McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-23
BRIEFLY TOLD.

West Virginia is having very hot weather
and is suffering greatly from drought.
9 A buzz-saw Topped an arm of L. L. Weller
the organ manufacturer at Muncie. Ind.
General Benjamin Alvord, a retired Mexi.
can veteran, died at Washington on the 18th.
Moulton & Goodwin, agents at Boston for
the Albany perforated paper company, failed
for $4,000.
Failures I'm the United States for seven days
ending the 18th, number 2lS, against 20 the
previous week.
Hurd, defeated for congress i'm Ohio, says
he proposes to investigate the count and prob
ably institute a contest.
III. r. whitehouse, carpets and dry goods at
Clinton, Ia, made an assignment, with liz
bilities of 600 and assets of between $4,000
and $4,000.
Moody and Sankey resumed their work as
eyangelists i'm this country by holding after
noon and evening services in the Brooklyn
Academy OF Music.
Application has been made for the appoint
ment of a receiver for the Harrison wire
works at st. Louis. The liabilities are said to
exceed the assets 100000.
A bill has been introduced into the Vermont
legislature by the opponents of capital pun
ishment by hanging, providing for the exc
cution of murderers by electricity.
J. ]. Hedges claiming to be relative of
Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, and also that
his brother is Shermans law partner, was con-
victed at Portland, Oregon, of forgery.
E. w. Cole, the Tennessee railroad king, has
purchased the fine blue grass farm known as
Terrass Place and presented it to the state to
build house of refuge for boys and girls.
The lease of the Oregon railroad and naviga-
ton company's lines for ninety-nine years, at
$4,000 per annum, made by Henry Willard
for the Northern Pacific, is sustained by Judge
Deahy, of Portland.
William Freeman, German, said to be from
San Francisco. while in a state of intoxication,
fell off the Illinois Central train twenty miles
above Cairo and was instantly killed, his body
being terribly mashed.
The new lighthouse at He'll Gate was put
into operation few days ago. The tower is
$50 feet high, surmounted by an electric light
of s., 9OO-candle power. The light is the most
Advices from Lewis county, Tenn, are to the
effect that the Mormons who have agreed to
renounce their faith have been permitted to
remain, and that those who persisted in main
tanning their religious opinions were obliged
to leave.
The wife on Hon. David S. Turpie, ex-United
States senator, died at Indianapolis from the
effects of dose of morphine taken by mis-
take for valerian, which was prescribed to re
lieve nervous troubles from which she had
been a sufferer.
Mr.. Beaudry, of Montreal, on taking the |
chair of barber, laid a roll of $50 in bills on
the marble slab in front of him. Three young |
men who followed him attracted considerable |
and when he picked up his package |
it consisted only of waste paper.
Henry Weitman, twenty-three years old,
to be from Chicago, was drugged
and robbed by a courtesan at Baltimore,
osing his jewelry and S541 in money. The
woman, Maggie Anderson, who is the daugh-
ter of well-known minister, was arrested.
From an authoritative source the New
Haven Morning News learns that President
Theodore Woolsey has resigned from the Yale
college corporation, the reason assigned being
mis- advanced age. He will be eighty-three
years old this month. Rev. Amos Cheese
orough of Durham, also resigns from the
same body.
An old fued between Harrison McQuistion
and ]. A. MCCARTHY, two farmers living near
Corsicana, Texas, illuminated by McQuistion
shooting the latter with revolver, the bullet
McGarity's face to the right of the
nose and coming out behind the left ear. He
will die. McQuistion made no attempt to es-
cape, and was arrested by officers at the scene
IF the shooting.
Senator Edmunds is in Washington, prob
ably to remain for the winter, but keeps
aloof from all interviewers and declines to
discuss politics. He is busily engaged, how
ever, in looking into the affairs of the Union
Pacific railroad, and makes no secret of his
intention to overhaul that corporation for its
sinking fund debt to the government when
congress convenes.
st. Joseph is the point where the Missouri
River Commission will do work as an eXcep
ton TO the general plan which confines all
work to Kansas City and vicinity, and not
Omaha, as was stated. The Omaha people are
highly indignant over the fact that they will
not be benefited by the present appropria-
ion, but the commission has decided that the
work can not possibly extend so far with any
real benefit to the river.
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