McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-17

forty houses, principally occupied by poor
laborers. Three hundred people are home.
less. Loss, $50, 900.
Work has been suspended at the
Washington navy yard owing TO failure Of
congress to make an appropriation for III
continuance. ~
Woerschaffer & Co., C. Coblanch &
Co., W. G.. Mortimer and William Robin
son, of New York, bondh0lders 0fthe Denver
and Rio Grande railroad, made application
before Judge Hallet In Denver for receiver
for that corporation. g
Three children belonging to family
named Hams, living near the Kingman
county line, Kansas, were burned to death
The mother left the children at home and
went to q neighbours on an errand. Upon
returning she found the house In flames and
the children burned to crisp.
Pilot, aged 60, husband of Nine.
Janauschek, the actress, was found dead
from heart disease, in his apartments In
Boston. aeag .--
The Central Pacific company has re-
ceived the announcement of the completion
and opening to traffic of the Central Ameri.
can railroad from San Jose De Guatemala
to the city OF Guatemala, distance of sew.
enty miles. The road Is under the control
of the Central Pacific system.
The Spanish minister to Washington
says the reports afoas Of proposed sale or
transfer of Cuba by the Spanish government
are untruthful and absurd
At Austin, Ill.,, Henry Summers and
May Whitney, young couple who have
been Keeping company, were found lying
heads. The girl has remained unconscious
ever since. Summers says she shot him
and then herself.
Two leading lumber yards of Toledo,
O., suffered BY fire on Wednesday last as
follows: Mitchell & Rowell Lumber com.
pany, 1928, 900; insurance, $25, 500; Nelson,
Holmes & Co., SIC, 600; fully insured. Over
50, OOO, 900 OF property was jeopardized.
The fire is supposed to have been caused by
the sparks of passing tug.
Phobe Peck has died in Westfeld,
MY, at the great age of 1O3 years, She
was born in CharletOn, Saratoga county,
and has been resident of Westfield since
1927.
An old feud between two gamblers,
'sPrince' MCGOWAN and Augustus Slater
OF Baltimore, was the cause OF a street fight
in which the former was shot and instantly
charge OF murder. He is a nephew to Rob-
ert j. Slater of political fame.
One of the train wreckers who have
made several attempts to throw the cars Of
the Illinois Central railroad from the track,
near Duck Hill, has been arrested, and it
is probable the balance of the gang will be
captured.
The crop report of the agricultural
department relative to cotton shows the
rain has been excessive, but there Is moth
ing at present to render fair crop impOssi.
BILE. The next sixty days will be awaited
with interest, if not anxiety. The general
average conditions one point lower than at
the time of the last report-86 instead of 81.
cent. The total area will be between &c..
600, 900 and 7O,0OO, 900 acres. A few states
report q decrease-Maine, Massachusetts,
New York, Louisiana and Minnesota.
There is a good degree of uniformity in the
increase in southern and central districts.
It is per cent in Iowa, 20 in Nebraska and
80 in Dakota. There is also an increase on
the Pacific coast.
The editor of the New York Sun has
agreed to prepare paper to be read before
the First regiment of the Union Veteran
army of Boston. It will contain the secret
history Of Davis visit to General Sheridan
at the front during the last campaign in the
Shenandoah valley.
A telegram from Bayard, Nd, saysa.
man named Stevenson was shot through the
heart and instantly killed by James Glenn.
The tragedy was caused by the alleged init
macy of Glenn with Stevenson's wife.
The receivers of the Wabash make a
general announcement that Vice President
Talmage, of the Missouri Pacific, has
severed his connection with that property
and will take entire charge of general man
agement Of the Wabash system. The court,
in original instructions, ordered the re-
ceivers Of the Wabash to cancel the lease of
property to the Iron Mountain and the sepa.
rate the management of the two properties
entirely.
Coroner Muscroft, of Cincinnati, has
ended the investigation on the dead bodies
of the persons killed in the late riot. He
enumerates fifty-three whose bodies he
buried. OF these he finds that Captain
Desmond was killed by unknown persons in
the mob; one man (Goetz) shot himself acci-
dentally; another, named SmaiZ, was I'M
lawfully shot on Sunday afternoon by the
militia, and all the others were justifably
killed, they having failed to obey the COM
mand of the sheriff to dispense.