McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-03-20
News Gatherings by Telegraph
and Otherwise from
Near and Far.
Explosion IN q Virginia Coal Mine,
Great Many Lives
Being Lost.
Arrest of the Pacific Express Robber
Intelligence of Foreign
Character.
NEWS NOTES.

Application has been made 10 the
New York stock exchange to list 81 ,062, =
600 of St. Paul and Omaha six per cent.
consols.
The Galveston cotton exchange un-
animously passed resolution urging Texas
congressman to oppose further coinage Of
silver dollars upon the present basis Of
valuation.
Premature explosion of flask at the
Cornwall, Pa. furnaces killed John Eek
and MORALLY wounded Milton Eek, BROTH
ers.
The continued rains are rendering
the situation in California alarming. The
southern country is flooded. The telegraph
is interrupted and railroads are again
washed out.
The two leading glass works in St.
Louis have lighted their fires and others
will follow shortly. The works at Alton,
Illinois, also started. This gives employ
ment to more than ], ZOO men, who have
been idle several months.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis and daughter,
New Haven, were found dead in bed from
suffocation, gas-burner Being turned half
way on.
c. d. Sharp, of GAINESVILLE, Texas,
was found guilty of raping Amania and
EIuIllt CldIh, dScu 1cSpcCtlNciy SlACCCh
twelve. The penalty In the first case is
fifty years in the penitentiary and the other
case death. Sharp was sentenced to hang
at GAINESVILLE, April 25th.
George auckland, popular lecturer,
and VIM. Blanchard Jerold, well known
journalist, both of London. are dead.
Chicago liquor men propose to still
further test the constitutiOnalty of the Har-
per high license law.
A large delegation of whisky men
held meeting at Louisville, at which indIg-
nation was expressed at the delay of con-
was expressed that the bill would finally
pass.
The Western Kansas stock growers
association, representing 25O, 900 head of
cattle worth S., 200, 900, meet at Dodge City
on the I'd day of April and remain in session
three days.
The cigar manufacturers of ClncIn-
att have declared lockout, which throws
yer 1, 100 cigar makers out of employment.
The governor general of Canada has
received threatening letters from the Fenian
brotherhood in Chicago. His guard has
been doubled.
Mrs. Elizabeth Heating, aged 80, was
burned to death at Philadelphia during a
fire in her house.
James Hughes, who shot and wound
ed Officer WEIGH at Clinton, Iowa, last Oc-
tober, was sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary.
A snow-slide descended on the little
snow. bound station of Woodstock, Colo
RADIO, on the South Park railroad, carrying
away every building in the town. Seven
teen persons are known to have been caught
in the avalanche, including Mrs. Doyle, a
widow, her six children and another wO-
man, name unknown, and ten section men.
The two women and one section hand were
rescued alive. All others undoubtedly
persisted.
A destructive prairie fire was starte
by locomotive spark near Kinsley, Kas. !,
burning number of ranches, dwellings
and other property. Mrs. Geo. W. Ma
to save her home.
The exports of produce from New
York for the week ending February 18th
were IS, 339 40, against 81, 607, 419 the cor
responding week of last year.
A lively contest is promised between
Father Murphy, pastor of St. Mary's
church, Dover, N. H., and the Emmett as
ISOLATION, Murphy having by authority of
the Bishop notified the members of the or
ganization to disband or suffer eXcommu-
nication.
The men reported lost in the Couer
De Leon mountains, Oregon; turned up on
Front creek after thirteen days Of awful eX
perience in the deep snow and forests. The
party was utterly worn out.
Mrs. Col. Hunt, of Michigan, has re-
tanned lawyers to contest Col. Hunts will,
bequeathing s., 900 each to the mothers Of
Josh Billings, Eli Perkins and Artemus
Ward. The legatees have not made claims.
The western wool growers, in con-
vention at Denver, adopted a memorial to
congress saying, that the wool industry was
greatly injured by the reduction in the tariff
in 1888, and strongly opposing the Morrison
bill, now before congress, which aims to
make a further reduction Of twenty per
cent. on foreign woods and woolens, and
praying for a restoration of the tariff of
1867 as it relates to woods and woolens.
The Illion IN. w Citizen printed