McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-07
BRIEFLY TOLD.


formed q Western Export association.
The entire town Of Laning, Nevada, except
the depot buildings, was burned on the SOth.
The knights of Pythias, Of Iowa, meet at
Sioux City first Wednesday in October next.
There is probability of passenger rate war
between the Lake Shore and New York Gen.
tral. i J-+ - w.
Jay-Eye-See has surpassed all his previous
efforts by making on the LIST of August mile
in 2:10.
The greater portion of the town of Hot
Springs, Ark, was destroyed by fire Thursday
night last.
President Arthur was given a hearty recep-
| ton on the i;occasion of his recent visit to
Kingston, New York.
| The propeller Osborne was sunk in a col
lision with the steamship Alberta off White
fish Point, Mich, on the 18th of last month.
Five of the salvation army were sent to Jail
at Bridgeport, Conn.,, for four days for vo-
| lating the city ordinance by parading Sunday.
G. Barnums wire works at Detroit, one of
the most extensive plants for ornamental wire
works in the business in the country has as
signed.
The collier of the Greedy relief expedition,
the steamship Loeb Garry, arrived at the
Brooklyn navy yard on the 10Th from st.
Johns N. F.
| The extension of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids and Northern from North Park to
WATERFOWL, OAK, will be completed about
October 1. The distance is 100 miles.
The second week of the New York bricklay
ers strike has been inaugurated. Reports of
| the number of men On a strike are conflicting.
Employers say 200 and the wOrkingmen claim
| 700.
At French cabinet council, Meline, minis
| ter of agriculture, submitted a bill raising i'm
port duty on oxen to twenty-five francs; pigs
| to six francs; calves to four francs; sheep to
| three francs.
| The Mutual Union telegraph company at
Chicago has commenced laying its wires
| underground. The city will sue other CON-
panies-penalty, $50 per pole per day for all
| poles standing.
| A rivalry has existed among the various
Illinois cities by the question where to locate
| the democratic headquarters for the CAM
paign in that state. 1t was finally settled by
|
| The city council of Chicago passed an ordi-
| nance abolshing contract labor for prisoners
| at the city house of correction. The inmates
of this institution number GOO to 500. 1t has
heretofore been self-supporting.
Mrs. Adam Miller, of York, Pa, was shot
fatally while sitting at the window of her faith
| er's residence holding her sick infant. The
shooting is supposed to have been done by
| Pires Miller. brother to her husband, who was
| in the room at the time
A prize fight between Jim Dillon and Ned
Monaghan, local pugilists, took place near
Brownstown, Pa, and resulted in favor of
| men were terribly punished. The mill was
witnessed by several hundred.
A H-year-old daughter of Stephen Kimball-
| a wealthy farmer near Lyons, Ionia county,
Michigan, while strolling near her fathers
house was outraged by a couple of tramps.
Kimball offers $500 reward for the arrest of
| the villains. One hundred men went in pur-
| suit.
Secretary Frelinghuysen has received intel
| ligence from the City of Mexico to the effect
| that in compliance with the request of the
United States government, the two Amer-
cans, William Hardwood and Edward Veleach,
recently arrested there upon the charge of de-
| flaming the president of Mexico, had been re
| leased.
The report reaches Portland, Oregon, that
an organized band of stock thieves has been
run down and captured by party of regulars
at Willow Valley in that state. Seventeen
| thieves were captured with a number of
horses in their possession. The ringleader
was hanged and the remainder turned over to
| the authorities.
An explosion of gas in one of the dressing
rooms of the opera house, Pittsburg, terribly
burned Maggie Welsh, Mollie Campbell and
Marie Foley, who were engaged in cleaning
the theatre. Gas had been escaping all day,
and when young woman went into the room
and struck light the explosion occurred.
| Maggie Welsh and Mollie Campbell are
thought to be fatally injured.
| The total expense of the Greedy relief expe-
dition is estimated by the navy department at
$SOO,OOO The original estimate was 100000;
| about $345, 600 for purchase and repair of YES
sells, $4,000 for instruments to be used in MAX
| ing observations, and $4,000 for coal 1t is
| believed in disposing of the vessels the gov
eminent will secure an amount equal to the
sum paid for them. large quantity of pro-
visions is suitable for navy use and will be
turned over to the service.
| After a careful investigation the Kansas
City Live Stock Indicator states the follow
ing: There has not been and is not any Texas
fever among cattle at this point, or in this
neighborhood. Cattle shipped from here in
which the so-called Texas fever has devel-
oped passed through the yards, but while
here did not exhibit any symptoms Of that
disease. 1t was contracted by contact with
| through Texas cattle in the Indian territory.
A terrible explosion occurred at the house
of Henry Upmeier, q Oregon street, Cincin-
natl. A young son of Upmeier took home an
unexploded rocket that had fallen from the
Highland House, where had been an exhibit
| ton of fireworks. The lad tried to open it,
but failing to do so, his mother seized
Ratchet and dealt it n severe blow. A terrible
explosion followed, Mrs. Upmeier was fatally
| injured; Charles Upmeier, aged 6, severely