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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
Pearls Found in Kentucky.

II has recently become known that
in the streams of Kentucky are to be
found the most valuable pearls in
America, and Of late they are very
largely in demand. No search has
ever been made by others than the
bows, who had faint ideas of the valu-
able pearls they were finding. but
State GeolOgist John Il. Proctor has
taken hold of the work and is laboring
to have the resource developed for its
full worth. Yes" said he, sit is q
fact that the most useful and most VAL
liable pearls in America are to be found
right here in the limestone streams Of
Kentucky. They are of great value to
jewellers, who can utilize to great adj
vantage all the pearls of shape and
SIZE they get. They abound in the
limestone region of Eastern Kentucky
and Il portion of Western Kentucky.
Among the counties in which they are
to be found are Warren. Logan, Chris
tan, Todd, Simpson. a portion Of
Trigg. CYittenden, Livingston, HardiH,
Hart, Allen and Boyle. Some of the
pearls are simply beautiful when
touched up by the jeweler. Hundreds
of beautiful stones have. 20 doubt. been
found by the boys along the banks.
who. after keeping them a few days as
a pretty thing would throw them
away. ignorant of what they had
found. But | am going to bring before
them the true significance of these
pearls. and more systematic searches
will be made. "-L0uiSUiiLe Courier
Journal.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
A Disastrous Land Slide.

Rome dispatch: OF the 400 persons
known to have been on board the train
buried in the land slide neal Lateral,
$50 dead and wounded have been identi-
fled. A large number of others taken
out are as yet unknown. Scores were
taken out to-day and the soldiers and
laborers are exerting themselves to the
utmost to recover the bodies still buried.
Their work is very much retarded by the
extreme cold and snow. Among the
killed is an entire theatrical troupe. not
one of its members surviving. Several
headless and armless bodies have been
found in the river near by. A young
mother crazed by the shock and the loss
of her children clasped their dead bodies
to her breast and refused to release them.
A young priest who was buried two
hours was taken out without injury but
his hair had turned white. A family Of
six persons were taken out together.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
Decision in the Iowa DistitIery Case.

Washington dispatch: The supreme
court to-day rendered a decision in the
celebrated case of.JohnS Kidd, plaintiff
in error, VS.. S. G. Pierson and s. J..
Loughran. Kidd was an Iowa distiller,
who claimed that under the state prohi.
bition law the state officers could not
prevent the manufacture of intoxicating
liquor for export to another state. He
sought to restrain the state officers from
closing up his distillery. He claimed
that he was licensed by the board of SUI
pervisors of Polk county to sell liquor
for mechanical, medical, culinary and
sacramental purposes. During the Pc
riOd of the alleged violations of the law
his business in the sale of liquor for
other purposes without the state, he
claimed came under the head of the in
t~erstate commerce, comfortable only by
congress and the state law if it was
sought to prevent that commerce came
United States. He also claimed that the
statute legalized the manufacture of al
cOhOl for certain purposes, and thus rec
ognized the fact that it was a legitimate
article of commerce and not per Sc O
nuisance.
Judge Lamar read the opinion of the
court which was. long and comprehen-
sive. He said that it was of the genius
and character for the whole government
that its action should apply to those ex-
ternal things which affected more than
m of the states, butnot to those things
which were completely within q state.
The manufacture of liquor within the
state of Iowa was no less a business
within that state because the manufac-
turer intended exporting it. 1t was
clearly within the power of the state to
regulate the manufacture of liqnor with
in its limits whether for domestic or for
foreign consumption. The petition said
the court made a graver error in saying
that the statute authorized the manufac-
ture of alcohol. The law contained O
sweeping prohibition, and all that saved
it from complete abolition was the ex-
ceptions in favor of alcohol used for
mechanical, medicinal, culinary and
sacramental purposes. The decision of
the supreme court of Iowa is affirmed.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
a Bad Old Man in Limbo.

Baltimore dispatch: Samuel G Hop
kins, an aged man who claims to be a
Philadelphian. was this afternoon COM
mitted for the action of the United
States grand jury, charged with passing
counterfeit money. When arrested
some $40 in notes was found on his per-
son, Hopkins, as shown by the evil
dence. would cut from a 50 bill the
figure 60" and paste it over the
figure one on a 81 bill, and then,
If is supposed, would supply the
hole in the So bill with a figure "5"
from a SIS bill. AS these bills have each
two of these figures on them the pris-
.oner could make one note double itself.
He is said to have passed this money
upon several persons.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

ii. w. Oliver, ST., father of FL. W.
Oliver, ir., the iron king of Pittsburg,
an old and prominent citizen, died last
week of pneumonia. Deceased was 50
years old. .
Burglars blew open a safe in Sedgwick
& Smiths rag store at Sioux City and
secured $500. The safe was completely
wrecked but the clerk who slept up
stairs did not hear any noise. A number
of burglaries have occurred during the
past week.
Ira Haywood, treasurer of Huron
county, Michigan, has been missing
since October 5th. His books have been
overhauled and there appears to be a
shortage of 50, 900, Haywood had been
dissipating for some time, and his friends
think he is demented. The county is
amply secured.
w. Fl. English, a trusted employee OF
the st. Louis steel range company, is
under arrest for the embezzlement of
5000. English, who had access to the
mail, opened letters containing money
and checks from customers, approprl-
atin@ the funds and forwarding the re-
ceipts.
The p~ostofice Inspector who was sent
to South Omaha to look into the condi-
tion of that city reports in favor of the
the establishing of a free delivery
there. He finds, however, that there
are several requirements of the depart
ment not fulfilled. There are not
enough sidewalks, the houses are not
numbered, and the streets are not prop
erly named. He says that this will be
done at once
A sensation has been created at Knox
vile, Tenn, by the announcement that
J. A. Swan, late treasurer of Knox
vile county, was short about $25, 600
upon the final settlement with his sue
cessor. He is now somewhere in West
Virginia. Since Swans departure an
examination of the books made it APP
pear that he had received certain rail
road taxes that he had failed to turn
over.
It is learned that Thomas Axworthy,
the defaulting city treasurer of Cleve-
land, on the day before his fight visited
all the banks in that city, save two with
which his hondsmen are connected, and
purchased bills of exchange on Drexel,
Morgan & Co. of New York, amounting
to a sum slightly in excess Of 800, 900,
giving his personal checks III payment.
Drexel, Morgan & Co. have a number of
branch offices in Europe and the simplest
logic leads to the conclusion that Mr..
Axworthy converted his Cleveland paper
into foreign bills of exchange at the New
York office before he went to Montreal.
The chief of the bureau of statistics
statement for the current fiscal year re-
ports that the exports for the twelve
months ended September 80, 1888, were
1919, $50, COB, as against S712, 204, 531 in
1887. The value of imports for nine
months ended September 80 was S544,-
507, 90S, and in 1887 So. 35S, 344, 664. The
same bureau reports the total number of
immigrants arrived at ports of the
United States from the principal foreign
countries, except from the Dominion of
Canada and Mexico, during the nine
months ended September 80, 1888, was
432, S02, us against All, 2S2 during the
same period last year.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
SENATE AND HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES
4 Synopsis Of Proceedings Ia the Senate and
House Of Rep-ssenfafires.

A Synopsis Of Proceedings Ia the Senate and
House IF Representatives.
SENATE.-In the senate on the goth,
only seven senators had the benefit Of
the final prayerof the chaplain, namely:
The presiding officer, (Ingalls). and
Messrs. Allison, Cockrell, Mitchell, Pad
dock, Salisbury and Teller. During
and Immediately after the reading of the
journal the senate wa reinforced by the
presence of Messrs. Blackburn, Reagan
and Sawyer. The last bill of the ses-
sion to be introduced was one by Nh.
Mitchell proposing an amendment to the
constitution providing for the election
of United States senator's by the people.
About twenty-five minutes of 1 o'clock
Mr.. Allison, of the committee to wait on
the president, reported that the commit
tee had performed that duty and had
been informed that he chad no further
communications to offer" A resolution
rendering the thanks of the senate to
III ingalls, ''for tie uniformly able,
courteous and impartial manner in which
he had presided" was offered by Mr..
Salisbury and adopted unanimously. At
five minutes before | o'clock n message
from the president announced his APP
proval of sundry senate bills and Joint
resolutions. Mr.. Ingalls, then made a
short speech, thanking the senator's for
the resolution of thanks adopted and
also for their courtesy and Kindness, af-
ter which the senate ~adio-fned sine die.
House. In the house on the Goth, af-
ter some unimportant business had been
transacted, the speaker appointed
Messrs. Mcmillan of Tennessee, Gle
ments of Georgia, and Ryan of Kansas,
rs a committee on the part of the house
to wait upon the president and inform
him that congress was ready to adjourn
IL he had DO further communication to
make. A recess was then taken until
1890. After recess Mr.. Mcmillan, chair
man of the committee appointed to wait
upon the president, reported that duty
mad been performed and that he had no
further communication to make to con
gress. A further recess was then taken
until 1858. After the second recess the
house unanimously adopted the follow
ing resolution: ''That the thanks of this
louse are hereby rendered to Hon. John
NJ. Carlisle, speaker, for the courtesy,
ability and fairness with which he has
presided over the deliberations of the
first session of the fiftieth congress-"
Speaker Carlisle having resumed the
chair, the house adopted q resolution
rendering the thanks of the house to its
officers for the courteous manner in
which they discharged their duties. AS
the clock pointed out the hour of 1, tho
speaker said: '"The hour of 1 o'clock
having arrived, I now declare the house
adjourned sine die" The
ment was received with applause, and
evidenced their t~hankfulness by chant
inc the doXOlouy.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
A Report on Labor Matters.

Washington dispatch: The annual
report of the commissioner of labor,
Col. Carroll d. Wright, has been issued.
1t is devoted mainly to statistics in re-
gard to the social, sanitary and eco
nomic affairs of women employed in
shops and factories. These statistics
were collected by women. Over $4,000
women were interviewed and the results
are being tabulated. The force of spe-
~cialists in the department are engaged
in collecting the statistics in regard to
marriage and divorce in this country.
Colonel Wright expects to have this
work completed and ready for trans
mission to congress early in January.
The special agents engaged in this work
have obtained the figures from ZOO
courts, and the period of investigation
extends from 1866 to 1888. The net
number of marriages will be given for
the same period, so that the ratio of
marriages to divorces can be seeD.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
Superintendent B~ancroft's Report.

Washington dispatch: Superintendent
Bancroft of the railway mail service, in
his annual report shows that ON June 80,
1888, the railway mail service was in
operation upon 143, 713 miles of railroad.
Clerks were employed in the distribu-
ton of mail on 126, $40 miles. There
were in operation forty-one inland
steamboat lines; aggregating 5,972 miles,
on which postal clerks were employed,
while in the performance of their duties
postal clerks handled 100, OBI, 104 miles,
an on steamboat /, 767, 649 miles. They
distributed 6,52S, 772, 060 pieces of ordi-
nary mail, and receipted for, recorded,
protected and properly distributed &c.
rOO1, O59 registered packages and cases,
and 1, 103, 0S3 through registered pouches
and inner registered sacks during the
yeor. The casualties during the year
were more numerous than for any pre-
ceding year, there having been 24S acct
dents to trains upon which postal clerks
were employed. In these wrecks foul
clerks were killed, sixty-threa seriously
and four slightly iulu I'd
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
Fraudulent Insurance COMPANIES

Lincoln (Neb.) dispatch: There is a
class of fraudulent insurance companies
located in Chicago and at other points
outside of Nebraska, which make q
practice of sending out circulars to
farmers in this state soliciting insurance
patronage. These companies, or al
legged companies, have no authority I'M
der the law to do business in Nebraska,
and all the money they collect for this
bogus insurance is just so much stolen
from our people. A few days ago one
S. n. Pethick, of Silver Creek, wrote
State Auditor Babcock to inquire if the
Cleveland & Co. insurance company of
Chicago, had any authority to business
in Nebraska. This alleged Cleveland &
Co. had sem Pethick a policy to fill out
and return. Pethick tore up the policy.
Soon he got a letter asking why he did
not return the policy. He replied that
he had destroyed it. In answer he got
a threatening letter, saying that Cleve-
land & Co. did not care what he had
done with the policy, but that "all we
want is for you to pay that premium,
and at once, or you will find yourself
with a suit on your hands" Pethick
wrote to the auditor to find out whether
he could be sued for the premium or not.
The auditor replied that as Cleveland &
Co.'s insurance company has no legal
existence in Nebraska that the concern
IA darbtless fraudulent.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
He Hates No Man.

Mr.. Whittier is quoted as thus reply.
ing 20 a %southerner who charged hin
with be ng an enemy to the south: i
was never an enemy to the south OF
the holders of slaves. Inherited from
my quaker ancestry hatred of slavery
but not of Shareholders. TO every cal;
of suffering or distress in the south ]
have promptly responded to the extent
of ny ability. l was one of the very
nrst to recognize the rare gift of the
Carolinian poet Timrod, aud 1 was tho
intimate friend of the lamented Paul
H. Hayne, though both wrote fiery
lyrics against the north. 1 am sure no
one rejoices more heartily than l do at
the prosperity of the southern states"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02

j. D. McCann, recently killed on
the Union Pacific, had been in the m
ploy of the company twenty-five years.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN.

Queen Victoria is TO be presented with
a dress of black silk pillow lace by the
ladies OF the Maltese nobility.
The Rev. Hugh G. Pentecost, of New
ark. N. j., who went from a printing Of
fee into the pulpit, aud afterward be-
came n socialistic labor agitator, is about
to return to the case.
Sir Morell Mackenzie is to be one Of
the lecturers ut the Edinburg Philosoph-
ical institution during the winter if he
survives the. duel he isn't going to fight
with Professor Bergman.
Colonel j. w. Bennett, owner of the
iGentlemen's Driving park Mt Philadel-
iphia, has added 1926, 900 to his former
gifts of SLID, 600 to the Methodist Epis-
copal %orphanage at that place.
When General Grant was in Japan,
Prince KunS, the premier, e~ndeavoring
to compliment him by assuring him that
lhe was born to command, said: "Sire.
brave generate, Won vos made to order"
H.. Rider Haggard is one Of the few
fortunate novelists who no doubt have
to depend upon their books for support.
He married a Norfolk England heir
ess, who is owner of buckingham
Manor, on the edge of the Bath Hills.
Rev. DIR. Joseph Parker, of London,
seems to be growing more and more
billions. galway following for excep-
TONS" he says, the pulpit is the paid
slave of respectable society" OF course
he regards his own pulpit the chief ex-
-ception. Society" does not p~atron1ze
IL.
Mrs. Kate Epson Clark, whose name
is now seen so frequently in current lit
erature, is a witty little woman of 35 or
so, with a husband, three boys, and do
mestic tastes. Her favorite costume is
the Mother Hubbard, and she thinks it
combines all the virtues that aesthetic
and hygienic reformers are looking for.
III. Grafton Delaney is the wealthiest
young man and considered the best
catch" in Washington. He is about
80, and his annual income from an Eng
900. He is said TO make good use of his
81, 500 a week, unostentatiously playing
She part Of good Samaritan to a host of
less fortunate relatives.
Mrs. Cleveland has a new high hat
which she wears when driving. It is a
brown felt, derby in shape, and is
trimmed with folds of a soft brown ma
terial and three upright brown quill
feathers. The effect of so stiff q head
dressing upon the pretty mistress of the
white house is Frenchy, and not so be-
coming as something softer in outline
would be.
Governor Hill closed a speech at Og-
.d~ensburg, N. Y, with these words:
They tell you there is d~issension in the
party when the fact is the party in the
state was never more united than at
present. They tell you that Governor
Hills friends are 'knifing" President
Cleveland, and that President Cleve-
lands friends are knitting Governor Hill.
1t is all bosh. Friends of the state adj
ministration are friends of the national
administration. Democrats, all, let us
set aside the feeling, and march like the
Macedonian followers, shoulder to
shoulder, to the polls, and again we will
place the Empire state in the democratic
column for Cleveland and Thurman.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02

Judge Britain A. Hill, one of the
Oldest and most prominent citizens Of
st. Louis, died on the god, aged seventy.
two. He was a personal friend of Pres
ident Lincoln during the war. He was
author of a number of works on political
economy.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02

The ATLANTIC MONTHLY for Novem.
Der furnishes an interesting table o!
contents, as the following topics dis
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King" "Studies of Factory Life" ''The
Eve of Independence" ga Lovers
Conscience" Economy in College
Work" "Dante and Beatrice, ETC., etc.
The yearly subscription is $500 and
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Mithin & Co., New York and Boston.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
Better Give the Old Ones Anoth-
ar Trial

There should be a new set of COM
mandments. All the old ones have
been broken.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02

to the reforms demanded by organized
labor, l must leave others to make it.
[Great cheering.l
DEMOCRATIC DAY AT
Democratic day at the exposition at
Cincinnati on the 25th was q success.
The weather was fine and the crowds
large. A great many visitors called dur
ing the day and were received in Judge
Thurman'sparlor. The exposition build
ings were crowded and Music hall was
filed with upwards of 5000 people,
when Judge Thurman was introduced.
BE was enthusiastically cheered. He
said in substance:
Gentlemen: We are in the midst of
an extraordinary campaign-the most
extraordinary campaign that I have ever
gone through, as many rs | have taken
part in during my life. We are in a
campaign in which our adversaries have
the boldness, the audacity, to tell the
people that the way to make people rich
IS to make them pay more taxes than
their government wants. Applause.
That the way to benefit a man is to tax
him from the crown of his head to the
soles of his feet, on everything he wears,
clothing, household utensils, imple-
ments Of his trade, and everything
which is necessary to his existence and
comfort as an American citizen; and
that is called protection to the laboring
men, as if you could protect the labor
ing man by robbing him of his earnings
and verifying the old saying of sRob-
hing Peter to pay Paul" This is a de-
ception and a delusion.
Here followed a lengthy analysis of
the relation of labor to capital, and the
relation of both to the country, in which
the speaker said there could not be a
single dollar added to the wealth of the
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