McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-03-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL.

White manufacturers at San Fran
cisco locked out $500 Chinese cigar makers.
They propose to substitute $500 whites
from New York. The Chinese packers
struck on learning that their countrymen
were locked out.
| The Burlington, Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe, and the Chicago and Alton
have given notice of reduction in lumber
rates from Chicago and St. Louis to Colo
RADIO points from 70 to 81 cents per hun
dred.
At the election held on the 1st in the
to fill the vacancy caused by the death Of
Dudley G. Haskell, the candidates were E..
Fl. Funston, republican, and Samuel A.
Riggs, democrat and greenbacker. Re-
ports from all but two counties in the dis
tIict indicate Funston's election by about
5000 majority.
After seven years of idleness the
larger furnace of the South Boston iron
works was lighted up on the list for the
casting of a rifle mortar for the United
|
the first of lot of fine, heavy, expert
mental guns, authorized by the last con-
gress.
The New York Daily Commercial
Bulletins fire record shows the loss by fire
in February to be seven millions, and for
January and February ten millions.
The authorities at Smithfield, Hi
nois, have telegraphed the United States
arshal at Chicago, informing him of the
arrest of gang of counterfeiters and cap
ture of their entire outfit.
Prentiss Tiller, the money clerk of
the Pacific Eapress company at St. Louis,
whose father is a Louisiana detective, dis
appeared about O'Clock on the Sd, taking
with him one or two valises full of money
packages, the total. amount being near
SIS, 200.
The house committee on judiciary
has ordered an adverse report on the cele-
brated McGarrahan claim.
A Khartoum dispatch says that Gen.
Gordon believes that the slavery question
d
of the slaves.
The high water has reached the south
and is doing mnch damage.
Major Lopez Variable was killed
near Edinburg, Texas, forty miles above
Brownsville, in duel with the editor of the
Cronista, published at Matamoras.
Sherman's copyright bill, introduced
in the senate, provides that the copyright
shall extend to all news items exceeding one
hundred words in length. Smaller items
are not to be copyrighted.
English detectives at New York have
been provided with portraits of suspected
dynamiters.
The Boston board of trade has passed
resolutions protesting against the excessive
coinage of silver money and the use of silver
certificates.
Two children of Isaac Kennedy, re-
siding near Phillippi, Bourbon county,
West Va, fell in kettle of boiling soap |
and were burned to death.
John McGinnis was hanged in the
county prison at Philadelphia for the muir
der Of his motherin-law.
Hon. Kenneth Paynor, solicitor of
the treasury. died at the National hotel,
Washington, on the 9TH.
A snow pillow on the st. Paul road
struck sled containing farmer named
Fisk, his son, aged 10, married daughter
and two small children, at Sibley, Osceola
county, Iowa. The son was instantly
killed and the father fatally injured. The
others were slightly injured.
William Mcmillan, living near HUI
ron, Ohio, went home drunk and abused
his wife, who threatened to call On neigh
Dor for help. Mcmillan swore he would
kill the first man who came into the house.
Geo. Thompson, aged 10, came, having an
errand, and was ignorant of the trouble.
Mcmillan, installing him for another per-
son, fired and killed him. He was put in
Jail and there suicided.
The Kimball house at Anoka, Mimi,
burned. But little furniture was saved.
The guests all escaped.
The governor of South Carolina has
offered a reward of $500 for the arrest of
W. B. Cash, who shot Town Marshal Rich
ards at Cheraw.
M. o. Van Fleet, county treasurer of
Huron county, Ohio, has absconded. His
accounts are short from $50, 600 to $50, 900.
A large number of prominent cattle
men held public meeting at Emporia,
KAN, to take steps for the suppression of
the cattle plague, which exists in malig-
nant form at that place. !
Edward D. Payne, of Dayton, Ohio,
brother of Senator-elect H. B. Payne, died
Of paralysis. =.
Workmen who have been boring at
yinton, Iowa, for petroleum the past ,
month struck nil few DAVIS apo in nayinp