The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-06-16
HoUsE.-The house passed the bill to

House. The house passed the bill to
authorize the construction of n bridge
across the Missouri river in the counties
of Monona, Iowa, and Burt, Nebraska.
Mr.. Mills moved that the rules be sus-
pended and evening sessions ordered for
the consideration of certain bills, but us
he would not consent to an amendment
setting apart certain sessions for the
consideration of pension bills, the re-
publicans refused to vote. As no quo
rum could be secured Mr.. Mills with
drew his resolution and moved that
debate on the pending paragraph in the
tariff bill be limited to ten minutes.
Messrs. Mckinley and Reed demanded,
as a parliamentary inquiry, to be in
formed whether it was not in order to
suspend the rules and set apart days for
general pension legislation. The speak
er pro tenn. MCMILLAN of Tennessee)
replied that the regular order was the
Mills motion. A vote of the house was
taken, and no quorum being found
present. adjournment was taken.
HOUsE.-The time of the house on the
9Th was passed in the discussion of the
salt schedule of the tariff bill. The
house bill was passed authorizing the
construction of a bridge over the
Missouri river near Omaha. Also, the
bill granting the right of way tothe Paris,
Choctaw & Little Rock railway company
through the Indian territory. The Ding
ley resolution was adopted calling on
the secretary of the treasury as to
whether an order is now in force by
which United States vessels passing
through Canadian canals to American
ports, when they make their voyage via
the st. Lawrence, pay less tolls than
when they make it by way of Lake On
tario, and whether further legislation is
necessary to authorize the secretary to
impose additional tolls upon vessels
passing through the Sault Ste. Marie
canal bound to Canadian ports, in case
Canada continues the discrimination
against vessels bound to American
ports.
BRIEFLY TOLD BY THE WIRE.
Frederick N. Toye, township clerk.
and his wife and three children were
cremated by the burning of their res
idence at Gravenhurst, Ont.
William Quinn, an engineer on the
Louisville & Nashville road, was killed
in a wreck near Louisville, Ky, and
Farley fatally injured.
Mrs. Allen, a widow residing near
Osceola, Tenn, was outraged and
murdered, and one of her children also
killed last Sunday. Three white men
an q regro have been arrested on sus-
pi,iOn
Mrs. Dennis Mullins was brutally
murdered i'll Pittsburg in the presence
of her little children by q neighborina
German named Scholer, who is in Jail.
The murder was the result of q family
quarrel.
Five drunken brutes broke into the
residence of Edward Leslie at Wilkes
barre, Pa, and after binding and gagg-
ing him. outraged his wife. She is not
expected to live. The brutes were ar
rested and jailed.
Instructions have been issued to all
division superintendent of the Penn
sylvania railroad, on the lines east Of
Pittsburg and Erie, to DISCHARGE all EN-
ployes whose service can he disnensed
with. About 5000 men will be dis
charged.
a steamer has been sent to Hayti,
where a revolution is imminent to pro-
tect American interests. She is the
smallest vessel Of the North Atlantic
squadron, and should her force prove
insufficient, the Atlanta will be ordered
to follow.
At Laredo, Tex, Lee Pope. a wealthy
young stockman, quarreled with Juan
Rosealas. q saloonkeeper, and each
opened fire with revolvers. Pope re-
ceived q bullet through the heart, dying
instantly. Rosealas was hit in the
bowels and lungs and died SOC after.
The railway officials in Pittsburg ridi,
Guile the story that originated in New
York to the effect TINT the Pennsyl-
vania railroad management was neGotia-
ting for the purchase of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad. The
rumor is supposed to nave been started
from the fact that Vice President Nc
Crea and General Passenger Agent E.
A. Ford, of the Pennsylvania com
pany. had been making a tour of the far
west.
Reports have reached Memphis of Il
most diabolical murder in Mississippi
county, Arkansas. Mrs. Stokes Allen,
a widow lady who with her two children
lives lea Osceola, the county seat, was
found with her skull crushed and near
her was her son similarly injured. 1t is
apparent that Mrs. Allen had been raw
ished. Three white men, Jack
Matthews, Tom Field and George Cur
tbs, and John King, colored, have been
arrested on suspicion.
Investigating Operations of The Civil Service.
Baltimore dispatch: The select COM
mittee of the United States senate APP
pointed to investigate the operations Of
the civil service met here to-day. The
Subcommittee present, consisted of
Senators Hale, (chairman), Chase and
Blackburn. A score or more members
of the civil service reform association of
Maryland were present. Chas. j. Bona
parte, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the association, testified that
a number of federal officials were known
to have been engaged in active partisan
work at the primaries. He spoke ofthe
bad character borne by some of those
officials, especially mentioning Morris
Thomas, Eugene Higgins, j. j. Mahon,
and j. Freeman Bisin. He said that
these men had bad characters and
regulations. Senator Blackburn asked
whether these gentlemen had
committed any definite act that
witness could mention which would sub
stantiate the assertion that they were
men of bad character. Bonaparte re-
piled that his idea of a man of bad char
acter was one concerning whom general
report spoke unfavorably. John Quinn
testified that he is clerk to the boiler
and steamboat inspector, and his duties