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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
Thrift And Waste I'm Married Life.

Writing in the Culver, the author
o "How to Be Happy Though Mar
ried' says: | quite believe in marry
ing for gold and working for silver;
but there should be a reasonable
chance of getting work to do, for it
is nothing less than criminal folly to
marry on nothing n week, and that
uncertain-veryl On the other hand,
there is some truth in the saying
that what will keep one will keep two.
Show me one couple unhappy merely
on account of their limited circum-
stances, and | will show you ten who
are wretched from other circumstance
es. There are bachelors who are so
ultra-prudent, and who hold such
absurd opinions as to the expense of
matrimony, that, although they
have enough money, they have not
enough courage to enter the state.
Pitt used to say that he could not
afford to marry, yet his butchers
bill was SO enormous that some one
has calculated it as affording his
servants about fourteen pounds of
meat q day each man and woman!
For the more economical regulation
of his household, if for no other
reason, he should have taken to him
self a wife. OF course a young man
Nth cr,DIl - ,n-O@
afford to marry if he smokes big
cigars and gives expensive drinks to
every fool who claps him on the back
and calls him cold man." He must
be particular, too, in choosing n wife
to select one who is economical and
who can keep house with the least
amount of waste. Swift's saying
about nets and cages is well known.
He thought that one reason why
many marriages are unhappy is be-
cause women spend their timei in max
ing nets to catch husbands rather
than in making cages to keep them
in when caught. True, q bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush, and
We see no reason why q girl should
not do all that is consistent with
self-respect and modesty to obtain q
husband. She should remember,
that conquests have to be kept as
well as made, and that for a woman
to fail to make and keep her home
happy is to be a failure" in a more
roal sense than to have failed in get
ting a husband. "Why don't the
men propose, mammal" One eason
is because they are afraid that the
girls of the period will make e~xtrava-
CANT wives. The other day a girl
was talking with a middle-aged
bachelor; the girl vas of a by no
means shy disposition, SO she began
to "chaff' him about his w~retchedly
unmarried condition. "Why don't
you marry? Can't you afford to
keep a wife," MY innocent young
friend" was the reply, Il can afford
to support half q dozen wives, but |
can't affordto pay the milliner's bills
of one" And you mothers think not
always about getting good husbands
for your daughters, but think some
times how to make rdaughters,
fit to be good wives.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
complaints AGAINST the Railroads.

CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-The Chicago board
of trade has filed with the interstate COM
merce commission two petitions, one of
which is a complaint against the Rock
Island and Baltimore 6 Ohio roads, the
other against the Pennsylvania and Chicago
& Northwestern. The charge in each case
is that Chicago has been Disseminated
against by these roads. inasmuch as their
joint through rate from Iowa and Nebraska
points to the seaboard is less than the sum
of the local rates. For example, the rate
from Lincoln to Chicago on corn and oats
last February was % cents per hundred;
The rate from Chicago to New York was
273 : cents, while the through rate from
to New York was only 364 cents.
or ID cents less than the sum of the two
totals 1t is charged that this is in viola.
ton Of the first, second and third sections
of the interstate commerce law, and the
board of trade demands q ruling by the
commission.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
The Treatment of Wine.

There is probably no greater de-
fusion in the modern gastronomic
art than the notionthat age enriches
wine illimitably. If a three or five
year wine is better than the crude
juice, the process must go on forever,
and the wine of 500 years must be
the veritable nectar of the gods. 1t
is a myth of the poets. Wine is an
organic product, and to everything
organic there is the immutable law
OF growth and decay, life and death.
There is no exemption. Dosing with
foreign substances, f%ortification with
brandies and alcohol, care of tenn
perature and other devices may
stave off the fatal decline. but for
only a little.-Home Journal.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
Jumped from The BROOKLYN Bridge.

NEW YORK, August 3.-This morning
an individual, name unknown, evadsd the
police and jumped from the central span
of the Brooklyn bridge into the river.
Friends in a tug picked him up and spir-
tied him away. When picked up the mar
was in q semi unconscious condition and
the tug conveyed him to Hamilton ferry,
where an officer summoned an ambulance
and he was conveyed to Long Island hos
pital. He is evidently badly hurt, and ia
suffering from internal injuries and severe
shock, which might prove fatal, SO the sur
geon says. He gave his name as Matthew
Byrne, aged 81. of Port Richmond, Staten
Island, where he is employed as coachman.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
Some Old-Time Executions.

6eatleman's Magazine,
In the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries our method of execution
was most brutal. There was the
ride of the criminal in an open cart,
with his coffin by his side, either to
Tyburn or to the spot where he com
mitted the murder; the cart was
stopped under the gallOws, the rope
was fastened around the criminals
neck, the carman gave the horse lash,
and the poorwretch YVES left swaying
to and fro, kicking. If he had friends
they would try to shorten his agony
by hanging on to his legs and beat
ing his breast, a shocking sight. But
hanging then was looked upon as q
holiday spectacle, in which we find
the lower class took great interest
and evinced muchsympathy with the
deceased. For instance, Claude Du-
val, the celebrated highwayman, lay
in state at the Tangler tavern, in ST..
Giles's, in a room hung with black
cloth, the bier covered with 'scutch-
cons, and with eight wax candles
burning around. He was buried by
torch-lighta and was followed tt COYent
Garden church by a numerous train
o~fmourners, mostly women. Nilsson,
a french writer, who visited England
in the reign of WilliamII III, says: "He
that is hanged or otherwise executed
first takes care to get himself shav'd
and handsomely drest, either in
mourning or in the dress of a bride
groom. This done, he sets his friends
to work to get him leave to be bury'd
and to carry his coffin with him,
which is easily obtain'd. When his
suit of cLoaths, or nightgOwn, his
gloves: hat, perriwig, nosegay, coffin,
flannel dress for his corps, and all
those things are bought and
prepared, the main point is taken
care Of-his mind is at peace, and
then he thinks of his concience. Gen
orally he studies a speech. which he
pronounces under the gallOws and
gives in writing to the sheriff or the
minister that attends him in his last
moments, desiring that it be printed.
Sometimes the girls dress in white,
with great silk scarfs. and carry bas-
kets full of flowers and oranges. scat
tering the favOrs all the way theygO.
But to represent things as theyreally
are l must needs own that if a pretty
many of these people dress thus gaily
and go to it with sch an air of indif-
ference, there are many others that
go slovenly enough and with dismal
phizzes. l remember one day | saw
in the park a handsome girl, well
dressed, that was in mourning for
her father, who had been hanged but
a month before at Tyburn for false
coinage. 80 many countries, so
many fashions"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
THE FATAL SUMMONS COMES At LAST.

-
The Teterdn Soldier of the Army Surrender
10 the Grim. Messenger.
NoSQUIrT, Mass, August 5.-The fol-
lowing official bulletin was issued at mid.
might:
General Sheridan died at 1920 this
evening. Tho immediate cause of death
was heart failure; the remote cause was
disease of the mitral and agrtic valves,
the existence of which was known to his
physicians. to himself, and TO his family
in November of last year. Complications
which have occurred have been nervous
exhaustion, pulmonary insaretions, pneu-
monia, pulmonary egeria, anasaca and
hemorrhages. The last day of his life was
somewhat restless, but not more so than
he has been several times since his arrival
at Nonquitt. At about $50 symptoms of
heart failure suddenly appeared. The
remedies Wnlch mad hitherto been
successful were generously applied,
but proved Intellectual, and he
sunk rapidly, dying painlessly at the hour
named.
[Signed] RoBERT NJ. O'REILLY,
Surgeon United States Army.
WASHINGTON MATTHEWS,
Assistant Surgeon United States Army.
PREPARATION o THE FUNERAL.
New BEDFORD, Mass, Aug. 5.-A team
was sent to New Bedford at midnight for
an undertaken, who will embalm the body
and prepare it for conveyance
to Washington. Col. Kelly, who
is now in Washington, was
telegraphed to start for Nonquitt at once
aud bring with him the generals uniform.
As there is no telegraph Office at Nonquitt,
which is seven miles from the city and but
a single telephone line, it is extremely
difficult to obtain any details.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
Current HumOr.
The undertaker's no fighter,
Yet deny the fact, If you can,
That he's that kind OF u boxer
Tint nlMnYs lnys out his man


A little girl in Lewiston, Me-, who
was i'll one evening, called hermother
to her bedside, and said piteously:
Mamma, l am awful sick; I just
swallowed upward" and hermamma
sympathized with her deeply.
ooh, for the wings of q dovel"
sighed the poet. "Bosh!" said his
friend the broker. "The breast of q
turkey is much better to fill up on"
A.-"Did you gain anything in
your Wall street speculation" B.
80, yes; l acquired the idea that 1
was an ass" Is that all? Why, 1
could have told you that before you
attempted to go in"
"Can you give be a little breakfast,
mama? pleaded the tramp: I'm
hungry and cold. slept outdoors
last night, and the rain came down
like sheets" should havegotin
between the Sheets" said the woman
kindly, as she motioned him to the
gate.
80 my friends, there are some spec
tacles that a person never fcrgets?"
said a lecturer, after a graphic de-
scription of a terrible accident thath he
had witnessed. I'd like to know
where they sell EN-" remarked an
old lady in the audience who is al
ways mislaying her glasses.
Little Earnest, only four years old,
after standing at the window for
long time one day last summer in
silent admiration of a terrific thun-
der-storm, turned to his mother with
a deep sigh and said, softly: Goods
sky is getting some awful big cracks
in it, mamma"
Waiter Ito gentleman who has just
tipped him). Excuse me, sir, but
do you know that is a twenty-cent
piece?" Gentleman quitting it back
in his pocket): "Why no, 1 took it
for a quarter. But it's all right, l
know where / got it."-New York
Epoch.
Minister dining with the family
So your mamma doesn't want youto
eat morethan one piece ofpie, Bobby?
Bobby-No, sir; except when We are
visiting. Then l canhave ALL want,
IN. Y. Sun.
Jones was yesterday delivered of
the following aphorism. 1t is war
ranted his latest: "When I wake
in the morning and find it
cloudy, / know that in case it
rains We shallnot have fine weather"
1t was n of our Boston schools,
and the question was arithmetical,
something like this: "If II men can
do a piece of work in one week, how
many men would it require to do it
in three weeks? Up went a hand.
"Well," said the teacher. "Fivemen
and a boy IA years old" How do
youmaketh that out asked the teacher,
endeavoringto suppress a smile. 1T
would take one-third as meny men.
nethird of 17isfive and two-thirds,"
"But where does the boy come in?'
ga person is not a man untilheis 21.
Two-thirds of 81 is IA. 1t would
take, therefore 5 men and a 14-year-
old boy"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
A Mysterious Affair in Chicago.

Chicago dispatch: A horrible double
tragedy was brought to light shortly af-
ter midnight by the police, when two
dead bodies, Henry Heesch, a retired
saloon keeper, and his wife, were found
in their apartments at $50 South San
canon street. Both were past middle
age and were looked upon by their
neighbors as a happy couple. They
were last seen Saturday evening sitting
on a stoop. Sunday morning the news
boy left the paper and the milkman the
days supply of milk. These objects
first attracted the attention of the neigh
bors. Late last night one of the neigh
bors notified the police, and two officers
were sent to investigate. They broke
open the front bed room door, and a
sickening sight met their view. In the
alcove of the bed room, lying in a. pool
of blood, lay the dead body of Mrs.
Heesch, clad in a night dress. Pro-
ceeding to the next n of the
neighbors found the body of Heesch
dangling from the end of a rope, he
having hanged himself. No reason can
be assigned for the deed. Everything
around the room bespoke comfort, and
there were no indications of a struggle
prior to the murder and suicide.
Last summer Mrs. Heesch was over-
come by heat, and she never quite re-
covered from the effects of the sun
stroke. Her friends think that possibly
the heat of Saturday night may have af-
fected her mind, and brought about in
sanity, which caused a quarrel between
her husband and herself, in which he
stabbed her perhaps in self-defence, and
then hanged himself out of remorse.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
4 B%lackmaiIer Done Up.

SAN Francisco, Aug. 3.-Something OF
a sensation was created this afternoon by
G. Eisfelder, representative OF a small paper
here, rushing down the steps of the Nevada
bank, crying ''mu:der!!" Eisfelder had
secured an interview with ex-senator Jas.
G. Fair, who is president Of
the Nevada bank, and threatened
Fair with the publication of a
scurrilous article against him if he did
not at once give Eisfelder $1,000. The
demand enraged Fair so that he felled the
with II blow. Eisfelder then drew a
pistol. Fair drawing his struck the black
msiler on the head, when the clerks rushed
in and Joined in defending their president.
Eisfelder then fled.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
The Case Of kuuh NJ. Brooks.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 3.-When the
news reached here this morning that the
British government had requested a
further respite for Hugh NJ. Brooks, on the
ground that the murderer and his victim
were both British subjects, it created no
little surprise. Governor Morehouse
has received merely Geographic no.
tice that the papers have been forwarded
by mail, and does not know what action
he will take. Brooks attorney says the
request for a respite was secured through
the efforts of Brooks father with Lord
Salisbury, and claims that new c~orroborat-
i've evidence has been developed which
will save Brooks from the gallows.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
A Black Hills Dramatic Critiaue

From the Custer City Chronicle.
Her voice was a cross between the
hum of a cyclone and the screech ola
locomotive under full steam. 1t
trembled away in cat-like cadences
and rose again like the wall of a
hound in distress. Again it rose in
mellow tones not unlike the wind
dallying over the mouth of an empty
jug. Stopping only long enough to
take wind, she rose slowly to her tip
toes, and with gyrating arms and
heavy chest gave a fair imitation OF
the road that fortells a Dakota biz
zard. Old Jim Bakers pet panther,
chained to a post in the lot back OF
the opera house, heard some of her
high notes and they skeered the poor
beast out OF ayear's growth. Itwas
the first time our town was ever
visited by a genuine female calliope.
and we hope shell come again"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
A Sketch of His Career

Philip Henry Sheridan was born in Somer-
set. Perry county, Ohio, March 6, 1881. He
was a poor lad, born of Irish parents, and
started out in the world working in a country
store at 20 cents a week. For five years he
worked in this store, and at II, when ap-
pointed to West Point, he was earning s. a
week. He graduated from West Point
and was assigned to the First in
fantry. as second lieutenant, in July,
1853. He distinguished himself in
Texas as an Indian fighter, and was sub.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10

A terrible tragedy occurred at Rising Sun
Station, Mississippi. Bad blood had existed
for some time between 5. II. Whitworth and
Henry McCarty, two merchants. Whitworth.
Mclean and hoskins on one side, and Henry
McCarty, P. II. Ivey and Sam Austin on the
other side, met one afternoon. The first
three entered the store of McCarty & Matt
hews, armed with Winchesters and pistols.
Some words brought on firing. and Ivey and
Austin were instantly killed, Henry McCarty
is missing, and is supposed to nave been
killed also. Whitworth and Ben Mclean are
badly wounded.
The eight-year-old son of John Glenn. Reei-
na, N. W. T., was thrown from a pony he
was riding. A long rope hanging from the
pony's neck became entangled in the little
fellows feet and he was dragged nearly half
a mile, being dead when picked up.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10

He wac mumbling about tough
steak and cold coffee, and making
himself generally d~isagreeable.
Don't growl so over your breakfast,
john" said his wife, nobody is
going to take it away from YOU
Epoch.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10

Before the Senate Committee

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-Ex-Governor
Pound, of Wisconsin, counsel for some Of
the timber contractors on the Chippewa
reservation, was before the senate COM
mittee on Indian traderships today. He
said that the commission had arisen by
reason Of the fact that the department hav-
ing promulgated an order that after a GER
tain time allOtments should be
made in conformity with the
Davis act, yet afterwards remitted
allotments to be made which were not in
conformity with the provisions of the act.
In reply to a request for his opinion as to
what may best be done to secure the solu-
ton of the difficulties on those reservations
he said that q special agent should be sent
there to remain at least thirty days, who
should publish On advance notice az to the
time and place for hearing evidence
as to the eligibility of In
dians for allotments. He should
in the meantime himself learn of the
amount and nature of the lands to be dis
posed of. With this information in hand
it would be possible to do even justice to
the Indians without injustice to the lum-
bermen. In the Doreille reservation it was
known that there was not sufficient lands
to give all the Indians their full allot-
ments.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
The GuiIf0rd Miller Case.

WASHINGTON, August 2.-The secretary
in the celebrated case of the. Northern
Pacific railroad company against Guilford
Miller. The secretary holds briefly that
when the map of the main line was filed
and accepted in 1870 the general rule was
liked, and the statutes withdrawn under
section 6 of the granting act became
operative. The secretary holds that in at
tempting 10 make the withdrawal of these
lands for indemnity purposes the COM
mission of the general land office did
that which was prohibited. The railroad
company selected Miller's land as indem-
nifty for lands left within the Yakima In
dian reservation. The secretary says mas
much as the supreme court said in the
Buttz case that a fee simple title to lands
within an Indian reservation passed by a
grant to q company subject to right of oc-
cupancy by Indians, the company is not
entitled to indemnity lands within in said
reservation, and which has passed to it by
its grant. The effect of this decision is far
reaching, and will effect about eight hun
dred cases now pending in the general land
Office, and probably the claims of many set
tiers which have not reached them.
The denial of the right OF this company to
indemnity for lands within the Yakima
Indian reservation is said to be equally ap-
plicable to other Indian reservations along
the line of the road, and will lave the eff
feet of reducing the indemnity claims of
the company very largely-probsbly to the
extent of a million and q half acres. About
two thousand. cases now in the general land
offices will be effected by the decision.
To Form a Flour Trust.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Aug. 3.-Circulars have
been issued by al II. Smith, secretary of
the st. Louis millers' association, calling a
meeting of millers of Missouri, Illinois.
Kansas, Indiana, Tennessee and of all the
winter wheat states, for the purpose of
forming a flour trust. The meeting is to
be held in st. Louis Aug. 81. An agree
ment has already been signed by all the
prominent millers of st. Louis, the st. Louis
association having a. capacity of 1850
barrels Fer day. The agreement is very
rigid in its stipulations. 1t is proposed to
call the trust 1.-The Central Millers' Asso-
ciation," the object being to secure the
members a legitimate profit on products.
In italics will be found the following stip-
ulation in the agreement: absolute sub
mission to the authority of which the indi-
vidual members IRE only an integral part"
The power of The directors is made
absolute. They are to fix prices,
nay order a reduction in output or the
closing down of mills. Any contract with
brokers to act for members of the a~ssocia-
ton. Credits are not to exceed thirty |
days. Mills at points tributary to st.
Louis, Detroit or Toledo shall not pay over
current prices for the same grades of wheat
or -four in these markets, less two-thirds
of the freight rate thereto. All sales of
less than car lots must be 10 cents higher
than current minimum prices. The trust
proposes to control absolutely the output,
price and sale of lour in the territory it
will govern.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-08-10
sBIinky" Morgan Suffers the Penalty.

COLUMBUS, D., Aug. 2.-Charles, alias
"Blinky" Morgan. the principal figure in
the Bavenna rescue and murder of Detect
i've H~ulligan, of Cleveland, Ohio, was exc
cuted at the Ohio p~enitentiary at
an early hour this morning. The
prisoner spent a quiet day, re-
fusing to see visitors except those
with whom he had been intimate and who
had taken an interest in the Communication
of his sentence. To all with whom he had
talked he protested his innocence of the
crime. There. has been a wonderful curios-
ity to see the prisoner, and the warden
this morning had received more than 500
applications to witness the execution. He
left a long letter to the warden of the peni-
Tertiary, thanking him and his assistants
for the uniform kind treatment he had re-
ceived at their hands, and emphasizing his
previous declaration Of innocence of any
connection whatever with the theft of the
turs, the rescue of McMun, or the murder
of Detective Hulligan.
The execution took place shortly after 1
o'clock, and was witnessed by about thirty
persons. When Morgan was put on the
scaffold the warrant was read, but he re-
fused to say anything. After the trap was
sprung the body writhed in great agony
and he slowly strangled to death.