McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01
Call for a Meeting IN the Interest
OF Reducing National
Taxation.
No Settlement Reached in the Con-
ference of the B. g. NJ. and
the Union Pacific.
Decisions by the U. s. Supreme Court.
Political, Criminal, Foreign and
Other News.
NEWS NOTES..

6Aonu Juiys ~ dhnoon.
DR.. F. d. Hemenway, professor of
Hebrew and biblical literature at the Gar
rett institute, Evanston, H., is dead.
II. II. Turner, who left Mingo juno
ton, Ohio, with $4,000 of Pennsylvania
railroad funds, has returned to Pittsburg
and compromised.
A man and wife blew out the gas in
their room at the Palmer house, Chicago,
on retiring. The woman died; the nan is
not expected to recover.
A cut in lumber rates to Colorado
points is announced by the trunk line asso-
citation. The Burlington and Santa Fe
roads met the cut with promptness.
In answer to inquiry the command
ant at Fort Keogh urges convention Of
stock growers and breeders at that place.
A water spout killed one child and
wounded several other members Of Siam
lily, whose house was destroyed, in Dade
county, Mo.
The senate judiciary committee re-
ported favorably the resolution to submit
an amendment to the constitution to per.
init the president to veto one or more items
of an appropriation bill while approving
the remainder thereof.
A bank at bingham, H., has lost
its president and $25, 200 to 600.
The number of standard dollars is
sued last week was 254 1888.
An ex-city treasurer of Newark, N.
j., was fined S., 600 for not preventing
falsa entry in his books.
Washouts of railroads are reported
from the high water in Lake Champ.
lain.
The report of the Indian uprising in
the Northwest territory is officially de-
MED.
Two desperadoes fought duel near
Irving, KY, and both climbed the golden
stairs.
Charles Frike, who is too feeble to
leave his. bed, had strength enough to beat
his wife's brains out with club at Wauke-
gan, Ill.
Mexican merchants have petitioned
the government to substitute for the stamp
act q tax on sales, agreeing in this event to
advance to the government i,5OO, 900.
4 The traffic manager of the Canadian
Pacific road has resigned by request.
Cause, soc, 900 unaccounted for.
The house committee has decided to
require from the Pacific railroads pay
ment of thirty five per cent Of gross earn
ings into the sinking fund.
In endeavoring to save his household
goods, Moses Glessner was fatally burned
at Marion, Ind.
The village of Wamsley, o., was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $40, 900.
J. c. Burrows. of Michigan, recently
confirmed as solicitor of the treasury, has
written to the president formally declining
the Office.
The senate committee on railroads
unanimously agreed to report, with few
minor amendments, the bill prepared by
Senator Cullom to establish commission
purposes.
The eight eastern trunk lines an
nounce that they will sell excursion tickets
to Chicago during the session Of the repub-
lican convention at one fare for the round
trip. The Southwestern, Western and
northwestern roads out of Chicago will sell
round trip tickets for one and one-third
fare.
The Boston Transcript says: There
is no truth in the report that the 81, 900, 900
of new Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
stock is for the purpose of securing connec-
ton with the Denver and Rio Grande and
Western railway in Utah.
The steamer Bear, of the Greedy re-
lief expedition, took her departure from
New York for the arctic regions on the oath.
M. Mcdonald, prominent lawyer
of Denver, was crushed to death between
cars at Goal Creek.
Ex-Gov. Marcus l.. Ward, of New
Jersey, is dead.
The trial of Frank James, for completely
In the Mussel Shoals robbery Of 1881, was
concluded at Huntsville, Ala, with YER
dict of "not guilty. The court house
cheers. James was Immediately arrested
by the sheriff of Cooper county, Missouri.
There was large meeting at Cooper
introduction into that market Of Chicago
dressed beef.
Gov. Crittenden has appointed Gen.
w. T. Sherman brigadier general Of mill
tia for the eastern district of Missouri.
Paul Moran, for shooting into pas
senger coach, was tried at Galveston,
Texas, and acquitted. Some indignation
was expressed as to the justice of the YER
dict, the law proclaiming it no offence to
shoot into railway coach unless it is
proven that lives are endangered thereby.
The American minister to Mexico has
forwarded to the department of state copy
of the decree issued by the president of the
republic ordering that on and after the 18th
of May the duty on all goods imported to
that country shall be increased per cent.
The house committee on postoffices
and t-roads has directed a sub commit
tee, consisting Of Messrs. Rogers, Ward,
J. NJ. Taylor, Bingham and Wakefield, to
prepare bill providing for contract sys-
tenn Of postal telegraph.
A disease resembling pleuro-pneu-
monia has broken out among the cattle in
WASHINGTON county, Pa. Veterinary sur
geons pronounce it contagious. They
have recommended Governor Pattison to
quarantine the district.
Two men went to the house of Amos
Brackenstros, residing near Berns, Adams
county, Indiana. He rose in bed and was
shot through the heart. The house was
robbed Of $40.
FOREIGN.
La France says: ~. Debrazza, a
French explorer in the Congo country, has
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