McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-05
BRIEFLY TOLD.

| The National theatre building in Washing
| ton was burned ON the 26th.
The nomination of Francis e. Warren. to b.
governor of Wyoming, has been confirmed.
The county treasurer of Chippewa county
| Wis, Fred Becker is missing, and his account,
are short about $4,000.
Ben W. Lewis, of st. Louis, a wealthy MAJ
and at times heavy Spectator in grain
has failed for 100000.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. B. Goodman, well-knowI
authoress, died at her residence in Charlton
Ohio. She was for many years the editress OF
the Christian Monitor.
Trouble is brewing with the employees of the
Wabash railroad system, on account of an or
der reducing wages, and it is likely that a
strike will be inaugurated.
The Transcontinental railway association
has decided that instead of basing business
on the rate between New York and San Fran
cisco. to make Chicago and st. Louis terminal
points.
According to the census Of 1880. there were
2,304 boilers In use in manufacturing indus
tries, and 5,403 steam vessels in the United
States. Poor also gives the number of loco
motives at $1,000.
A sanguinary engagement has taken place
In the Janja valley, Peru, between four COM
panies of government troops and 1000 Indian
Monteneros. The latter were defeated, leav-
ing 800 dead ON the field.
S. e. Germand, a travelling salesman, was
shot, at KeOkuk, Iowa, by w. X. Williams, an
influential dry goods merchant. four times.
One shot took effect in the shoulder. Williams
was jealous of Germand.
At Gainesboro, Jackson Co., Tenn, several
men visited house on Martins creek and Sc
verely dashed Mormon elder, who had been
laboring in the neighborhOod. Another elder
eluded the crowd in the darkness.
George Bancroft, the historian, native of
Worcester, Mass, has signified his desire to
present that city a fund of $4,000 to form an
aaron and Lucretia Bancroft scholarship
fund.- the income to be devoted to the liberal
education of some one scholar from Worces-
ter.
George W. Thompson, G. r. Hewitt and L.
E. Clements have been arrested at ST. Louis
and taken to Springfield on a charge of TAX
ing forty registered letters containing some
1880 from postal car on the ST. Louis and
San Francisco railroad at Pierce CITY, Mo.
Mrs. Annie Sullivan, wife of the champion
pugilist has begun suit for divorce on the
ground of cruel and abusive treatment and
gross and confirmed habits of intoxication
Mrs. Sullivan desires the custody and asks
that Sullivan's property to the extent of S2O,-
600 be attached to secure the support of her
self and child.
William Jackson Moore, of Quidelphia. wenl
ing some property he claims to have been de
frauded of by relatives. Moore, who is a man
of about 60 years, claims that for eleven years
his stepdaughter and her husband have kept
him locked up in cellar, only allowing him
to go out occasionally at night into the yard
and being left without food for days.
A brutal and most horrible murder occurred
in Dubuque, Iowa, last Sunday morning. Mrs
Rosanna Carlin, residing with her daughter
Mrs. NJ. Brady, on Pine street, was found dead
in her bed with her skull fractured. The old
lady had sold farm a few weeks ago, for
which she received $4,000, and it is thought
her daughter, Mrs. Brady, and her son Ed
ward, aged %, murdered the old lady for her
money. The coroner's jury returned verdict
charging them with the crime.
Judge Robert Logan, of Whiteside, dropped
at the head of the house stairs in Springfield,
ILL.,, as he was on his way to the chamber
The elevator was not running, and he at
tempted to walk up the long stairway. Logan
has been ailing all session with heart disease,
and could not stand excitement of any kind.
When he dropped on the house floor, opposite
The main entrance to the chamber. he was
picked up by his friends and carried into an
the doctors were called and FIVE
minutes later they pronounced him dead. |
The Chicago Journals Springfield special de- |
,lares the death of Logan, while it diminishes
the chances of republican success, by no
means makes certain the election of demo- |
,rat, as the law requires los votes to elect
The democrats have but 102 /