davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
FINANCIAL TROUBLES.
The Wall Street Bank IN Nes1 York Closes
Its Doors.

The Wall Street Bank Ia Nssc York Closes
It's Doors.
The Wall Street bank in New York
City has closed its doors, owing 70 the ir-
Irregularities OF the cashier. 1t will remain
closed until all matters are Investigated.
The president Ii Thos. w. Evans, and the
cashier John p. Dickinson. When the last
annual statement was issued, in September,
1888, the figures were: Paid up capital,
$500, 200; surplus, Ss5, 1877; undivided
profits, SAT, 726. Kiernsn's agency re.
ports: "The vice.president states that the
clearances of the bank will 60 through the
clearing houge to-day. The capital
stock, 100000, will probably be
swept away. The depositors will eventu-
ally be paid In full and it Is likely that so
per cent will be paid them by the end Of
this week. The cashiers shortage is
stated to be $500, 200 and the bank has
$50, 900 of bad debts. c. F.. Tlmpson and
c. II. Osborn, directors of the bank, made
thorough examination and decided, IN
Justice to all parties, not to open the insti-
tuition at present. The result of their ex-
animation is as follows: Deposits, 81, $780,
coo; call loans, $l10, 200; good business pa
per, $3.50, GOO; cash, $lS5, 600. Cashier j.
=. Dickinson has been lending money too
freely on insufficient margins, and it Is esti-
mated that the loss will be about 5000, 600.
The bank was debtor at the clearing house
to the amount of $3.50, Zoo on the morning of
its closing but this sum was adjusted.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
How the Hand-Car Got It's Name
Chicago Herald,

CJicHgo defac.
Our train stopped at wey station;
by The size of the track Stood hand
ca, with The name The Bid" paint
ed on il. The section BOSS and his men
were there wai.ing Tor The passenger TO
get out o: tieir way.
''How did you come 10 name your
car that?" was asked of the boss, w.io
pulled at his black clay pipe and re-
Piled:
THAT was the result of a incident,
your honor. Twas good many year
ago, when l was "leen 'un on the
section. One evening was in a hui. !
70 get tom tie 1926 mile post. where
we had worked that day, into Town.
Ye see, l bad giiul thin days-the
same what's now down there in the
cabin attindin' 10 the kids. Ii happened
The track Inspector was heloin' OF me
align bad curve. an so Win No. 8
come along he s. . lals her and gifts
aboard, it jeing Saturday mir and
him anxious 10 git home over sunday,
We know.
An idea struck me all of sudden,
and so l said. "Get ont the rope, Dyes,
and hitch her on behint." The boys
did il, LOO, and soon we was whizzing
toward town. The 'taties won't be
cold this night, said one of tie boys,
gleeiully. That beats workin' OF our
passage all to pieces AT first we en-
joyed il, but purity soon we got to "oin'
faster and faster. when it wasn't so
funny. The handles Of the machine
went up and down like mad; we had
to let 90 our hold, an if one of 'em had
struck man of us it 'ud have killed
him dead. We had to hang all about
the edges of the car, an it bob3in' up
an down an jumpin' around like a
rubber ball.
had just whipped out my knife to
cut The rope with, when, begob, Won
derful thing BOX place. That hand
cac just raised herself off the rails, and
sailed out behind like flag. Up in
the air like a streamer, three tut if an
inch rom the track-an' it's the sol
emn truth I'm tellin' ye-we flew along
like birrud. The handles stopped
workin', cause the wheels didn't
touch nothin' but air, and the danger
OF bein' Drained was over. We was a
runin' mile q minute then, an for
six mile we sailed ia the air like Il
balloon. When we Stacked up we
were so lucky as to hev the wheels of
our hand-car come square down on
the rails. Thin | cut the rope, glad,
you kin bet, to reach the end of my
first and last journey in the air. Thet's
how nv car coined to be named 1.-The
Bird
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
THE HEoRIC DEAD.
Ar7iral of the Remains of uteArctic Ep-
plOrers.

A11iral of the Remains of Nte44rctic EsD-
plOrers.
The Greedy expedition ships, "Bear,"
ssThetis'' and "Alert,' arrived the Sth
of Governors Island. Secretary Lincoln,
Generals Sheridan and Hancock and other
army and naval officers, with troops, re-
ceived the bodies from the vessel, the forts
firing funeral salutes. The following Is
list Of the dead and place of burial: Lieu
tenant James E. Lockwood, Annapolis;
Lieutenant Fred +. Kisbingburv, Roches-
ter, n. Y; Sergeant 1sraels, Kalamazoo,
Mich. Sergesut David C. Ralston, bow.
ard, Knox county, Ohio; Sergeant
David Linn, Philadelphia; Sergeant
william Cross, Washington; Corporal
Joseph Ellison, Pottsvilie; Private William
Whistler, Delhi, Ind; Private William A.
Ellis, Clyde, N. Y. After the bodies
were landed they were escorted by the
troops to the hospital, where they will lie
in state under guard of honor until re-
moved by friends. Rev. DR.. Goodwin,
chaplain of Governors Island, will read the
burial service over the dead and deliver q
sermon. The bodies Of Henry and Schnei-
der will be sent to Cypress Hill, the former
to the vault to await orders from Germany
and the latter for interment in the govern
ment plot. The other bodies have been
claimed by relatives.
About 4 O'Clock this afternoon the bodies
of all except Henry and Schneider were re-
placed in wooden cases and conveyed to the
barge Office, from whence they will be taken
to The railroads which will bear them to
their fina resting places.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
Rounding Up the Horse There's.

Helena (Montana) dispatch: Meagre
particulars have been received Of another
slaughter of horse thieves in the Muscle
Shell region, one hundred and fifty miles
northeast OF Helena by cowboys. While in
pursuit of stolen horses log house was
discovered in the timber on the mountain
side. 1t was secretly watched a day or
two, during which time several small par
ties of men came and went, some by day
and others by night, having in their posses
sion horses evidently stolen. 1t becoming
evident that it was q horse thief rendezvous,
the cowboys congregated, and at night
crawled up close to the house and at
tackled fourteen horse thieves, who were
about the premises at the time. Nine were
killed and five escaped. The cabin was set
on fire and burned. No particulars have
vet been received OF the fight Of Granville
Stuart's cowboys with band of thieves at
the mouth of the Muscle Shell, though the
fight must have occurred several days ago.
The locality is over two hundred miles from
Helena, with no telegraph communication.
Never was there q period in the history OF
this or any other territory when 80 much
horse thieving was going on. The citizens
are determined to effectually stop it. Fully
fifty thieves were hanged or shot In the
month OF July.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wife.
Boston Letter to New Orleans Ttmes-Deuocrat.


The venerable Miss Elizabeth Pea
body, now in her eighty-third year, is
sister of Mrs. Horace Mann and of
Mrs. Hawthorne. "Was Mrs. Haw-
thorne at all like Mrs. Mann or Miss
Peabody" l asked Mrs. Whipple to-
day. Miss Peabody and Mrs. Mann
are very unlike, and each strong in in
dividuality. Mrs. Whipple told me in
reply that Mrs. Hawthorne was pre-
eminently the artist in her nature, and
she gave me little picture of her
when the Hawthorne's lived at Lenox
that will always stay with me. The
Whipples were visiting the Haw-
thornes, who lived in the daintiest lit
tie cottage. For tea that night Mrs
Hawthorne picked the currants and
made the bread, and Mrs. Hawthorne
set the table so that Mrs. Whipple and
her husband could face the range of
hills, and they sat down just at the
hour of sunset. A perfect flood of
golden radiance mingled with the
dusky, purple shadows of defle and
glen, and Mrs. Hawthorne said: Il
wish l had a japanese house that 1
might throw the whole side open to
this enchanting picture.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
Origin of "Whig" and "Loco
Foco.''
Crofut's Letter.

Gen. James Watson Webb told me
how the name ''whig" came to be APP
piled to the great party that had its
birth about 1880. He had been warm
partisan of Jackson and resigned his
commission in 1927, came to New York
and started the New York Courier in
the interest of that chieftain. He had
some of the equipments of a successful
editor; great positiveness, a clear head,
a good memory, but he was not a schol-
ar or an elegant writer, and he never
became either.
One of the great grievances of his life
apostate' is, threw the federal
its overheard, and, from being an adj
vocate of the United States bank, be-
came its eremy. Webb rallied the
leaders of new ANTI ackson party to-
gether, and gave them the name of
.swhig," by which for twenty-five
years the great party was thereafter
known.
His paper, the Courier and Enquirer,
was also responsible for the enemy's
pseudonvm. A democratic meeting in
old Tammany hall in 1880 broke up in
a row, as has occasionally been the case
since that time. One party blew all
the candles out; and The other party
having provided themselves with that
astonishing new-fangled continuance
known as a match, relighted them and
reassembled their scattered partisans.
This match coup de main astonished
everybody and caused great amuse-
ment, for matches had then recently
been invented and were not yet in gen
eral use. They were generally called
loco-focos probably Italian ''loco-
fuoco''-wild fire) and in the morning
account given of the tumult the Cour-
Ter and Enquirer reporter called the
party who relighted the candles ''loco-
focos.'' This became the nickname of
the party.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
THE CROPS.
The Report of the Department Of A0rfcut-
ft<re.

fure.
The department of agriculture reports that
the average condition Of the growing cotton
in the United States has advanced from Sc
per cent in July to a little above 81 per cent.
The condition of corn average the same as
in the July report, and is higher than in any
August since 1880. 1t has been exceeded
but three times in ten years-in 1876, 1879
and 1880, when it was 80 per cent. in each
instance. There has been an improvement
in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Geor-
gia, Alabama, Kentucky, New Jersey and
the Pacific coast. A slight decline In the
Illinois and in some southern states.
Drought has prevailed in portions of the Ohio
valley and in Texas with considerable sever
ity, reducing the condition OF corn points.
The averages of the principal states are: New
York, 80; Maryland, "a; Virginia, So; North
Carolina, 81; South Carolina, "a; Georgia, 81;
Alabama, 80; Mississippi, 80; Louisiana, rs;
sylvania, 60; Kentucky, 81; Ohio, 81; Indiana,
81: Illinois, 92; Iowa, 1903; Missouri, 102; Kan
sas, 1Ol: Nebraska, los. The report for wheat
average is IS, one point higher than in the ten
last good spring wheat years, and higher than
in any year since 1877.
The average for the condition Of oats is "a,
one point lower than in 1883. The crop has
been harvested in the lower latitudes and
promises fine yield in the most northern
states.
The condition of rye averages 81, the same
us last month.
Barley also maintains its high condition,
and buckwheat promises a full crop; in area
about the same as last year.
Tobacco promises large crop.
The prospect is favorable for another large
crop OF potatoes, but not SO full in area as
last year, being three per cent. smaller. The
present indications point to a crop Of about
ten per cent. less than that of 1883, with q
larger difference If future conditions should
be less favorable.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
TRIPARTITE TROUBLES.
Il Movement that VIII Compel the U. p. to
Disclose Its Position.

Il Movement that VIII Compel the U. p. to
Disclose Its Position.
A Chicago dispatch says that the
MOI ihwestern having requested of its east
ern connections as we'll as the Union Pacific
and its western connections that 1t Will not
permit any Of its business consigned to the
Western Trunk Lime association or Califor-
mia t-Freight line to be diver Ted over
any other lines than its own, will compel
the Union Pacific to disclose its position at
once in the tripaI ute complications. The
eastern connections of the Northwestern
will Of course comply with the request Of
the latter, but what the Union Pacific will
do has not yet TRANSFERRED. II it complies
with the request of the No. thwestern and
refuses to divert the latter's business as re-
quested by The Western Trunk.Line
association, it would be conclusive
proof that 1t is not in harmony
with the Rock Island and Milwau
kee and St. Paul, and will not aid them in
carrying out the origin tripal lite agree
ment. II it takes this position, then the
Rock Island and Milwaukee anu st. Paul
will have no other alter native than to sue it
for breach of contract. II it does not COM
decides to take sides with its original allies
the Rock. Island and the Milwaukee and
st. Paul-then the Northwestern Will have
to take legal action against it in order TO
find out whether it can lawfully divert
freight lrom one road to apothe.' or Gis-
criminate in favor of one road against an
Othei. In either event the Union Pacific
will have hard road to travel. Ii is the
general opinion thatthe Union Pacific would
p. efer to get out of the trip Irtite cOmbina-
lion altogether, and is anxious to form an
offensive and defensive treaty with the
Burlington on sill business west of the Mis-
souri, river. 1t is stated that all arrange
ments for such a treaty have been per-
fected, but cannot be carried out so long as
the tripaftite complications are unsettled.
The Union Pacific and Burlington are the
more anxious to join hands on account of
the position lately taken by the Chicago IL
Northwestern. But little doubts expressed
that this road really means to at once extend
its Sioux City and Pacific road through
Wyoming to connection with the Cent? al
Pacific and probably through to the Pacific
coast. AS the Northwestern is controlled by
Vanderbilt, there can be no doubt as to its
ability to car. out such project. With such
line the Northwestern would prove a
most formidable competitor against all
the other Pacific roads. There are some,
however, who do not believe that the
Northwestern seriously contemplates the
building of such line, though they con-
slider it probable that The extension may be
made through Wyoming, but not further.
In either event, however the Northwestern
would be able to greatly injure the Union
Pacific and the BurlIngto ton, and it is tnere-
fore necessary that these roads should join
hands in an offensive and defensive treaty to
he prepared to meet the competition Of the
Northwestern when it gets in the field.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
Grand Ar,ny Reunion.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NE
BRASKb, G.. A. R., ASSISTANT AID
JUTANT GENERAL OFFICE, DAVID
CITY, August IL, 1884.
General order No. II:
1. The sixth annual reunion of the De-
partment of Nebraska, Grand Army Of the
Republic, will be held ut Fremont, Ne
braska. The department will 60 into camp
on Monday, September LIST, to remain six
days.
2. Comrade John N. Thayer, post No.
IL, Grand Island, has been selected by the
reunion committee to command the camp.
s. The department officers have used
every means in their power to procure tents
from the United States and state govern
ments and have failed in every attempt. 1t
Is therefore ordered that all posts in this de-
partment immediately on receipt of this or
der tako the necessary steps to procure
tents for their own use at this and future
reunions. Commanders OF posts will conn
municate with Comrade n. G. Franklin,
assistant quartermaster general at Lincoln,
Nebraska, who has made arrangements with
tent manufacturers to supply tents at q
great reduction.
The tents will be sold IS follows: 10x12
f., s or; buck (pins and poles complete)
50; l2Xl4 It., OF. duck (pins and poles
comp!eLe) Sill, and each order must be &C.
companie6 with check or money order for
the amount. None but cash orders will re-
ceiye attention. As the time is SO short be-
fore the opening of camp comrades will see
the necessity of immediate action. No
blame must be attached to any officer of the
department if you are not provided with
shelter at Fremont. See general order IA,
June Is, 1884.
4. As soon as the railroad rates are as
certained they will be published in all the
daily papers of the state.
3. the council of administration. will as
at 2 O'Clock p. M, Tuesday, September 2,
to transact all business that may be pre-
scented to them.
= 6. The department commander is pleased
to again announce that the martial bands of
this state who met in Lincoln on December
a, p, and %, 1888, perfected an organiza-
ton, to be known as the State Band Asso-
citation. ALI bands in the state are cordially
invited to join this association. A copy Of
constitution and bylaws can be procured
.bv applying to S. L. Hawley, secretary,
Marley, Nebraska. All musicians holding
certificates of membership in this associa-
ton will be entitled to free transportation to
the annual reunions. These can also be OBJ
tanned by applying to the secretary.
Z. Owing to the resignation of Comrade
John F. Diener, Comrade A. Alice, Of
Post No. z, Omaha, is hereby appointed
department Inspector. He will be obeyed
and respected accordingly.
s. Comrade William Powell, Post No,
81, Syracuse, is hereby appointed aide-de-
camp on the department staff, and will be
obeyed and respected accordingly.
9. 5. r. Curtiss, Post SO, was errone-
ously reported delinquent in general orders
No. 16, they having sent in reports and dues
June 30, 1884.
10. Comrade John A. Wood is comman-
der of General Augur Post No. 1872, Ewing,
Neb.
By command of 81. e. PALMER,
Department Commander.
BRAD. p. Cook,
Assistant Adjutant General.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
THE CHOLERA AGAIN.
a Grave Increase I'm the Epidsnic-Dr.
Koch,s Researches.

A Marseilles dispatch says: There
was grave increase Of cholera during Sum
day night in sll the stricken towns, and as
far rs heard from there has been general
increase. DR.. Bossano telsgraphs: There
have been ten deaths here since my midnight
dispatch was sent. There are rumors Of
others in the immediste neighborhood. But
the suburbs Of Marseilles have not been rs
fearfully visited as the outskirts of Toulon.
News has come in that at St. Henri, 3 vii.
lage Of 2, 800 people some nine miles north
Of Marseilles, there were six deaths from
cholera. At Gignsc one patient died four
hours after the first symptoms, rapidity
In arriving at the fatal end Of the disease
which IL unprecedented. An analysis of the
water Of the Rhone, near Aries, Is said to
have shown microbes by the million. From
Algiers the news IL worse. A number Of
additional villages on the frontier, in the
Department Of Var, are said to be suffering
from cholera. among them Auriol and De-
trousse. At Marseilles for the last seventy.
two hours there have been fifty deaths,
many of them occurring among the returned
emigrants who have been forced to seek
their homes through hunger. Want of
food seems particularly TO make people sus.
ceptible to cholera germs in the air and
water, owing to the temporary disuse OF
the organs. The relaxation of precautions
because of over-confidence has also been q
fatal influence. 1t is believed now that the
epidemic will rage until the 1st of October.
1t looks as IL the plague had q firm footing
In Italy. Three deaths are reported from
Vignarolli and Pancheria.
The researches Of DIR. Koch regarding the
cause and progress OF cholera have excited
mt inf I'm pnlanH xUhara loo
somewhat similar to that now existing in
France are OF almost annual occurrence.
The newspapers of Warsaw have devoted q
great deal of space to the discussion Of
cholera, and cholera forms the leading topic
of conversation in the cafes and other places
OF popular resort. One curious result of
this general agitation is an offer by an edu-
Gated Pole IN middle age and vigorous
health to allow himself to be inoculated
with the cholera microbes, so that the effect
OF such an incubation in q human being in
normal health may be scientifically scrulin-
iIed.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
THE FOREIGN EPIDEMIC.
The U. 8. Consul at Marseilles EnltDhtens
" Regarding the Disease.

The U. 8. Consul at Narcotics EnltDhtene
" Regarding the Disease.
Frank H. Mason, United States con-
sui at Marseilles, in dispatch to the
senate department relative to the
cholera At that place and Toulon,
says: It appears that notwith.
standing all the progress In medical science
and the very perfect arrangements for col.
lecting and treating stricken victims Of the
scourge, more than tw0.thirds Of those at
tackled have died-even during the first
fortnight Of the epidemic, when all the san.
itary conditions were most favorable. The
almost immediate transmission Of the dis.
case from TOulon to Msrseilles and the
enormous death rate of 20 per cent in the
earliest stages of the epidemic, seem to
prove that sanitary science and medical
skill have made but little substantial pro.
gress In dealing with Asiatic cholera.
A second feature Of the present epidemic
compared with that of the last great cholera
summer-lSG5. The rapidity and virulence
of this development are attributed in some
measure to the intense damp and sitting
hest which prevailed during most of the
days since the Both OF June. There are
physicians Of Judgment and experience who
maintain that dessication is the only effec-
tive destroyer OF the cholera microbe on
large scale, and that dry, hot weather,
while 1t may be unfavorable for those
already attacked, is most effective In stay
ing the spread of the. contagiOn. Fugitiyes
from here have died ut AK, Grenade and
other towns in southern France, but the
epidemic has not thus far been kindled
there. nor have any persons been attacked
NJ oh hra, 1an
this city or Toulon.
In view Of the enormous emigration which
has occurred since the outbreak, three
weeks ago-estimatsd by good authority ut
one hundred thousand persons from Mar
settles and fifty thousand from Toulon-and
the distribution Of this vast contingent
throughout France, Italy,. Switzerland
worthy and encouraging that no au-
thenticated case Of choler4 has occurred
among this army of fugitves at any point
north of Grenade, although great num-
Der Of Italian working people left the two
stricken cities for northern Italy during the
early days of the epidemic, it has not, ap-
parently, been carried with them, or if it
has, it is not vet developed.
Nothing in all the dispute concerning the
origin and cure of the disease has added any
effectiveness 10 the means hitherto known
for treating chOleric patients, and the pro.
portion of deaths to the cases appears to in
crease rather than diminish. A momentary
CLEAN OF hope was diffused by the announce.
ment that patients had been rescued from
the collapse stage of the malady st the hos.
pital in Toulon by the inhalation of oxygen,
but this encouragement has been clouded
by the discovery that the effect of this pow
erful stimuant was but temporary, and the
patients thus treated finally died in the same
ratio as those treated by other methods.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-21
The Labor Convention.

The New York labor convention recently in
session at Utica, adopted resolutions that the
executive committee be directed to use every
honorable means in their power to have direct
representatives nominated and elected to the
legislature, and that it was the sense of the
convention in localities where such action
be taken it should receive practical aid from
organized labor throughout the state. Also
that "we demand of the legislature of the
state the passage of a law changing the Castle
Garden labor bureau from labor bureau to
furnish cheap pauper labor to employers into
q labor bureau for the benefit of workmen
and citizens of the state Of New York and the