McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-26
BRIEFLY TOLD.

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York last week were 81, 7S7, 900.
Half the business portion of the town Of
Marshall Ill, burned last week.
The wife of j. Russell Lowell. minister tc
England, died in London on the 10Th.
| The Hooking valley coal miners strike
going on since last April, has come to an end
| President Arthur does not contemplate tax
ing any part in the inauguration ceremonies
at Washington.
The citizens of saybrook. ILL.,, desperate for
want of fuel, stopped a coal train and helped
| themselves to forty tons.
Several Illinois towns are in great stress for
the want of coal In the country farmers are
said to be burning fencing and corn.
A special from Dallas, Wyoming, reports
that twenty. fve-b barrel flowing oil well has
been struck there at depth of eighty feet.
Francis A. Drexel, head of the Drexel bank.
ing houses of Philadelphia, New York and
Paris, died suddenly in Philadelphia on the
18th.
Elizabeth Bony, aged 90. living alone near
Fallsmouth, KY, barred her door and win.
dows, fred the building and persisted in the
flames.
The insolvent exchange bank of Belleville,
o., owes more than $4,000. with assets of less
than $4,000. The missing cashier has re-
turned.
The governor Of Sonora has given the Nor
mons the right to settle in the Yaqui country
This is represented as one of the richest sec.
tons of the world.
Tvro atock froiDa Moor C0namonCI, pa
came into collision, by which two Chicago
drovers were killed and a tramp stealing a
ride seriously injured.
Eight cases of dynamite have been stolen
from the magazine of the American dynamite
company. Westchester county. Every effort
is being made to locate it.
The various branches the Irish National
League of New York and Brooklyn decided
to establish a fund for the payment of salaries
to Irish members Of the British parliament.
Russell Sage, the noted dealer in puts and
calls, was arraigned in the police court in
New York by a customer, who charged lar
ceny in connection with a stock transaction
Thomas Morris, negro aged %. was taken
from the calaboose at Shullenburg. Texas, by
masked mob and hanged to a tree. 1t is al :
legged that he ravished white girl of thir.
teen.
A Washington special says the latest slate
announced puts down Colonel Villas. of Wis
consin, as head of the interior department
and DR.. Miller, of Omaha, as postmaster gen.
eral.
Mr.. Armstrong, of the Crow agency in Mon
tana, has secured from the secretary of the
interior an order for the imprisonment of
three Indian chiefs who are turbulent char
acters.
The Illinois G. A. R. unanimously adopted
a resolution requesting the Illinois repre-
sentatives in congress to urge the passage of
the Edmunds bill placing Grant on the re-
tired list.
The republican newspaper Office at Boise
City, Idaho, was looted and burned and an
attempt was made to fire the office Of the
democratic sheet, the upshot of bitter politI-
cal fight.
In the factory at Owatonna, Mimi, a young
man named Labarre was whirled about shaft
one hundred times a minute until his feet
were pounded to jelly. He survived the ac-
cident only an hour.
Near Elizabeth, Tennessee, Mrs. John Young
locked her two children in the house and went
visiting. When she returned she found the
house had been burned TO the ground and the
children cremated alive.
The managers of the leading clearing houses
in the United States report total clearances
for the week ended February II as SIG. SOS. Ill,
being total decrease over the corresponding
week one year ago of 27.6.
Representative Reagan sent to President
elect Cleveland a petition signed by about 10o
democratic members of the house, asking him
not to commit himself on the silver question
in the inaugural address.
Managers of the leading clearing houses of
the United States report the total clearances
for the week ended February 18th as s71669S,-
Ill, being a total decrease over the CORE
spending week of year ago of 27.6 per cent.
By order of the United States court at Col
umbus, Ohio, the marshal sold twelve thou
sand acres of coal lands belonging to the
Ohio Central company, for which the first
mortgage bondholders bid 100000. The Ohio
Central railroad will be knocked down April
18th.
A terrible gas explosion took place In an old
pit Of the Vale colliery at Westville, Nova
Scotia. Twenty-tw men were in the mine
at the time of the disaster, and of these thir
teen are dead. The others were all more or
less injured, but it is not thought any of them
will die.
Hon. Edward S. Pierrepont was heard by
the house committee on coinage, weights and
measures, in support of Dorsheimer's new
silver dollar bill, urging its passage was neces
sary to give stability to the currency. He de-
clared if it was not passed an extra session
would be unavoidable, and if an extra session
was not held there would be serious tinancia
before the next regular session.
Captaiu William Hargrove, of General St me
mans staif, who, on Ju y T. 1865, was precipi.
tated down an ernbankment in an ambulance
drawn by an unmanageable team, thereby re- |
ceiving Injuries resulting in disability, and
who applied for a pension, has been granted
one by the secretary of the interior. contrary |
to the decision of the pension bureau. Har-
groves injury was received while on the way
to 4th of July celebration, and the pension |
bureau decided that the officer was not on |
duty.
President-elect Cleveland received United |
States Senator Daniel W. voorhees,, of In |