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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-12
NEWS OF NEBRASKA.

ARBoR DAY TREE Observation-Disclosures is
acompete list of the trees planted and prize
awarded last Arhor day:
II: H. Shedd, Ashland: ash $500. elm
$500 maple $50. box elder $500 -. n. 20O
!. y. Seodew, lndianola: ash. ......... 4, 100
Is sawyer, Pawnee county 1900
i. Il. Shepherd, Omaha: Catalina 422O
scotch pine 500, Austrian pine and Nor
way spruce 80, arbor vitae 50 1870
D. w. selbauer, Danbury; ash 1000, wal
nut $50. ..................... 4,15O
NJ Messing, Meridian. ...........-
Robert Fisher, L ncoln: NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1900
4. For ell, Neigh: ash 1850, box elder
-, A0. 1880
W. Campion, Beaver Crossing: ash $50,
box elder loo, catalpa no.. .............. 1,27s
d. townsend, Albion. go. go. ........ 1,008
w. p. Stanclif, Friend: cottonwood 1000,
maple50, II. mulberry s. box elder 800 1000
John Putt, Qakdale: maple. ........... 1900
Q. II. Donglas, Macon: ash ...4 ,I5O
Adam w lkenshaw, Baird ................ 3,042
). p. Dwight, Dunlap Dwight p. o.: Aus
tr1an pine 900, Scotch pine 800, juniper
Io; white pine 500, red cedar 100, white
L. Parson, O'Neill: box elder $780, maple
"a, cottonwood 176. Observation-Disclosures. 600
Newton Combs, Raymond. ..... 32l
PREMIUMS.
For largest number planted on Arbor
Day-H II. >hedd. Ashland. $50. 90
Second largest number planted on Arbor
Day NJ. Messing, Meridian; largest
number hard wood trees planned Arbor
Day-H. Fl. Shedd Observation-Disclosures. $500
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-12
TIE SHOOTING OF ROSS4.
4 N,tmber of Prominent EriS',,sem Inter
vietced by G Press Reporter.

4 Number of Prominent EriSitnsen Inter
yietced by q Press Reporter.
A number of prom nent Irjshmen CT his
city, says Buffao (N. " dispatch, were in
terviewed by an associate press representa-
tive relative TO the shooting Of Rosa. James
Mooney, ex-president of the Irish national
league, said he did not agree with Rosa, whom
he styled an apostle Of ass; ssination. He did
not believe Rosa was in anyway connected
with the recent explosion in England, neither
did he think any enc in this country had
hand in this affair. Rosa had no following
of any account in this country. Rosa
may have good reasons for his bitter
hatred of England, but the Irish leaders
had no sympathy with his wild and i'm
practicable schemes. ooney believed the
outrages in England were planned in that
country by persons in the employ OF COM
munists or a similar organ ZatiOn, and los-i-
bly, by the Iiish cOnStabulary, who want the
crimes ac renewed Father CrOnin. editor OF
the Catholic Union and Times, said he cCnSid
cred that Rosa had suffered intensely at the
hands of England AMI was to q certain ex
tent unaccountable for his acts and words.
The WRONGS had affected his mind. He did
not think Ro Ssa res DOnS bic for the outrages
in London or that the dynamlters were Irish
men. They were, to his mind, the result of
British tyranny.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-12
CRIMINAL.

| Frank Binham, the oldest son of q widow
| living on farm near the village of Radical
| Kansas, returned home after a three days alb
;euce, and found his mother, brother and
sister murdered. The trio had apparently
been dead at least forty-eight hours. No clue
| % the murderers.
At Portsmouth, Va, John l.. Jack shot Car
:er B. Page in the face, the ball lodging in
he neck and inflicting serious and possibly
mortll wound. Jack thought himself
'lighted by Page in the matter of social cour-
esy and challenged him. Page went to arm
| himself. and on his return found Jack wait
ng at the door of a re staurant, where quar-
eel began. Page gave the word fire. and
line shots followed in quick succession.
warrant was issued at Chicago for the
trrest of E. A. Barnes, principal of one of the
public schools, for his alleged maltreatment
12-year-old boy named King. The boy is
covered with bruises and cuts caused by whip
ping with a large horsewhip. The principal
alleges that the boy refused to perform some
iuty and refused to take off his overcoat, for
which causes he punishment was more severe
han otherwise.
A terrible tragedy is recorded as having oc-
cured On Shaw's island, in San Juan county,
oregon. James Barker had gone on hunt
after lapse of ten days he did not return,
md John Kelly, sheriff of San Juan county,
organized a search party. They arrived ct
he cabin of Hugh Parks, an eccentric indi,
yidual. He refused them entrance and the
sheriff swore out a warrant for his arrest.
The men hid near the cabin to watch. After
some time Parks emerged, dragging the body
l. Al--A
Ibis Parks secured himself in the cabin, which
The men continued to watch for three days.
No sign of life within being made, one of the
men stepped to the door and was Immediately
shot by the crazy man. The rest of the party
hen saturated a bale of hay with coal oil,
rolled it to the door and fired ii, burning the
cabin and its occupant, whose charred re-
mains were afterwards found in the ruins.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-12
BRIEFLY.TOLD.

James K. Jones has been elected Q. S. Sen
ator from Arkansas.
Vice President-elect Hendricks has gone on
visit to the New Orleans exposition.
Lizzie Kaufman, while dancing at a ball in
Cincinnati, sank to the floor and died in a few
minutes.
General F. C. Barlow, of New York, is being
urged for secretary of war, and has the in
dorsement of Samuel ]. Tilden.
The public debt of the Dominion of Canada
is in excess of 100000, an increase of $780,
600 in the past six months.
Justus Schwab, the New York communist
was held $500 for aSsaulting police cap
tain and distributing bloodthirsty circulars.
s. S. Merrill, general manager of the St.
Paul road suffered a third stroke of paralysis
at Milwaukee, and is in critical condition.
President Taylor and several other leading
Mormons have returned to Salt Lake from an
inspection of the church colonies in Arizona
and New Mexico.
Leading clearing houses of the United
States report the total gross clearances for
the week ended January 81 were S62l, 912s, 1856,
a decrease of 49, per cent.
The clerk of the Merchants bank of Belle
vile, Ont, who decamped some time since
with $4,000, was arrested at Baltimore, under
the name of Yarwood, and taken to Canada
An Improvement in the iron trade is visible
at Philadelphia. Nails will soon be advanced
to $3.50, no account of the exhaustion of
stocks. Steel rails in large quantities are held
at S21.
In an address to the American public, Chief
Engineer Melville expresses the belief that g
successful voyage to the north pole can be
made by way of Franz Josef land, and that
the time is ripe for the attempt.
Mrs. Laura De Force Gordon, of California,
was admitted to the bar in the United States
supreme court at Washington. She is the
second woman allowed to practice before this
court, Belva Lockwood being the first.
Herman Kranisch became i'll at Portage,
Wis, upon which fellow boarder admins
tered fifteen drops of aconite. causing Kran-
isch's death. The boarder then hanged him
self, but was cutdown and resuscitated.
The schedule of John ]. Cisco s. Son shows
the debts and abilies are $685., 600; nominal
assets 1920. 900; actual assets, S2,467, 900.
The actual value of assets will be largely in
creased by a realization of the true value of
securities.
The State Miners union has issued an ad-
dress for a reduction of ten per cent. all over
Ohio in coal mining. This practically ends
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-12
The Fitz John Porter Case.

In response to a house resolution offered by
Representative Slocum, the president has
transmitted to congress the recent appeal Of
Fitz John Porter to him in his own behalf.
The documents consists of letter Of Cen
eral Porter to the president asking the latter
to nom mate him to the senate LOT restoration
to the army, or if the president believes that
course not within his power thai by special
message the president refer the case to con-
gress witt the digestion that the acton of
the advisory board be carried out With his
letter Porter transmits a joint opinion by
John c. Bullet. Joseph H. Choate and Arson
Malthy, holding that congress has the consti-
utionai right TO restore Porter TO the army.
his opinion is in controversion of Attorney
General Brew ster's opinion. on which the
esident vetoed the bill passed by the last
ctngrtss for Porter's relief.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-12
FOREIGN NOTES.

Advices from KortI state number of spies
nave been despatched to Khartoum to ascer-
lain the fate of General Gordon.
There is considerable speculation as to
whether Arab Pasha did not have hand in
bringing about the fall OF Khartoum.
The news from khartoum created an i'm
nense sensation in Paris. Lord Lyons, British
ambassador, had an interview with the prime
minister during the day.
An official note from Turkey declares Eng
and denied the agreement with Italy as to
he occupation of Egyptian ports, and that
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-12
LTNCHING By UHOLESILE.
Three IotrG Murderers SuD,maTirY Deal
With Or Determined Cifi=eus

Three Io,rG Mtrderers StD,mariry Dealt
With by Determined Citizens.
An --udubon Uowa dispatch, of the 9Th,
says: Last night, about half past . about
one hundred masked men attacked the Jail
here, picked out and smashed hole through
the outer wall, and with chisels and crow bats
cut through into the cells and took out J
wilson, John A. Smythe and Cicero Jefferson
the parties accused of the murder OF Hiram
Jefferson last April. Wilson and SInythe. ac-
cOrding to the evidence of the otter prison
ers in the Jail, made a terrible resistance and
W re shot in their cells. ] llerson made no
resistance, and was hung in the band stand in
the center of the public square. The coro-
Ders verdict is that Wilson and Smytae came
10 their deaths by pistol Shots fired by IN
known parties, and that Jefferson came to
his death by hanging. Cicero Jefferson told
(. c. Leek, the prisoner who occupied the
oil with him, that the comics ion he had
hitherto made, but had since retrdcied. IVES
rue. There is no clue TO y HON the parties in
the mob were The work of the mob was
carefully and quietly done and when done
they as quietly dispersed.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-12

u III 10 f"~ mate vtuiiiS tn hat IL vi
y siloh and HIS part therein. Which wal show
thrt what General Grant says about linn Me.
CoOk} in tho ,uatIer ~ BU-OiuteiY " ithOut
foundai ION ~ fno Ne snV4 de- eral tr1tnt
has persisteDty pursued him for TWEEN y-twe
years, ard tpat Tue attack OF The ieicis at
PIttsbuIg Landing was IL co,uplec surprise ~
General GRAFT McCook differ, from General
Grant on Il number oil. other important points,
and sIys lhiS IA the first tim he has ever
broken The silence on tie subject.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-12
4ffer General Grant.

General A. Med. McCook, now in command
at Fort Douglas, Utah, was interviewed in
reference to General Grants structures upon
him in magazine article on the battle of
Shiloh. McCOok says that in a few days he
will, through the proper channels. call atten-
New-York tribune., 1885-01-08
PERSONAL.

trio Of fashionable sponing men tried to raise the
wind In Pittsburg the other day by capturing Miss
Ellen Terrys pet dog and holding him for ransom but
the srends gotan inng OF the scheme ana haa
the quadruped watched by detectives whenever went
on the street
Nine Kate Rola. reported last week as having made
suecessfu debut "a Lucia. In Milan, is Mrs Kate Wheat
Rammssburg, OF Wheeling W. Va
Mn Joshua Montgomery Sears rays tho largest indi-
vidual tax In Boston.
The late Christopher Beckett Is said to have expended
considerably more than 81 100000 the collection Of
paintngs prints cabinets and articles of" bgotry and
virtue which will come under the hammer next June
At the recent Hamilton sale lie spent more than
100000.
Mr.. Adirondack W. II. II. Murray says he ia only
running his aesthetic sporting restaurant in Montreal
for recreation and rest and Will presently return to the
lecture platform.
From Stockholm comes word of the death Of Johann
Joln Forty years ago he the most promising poet
in sweden but he found that writing comedies ana 9
noyeletes paid better than poetry. and 50 changed his
course into less elevated but more lucrative channel
Mr. Augustus Harris the successful manager OF Drury
Lane Theatre London got before the public rt through
sheer importantly. Ee went to Mr.. Edgar Bruce VINO
wns running slms's "Crutch and Toothpick at the
Royalty Theatre and asked him II MS company maa was
ageri" $40" a stage manaserl NO. " Don't you
want anybody to do anythinsP Bruce engaged hin '
last, to get nd OF him."
NJ Boleslas Markevitch, announced TO have died
recently ut St Petersburg sixty years, was prob
ably since the death OF his close friend Tursenen the
most popular OF Russian n0velists lie gaineo PD0hi-
nenee irst as a reviewer OF Turgenens works.
Felix Duryos whose death is reported was long Louis
PhilIppes chief cook He amassed fortune or @oOo0o'
and has eft TO his nephews on condition that the
inscription on his consist OF one of his famous
cookery recipes engraved brass tablet they do
not do wished IN this respect the money Is 70 90 TO
nubc charities But IN France. they have an Epitaph
Tommssion" which will allow the recipe to be put
honr IL surey the recipe would to in better taste than
the average epitaph OF fusome iiattery.
JACKSON, Miss Jan. Judge James NJ Arnold OF
Columbus has been appointed by the Governor Asso'
cate Justice of the Supreme Court
New-York tribune., 1885-01-08
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

An Illinois railroad company recently soh some mnu
20 farmer reseryng the right to remove such amounts
Of gravel as it might need. When the company attempted
IN emove the gravel the farmer served notice on II tat
Il mist remove the gravel and nothing else'-ho
sopd soil dust or ducayed vcgctaon; for gravel only
was written I'm the bond. The company brought the
case before the Supreme Court OF the saewhieh decided
that In rho right TO remove gravel implied the right
IN remoye what necessarily went with It. Ihe supreme
court evidently has little respect for the precedent FUR
pshed by Portals celebrated decision in the shyiock
case.
tn one used to thinking of Boston as provincial city,
the stores are great surprise, aud one sees STOCKS oi
oss worthy any city In the world. do not know or
ANY store where better selection oI ueeoihteu
,aare vases etc. OF royal Worcester and otner cee-
brated marks can be than at tho store OF Messrs
Jones' McDufee 4 stratton one exeeenI isuro a,'us ~
should be adopted by some OF our Newl ork houses =,
n show such goods In gaslignted rooms on tables with
handsome white damask cloths. the dishes vases etc,
being ARRANGED as for dinner ana tinted Win INC eo"
liglt OF shaded lamps. 1.-The Decorator.
Some roal old Bostonans feel quite unhappy since the
street car fares OF that city have been reduced TO hVe
cents They fear that Boston Is now no better tnan
vulgar New-York.
Animal examinations at Yale3 having been abolished,
the boys evidently concluded they were ss soft thing
nt Alas for human hopes they found the term exna ma
tons at Christmas much norT een men came to utter
grief six juniors, three sophomores au aaldsr snd
iapt dar oe the lnst university nine. ana one oi tv
freshmen 10 bite the dust rusher on tno aa
team. There Is among tho elis.a H, A' ~
Princeton are avenged. -lBunalo Courier
IN, nj, ,hartv Bell is a bonanza for the PhiladelIha
CIV Connei K number of the municipai states'he"
Mil travel on it, New Orleans ficayuhc
The eolosed people Of Philadelphia nave petonasea
ground ON which TO erect an ihuusN'"' '0"o' ~ ''oN
children at a cost of 100000
mi, ,,,,dp. prophetic Inspiration comes by jerks.
NJ. ~, III. chefs that intended 10 march ae anst tue
udr ai Dongola aud they replied tnat they would turn
e"t 6e woud march In front as TO charm on tht
Ini,ats of the enemy Whereup0n the Mahd had q
rean that the Mudir was saint and II useless to
New-York tribune., 1885-01-08
DANGERS OF OVERPREsSURE

Commissioner DevOe has not been silenced
by Commissioner Woods caustic criticisms.
His rejoinder published on another page Is even
more aggressive than his first contribution on
the subject of Overpressure in thepublc schools.
At the outset he calls in question the correct
ness of Commissioner Woods summary of the
replies made by principals to the question
whether any permissible studies could be added
in their departments without dctriment to the
health of either pupils or teachers. Commits
sioner Wood had represented that Of 1O8 prin-
cipals only thirty nine were In favor of main
tanning the present easy course, whereas sixty
nine were in favor of adding to It one or two of
the following studies geometry, algebra, pcr.
spectivc drawing, bookkeeping and astronomy.
Commissioner DevOe, having examined the
letters from the principals, insists that only
twenty mine of them are in favor of enlarging
| the present course. Forty principals are thus
claimed by both sides. This curious divergence
in summaries of the correspondence implies
either characteristic methods of reading or AM
biguous forms of expression. Either the prin-
cipals have answered plain question with
shocking carelessnesS or else the Commissioners
are very persistent in reading the letters by the
light of their own prejudices. The Board of
Education would do well to appoint commit
tee of experts on teachers handwriting to tabu-
late the correspondence and to canvass the re-
turns officially.
Commissioner Woods contemptuous denials
of the evils of overpressure in the higher grades
of the public schools do not convince Commis-
sioner Devoe nor do they satisfy us. If it be
true thata girl cannot hope to enter the Normal
College, who falls at graduation from the public
schools much below 90 per cent, the charge of
undue strain and pressure cannot be success
fully met. Common sense and physiology alike
New-York tribune., 1885-01-08
H0W NOT 10 DO IT

tits TO be another Do-NOthing session. The
public Is used to such result, when the
Democrats control either house, but some
people have fondly hoped that freedom from
anxiety about the Presidency might enable the
Democrats to do something for once. The
House, however, after wasting most OF the
session thus far in discussion on the Interstate
Commerce bill, refused on Monday to consider
the bankruptcy bill, defeated the bill to reduce
taxes. refused to concur with the Senate in u
measure for the benefit of the Union soldiers
and their widows, and contriyed to get through
the day without doing anything. 1t is
mentioned, also, that opposition to the cduca-
tional bill is growing, Mr.. Cleveland having
used his influence for Its defeat. On the rare
occasions when there is a possibility that IA
Democratic House might do a good thing, there
is always some potent Democratic statesman
10 interpose his influence on the side of doing
nothing.
Mr. Hscock's bill was grossly misrepresented.
It's opponents urged that it would confiscate 7"
$SO,OO0,00 worth OF whiskey already pro-
duced, though in fact ii would in no way affect
the tax on any whiskey except the small part
that is used in the arts 1t was urged that the
bill would cut down the revenue $50. 100000.
But the revenue from tobacco last year was
only $2G,Q62, 400, and from fruit spirits
81, ,023, ,351 and the quantity of distilled spirits
used in manufactures, though not exactly
known, is certainly much less than one-third Of
the whole consumption. Last year the revenue
from distilled spirits other than fruit was
$40, ,000, 900, and full third of this revenue
must be surrendered in order to make up a
reduction of $50,000,000 under SIR. IIiscock's g
bill. The measure would have given important
aid to many branches of manufacture, and
reduced tho taxes of the people. But the
Democrats who clamorcd for reduction of taxes
and relief to industries. during the recent
campaign, refuse to reduce taxes or to relieve
industries when they have an opportunity.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-08

demand that pupils Of that age should not be
subjected to continuous OverwOrk and nervous
excitement. Commissioner Devoe may be In
clined to exaggerate the danger, but he Is right
in asserting that the highest medical and educa-
tional authorities in England and on the Con.
tinent are emphatic and persistent In their
warnings against physical harm and nervous
ailments caused by overpressure in the public
schools. The highest grades in the city schools
ought to be critically watched, not only by the
School Commissioners, but also by medical ex-
perts. This is the point where the strain Is
greatest. If it be detrimental to health, meas
ures of relief ought to be spec Oily adopted.
This controversy between these public
spirited but acrimonious Commissioners ought
not to be barren OF result. Neither will prob
ably succeed in convincing the other on the
main question of Overpressure. There is one
point, however, on which they agree, namely,
the expedency of fixing the age for admission
to the primary department at six in place OF
five years. We ask them to cooperate in Sc
curing the legislation needed for accomplishing
this result. 1t would reduce the attendance In
the public schools, afford more time for adj
vanced studies in the highest grades and event.
ualty lower the percentages required for ad-
mission to the Normal School.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-08
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FopFIGN-Nine hundred lives lost in GRANADA 10y
tbe earthquakes - Arrival of Lord Charles
Bsresford's naval brigade at korti. - MT
VCopner was nominated for Parliament from Tip
ncrarv. g William Henry Gladstone, NJ. p, re-
nl;ed IN n toast to his fathers health. g. The
Redemptorist Fathers arrived at st. Johns, from
Bay Roberts.
CoNGREss.-The Senate discussed Mr.. Culloms
Interstate Commerce bill. - In the House Mr.
Phelps defended himself against Mr. Reagan IN
discussing Mr.. Reagan's Interstate Commerce ollli
Mr.. Buckners bill to suspend the issue OF standard
silver dollars was tabled.
DoMrsrIc-The reports of the Superintendent OF
Public Works and the Adjutant-Gencral of the
State have been submit ted TO the Legislature.
= The charter election took place at Oswego'
- Several thousand GOLFERS have been thrown
mt Of work i'm Pennsylvania. - The investiga-
tsou of tho conduct of United States Deputy Mar
shsls at the election was continued IN Cincinnati
-The National Divorce Reform League elected
osscers at Boston. - The people of Philadelphia
ara opposed to having elevated railway.
CRY AND SUBuRBAN-A question as to whether
Father Fitzpatrick died from typhus fever -
on.ral Grant declined aid from his friends. -
The Rev. DR.. Schenck buried Henry Guy
Carleton married. - Ernest l.. Major received
tbe HaIlearten and Harper Art Scholarship 60
Recommendations by the Tenement House COM
uission.- Gold value of the legal-tender silver
dollar (412l2 grains), S4.O4 cents. - STOCKS
opened steady and after some feverish advances
made sharp declines and closed weak.
THE WEATHER.-TRIBUNE local observations in
6ieate cooler clear weather Temperature yester-
dsy: Highest, $50; lowest, $50; average 45'.