 800 tons of hay and 200 head of
sheep.
Theodore A. Perry, the last of the
trio who robbed an express car of the Mis-
souri, Pacific express company on the
Wabash railroad near Roam, Ind, last
last September, has been arrested in Bos-
ton.
Charles Koerner, pension attorney at
Alton, ILL.,, has been debarred from prac-
tice before the interior department upon
evidence that he extorted illegal fees in
pension cases.
A microscopical examination of
piece of Mrs. Mary Schulties' leg, who died
with symptoms Of trichina, in West More
land county, Pa, showed it full Of parasite
worms in all stages of development.
O. W. Sample, Dan Dowd, William
Mullen, James Woward and Dan Kelley
were hanged at Tombstone, Arizona, for
the Bisbee murderers. All met their fate
without flinching.
The house committee on labor has
decided unanimously to report favorably
the bill making 1t a misdemeanor for any
state or United States officer to hire out I'M
der contract any prisoner confined for vio-
lation of the United States laws under pen
atty of fine or imprisonment.
Secretary lincoln will pursue the
same plan in distributing relief to Missis-
sippi river flood sufferers as that followed
In the case of the Ohio floods. Vessels will
be sent out from New Orleans and st.
Louis.
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