McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-09
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Loss, $4,000; insurance. $35,OOO. The records
were saved.
The sentence of the Hazen court martial is
simply O reprimand, and that is not yet APP
proved by the president.
Frederick C. Durant of New York, refuses
to obey the order of the court to return into
the custody of his sister, Mrs. Bowers, their
father. George w. Durant, adjudged luna
tic.
Pierson e. Cathroin's hospital, at Flint.
Michigan, burned. Thirteen inmates who
were in the building were rescued, with mar
row escapes in several instances. The loss is
$4,000; insurance. $500.
Judge Sawyer, of the United States circuit
court, at San Francisco. has decided that a
Chinese merchant resident i'll this country
can depart from it and enter It again without
being subjected to the conditions imposed in
section six of the Chinese amended restric-
ton act.
The New York Sun makes the positive state
ment that the Remingtons have received i'm
mense foreign orders for rifles and the Win
chester company are working 1900 men on
cable orders for repeating rifles. All the or
cers are given by the English government.
The Paris Gaulois, referring to the appoint
ment Of Governor McLane as American min
lister to France, says it is the best possible
selection that could have been made. Hehas
made many visits to Paris, and has in many
ways shown his liking for France. to which
country he is linked by marriage, being a
brother-inlaw to Baron De Boyin, formerly a
E.,
Savoy.
Y Winnipeg special says the rebellion
started by Riel has gained greater d dimensions
by the rising of the Indians in sympathy. The
news comes from Quappelle that the Indians
on the reserves On the File Hills had risen in
arms and killed the farm instructor stationed
there. There are four bands of Indians there,
numbering in all about five hundred. Three
companies of rifles and a portion of field
battery went from Quappelle station to Fort
Quappelle.
The weekly statement of the secretary of
the board of trade, posted on change, shows
the amount of grain in sight in the United
States and Canada on the Both to have been as
follows: Wheat 4S,0SS, S1S bushels. a decrease
of 363, S62 bushels compared with the Saturday
preceding: corn, 1881 FOG bushels, an increase
of 5l6.742 bushels; OATS 93l bushels, an in
crease of 9O,545 bushels; rye, 36j,a2 bushels,
an increase of p, 2o64 bushels; barley, 1,0l7,5H
bushels, decrease of rs. 2253 bushels.
The decrease of the public debt for March
amounts to S4S3OOO. Two statements were
issued, one in the usual form and another in
the form suggested by c. N. Goodn, the New
reduction of the amount Of cash in the treas
ury as made up from the following accounts
Gold ard silver certificates and United States
notes held for certificates of deposit under the
act of June s, 1882. The debt statement is in
creased by the Pacific railroad bonds and ac-
crued interest about S65, 900.
The following has been received by the
secretary of the navy from Commander Kane.
of the Galena; ''Aspinwall is in ashes. The
city was burned by insurgents to escape cap.
ture by government troops. The Pacific mail
dock, railroad property on North end island
and canal property at CriSpol are the only
Buildings saved. The shipping is safe. All
my force is on shore protecting property. My
ship is crowded with refugees. Thousands
are destitute and without shelter.
III
opera festival in Chicago, which opens April
9Th, is evidenced in the great demand for
tickets. The advance sale has already netted
$4,000, which assures the financial success of !
the undertaking. The improvised opera hall
is nearly completed, and was thrown open to
the public on the 2Sth, when dress rehearsal |
Of the chorus. under the direction of MIR.
Pratt, occurred. The interior view of tn
large hall is one of great beauty and it is rich /,
in all it's appointments. The scenery is very |
handsome.
Among the nominations by the president
not acted upon by the senate are: Henry p. !
Ternochen, to be naval officer at New Or !
leans; James o. Henderson, collector of in !
ternal revenue for the Eleventh district of /
Indiana: John L. McGraw, collector of in !
ternal revenue for the district OF West Vir- !
yinia. The last message received by the sen
ate from the president was as follows: Il |
hereby withdraw the nomination, which was |
delivered to the senate on March 30, of Alex !
andria P. Lawton to be envo extraordinary !
and minister p enipotentiary of the United /
States to Russia"
DR.. Albert Erath, of Cantonville, Ulster +.
county, New York, is dead, at the age of !2 !
He was born in Austria. In 1872 he left the
University at Tubingen to join the allied
'orces under Prince ScwartZenberg against
Napoleon. He was at the battle of Arco-
Sieranbe, where the French were defeated.
he was the second person to enter Paris on
Is capitulation on March 81. 1914. After the
var he returned to college and finished a
course in art He graduated i'll medicine at
he university of Freiburg in 1916. He trav-
lied in Africa for several years and finally
'ame to America. Although he had lived in +.
lister COUNTY for many years, it was only re
entity that anything was known of his ca
eer
Commissioner Black has issued circular to
tension agents in which he says: "Investiga-
ions now in progress show that in some in
tances very gross frauds have been perpe-
rated upon the government through the in
trumentality of clerks employed in the PEN
ion agencies. You must exercise great care
n regard to the selection of 70 subordi.
ates. The government it is true, NAY be re-
mbursed from your bond for such losses as
re above referred to. but this does not pre-
ent the resulting of scandal to the service.
his message is an earnest caution and is sent
on tocall your attention particularly toyouh
wn risk and dutyI IL the premises Inyesti-