McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-01-29
BRIEFLY TOLD.

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| A famine is prevailing in the governments
of Archangel and Vologda.
German colonization is making rapid pro-
gress on the west 90 ast of Africa.
Gen. Hatch has surrounded the Oklahoma
| boomers with the mention of starving them
| out.
| Clara B. Colby, Of Nebraska, made an ad-
dress before the woman suffrage association
| in Washington.
Seven barges Of coal. containing $4,000
bushels, sunk in the Ohio river near Evans
| vile, Indiana.
| bill has been introduced in the Dakota
| legislature for removal of the capital from
Bismark to Pierre
Richard worthington, Of New York made
an assignment with preferences for 100000
Liabilities, 100000.
D. W. Voorhees,. of Indiana, has been re
nominated for senator for six years from the
4th of March next.
Since the recent victory of Colonel Stewart
numerous Arabian tribes have declared ale
glance to the English.
The New York Central has teen selling first
class tickets 10 Chicago for SIS. The Erie is
selling at the same rates.
The insane asylum at Kankakee, ILL.,, burned
few days ago and seventeen of the forty
five inmates persisted in the flames.
Mrs. Mary w. A. Matthews, wife of Stanley
Metthews, associate justice of the supreme
court of the United States. died on the 21st.
At logging camp near Metropolitan. Mich,
al fron nd nd hun a1
Dudging, returning from hunting, was killed
and eaten by wolves.
Thomas Chapman, the murderer of Nicholas
Hubbard. in Humboldt, Coles county, Illinois,
last August, was hanged recently, having
pl eviousy confessed his crime.
All the democratic members of the Illinois
general assembly united in signing memo
rial to President Cleveland, asking the ap-
pointment of Springer as secretary of the
interior.
The Wheeling nail manufacturers have adj
vanced the card rate on nails to $215 less 10
per cent for car load load lots, and the usual
discount for cash. This is a virtual advance
Of 20 cents per keg.
A special to the News from Colorado says
heavy snowstorm is in progress. The
weather for week past has been very severe
on cattle, If the storms continue the loss Of
live stock will be very great
The steamer San Palo is now thirty. five days
out. She sailed from San Francisco for Yoko-
hama and Hong Kong December 10 and had
800 Chinese aboard. The Pacific Mail officials
say there is no cause for anxiety.
A committee of the St. Louis chamber of
commerce called on the local municipal as
sembly and took that body severely to task
for lack of interest in the efforts to improve
the sanitary affairs of the city.
Unan nous consent to the passage of the
bill to provide for the construction of rail-
road from Sioux City, Iowa, to some point on
the Union Pacific railroad, west of the hum
dredth meridian, was refused in the house.
A life size portrait of the late President
Carried has been purchased and will be placed
in the rooms of the house committee on ap-
propriations, of which committee he was
chairman while a member of the house.
Greenfield, of Boston, has accepted the
proposition from Pat Sheedy to fight Charley
Mitchell with bare knuckIes or kid gloves for
$1,000 a side and gate receipts at New Orleans
after the contest with Kirain in Boston Feb
ruary9.
John L. Sullivan, the Boston bruiser, has
been on a large spree since his late match in
New York was stopped by the police. He has
grounded several men and in turn has re-
ceived some pretty rough usage.
East bound freight rates from Chicago to
New York are reported to be completely de-
moralized. The withdrawal of the Pennsyl-
vania road from the pool has precpitated
cut of 10 cents per hundred on grain from Chi
cago to New York.
The treasury department has issued special
instructions to collectors of customs and its
other agents in the vicinity of the gulf coast
to be on the alert to prevent any violations of
international obligations in fitting out filibus-
tering expeditions against Cuba.
1t is said at Philadelphia that organized
movements have been begun to prevent the
Liberty Bell from being sent to New Orleans.
A number of gentlemen were added, havine
large sum of money to take lega
measures to keep the bell in Philadelphia.
The Erie railroad has defaulted on the in
terest due the holders of bonds of the road
since it leased the narrow gauge system. 1t
is uncertain when it will be paid. The ques-
ton of what shall be done is being debated,
but no satisfactory conclusion has been
reached
The public printer report says the printing
by order of the senate cost $149, 143 against
1854 464, and the house printing $276,3 1913 against
SIZE, 267 for the previous year. On possible
Introduction OF cholera to this country andits
relation to this office, the public printer says:
81 am advised imported rags are largely used
by the contractor who supplies our paper"
Through mutual suggestion there has been
established in the senate q southern advisory
board, whose business it is to confer with |
Cleveland upon all matters re-
lating to the south. The selection of this CON-
mittee is for the purpose OF simplifying mat |
tiers. 1t embraces the representative elements
of the south, and will doubtless save much |
time to the president-elect.
CRIMINAL.
Two chicken thieves at Coansville, Indiana, |