McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-07
BRIEFLY TOLD.

r. d. Mulane, division superintendent OF
the Cincinnati Southern railroad. was chloro-
formed while asleep in the Read house at
Chattanooga, Tenn, and robbed or nearly
$780, He awoke at daybreak greatly nauseat-
ed and could scarcely breathe. He found MS
clothes scattered about, the pockets rified, his
room door burst open, and chloroform odor
still strong in the room.
The big hotels at Saratoga will open on the
first of June.
The recent heavy stow storm in Wyoming
tnsures fine yield of grass. The loss OF cattle
by the storms of the winter is estimated at
from to per cent, taking the territory as
whole.
Asan experiment to test the truthfulness or
the stories of live frogs having been found
embedded in solid rock. Sequin, in 49, IN
closed toad in plaster covering and found
the reptile alive and in good condition on
breaking the shell ten years later.
The National Debt of France: When Napo-
leon III. fell from power the total funded
debt of France was placed at $l,525, oOo,oOo.
The heavy expenses entailed by the war with
Prussia raised it to nearly S4,00Oy0OO,O 0. the
1878. While the aggregate of the funded debt
has hardly changed since 1873 recourse mas
been had to extraordinary budgets" until
there is a floating debt of more than sS,ooo,-
MOOOO. The total public debt of France is
thus nearly s6,0OO0OO,0C0, entailing an annual
charge Of nearly S240,OO0,O0O. or nearly five
times the annual charges on the national
debt of the United States. With all this debt
France has BEEN for the past ten years, the
most prosperous nation in Europe.
1t ia reported that Count Kainoky, the Aus
tro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, has
expressed the gravest fears that war Will DC
the issue of the strained relations existing BE-
tween Great Britain and Russia. Austrian
newspapers are of the opinion that England
is certain to obtain the conclusion of an alii-
ance with Turkey in the event of war with
Russia.
Paul C. Just, the electrician who was
awarded the medals for saving life in New
York, has been sentenced to the Illinois penl-
Tertiary for one year, for stealing watch in
Chicago.
The board of health of Boston has decided
that old rags shipped from Egypt to that port
with certificate of the United States inspec-
tor of rags that the rags were disinfected by
the sulphur process cannot be landed except
for further dsinfection.
w. r. Smith, of Richmond, Va, charged with
stealing $24,50O while a clerk in the auditors
office, was found guilty and sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
Postmaster General Villas has removed the
following postoffice inspectors: John H. Liv-
ingston, of Chattanooga, Tenn; George E.
Porter, st. Louis, Mo-; E. E. Stevens, Augusta,
Me-; Charles Pield, Boston; J. j. Hanna, st.
Louis These gentlemen were requested to
resign about month ago, but failed to do so,
and hence were removed.
Richard Parker. who murdered his en-
ployer, saloon keeper, at Great Bend Kan
sas, was captured at Kansas City and returned
to Great Bend. The train was stopped about
half mile from town, where a crowd of men
took the prisoner from the officers. A rope
was tied around his neck and he was dragged
to town behind horse at full gallop. He was
then taken to the billiard hall where he had
committed the murder, and hanged to an
awning in front of the building. The body
hung for about fifteen minutes, when it was
cut down by the coroner.
Four tramps were taken from jail at Ander-
son. Indiana, by forty men armed with
switches and whipped until they bled.
The entire force of the construction depart
ment of the Brooklyn navy yard were dis
charged on account of failing appropriations.