McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-16
THE WEEKS NEWS.
GENERAL.


their agents at Paris not TO consign goods for
them via the Baltic sea in English vessels.
Many Of the young army and navy officers
who have enjoyed a life Of elegant leisure In
Washington for some years past, are being
sent to join their regiments or their ships.
Twelve hundred acres of strawberry vines in
the neighborhood of Centralia are said to be
in excellent condition and to promise good
crop unless injured by the weather hereafter
At farm house near Monmouth, ILL.,, man
in the insane asylum, killed his mother and
sister and laid their bodies side by side on the
porch.
There are abundant rumors in the eastern
press that the West Shore and NickelPlate
roads are to be placed practically under one
management, forming a through line from
New York to Chicago.
Miss Ada G. Sweet, for many years pension
agent at Chicago, declines to comply with a
request for her resignation, to take effect June
80 and will probably be removed. The widow
of Col. James A. Mulligan will no doubt be
gwen the posluon.
friend of Mrs. Garfield informs the asso-
ciated press that the rumors that she was to
be married soon were circulated by persons
who wished to annoy her. and that she still
wears mourning and has no thought of mar
rying.
In addition to seventeen vessels now being
built by Russia for the Black and Baltic seas,
number of cruisers and torpedo rams are be-
ing fitted out at Nicolaleff. In the event Of
war with England, the Emir Of Bokhara has
agreed to permit the passage of Russian
troops and supplies through his territory.
Three banks at Norfolk, Va, closed their
doors few days ago-the Exchange National
bank, the Franklin Savings bank and the
banking and broking firm of Balm Brothers.
The concerns were closely connected with one
another. The liabilities of the Exchange Ma
tional will not be less than S150,C00, although
nothing is positively known as yet.
At the opening of the Western Waterway
convention in New Orleans, Col. j. c. Dove of
Chicago, temporary chairman, spoke of the adj
vantages to be derived from the opening of the
Hennepin canal, contending that it would save
per cent on transportation, and if only per
cent was saved congress would be justified in
making an appropriation.
The annual report of General Manager
Charles E. Pugh, of the Pennsylvania railroad,
shows the annual earnings of the main line and
branches during the year were $50, LOG, SS4, ex-
penses, excluding rentals and interest on
equipments, S15.575. los, and the net earnings
SO, 500, 926 The number of passengers car
ried during the year was II, 429, no. First
class passenger travel increased per cent.
The employees at McCormick's extensive
reaper works in Chicago, numbering 600 in
all, held meeting at which they decided to
quit work, and the works are idle in cOnse
quence. The factory is the largest of its kind
in the world. Some of the employees in one of
the departments have been on strike, and an
attempt of the owners of the works to fill their
places with men at lower wages was the occa-
sion of the present enlarged strike.
Senior Becarra, minister from the United
States of Colombia to this government, has
received an official dispatch from his govern
ment, dated at Bogata, stating that tranquil
ty prevails throughout the republic except at
Panama, Sabanila and Santa Marta, which, it
says, are in the hands of rebels. The dispatch
also states that the government is also organ
izing in the state of Cauca, adjoining Panama,
an expedition of 800 troops, which will be
sent to Panama as soon as possible to suppress
the revolt in that state.
At Newport, KY, man named Mcmillan
boarded street car in which John L. Cum
mings, clerk in the First National bank of that
city, was a passenger, and saying 81 have you
now" fired three balls from a revolver into
the victims chest, causing instant death.
Mcmillan Immediately gave himself up to the
police. The story is that he killed Cummings
in revenge for the ruin of his daughter. Nc
MILAN is a clothing merchant, and is spoken
of as industrious and respectable man.
In its weekly review of the growing crops,
the Chicago Farmers Review says, in cOnnec-
tion with its numerous reports from the crop
growing districts: ''The week has been one
of intense interest in the wheat crop, first on
account of the condition of winter wheat.
The very dry weather which has prevailed over
he entire wheat belt extending to the Pacific
coast the continuance of cold, backward
weather, rumors of war and increasing for
eign complications, each one of these facts in
themselves sufficient to cause anxiety as to
future results. The prospects of to-day, with
out immediate change, point to very poor
winter wheat crop. Great damage has been
done since the snow went off, and the general
condition of winter wheat is running down
every day. We have never known since the
Review commenced it weekly report of the
growing crops a spring when the reports on
winter wheat have been so bad as to-day"
wASHINGTON.
CD. Walker, first deputy commissioner of