McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-11
BRIEFLY TOLD

Burr, Son g. Co., brewers, New York, failed.
Liabilities $4,000.
Mrs. P. T. Barnum is seriously i'll, and the
Snowman himself is not feeling very well.
Af1re at whitehall. Ill, consumed six bust
ness houses. Loss, 21,0OO insurance, $4,000.
| The working force of the Pennsylvania rail-
road has been reduced. Over LOO men have
| been dismissed. This saves the company S42,-
| 600 per month.
George A. Davis, army inspector, died at
Brooklyn. He was appointed from Wisconsin
in 1861. After the capture of New Orleans he
was given charge of the mint there.
The general feeling among business men of
Pittsburg is daily growing more hopeful.
Large orders for railroad supplies have been
given this week and many bids asked for.
Representative Davis, of Chicago, thinks
that Senator Logan will be reelected; that
the great sympathy for him will induce some
democratic member of the legislature to break
the tie.
Edgar Thomson's steel works at Pittsburg,
employing 5000 men, will close down. A 10
per cent. reduction of wages at the American
iron works and Lewis foundry was accepted
by the employees.
The jury, at Fort Worth, Texas, in the case
of young Dawson, who had his hand mashed
n coupling cars, rendered verdict of $4,000
against the Galveston, Harrisburg g. San An
tonia railroad.
The leading clearing houses in the United
States report gross exchanges for the week
ended November Goth were S759, S., 1884, a de-
crease of 10.5 per cent compared with the cor
responding week one year ago.
Rev. Luke Davis, of Binghampton, NY, aged
Il, is dead. He was graduate from Madison
university in 1910 and preached in several
prominent Baptist churches in New York,
Michigan, Indiana. Wisconsin and Ohio.
The general assembly of Virginia passed
over the governors veto the electoral board
bill. This is the second time this year the as
sembly has done this, the court of appeals
having decided the first bill to be unconstitu-
tional.
The boiler of saw mill about seven miles
from Louisville exploded, tearing the building
to pieces and killing John Morgan, r. Fgg
and four others whose names are not known.
Two others were seriously injured and it is
thought they will die.
spondent's investigation of the plague in east
ern Kentucky sends from Mount Pleasant a
statement that since the latter part of August
IN the sparsely populated county of Harlan,
there has been over 200 deaths. This county
is only one on the outskirts of the district
in which the disease has been the most fatal.
1t is claimed by John Jarrett, general agent
of the American Tin Plate association at
Pittsburg, that he has discovered a direct
evasion of the tariff law in New York and
Boston, where galvanized iron and steel
sheets are being imported through the custom
houses at the same rates as tin plates. The
duty on these sheets is z per cent. per pound
more than on tin plates.
A large meeting of representative business
men of Gloucester, Mass, considered the pro-
posed reciprocity treaty between the United
States and Canada. allowing free admission of
British-caught fish into our markets. The
speakers pointed out the Importance of imme-
date and united action to protect American
fishermen. A committee was appointed to
invite the cooperation of New England fish
ing posts.
A shooting ARRAY occurred in front of the
court house at Galesville, Texas, resulting in
the fatal wounding of Henry BaSham, DR.. L.
]. Sauls and Abraham Sauls. The difficulty
grew out of an old feud between the Sauls
and Basham families. Three other partici-
pants in the fusilade were slightly wounded
and afterwards jailed. All the parties are
well-to-do farmers and were attending court.
A resolution has been adopted by the Ala
bama senate that, as rejecting the feelings
and sentiments of the white people of Ala
bama, the senate is most earnestly and
heartily in favor of the largest appropriations
by the state compatible with the existing
financial condition for the support of the Ala
bama public schools. The resolution espe-
cialy and solemnly expresses the obligation |
and fixed purpose of the white people of Ala !
bama to aid III the education of the colore
children in their midst.