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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-05
ADAsr4sDLY OUTRAGE.
Perpetrased by the Dvsamiters I'm Gse Oily Of
London.

Perpefrated by the Dyrsansiters tn the Otsy Of
London.
In London the 9th, an alarming explosion
took place. The house Of parliament and gov
eminent offices were severely shaken and con-
siderable damage done. There were two e1-
blossoms instead OF one, as at first supposed, at
the parliament house. The second came about
three minutes after the first. One was near the
house Of commons, the other at Westminster
hall. Fourteen persons were injured. The
outrage was the most successful yet made up
on apy of the public buildings since the inau-
guratlon of the dynamite warfare.
The force of the explosion was so great that
man 800 yards distant was thrown to the
earth. The lobby Of the house of common is
completely demolished. A clue TO the per-
petrators is thought TO have been found. Just
before the explosion occurred a man and .
woman carrying handbag engaged cab
outside the parliament yard and drove rapidly
away, giving no direction rs to their destina-
ton. They had not gone far when the ex-
plosion happened. The cabman hearing this
stopped the cab, and the man aud woman at
once leaped out and FASTENED quickly from
the spot. The cabman went in pursuit OF the
runaways, who were soon oyertaken and
arrested by the police.
The attack was made on that portion OF the.
kuOW0 rs Iuc w
was fairly filed with visitors, and most or
those hurt were moving about the tower at
the time of the explosion. The White Tower
was almost completely wrecked by the force OF
the explosion. All the persons known to have
been injured were visitors.
The Pail Mall Gazette summarizes It's ac-
count of the explosion in the house OF com
mons in the following language: "The whole
interior of the house Of commons presents re-
markaSle scene of devastation. Although
there is great litter, everything may be put
right in a weeks time. Nothing Is more sur
prising about the whole dastardly outrage than
It's utter failure to effect any substantial In
jury"
News of the introduction In the American
congress of the bill by Senator Edmunds to
prevent and punish dynamite conspiracies In
the United States has had the effect In London
of turning aside the bitterness of feeling
against America which has been engendered
by the explosions.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-05
principally made at bar rooms. Som,

principally made at bar rooms. Some
few society men have a nodding ac-
quaintance with him. found people
wondering that Euo stopped at Que
bee. Society is exclusive, and the old
noblesse have long memories. When
Emo gives ''dinner parties" they are
only attended by his legal advisers or
spectators who may wish to use him.
The commercial club he belongs to is
small place where men of business
meet. 1t has no social significance and
does not pretend to it. These men
meet Emo in business way. They do
not ask him to their homes. Some of
them may drink with him at the st.
Louis hotel when they meet him there,
that is all. He visits the houses of two
OIL three personal friends, but these
stories about his being received into
society are, was assured, exageera-
tions. He paid many visits on New
Years day. Most of them were not
returned. He attends cooking mains
and billiard tournaments. and he is a
constant visitor to St. Roch. This is
the toughest suburb of the city. Mrs.
Emo is admired, but society people
will not receive her. This is owing to
her husbands Irregularities.
1t is rumored that he intends to
build a large hotel on the island of Or
leans, few miles down the river from
Quebec. 1t is summer resort and
much frequented by the people of the
ancient capital during July and Au-
gust. 1t is said he is to have part
ner in his legal adviser. The place
proposed for the new hotel is delight
full. The falls of Montmorenci and the
great Laurentian range of mountains,
said to be the oldest IN the world, will
be in view on one side. On the other
there will be old Stadacona, with it's
Indian and pioneer traditions. People
say that John G. Emo has shown good
taste in selecting such spot for his
proposed speculation, but found pub
lie opiaion in Quebec unfavorable to
Emo.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-05

Chicago, review: The wheat market on
change is heavy, chiefly because of the radi-
cal falling off in the export demand for both
wheat and flour, and private advices to the eff
feet that other countries are now freely un-
derselling Americans in the British markets
though they were unable to compete on the
low basis month ago.
Corn is steady, being supported by the heavy
shipping movement. The price paid by ship
pers has been so nearly up 10 that for May as
TO discourage the country alike from cribbing
and selling for that month, and most of the
selling is done by local spectators. The
early period at which the drain on the new
crop began, and the fact that the extreme cold
weather has enormously increased the con-
sumption both tor feed and fuel, has made
many strong men bullish.
After a rather unsatisfactory start the
cattle market has ruled strong with an ad-
vancing tendency, especially for good, even,
well finished groves.
Provisions prove much stronger than grain,
and many think have alone prevented big
break in the cereals. The chief factors are
smaller receipts of hogs than were looked for
and much more active shipping movement
of product than usual.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-05
A Nef0rio,ss business.

The newspapers of San Francisco have en-
tered on crusade against the iniquitous
practice just discovered of white mothers
giving and selling their illegitimate babies to
the Chinese. Inquiry shows that systematic
traffic in them has been going on for a long
time, mainly through the agency of private
lying-in in the hospitals. Four cases or white
babies in the possession of female proprie-
tors of Chinese brothels have been ALREADY
discovered, and there are good grounds for
believing there are hundreds of others, but
the Chinese. fearing discovery, have hid them.
1t Is asserted ON excellent authority that these
female Oh ldren are purchased by Chinese
spectators and sent to China, where they
are raised till they are Il years old, when they
are sold for large sums to rich Cinnamon,
who place them Ill their harems.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-05
Great Salt Lake as it Was and is to be.

At its highest stage, Great Salt Lake
covered about $4,000 square miles of
surface. The water is generally sup
posed to have disappeared by evapora-
ton, or, in plain terms, an approx
mate evaporation occurred of about
ITO cubic miles of water. If the lake
lowered at the average F and turned
down F. Now you see that the rate of
one hundreth part of ad inch per year
(and that supposes an evaporation of
100000 cubic feet annually then it
was at its greatest height 1000, 600
years ago. If the evaporation con-
tinues in the future as it has in the past,
in 1,500 years there will be nothing but
thin sheet of water during each
spring where Great Salt Lake now is,
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-05
American Skies,

Americans have long been, in lit
erary way, the vicarious victims, to a
certain extent, of the climate of the
British Isles. The low tones of the at
mosphere of those islands. the shifting
wells of fog and rain rising and falling
over them, the soft gray light filtered
have caused the blue skies and
endless sunshine of Italy to seem di-
vinely fair to visitors from English
shores. And as among these visitors
have come the poets and the romance
writer's, this fairness, embalmed in
prose and verse, has taken it's place
in literature, has become classic. The
imaginative New World student, eager
to learn, passionately DESTROYS to APP
preciate, has read these pages rever-
emily; he knows them by heart. And
when at last the longed-for day comes
when he too can make his pilgrimage
to these scenes of legend and romance,
so dominated is he, for the most part,
by the spell of tradition that he does
not even perceive that these long
chanted heavens are no bluer than his
own; or if by chance his eye, accurate
in spite of himself, notes such a posi-
bility, he puts it from him purposely,
preferring the blueness which is his
toric. The heavens lying over Venice
and her palaces are, must be, softer
than those which expand distantly and
impersonally over miles of prairie and
forest; the hue of the sky which bends
over Rome is, must be, of a deeper,
~.ohn inf 40 WI Inh
World has yet attained. But generally
this preference of the imaginative
American is not choice, it is an I'M
conscious faith which he has cherished
from childhood, and from which he
would hardly know how to dissent.
He is gazing at these foreign skies
through long, enchanting vista of
history, poetry, and song; he simply
does not remember his own sky at all.
Only recently has he begun to re-
member it, only recently has he begun
to discover that, in the matter of blue
at least, he has been gazing through
glasses adjusted to the scale of Eng
fish atmosphere and English COMPARE
sons, and that, Invested of these aids to
vision, he can find above his own head
and in his own country an azure as
deep as any that the Old World can
show.
Even when this has been discovered
it remains but blue sky. The other
treasure of those old lands beyond the
sea-their ruins, their art, their an
Gent history-these he has not and
can never have, and these he loves
with that deep American worship
which must seem to those old gods like
the arrival of Magi from afar, men of
distant birth, sometimes of manners
strange, but bringing costly gifts and
bowling the knee with reverence where
the dwellers in the temple itself have
grown cold.
Compared with those of the British
Isles, all the skies of the United States
are blue. In the North this blue is
clear, strong, bright; in the South,
softness mingles with the brilliancy,
and tempers it to beauty which is
not surpassed. The sky over the cot
ton lands of South Carolina is as soft
as that of Tuscany; the blue above
the silver beaches of Florida melt as
dangerously as that above Capri's en-
chanted shore.-Fr6nl Constance F'eni-
more Woolsons mew moUel, "East an
GELS" in RarTer's Magazine for Febru-
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-05

In South America shrub of the cac-
tus family has been discovered whose
flowers are visible only when the wind
blows. The plant is about three feet
in height, and on the stalk are a num-
Der of little Jumps from which the
flowers protrude when the wind blows
upon them.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-05

Senator Sharon is not alone in the role Of a
western millionaire to whom sudden wealth
has brought much trouble. The woes of hia
friends, Baldwin, Fair aud Tabor have in their
time been spresi before the public, and were
equally eptertai,i to the class which thrives
upon the litersture of scandal and tlackmail
-Chicd0o Gsss7cA
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20
THE BEST QUARANTINE.

II is a well known fact that with gen.
eral favorable condition of the atmosphere
not understood. and favorable conditions al
ways found in filth, and deeaying animal
and vegetable matter, that cholera does not
require any importation from foreign coun-
tries where it is raging TO make it prevalent
and fatal. In 1854 IFS first appearance in
the United States was in Chicago. In 1873.
while eastern cities were healthful, il dropped
down in sporadic cases at Cincinnati, The
way TO quarantine against cholera is TO re-
move all the local causes in which the d.
sease can find habitation, drink pure wa
ter, and eat wholesome food. II is an cpl
demic and not contagious disease. For
its prevalence keep constantly in remem-
brsnce that it is not dependent upon per
sonsl contact with persons infected with the
disease, but upon the emanations from the
sources mentioned. An open sink in the
kitchen, foul closet, cellar with decaying
vegetables, bad sewerage connections, are
all in the class of agents for the dread
scrouge TO find fooihold. Wise people
will take note of such facts. and by precau-
tons easily taken, and by small expense for
disinfectants, will invite health instead Of
pestilence and death into their homes.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20
BUILDING BOOM.

To give complete account of all the
building operations in this city is task we
will not undertake at this time, but we
think 200 buildings, that is residences and
business houses, are now in course Of cree
ton or will be begun By July LIST. The fine
brick business houses that are commenced
and others that will begin before the lst of
July, are however deserving of special men
ton. To begin with DIR. Furley has bought
of Mr.. J. A. Roth, for S4,250, the lot south
west corner of Douglas and Topeka avenues.
Mr.. 10th still owns the lot adjoining this on
the west, and he and DIR. Furley intend to
begin at once to build splendid brick
block in the best modern style. The block
will be 50xl00 feet and three stories high,
this with John Exton block 50xl00 feet, three
stories high, Mobiles block, SOxlOO feet, three
stories high, X. II. RAYS block 5OxIO0 feet,
two stories high, Emil Werner's block 5Ox
100 feet. two stories high and L. w. Dit
mans 25x15, two stories high is good show
ing for Douglas avenue. Then there is the
Israel and Beacon block on Market street
50x1l0 feet and two stories high, while on
Main street the Masonic temple, Z. \. Dor
sey's block and Dean and Woods block,
all fine structures are in course Of building.
Then there is the county building and the
G. A. T. block. Aldrich Il Browns three
story brick and some others that We cannot
name just now, these with half a dozen fine
bricks just finished and occupied, make a
larger number of fine business blocks than
has ever been built in this city in one year
and no telling how many more will be built
before the close Of the year.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20
THE ITALIAN MURDER

Six papers have been found since the
murder of the Italian which are identified as
being copies Of the one which he presented
when applying for aims II is now certain
that he had companions plying the same
business and they either had the papers in
keeping or took them from hi. baggage
after he was murdered. Il : more than
probable that his companions murdered
him for his money and afterwards tried to
dispose of the papers. At sny rate, the
papers were found and identified as the
same used by the murdered man. The fol-
lowing is the contents Of the paper and the
other five are copies of it, excepting in one
instead Of Sacramento For. Yale Is used:
"An;ognie Martinelli'' having been IN the
Sacramento hospital for siN months with
broken ribs, Wills; working on the railroad.
for which cause he is now incapable 10 per
form any work which become an ordinary
laborer, appeal L. your generosity. respect
fully requesting small contribution 20 en-
able him to raise money enough 10 return
home 10 Italy, where be has s. wife with four
children. entirely dependent Of HIM. Sub
scrirticn in favor Of
ANTuGSIE M.gTINEIIF
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20
FOR A pIsINTEREsTED STAND
POINT BY SHARP OBSERVER

We were in Wichita last Sunday for the
first time in a year and were surprised at its
growth which is extraordinary in the direc-
ton of solidity; phenomenal in actual de-
vclopement- Our people were never jealous
Of Wichita and it is therefore possible for Us
to speak Of it from a disinterested stand
point. From our knowledge of Kansas
towns We are prepared 10 say that there
was more trade and traffic in Wichita last
Saturday than there WAS in any town in
Kansas on the same day; there were more
people on the streets who did not reside in
Wichita than there were in Topeka, En-
poria and half dozen smaller towns; there
were more transient people at the Wichita
hotels on Sunday than there were in Atch-
inson, Topeka and Leavenworth on the same
day; and there are more houses being built
in Wichita than are being put up in the
three towns named above.
The metropolis is coming to be railway
center, distributing point and an inviting
place for manufactures. II has had its
mushroom growth and its years of despond-
ency. 1t is out of its hobbledehoyhood
Solid brick blocks are taking the place Of
the old wooden frame buildings. The pea
nut stands, the restaurants and the saloons
have disappeared, and wholesale establish
ments have appeared in their stead. And
then Wichita is city of homes. The
street railways denote business prosperity.
Its water works, gas and other city adj
iuncts, signify stability.
There are probably fourteen or fifteen
thousand people living in this wonderful
metropolis, and they look, as rule, as
though they had come 10 Straightforward
Republican
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20
THE FOURTH.

Thos. A. Bailey and William Cole are
preparing about two acres of grounds with
shades, floors, booths and everything look
ing to the comfort and convenience of those
who will share in the celebration of our
natal day in their park in the south part of
town. They are building floor forty feet
square ard music stand, the whole having
a seating capacity of 500 (this is in grove)
and an ice cream and lemonade stand lix36
feet. Lattice ice cream booths will be built
in various parts of the ground. There viii
be number Of swings, croquet sets, etc,
and thirty rcfreshment tables eight feet
long. They have sent TO New
York for some animals to make the grove
more attractive and pleasant The follow
ing is the programme, as far rs completed:
At 10 a. IN. speaking and music by the
band. String music and dancing until > p.
M. at which time there will be sack race
Of 100 yards for prize. At , p. m. roller
skating contest for prize of 50. At 4
climbing a CREASED pole for watch, the
one who gets there, whether man, woman
or bov. can have if. At . o'clock balloon
ascension. At dark a grand display of
fireworks. Dancing, croquet Playing,
awinging and all sorts of amrsements will
continue all day, and there will be an abun-
dance of refreshments on the grounds. No
charge for admission. Prepare for 4 good
time. ..The grove is situated Mt the tcrmi
nus of the south Main street railway, SO that
the street cars will take YOU to the park
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20
THE LATE STORM

As will be seen by reference TO our spe-
cial dispatch from Kingman. in this issue,
the rain storm of night before last wrought
dire destruction in kingman county, and
perhaps further west. Reports have also
reached Us Of damage TO railroads west and
south. There was a considerable wssh-out
on the Santa Fe, between Wellington and
Caldwell, which prevented the passage of
the passenger train south yesterday morn
ing. Superintendent Nickerson went down
by special train the evening previous and
was unable to return with his special
The passengers were transferred at the spot
to Mr.. Nickerson's train and taken 10 Cald-
well. The repair gangs were sent on from
along the branch, and everything will
be fixed for the passage of trains to-day.
superintendent Nickerson came up last
night 4 wash-out on the Wichita and
Western is also reported, and trains are de-
layed. The Sunlower is also washed out in
two or three places west and all trains are
delayed.
road, due here at 9:27 a. m. from the west,
did not get through at all. The bridge over
Slate Creek near Conway Springs WAS near
" washed away, and force of men had
been to work on it all day. One man fell
into the stream, and so swift was the cur
rent that he was carried down n considera-
BILE distance, and had it not been for help he
would have drowned. Late in the evening
this bridge was repaired SO as to allow the
passage OF tho train, but when the Mines
cash bridge was reached i: was found in a
tottering condition and the train was stopped,
the passengers walking over the bridge and
to Clearwater, about a mile and half. A
train was sent from here to Clearwater for
the passengers and they arrived here at IL
o'clock last night. Mr.. VIM. Cassell, of
this city, who was on the train, said that the
Ninnescah bridge shook as they walked
across and grave fears are entertained that
it will be carried away again. The water is
very high and the current is strong. \
train with all the available force that could
be gathered up here went out at Il o'clock
last night, 1t will be very serious blow to
the Fort Scott road if that bridge goes out
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20
For Sale

Or trade for city property, complete line
of jewelry suitable for travelling salesman;
this is good opportunity for anyone want
ing TO go into good paying business a;
once. Good reason for selling. Apply to
d2l-6t ". L. Cox, real estate agent.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20
DISTRICT COURT

\ petition was filed in the District Court
yesterday in which Nercamp Il Sons are
plaintiffs and Daniel NJ. c. kensay ct al
are defendants, praying for trial of the
rights of property.
\ very important cause has just been de-
termined in the District Court in which
Nancy Rogers was plaintiff and o. F.
Boyle ct al. were defendants. The action
commenced 10 foreclose mort
gage in 1873 and was moved
from Crowley TO Montgomery and TO Sedg-
wick from which it passed into the hands
of referee, who adjusted the case etiqui.a-
bly, and rendered judgment for plaintiff.
Tie court has confirmed the findings Of
the referee and the case terminated after
eight wears litigation.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20

The following are the real estate transfers
recorded in the office of the register of deed,
yesterday:
Amos Ashley TO ID w Aaron, reserve
G ii and e in Ford's add. 1000
o o Brown to J + Farnum, lots 2lg
22l Market ..........-........ $500
Kate + Farnum TO 90 Brown,
IA 1912 e.................. ............. 60O0
Martha 4 Ellis TO Homer Stephen
son, parcel Of land in n W Ii $685.
Henry Stephenson to Phoebe NJ
Stephenson, lots 9 and IL in city of
Sedgwick .--........ ..................
Henry Stephenson to Martha A Ellis,
lots >, 3, ) and I, Commercial st. 81
+ J Thompson to Julia Taylor
parcel of land in 3l-21-3 W. 1900
.jorgen Nelson to Eta + Martin us
and 40 Ninth st................-........ 175
4 \ Fancener to John T Iiessel and
Thomas HODGE. W IL IA and
e ID W IA 7-2f-4 w. -.-..-...... 1000
Ben kelsch to Chas Kenyon, acres
on Chicago ave-. .....-............ 1850
X r Lawrence TO Oscar Lawrence, lot
blk s Lawrence add ............. 4GlO
+ Lawren,e to w A Montgomery,
lot 9 reserve B.............-... -........ 500
W Y IIurd to Geo Z Tompkins, part
Of lot 3 blk 4 Lawrence add ........ go
+ Lawrence To trustees of First
Methodist Episcopal church, lots
-, "a and 30 Dodge ave..-......... 300
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20

The party who serenaded A. {. Husey
nigh; before last had bully time-sll by
themselves Mrs Hrsey left that evening
for Ieavenworth. and some musical friends
of Mr.. Husey, thinking they would find
the grass -widowe- all by himself, went to
his residence about 10 O'Clock and blazed
away at their serensde. Mr.. Husey, how
ever, had gone to the opera, and when he
got home, about l. O'Clock, he found the
crowd exhausted and awful dry, jus; sbou;
10 leave. Whether he had anything in
the house TO brace them up the deponen,
sayeth not.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20

A number Of buildings are in contempla-
ton on the west side and property owners are
anxious to have streets graded SO that the
improvements may 90 on in accordance
with All established uniform grade. Chi
cago avenue will soon be quite Il business
street
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-20

4 great many are beginning TO recognize
the necessity Of removing part Of the
dense foliage about their premises. \ num-
Der Of large co;tonwoods have been cut
down recently in many parts of the city,
especially on Central avenue. where there
are monster cottonwoods. 4 general thin
ming out Of trees begins TO become impers-