McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-26
BRIEFLY TOLD.

BRIEFLY TOLD.
The New York banks hold si0.oooooo in ex
cess OF legal requirements.
VIM. II. Vanderbilt of New York, had
short interview with the president the 18th
The managers OF the New Orleans exposi
ton have fixed upon April Is as Mexican vet
Grams day.
President Cleveland was 4s years old on the
18th and most of his callers took occasion to
congratulate him.
The secretary of the treasury has dismissed
FIVE inspectors of the New York custom house
here owing TO funds running short
Charles Metty, of Toledo. o. was found
dead in a room In the Cosmopolitan hotel,
New York. He failed to turn OF the gas and
WIS sufIocated.
Dorman b. Eaton, of the civil service COIL
mission. says there is no ground for the belief
that The civil service examinations will be
discontinued.
Ex-Congressman John F. Finerty has been
nominated by the republicans for city treas
urer of Chicago, and the son OF ex-minister
Washburne for city clerk.
Three men sleeping in a saloon In Pulaski,
Tenn, were burned to death. Two OF them
were drummers number of stores were
also burend. Loss. $4,000; insurance one
half.
The directors ofthe board of trade of Peoria
Ill, presented resolution to be acted on at
an early day, suspending any member con-
cerned directly or indirectly in the business OF
dealing in options.
The 18th day of Apri. has been set as Next
can veteran day at the exposition. JET Davis
and VIM NJ Burrill have been invited to de-
liver addresses.
Henry Ainsworth, of Lode, Medina county
Ohio, has given $4,000 to the Buchtel college
TO endow the chair Of mathematics, making
his gifts to the college $4,000.
Reports are arriving of restlessness among
the Cheyenne Indians near Foit Reno. Two
stockmen direct from that locality tonight
report the Indians are INDUCING In war
dances at various points.
Gen. Sheridan received a telegram from
Gen. Hatch saying that upon receipt OF the
presidents proclamation concerning the ok
shoma lands, most of those preparing to In
wade the Indian territory decided to return
home.
Bales, the attorney for the Iowa state tenn
perance alliance, in an interview stated that
prohibition would be enforced under the
Fitz decision in the river towns as easily asin
the interior, and that the alliance Will lnau
gurate the work Immediately.
The northwestern Indians are dying in large
numbers from a singular disease, the first
symptoms of which are the stitfening OF the
knees and JOINTS, from which death soon fol-
lows. Chicken-pox and diphtheria have taken
off many more, and they are in generally
starving condition.
An immens, mass meeting was held at
Tucson. Arizona, to express Indignation
against the work of the territorial legislature
which, in sixty days session. has voted
away over million dollars in subsidies. The
meeting appointed a committee to devise
means to have congress institute proceedings
in court to stop payment of the amounts cor
ruptly appropriated.
One hundred men stormed the jail at indie
pendence, Kas., and took Frank Bonham,
Young farmer, therefrom and hanged him to
railroad trestle Bonham was charged with
the murder of his mother brother and sister,
on the Sd of last month. The district court
granted a change of venue to Cherokee
county, which incensed the residents of the
neighborhood where Bonham lived. His guilt
was not proven, though all the appearances
were against him.
Secretary Bayard has written letter to
Alfred A. Marcus. of Boston, in reply to one
relating to the atrocities inflicted upon Jews
in Tangier by the Moors. Bayard says: "Con
sui Matthews has furnished the departm ent
dispatch wherein he speaks of the complaints
to which your letter refers and adds that
through his Intervention the Moorish min
lister for foreign affairs granted an audience
to a deputation of Israelites and promised
them that their people of Demnat should have
Justice done, and in the future their welfare
will be attended to,
The Oklahoma question is being further
considered by the administration. General
Weaver and Hon. Sidney Clark, representing
the settlers here are earnestly urging lmme-
date action. 1t is PROBABLE that conclusion
will be reached in very short time, as the
situation in southern Kansas is considered
critical. Information received in Washing
ton shows that the settlers are very much ex-
asperated because the cattlemen claim the
action of the government leaves them In
exclusive posses sion of Oklahoma and the In
dian territory.
CAPITAL BRIEFS.