McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-05-28
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| -NO" YIN liOuu w u pcTlecL Lui
arrangements for'his contemplated jump from
| East river bridge into East river, hundred
| and forty feet. He stated that he proposed I,
| jump. Notwithstanding the bridge officials de
| clared they would prevent it, He was con
| fident the feat could be performed. He hat
arranged with friends in boat below to sig
| nal when the river was clear, and Captain
| Boyton in the water, attired in bis nautica
dress, to render assistance if necessary. A
few minutes after 6 o'clock the probes
sor jumped, and after striking the water
disappeared for few seconds Capt
Rowe, of of the tug boat, succeeded In
reaching the body and took it to Pier II.
where it was taken charge of by friends The
act was witnessed by hundreds who thought II
case OF suicide. Captain Rowe states thai
Odlum was alive when taken from the water,
but died before reaching the pier.
The scaffolding used for the first
time on the new postofice building, Balti-
more, gave way and seven worlmen on it at
the time were precipitated to the ground, a
distance OF seventy feet. John ogers, a
bricklayer, was killed outright, and others Sc
riously if not fatally injured.
The Cincinnati Price Current saws:
Western packers handled an aggregate of
1910 600 hogs since March lst, against l, no.
90 year ago, an increase of 200, 900 for the
first one third of the summer packing season.
The number packed at the principal points in
the West to date since March LIST is as fol-
lows; Chicago, 10000; Kansas CITY, 206, 1893;
st. Louis $4,000; Cincinnati, 10000; Indiana
polls, p, 800; Milwaukee, sc, 500; Cedar Rap
ids, 81, 104; Cleveland, 5000.
The formal opening of the Confed-
crate Soldiers Home near Richmond, Va,
took place on the 20tn, r. E. Lee Camp Con-
federate Veterans, with Aaron Wilkes Post
G. A. r, of Trenton, New Jersey, and the city
military, marched to the Home, where after
prayer by Rev. j. William Jones, Col. Archer
Anderson turned the Home over to General
Fitzhugh Lee, who accepted it in behalf of
the board of managers A large number of
distinguished and invited guests, including
many ladies, were present. From the Home
the veterans and military proceeded to Holly
wood Cemetery and participated in the an
uCSOidtlOh VI VI IHC SOuICu-
crates.
John Burns and Thomas DCran,
mechanics emp!oyedin the meter room of the
st. Louis Gas company, were killed by the ex
plosion of a meter. Thomas Killan, also en-
ployed there, escaped. The same meter ex
ploded twelve years ago, killing one man.
Henry Meyer, of the firm of Meyer
" Ribstock, Cincinnati suicided by hanging
at his residence in Clifton, Ohio. Poor health
was the cause.
A special from Bridgeport, H., says:
The seventeen year old locusts which Prof.
Riley predicted, as mentioned in recent Wash
ington dispatches seem to have made their
first appearance. They have been found in
large numbers close to the surface of the
ground andmOving upwards. The indications
are strong that an unusually large swarm will
appear in short time. Very extensive apple
spring, and a large eruption of locusts will al
most certainly kill them.
Dispatches from the San Joaquin
say that the Hessian fly has greatly damaged
IAC "ACdG NlOt anu ildO W mere JWcHGI DuSu-
elsper acre were expe :teI, not more than sew
en- will be realized.
Charles Hayes committed suicide at
Newton by taking strychnine. He was under
the influence of liquor at the time, and this is
said to have been the cause of his rash act
He was married man about 35 years of age,
and came few months ago from Joliet, Ill.
VIM. Cooper Thompson the newly
appointed End. Dist. collector, came to Wapello
county from Ohio in 1913, and followed farm
ing and teaching. In 1913 lie became one of
the proprietors in the OttUmwa Business Col
lege; was elected county clerk in 1873; was
twice reelected, but defeated last fall while
running for the fourth time. He has been
lifelong democrat, very shrewd, sharp and
'uccessful politician and leader.
A party of Iailr oaders at Gloster,
Miss, took VIII Sims, Il negro laborer, from
the calaboose and hung him to stringer OF
the railroad bridge. He had murde red
negro woman.
Henry Amer, city marshal at Straits
vile, Ohio, was shot and mortally wounded
BY Albert Guess. The marshal was trying to
arrest him when Guess fired a shall shot in
his back. He will die. Guess fled and a pos
sc OF men are in pursuit of him.
James King, q rich farmer fifty
years old, living near Fulton. n. Y, cut his
throat, diving soon after the act. He was sup
posed to be insane. His wife, who was par
italy paralyzed, is unconscious from the
shock and it is feared she viii not survive.
In Pittsburg Francis Bobbett, a
Young Bohemian, shot AMI accidentally killed
8 little girl named Lippich, four years old,
and then fired bullet into his brain and fell
cad. 1t is supp osed the first shooting was
accidental, and icing filed with remorse he
killed himself. There were no Witnesses to the
tragedy.
A plot was discovered to blow open
the doors of the parish prison in New Or
leans and release prisoners. A gang OF ten |
prisoners secured several pounds Of powder,
filed the locks of the cell and the entrance
doors, intending to explode the charges at a |
ignal, assassinate the keepers and escape. |
One of the gang weakened, however and in
formed the Sheriff. They were at once sep |
arated and put in the strongest cells in the |
prison.
Rev. J. L. Pearson, pastor of tho
First Presbyterian church OF Collinsville, ILL.,. |