McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-04
BRIEFLY TOLD.


of property.
A fire at Portland, Oregon, destroyed ovel
200 worth of property.
The damaging drouth in Virginia has JUS
been broken by copious rains.
Forest fires are raging in Michigan and de
stroying vast tracts of timber.
The Very Rev. Patrick H. Terry, pastor OF
st. Patricks Catholic church. Chicago, died on
| the 4th.
Ii eutenant Greedy and wife are visiting in
Montreal Greedy is very weak and physicians
enjoin long spell of rest and quiet.
Rear Admiral Andrew Allen Harwood, U.
S. N, died at Marion, Mass, in his SD year
He was appointed midshipman in 1878 and re-
tired in 1864.
A cyclone passed through portions of Da-
kota, doing much damage. No loss of life is
reported up to this time but the reports are
| very meagre.
Joe Bogard, colored, aged Is, was hung at
| Lenoke, Ark, in the presence of 5000 people,
for raping a white girl named Rhea, aged II,
in January last.
Three hundred speakers are in the field in
Maine, setting forth arguments in favor of
constitutional prohibition amendments, to be
voted on September Sth.
Good luck" substitute for lager, manu-
featured 10y Christian Magnus, brewer at
Cedar Rapids. Iowa, was condemned as intoxi-
eating by justice of the peace.
The review of the torpedo experiments by
the North Atlantic squadron in the presence
of President Arthur and the secretary of the
navy, at Providence, r. l., proved grand
success.
The governor general of Canada has been
ordered by the home government to secure
the services of 600 Canadian voyagers to go up
the Nile to the relief of General Gordon at
Khartoum.
The defaulting paymaster, Samuel Roberts,
who is ill at his summer residence near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, attempted to shoot himself
He has assigned to Charles Parrish all his
household property.
The Philadelphia Medical News editorfally
demands an examination to determine the
question of color blindness among the officers
of the Tallapoosa, and thus ascertain whether
that fact is responsible for the sinking of the
vessel.
with reference to various rumors that have
been afioat as to Bonner or any one else buy
ing Jay-Eye-See: mo one has the option from
me to buy or authority to sell Jay-Eye-See.
He is not TO
Continuous dry weather in Ohio has for the
second time this summer threatened great in
jury to the corn crop, as we'll as all tobacco,
pasture and vegetables. There has been no
rain in southern Ohio and Indiana for nearly
three weeks.
Governor Crosby, of Montana, states spe- |
cial agent sent by him to inquire into the con- |
dition of the Piegan Indians has just returned |
and found these Indians, about 1000, dying |
from the effects of gradual starvation at the |
rate of one day.
s. W. Talmadge, of Milwaukee, presents the |
following figures as the final estimate of the |
wheat crop of the United States for 1884: |
Winter wheat, asO,OOOOOO bushels; spring
wheat, 150,0OO0OO bushels; total winter and |
spring wheat, 53OOOO,OOO bushels.
Ma ce, the six-year-old daughter of Lyman |
Trumbull, died a few days ago. She ran |
against an earthen teapot in the hands of |
cook, knocking out the bottom with her
head, the contents scalding her badly. Cause
of death was conclusion of the brain.
A man living nine miles from Lexington
KY, notified the sheriff that George Alsop
and Theoplis Graves, the escaped convicts
who led the recent revolt in the penitentiary
at Frankfort, were seen in the neighborhood.
Deputy Sheriff Rogers at the head of a posse,
left for the scene. The fugitives
were surprised in cornfield. They immedi-
ately opened fire on the posse, killing George
Cosseil, a prominent farmer. The posse re-
turned the fire, killing both Aslop and
Graves.