McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-01-15
BRIEFLY TOLD.

! The committee appointed by the South
western Railway association has recommend
ed the continuance OF the pool for two years
| The Warm Springs hotel at Warm Springs
N. c., was burned. 1t was one of the largest
hotels in the south. Nothing was saved. Loss
100000; insurance, $4,000. -.-,.--
| VIM. T. Mcbride, OF Red Cloud took dose
| Of laudanum from the effects of which he
died short time age Strong drink Is said to
be the cause of the rash act.
Among bills passed By the senate was one
| authorizing the payment OF $500 to Pearson
G. Montgomery, of Memphis, Tennessee, as
compensation for property taken from him
| and used by the United States during the late
| war.
George w. Childs, who has retn rned to Phil
adelphia, left New York satisfied that the
fund for the relief of General Grant would be
raised without the least difficulty. Money is
pouring in, not only from the originalors of
the fund. but from many unexpected sources.
Officer Feist, of Columbus. Ohio, was shot
dead at 2 o clock in the morning by one of
three unknown men who were counting a roll
Of money back Of the station. Fest inquired
the nature of the transaction and was shot
without word from any of them. ALI three
of them escaped.
Considerable excitement has been occa-
stoned at the Wisconsin state capitol by the
discovery that the ceiling of the assembly
chamber. including the dome, had sunk in the
center about eight inches, and is liable to
come down with the entire roof of the west
and of the building.
lot u Dr. u,,bc iptin layE
in the st. LOUIS Republican Off e, and well
known in Masonic and other orders, suicided
by shooting himself through the head. at his
home. He was in the army during the war
and served part of the time on General Nc
Clellan's body guard.
the city council of Keokuk, Iowa, adopted
a resolution declaring that the prohibitory
liquor law was failure. Itrecites that moral
suasion and rigid license law is. the only
remedy. The city clerk was instructed to for
ward the resolution to Governor Sherman, and
asking that special session of the legislature
be called to repeal the prohibitory law.
Thomas Phalen. said to be superintendent
of the workhouse at Kansas City, was stabbed
and probably fatally wounded in the office of
ODonovan Rosa in New York by man
bly, in relation to Irish national affairs. Pha-
len opened fire with his revolver upon his
assailant when both reached the street.
Barry was locked up in the station. Phalen
was removed to the hospital and it is expect
he will die.
Advices re eived from Camp Russell indi-
cate that the party now invading Oklahoma is
there for no other purpose than to bring on
collision with the troops. There are four hum
dred armed men-no families with them. They
declare they are there for the purpose of re-
sisting the government from entering the ter
ritory, under the guise of hunters. They have
rendezvoused at one place. There is no EVIL
dence of peaceful occupation by settlers.
Gen. Hatch is moving with his troops to re-
move them. Should loss of life occur it will
be because of armed resistance to the lawful
orders of the president in enforcing the laws
Of the nation.