The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-30
GENERAL NEWS Ind NOTES.

GENERAL NEWS IND NOTES.
Aatters of Interest Touched Upon BY Pres'
Nescs Gatherers.
On the public road, Just east of Cranberry
Plains, Ohio, a few evenings ago, Henry Hei
ser, one of the wealthiest farmers in Northern
Ohio, was assaulted by a tramp who literally
hacked him to death with a large knife. The
murderer escaped, but is being pursued by 9
posse of citizens, VIII propose lynching him
A Fl. Rem dispatch says: Gen. Sheridan
has just had a conference with the Cheyenne
chiefs, supposed to represent the disaffected
element of whom Stone Calf was the most
prominent. They disclaim any warlike inten-
tion, but the officials are ~reticent as to what
took place. There are now sixteen companies
of soldiers under command of Gen. E
v. Sumner, and if Stone Calf was found II
be turbulent Sheridan would make short work
of him and all connected with him.
Recently the wife Of Abe Dinser, a wealthy
but eccentric farmer, living west of Bloom
ington, H., sued him for a divorce and en-
joined him from disposing of his property.
This so incensed him that he drove all his
stock, including stock worth $4,000, into the
barn, and setting fire to it burned the whole
thing to the ground. He is missing and II
believed to have purposely persisted in the
flames.
Frank Williams and Clarke Montgomery.
hands on T. j. Gray's plantation, near Butler,
Ga, ouarreled about a woman. Montgomery
spread rat poison on the meat that was ra-
toned out to be eaten by the hands. VIII
liams died from the effects and others are
leathly sick. Montgomery fled and has not
yet been captured.
In Troy, N. Y, a few nights ago, John Col
lapy and Michael Casey, young men,, quar-
relied. The former shot Casey dead. The
murderer was arrested and admitted the
shooting.
John Guaut, the Englishman who muir
dered his wife at Hoboken, N. Y, committed
suicide by hanging himself in the Hudson
county Jail.
The Governor of louisiana has ordered the
execution of Charles Davis, George and Ma
thilda Jones for the murder of Mrs. Henriette
Cole, widow of Judge James Cole, in the
town of Pluquemine, Aberville parish. The
execution will take place on Friday, July 81
A special brings particulars of a monste,
mass meeting held by the Mormons Of Paris,
Idaho, to demonstrate against the test oath
law recently passed by the Idaho legislature
This law prohibits any person from voting,
holding Office or serving as a juror, who be-
longs to an organization that teaches or prac-
tees polygamy as a religious institution. Bear
Lake county, of which Paris is the ca pital, II
peopled almost exclusively by Mormons, there
not being enough Gentiles to fill the offices.
The recent attempt to get grand and trial ju-
ries failed. and as a consequence court cannot
be held. At the mass meeting resolutions
were adopted that only one person in thirty
is a polygamist, yet the test oath, law disfran-
chises between 1.5O0 and 1000 people in Ida
no and has produced chaos. A statement OF
their grievances and a petition wiz be sent to
President Cleveland.
Two ferocious bull dogs attacked a nurse
having in her arms a child of John Harning,
of Allentown City, Pa, inflicting horrible In
juries on the woman and biting the child's
leg off above the ankle. The child will die.
Edward Gillian, who shot himself and wife
In Cleveland, Ohio, vas inferred in the pot
ters' field, not a priest consenting to conduct
the funeral services, and his daughter refus-
ing to permit a protestant minister to offici
ate. He left property worth $4,000.
A fire in Baltimore, destroyed property val
ued at $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The Kansas and Colorado cattle trouble Il
not regarded as settled, Notwithstanding the
order from the Indian and war departments.
The secretary of the interior can grant pass.
age of cattle through the public lands, buf
beyond that he has. no authority. When the
Texas herds reach the borders of Kansas and
Colorado there is apt to be trouble, as thu
landis private property, and the owners fear.
ng that some of the cattle are diseased VIE
likely refuse them entrance. 1t is asserted
that Lamar cannot compel them to do other.
wise, nor can the troops be used to force I
passage.