McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-03-27
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
Criminal, Accidental, Political
and Other Matters Here
and There.
A Serious Accident on the Pitts.
burg, Fl. Wayne and Chicago
Railroad.
The Foot and Mouth Disease i'm Kansas
"A Record of Events in the
Ola World.
NEWS NOTES.

WOunUeu turnkey OaflS, anu csCapeu.
Tiller, the express robber, made
bold and desperate attempt TO escape from
the Lindell hotel, st. Louis, but was
nabbed by an officer on watch.
Charles Mooney, aged SO, grandson
Of William Mooney, one of the founders of
the Tammany society, died on the 18th in
cheap lodging house in New York, where
he has been living in state of abject pow
erty.
The first train on the Mexican Gen.
trail left the City of Mexico on the 18th for
the United States. Regular trains will
commence running May LIST, and mixed
freight and passenger trains April list.
The announcement is made of the
engagement of Mrs. Frank Leslie, the
widow of the publisher, to Marquis de Leu
vile, of France.
A call has been issued for national
convention of anti monopolists to be held
in Chicago, May 18th, to nominate presi-
dental ticket.
Captain Roberts, of the Seventh in
fantry, department of Arizona, has been
acquitted by courtmartial of the charge of
abusive and threatening conduct toward
superior officer, etc.
The annual meeting of the Alneri-
can Tract society has just been held in
Washington. The reports shows the re-
ceipts of the year at $3.50 ,O65; eXpendi-
lures, 1851 .2S0; balance in treasury, ST.
1856; donations and legacies, $l19, 1851, of
which $31 800 were special leavings, and
$S4, 557 available for benevolent works.
The death of Mrs. Annie Key Turner,
daughter of Francis Scott Key, author of
the "Star Spangled Banner" is an
nounced.
The Sharon divorce case has been re-
sumed at San Francisco. Several of Sha-
ron:s letters to the plaintiff were intro
duced. In some he addresses her as ''dear
wife, and others ''dear Miss HILL Tn,
plaintiff testified that when Sharon asked
her to give up the marriage contract she re-
piled that she had lost it, as she anticipated
trouble.
Signor Lombardelli, of Mapleson's
opera company, died at San Francisco of
pulmonary apoplexy.
The citizens of Wilkesbarre, Pa, in
mass meeting, adopted resolution pledg
ing support to judges and courts in reduc-
ing the number Of liquor licenses and en-
forcing the law.
At Lexington, Ohio, the grand jury
has reported ten indictments involving %
gree) in the Hickey lynching case and seven
for riot in the McDavitt case.
A fire at Moberly. Mo-, destroyed a
postoff1ce. Total loss, $44 200; insurance,
SIC, 200.
The prosecution in the Carpenter
case, on trial at Petersburg, ILL.,, rested
their case on the 18th. The defense de-
nandod fhof Fronl- Sinomons he called NV
the prosecution, as his name was on the
back of the indictment. The court permit
ted this and the witness declared that he
was positive that the man seen in the buggy
near the scene of the murder on the night
of the tragedy was not Carpenter, as he
had an opportunity to look at him fairly.
Charles B. Wright, of Philadelphia,
has been elected director of the Northern
Pacific, vice Henry Willard, resigned.
A disease, supposed to be aphtheus,
has appeared among the cattle near Rock
ford, Ill. They are taken sick at night and
die before morning. The bodies are much
bloated.
Mrs. John Schaefer, of Oakland,
CAL, became insane over the loss of one of
her children, and during the absence of her
husband for a few minutes cut her baby's
throat and then her own.
At Marysville, Kansas, Samuel Fray
er was convicted of murder in the first de-
gree for the horrible double murder Of the
Pennington family, in Wells township.
Col. Norman Curtis, veteran of the
war of 1872, died at Rockford, Ill on the
Doth, aged 80.
An injunction has beer granted at
Nashville restraining A. S. Colyer, presi- |
dent Of the American Newspaper company,
from advocating in the American protec- |
tive tariff.
Explosion of sulphur in the Enter
prise colliery at Mt. Carmel, Pa, instantly |
killed three Hungarians and badly 81 altered |
the mine.
Commissioner Fink has issued no.
tice that, taking effect March I'D, rates will |
be reduced as follows: Chicago TO New |
York, grass seed, 321s cents; high wines, % |
cents.
Prentice Tiller and George McFad- |
den, the express robbers, were arraigned |
in the court of criminal CORE ction at St. |
Louis, and the case continued until April 4. |
Fears of a flood in the Missouri river
are beginning to be realized. A gorge be-
low Yankton is flooding the low lands, and |
a heavy rise will soon reach the lower
country from above. The ice at Sioux City |
commenced going out on the list.
Judge Thatcher, of the supreme
court Of Colorado, is dead.
The conference committee of the
Union Pacific and Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad companies, held in Boston,
resulted in an understanding that harmony
should prevail in the local Nebraska bust
ness of the two companies. An adjourn
ment was had until next week, when the
committee will hold another meeting, at |
which President Potter will be present and
he policy of the two companies will take a
more definite shape.
Michael Toney, aged 16, was arrested
1t Mt. Carmel, Pa, in the act of changing
switch for the purpose of wrecking an ap-
train.
Business failures last week through
,ut the country numbered 213, as against
.16 the previous week.
Buckridge levee, Louisiana, thirty
hree miles below VicKsburg, broke few
lays ago. There is no chance to close the