McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-12
BRIEFLY TOLD.

BR1EE4x XOAOs
DR.. Chosen was hanged at Philadelphia OF
the 9Th for murder.
President Cleveland has appointed Genera
John C. Black, of Danville, Ill, commissions
of pensions.
Fire losses throughout the country foot uE
o $4,000, 0O0-50 per cent more han the aver
age loss in February during ten years past.
Edwin Booth has firmly resolved on leaving
the stage. He will play series of farewell
engagements in the larger cities OF the coun
try.
By an accident on the Illinois Central rail
road, near Grenada, Miss, two engines were
[ totally wrecked and two firemen instantly
killed.
Many Americans in the City of Mexico par.
ticipated in an excursion to the crater OF
Mount Popocatapelt, to celebrate the inau-
guration of Cleveland.
The Irish-American club of Chicago win
hold its st. Patrick banquet at the Palmer
house, and has invited Gov. Oglesby, Gen.
Schofield and Bishop Feehan.
The Methodist Episcopal church at Fro
mont. Ohio, of which ex-President Hayes is a
member, was dedicated recently, and Mr..
Hayes gave $4,000 toward lifting the debt.
Rumors are af1oat in London that the re
l cent calling out of the reserves means that
high officials regard The prospects of war
| with Russia as something more than mere
possibility.
A million dollars has been sent by the Ital-
ian government to Massowah for the pur-
! chase of camels. 7 his is thought to indicate
that Italy proposes take steps for the relief
of Kassala.
The legislature Of British Columbia has
| passed bill, to take effect within two weeks,
| imposing upon Cinnamon attempting to en-
| ter that province q fine of $50 or imprison
ment for six months.
Josiah Locke dropped dead in the Indianap-
oils Journal Office of heart disease. He was
| editor and proprietor of the Journal num-
| Der of years ago and later business manager
| of the Chicago Advance.
| Mr.. d. Downs, of Henderson, Sibley county
| introduced a bill in the Minnesota house that
males and females shall not be allowed to oc-
cupy the floor of any roller skating rink of
that state at the same time. The bill also
provides for licensing Kinks.
estimates the aggregate fire loss for Febru-
airy at $10,0O0,OO0-56 per cent. more than the
average loss for February for years past. In
GLIDING January, some SlSOOG,OOO worth Of
property burned up thus far In 1885.
The house committee on military affairs re-
ports that Gen. b. F. Buffers accounts as one
of the managers of the Soldiers Home show
a shortage of $240,0C0. AS he lately mort
gagged his Washington house for $4,000, there
are rumors that he is financially embar-
raised.
The Susquehanna river is frozen to the bot,
tom and is one solid mass of ice from Tunka
hammock to Nanticoke, a distance of forty
miles. Great fears are entertained that there
will be great freshet this spring,~lnd tina
much damage will be done among the low
lands of the Susquchanna.
The latest regarding Grant is thus stated:
DIR. Douglas says that General Grant has had
red-letter day for him. He has eaten heart
lily, been out riding, and seems considerably
improved. The condition of his throat is no
better, however, and the progress of his diar-
rhoea has not been checked.
The Utah church organs and local authori- |
ties urge the brethren to renewed diligence
in boycotting "Our enemies" Some of their
mutual improvement associations. under the
lead of the bishops, have passed resolutions
not to further patronize Gentiles until the
polygamy prosecutions cease. In speaking |
of this the church organ demands that the &C.
ton be made unanimous.
Agent Gassman, at Mitchell, Dakota, re- |
ceved orders from the interior department |
not to allow the Iniians to interfere with set |
tiers. The tribes now understand the situa |
ton and are said to be satisfied. Land entries |
are being made in great numbers, and squat |
ter rights filings are coming in by thousands
AS yet however, there is no plat il the Mitch. |
ell land office. Much good land in the Crow
Creek valley is still untaken. "Shacks' are
springing up rapidly.
An Atchison (kansas) dispatch says: T. A.
Clark and eight surveyors from the Union |
Pacific offices at Omaha went west on the
Central Branch tosurvey an extension of that |
road TO connection with the Kansas Pacific
either at Monument or Gilmore. Lines viii
be run from Bull City to Lenora, and the
route offering the best inducement will be
adopted in case the extension is agreed upon
by the Union Pacific company. There is no
positive assurance that connection with the
Kansas Pacific will be made, but the fact of
the surveying party being sent out is evil
dence that it is contemplated. Monument is
eight miles southwest of Lenora, and the
nearest point on the Kansas Pacific to Bull
City is 100 miles distant
CAPITAL BRIEFS.
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