McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-06-26
III nGUUnU Ut EVHNlO.
Mr.. Blaine Officially Notified Of
His Nomination for
President.
The Situation in Europe of Char.
acter Exciting Unusual
Attention.
A Train Wrecked by Tramps...POliti-
cal, Foreign and Other News
of Interest.
NEWS NOTES.

of Interest.
NEWS NOTES.
A Deadwood (Dak.) special says:
Alexander Fiddler, a man of many aliases,
was found near Sturgis, this county, Satur-
day, hanging to the limb of tree. He and
two companions robbed an emigrant family
en- route to the hills recently and he is sup
posed to have met his fate at the hands OF
the vigilantes. He bore a bad name and
had been several times convicted OF crime.
Nicholas DeGroot, assistant secretary
and cashier of the Union Mutual Life In
surance Company at Portland, Me-, COM
mitted suicide at his summer residence on
Little Diamond Island. He has been SUI
fering with mental depression for six
weeks, and was evidently insane.
It is officially stated that meeting of
Union Pacific directors, at which the July
dividend question will be considered, will
be held soon in New York. Vice. President
Atkins states that Dillon will probably ten
Adams will be chosen president. The earn
ings of the company for May, though not
fully made up, will now, it is estimated,
show decrease of $3.50, 900 and $500, 200 net.
Steve Anderson (colored), fireman in
the mills at East Fl. Scott, KS, man Of
good reputation, and recently married,
quarreled with his wife over plans for
proposed fishing party. The woman shut
him out of the house. He requested her to
open the door, and when she complied he
shot her three times In the breast with pis-
toll, and then shot himself in the head and
died instantly.
Rev. Alexander j. Baird, D. D OF
Nashville, Tenn. died suddenly recently in
the Park avenue hotel, New York. He was
on his way to attend the meeting of the
Presbyterian Alliance at Belfast, Ireland.
Judgments to the amount of about
$125,OO0 were entered up lately against
o. NJ. Bogart & Co., bankers and brokers,
New York, who recently failed. Among
the larger creditors are Mary S. Stickwell,
$42, 900, and Mary b. Burnham, $50 900.
There is trouble between the men,
bers of the Western Trunk Line associa-
ton and the eastern trunk lines regarding
the rate on wool from the Mississippi river
to the seaboard. The western trunk lines
demanded the right to make through rates.
This had been refused by the eastern lines
through their joint agent at Chicago. The
western lines assert that the rate should be
Is per cent. more than the rate from Chi
cago, and assert they will demand their full
pro rata on that basis.
The war against gamblers at Dallas,
Texas, eliminated in one of the indicted
gamblers paying fine of 81 200 in COM
promise and agreeing never again to gam
bic in Dallas county. ALI the others left
The officers of the Chicago Humane
society have returned from Monee, ILL.,,
where they arrested Mrs. Sophia Hinter for
starving into idiocy, beating with savage
cruelty and manning in nameless way her
2.year.old stepson.
G. G.. Morris, a prominent citizen,
was assassinated at Greenburg, KY, on the
18th. The deed is shrouded in mystery.
Ike Buzzard, a member of the noto-
rious Pennsylvania mountain outlaw gang,
whom the military of that state have been
in pursuit of and for whose capture re-
ward is offered, was arrested at Chicago on
the 18th.
Luke Phipps, who shot his wife on a
a ferryboat between Detroit and Windsor
one night in August last year, was hanged
at Sandwich on the 18th.
The ceremony of presentation to the
city and unveiling of the status of Bolivar,
the great liberator, took place in Central
park, New York. in the presence of 5000
persons, mostly Spanish Americans.
The entire business part of the town
of Pinos Altos, Mexico, was destroyed by
IRE MAY ZSLus l. c JOSS Is SIdIcu dt ToOU,
600, with no insurance.
Bishop Simpson lied at Philadelphia
on the 18th, aged 70 years.
In an interview Mayor Harrison, of
Chicago, said he had decided to make war
on the gamblers and drive them out OF the
city, and that there would be no more tenn
porizing with the evil.
At the meeting of the Union Pacific
lon resigned as president and Charles
Francis Adams accepted the position. Ii
was voted that in lieu of the divide nd paya-
BILE on July LIST. the sum of $71S, Sl4 be paid
from the monies in the company's treasury
to the United States to meet The demand OF
the secretary of the treasury for payments
under the Thurman act for the year ending
December 31st.
The Fitz John Porter bill has passed
both houses and will now 60 to the presi-
dent.
On the night of the 18th, Thom as
Walling, who went to California during the
gold fever of 1S49, leaving wife and three
children at Muncie, Ind, returned from
the far west and spent the evening in COM
pany with his wife and children and grand,
children. Mrs. Wallipg, who supposed
him dead, had in the meantime married
twice, both husbands dying.
A Chicago dispatch says the rumor
circulated in Wall street and on Change in
Chicago that S. Fl. H. Clark, of the Union
Pacific, had resigned his position as general
manager of that road is entirely without
foundation.
The dedication of the Washington
monument will take place the 22d OF next
February. Extensive preparations are be-
ing made for the event.
Mrs. Warren, wife of Bishop Henry
w. Warren, of Denver, has donated $780,
600 to Denver university for the establish
ment of department of divinity, to be
known as the Tiff School Of Divinity, on
condition that others endow single pro-
fessorship.
An important change has been made
in the internal management of the Grand
Trunk, The west Detroit lines of the sys-