McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GENERAL,

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airy, but thinks 'tMarch and April will
probably give us the coId and snow lacking
through the first half of the winter"
In quarrel at Grafton, w. Va, Car
ter Smith drove scissors through George
McDaniel's heart, killing him instantly
Charles Weaver, immured In the
Sunbury Pa.) Jail, confessed to connection
with gang of burglars, and gave the names
and addresses of all the members.
The lunatic asylum on Wards Island.
New YORK harbor, caught fire, causing
great excitement among the /, 1920 patients.
but all were removed in safety. The damage
Is $4,000.
Edward Moran, sent by the Irish
World to London to investigate, reports
that the adverse feeling of the English peo-
pie prevented General Pryor from taking a
more prominent part in the defense of
O'Donnell. j''..
At the annual dinner of the Brook
Ign New England society, President Ar
thur, General Grant, Henry Ward Beecher,
and others made short speeches. Two hun
dred and fifty persons were present.
The supreme court of Michigan
affirmed the judgment from the superior
court of Detroit in the case of Mclean vs..
Scrips. This was the libel suit of DR..
Mclean against the Evening News, of De-
troit, in which Mclean was awarded $40, =
600.
Miss Gabriel Greedy, daughter Of the
late Horace Greedy, was thrown from a
sleigh at the depot at Pleasantville, n. Y,
her horse taking fright. She was not Sc
riously injured. '-
Lorrillard & Co., Jersey City, dis
tributed $4,000 among their factory
hands on Christmas. .-.....7.
Judge Van Worse, of the. supreme
court Of New York, has given decision in
the suit of Harvey Kennedy against Henry
Omaha railway, Roswell p. Flower, David
Dows and others, ordering Porter to make
the accounting sought for.
Judge Loufbourrow, of Atlantic,
Iowa, was transferred by Governor Sher-
man from the circuit judgeship of the Thir-
teenth circuit to the district judgeship of the
Thirteenth district, made vacant by the res
ignation of Judge Reed elected to the SUI
preme bench. Major Lyman, of Council
Bluffs, is appointed to the vacancy of cir
cult judge.
An Orangemen procession at Harbor
Grace, n. F., was attacked by amob ON the
Goth, and three men instantly killed and
several MORALLY wounded.
Mrs. General Sherman and daughter
Rachael, had narrow escape from death
on the Goth at st. Louis. They had been
attending Xavier church, on Ninth and Luz
cas- avenue, and had adjusted themselves in
their buggy to go home, when the horses
became frightened and dashed madly up
Lucas avenue until reaching Eleventh
street, where they collided with lamp post
and awning. The ladies were taken from
the wreck uninjured but badly shocked.
Archbishop Perche, who for some
weeks has been in failing health, was in such
an alarming condition on the Goth that it
was deemed imperative to administer the
last sacrament. The archbishop suffers
more by age than sickness. His death is
momentarily.
VIM. McCaffery, a prominent ward
politician and assistant superintendent OF
markets ut New Orleans, was shot and NOR
tally wounded i'll a gambling saloon by bud
Remand, one OF the proprietors OF the es-
Enlistment.
Three men digging coal near Jirard-
Vile, Pa, We're buried by falling earth.
One was fatally and the others seriously in
jured.
A petition requesting congress to
prevent the importation of foreign laborcrs
under contracts made abroad, has received
many signatures of workingmen in Pennsyl-
vania.
The president left Washington on the
10Th for New York for the purpose of at
tending to private business and also to at
tend the reception given there by Seth B.
French.
Two hundred and fifty members of
the Northwestern Travelling Mems associa-
ton met in annual session at Chicago on the
9th. The report of the treasurer showed
4 balance of $13, 1a: receipts for the year,
S3S, go; total amount paid out since the as
ISOLATION has been in existence, $400, 40.
The election of officers was hotly contested. |
Statistics just issued by the Dutch
government show that an area of at least
y 200 acres has been recovered from the sea
during the last three centuries.
"a Toronto man died of smallpox