McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-16
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Mccullough, the actor. is said to have b e.
come demented.
Both the Gould cables between Europe and
America are broken.
Fire in the Ohio wall paper company, at Gin
cinnati, caused a loss of $4,000.
West Virginia is having very hot weather,
and is suffering greatly from drought.
St. Patrick's Catholic church, at st. Paul,
Mimi, was burned, the loss being $35,OO0.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
hold the next annual convention at New Or
leans.
The loss by the Cleveland lumber fire is
estimated at $l25,OOO, the insurance being
$4,000.
The imports of specie at the port of New
York, for the week ending the 4th, were
S363,OOO,
Burglars robbed four business places at
Perry, N. Y, securing about $4,000 in bonds
and cash.
John Baker, of Augusta, Me-, was arrested
for the murder of Mrs. Tuck. He confessed
to having committed the crime.
Ohio, a cannon exploded, killing Lewis Baker
and terribly mangling two others.
General William A. Throop, of the firm of
Lapham & Throop, Detroit, well known citi-
zen and politician, shot himself and will die.
The fish commissioner of Pennsylvania will
establish at Erie hatchery capable of turn
ing into the lake half million white fish an
nualy.
At Atlanta, Ca, Mrs. Gerry Davis was shot
dead while standing in her doorway. Her
uncle and a woman named Fade were ar
rested.
Eight horses at Vincennus, Ia, are reported
afflicted with CHAMBERS. The state veterina-
rian has been notified and is expected to in
vestigate.
The gathering at the Northampton, Mass,
camp ground to celebrate the centennial of
the independence of American Methodism
numbered about 10000 persons.
Samuel Wannaker, of Youngstown, Ohio,
against whom twenty-five indictments for
forgery have been found, is guarded at his
farm house by sheriff's deputies.
The late Augusta NJ Huntington, of Cincin-
of Minnesota, to eXpend at Faribault on me-
mortal buildings and their endowment.
Near Marysville, Mo-, bridge collapsed
under freight train laden with hogs, nearly
all of which were drowned. The engineer
was killed and the brakeman and fireman
badly injured.
George Dolling recently caught young
rat in a mine at Honesdale, Pa and made
pet of it. The animal repaid the kindness by
biting its benefactor with such severity as to |
cause his death. |
BY the giving way of a temporary bulk head |
at the Niagara elevator, Buffalo, Thomas Dali |
y was smothered to death by being buried in |
grain, and two or three other men were seri-
ously injured.
The Fort Pitt iron and steel works of Pitts
ourg, which has been closed the past three
months on account of lack of orders, has re-
umed in all departments, giving employment
o several hundred men.
Canadian Pacific officials and the Japanese
company are negotiating for line
If steamers between China, Japan and British
and if established freight for Lon
lon and Liverpool will be carried over the
canadian Pacific road.
The United States marshal has sworn in five
hundred deputies for service in Cincinnati on
lection day. Over thousand democrats
ave org anized to guard their interests at the
oils and if any attempt at fraud is dscov-
red trouble is feared.
A special train on the Panhandle road, car
wing Hendricks, collided with hand-car near
Wheeling, killing boy twelve years old and
"Plumed Knights were also on
ne train, but none were injured. The acct
ent was caused by heavy fog.