McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-31
NEWS BY WIRE.
The Fearful Havoc Wrought by
a Recent Hail Storm in
Nebraska.
CONCENTRATIONS From the Queen
in Regard to the Rescue Of the
Greedy Party.
The Grand Army Reunion at Mime.
apolis.-.P Political, Foreign and
Other Matters.
NEWS NOTES.

NEWS NOTES.
S. S. Hutchinson, chief clerk in the
Office of Major o. II. Ernst, of the United
States engineer corps of the St. Louis dis.
trict, disappeared or absconded, leaving his
accounts about ST. 400 short.
A French comedy troupe travelling
through Algiers was massacred by Arabs
near the Moroccan frontier.
The wreck on the Conaution Valley
railroad was cleared on the 21st, but three
cars, which were thrown into the mud
have not yet been removed. Twenty-Five
yet reported, and the wounded are doing
better than expected. No one was was
killed, and all those missing and supposed
to be under the wreck have turned up.
The loss to the railroad company is about
So, 200.
William Spies, of Chicago, son of the
editor of the Arbelter Zeitung, young man
20 years of age, attempted with the aid of
two companions to rescue man whom
Police Officer Tamil had under arrest.
They assaulted the officer, who finally drew
q revolver and fired, wounding Spies. The
latter died soon after.
The fact of the death of Frank Cal
vert at the Walnut street house in Cincin-
natl has been made public. The deceased
was the divorced husband of the present
wife of ex. Governor Sprague, of Rhode Is
land. Heart trouble was the cause of his
death.
The Lock Garry, of the Greedy re-
lief expedition, left St. Johns on the 21st
for New York. She took the mail Of the ex-
petition and OF the Greedy survivors.
Greely's strength is steadily increasing.
He continues to be fed and banquetted by
leading citizens of St. Johns. Fredericks,
Council, Long, Brainard and Beiderback
dispatched forty eight hours in advance of
the Thetis and Bear, SO that the squadron
might reach New York simultaneously.
A special from Frankfort, OAK, gives
an account of gas well in that place re-
Gently discovered. The current Is quite
strong and comes from an excavation eighty
five feet deep. Several explosions have oc-
CURED, when the gas was ignited, shaking
all the buildings in the town. The pheno-
menon is the wonder Of the place.
Governor Cleveland is daily engaged
with routine business at his office. He
stated that he will spend the entire summer
In Albany, with the exception of few days.
vacation in August. 1t is expected that the
formal notification of the nomination for the
presidency will be made from the executive
mansion at an early day.
A Litchfeld, Qll.) special says: By
the explosion of the boiler of a steam
thresher six miles north of here this after
noon, John West and Frank Gaskell were
instantly killed and five others seriously
injured.
Six car loads of lumber and five
hundred thousand feet in Copley's mill
yard, at Carey, Lake county, Michigan,
burned on the 21st.
General Traffic Manager Smith de-
MES emphat1cally that the Wabash has cut
eastern rates, as asserted the other
day, and states very distinctly if any agent
Of the road makes contract below the reg
ular rates he will discharge him at once and
repudiate the contract.
Seven persons were bitten by a mad
dog last week at Newman, station on the
Union Pacific road, fifteen miles east of
Topeka, Kansas. One woman had piece
Of flesh torn out of her face by the animal.
A pickpocket who gave the name of
Samuel Maynard, was shot by Officer Co.'S
sisting arrest. he escaped from
the hospital the next morning. Officer
Minkler followed him, and, securing him,
started for the station, when pal Of the
thief rushed up, thrust pistol in the Of
icer's face and lodged a bulletin his head,
rom which he may die. Both parties
hen escaped in the darkness and are still |
1t large.l
Two American workmen were AZ
rested at Mexico recently on charge OF de-
nitted to communicate with their friends. |
They were sentenced without trial by the
governor of the district to one month i'm
prisOnment.
No action will be taken by the presi-
lent in the matter of the commissionership
If the new bureau of labor statistics until
mis-. return to Washington, about the middle
# August.
The Grand Army of the Republic, at
is meeting in Minnesota, elected Gen. John
Of Ohio, as commandment. chief.
The next encampment will be held at Port
and, Maine. Judge j. P. Ross, of Mime
,polis, was elected senior vice. commander:
Ira E. Hicks, Of Dakota, junior vice COM
and ". B. Hall, of Pennsylvania,
A resolution was passed that no
)icnics be held on memorial days or Sum
lays by grand army posts.
An empty shifting engine on the
Lehigh Valley railway, with crew Of five
IN board, running from Whitehaven to
Necoheck Siding, Pa, exploded and the
entire crew were killed. Three were blown
% pieces and cannot be found.
While Spencer Ellsworth, editor of
he Lacon GIL. Home Journal, was driving
n the country near Peoria, his horse ran |
way and he was thrown out and, it is |
cared, fatally injured. He has been I'M
conscious since the accident.
FOREIGN.
The French minister at Tienb has
demanded the withdrawal of Chinese troops