The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-30
FLASHES BY THE WIRE.

CuleI uuSIlCe aIllStlouS, aSCu SiAVy
eight. chairman of the labor commission,
fell dead on the street at Lorel, Quebec,
from apoplexy.
Jem Carney has deposited $1,000 for
felt with the London Sporting Life for
a fight with Jack McAuliffe for the
championship of the world in the light
weight class.
The official figures from the secretary
of state show Harrison's plurality over
Cleveland in Kansas to be so, 1875. The
Harrison electors received 1872, 914 and
Cleveland 102, 1888.
Governor Larrabee has pardoned L..
Line, who several years ago was con-
victed of murder and sentenced for life
i'm the Anamosa penitentiary. Line was
a resident of Webster county when the
deed was committed.
The Fort Wayne Gnd.) Jenny Elec-
trio Light company's plant was entirely
burned on the 23d. The loss on the
building and machinery is $3.50, 600; in
surance, $3.50, 900. Fully 300 workmen
are thrown out of employment.
Burglars broke into the Boston &
Maine station at Pin Point, Me-, and
blew open the safe. The station agent
declines to state how much money was
stolen, but it is said the burglars were
we'll paid for their work, as the safe con-
tanned the wages of the section hands.
Mrs. General Harrison is the recipient
of a handsome silk robe of crazy quilt
sent by the ladies of the Episcopal
church at Los Angeles, Cal, it having
been voted to Mrs. Harrison as the
most popular lady at a church fair.
The electoral vote in New York state,
as canvassed by the state board of can
vassers, is as follows: Republicans,
$50, 1877; democratic, 635. 965; prohibi-
ton. 80, 2S1; socialist, 2,06S; union labor,
626; united labor electors at large, 1865.
Chief Justice Horton was rendered
the position of general solicitor of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad by
the receiver of that road. The Judge
states that he prefers to remain upon
the supreme bench of Kansas, and has
declined the offer.
Foreign bankers who have ordered
gold for shipment to Europe state that
owing to the demand in London for
gold bars for shipment, Russian and
South American bankers on the other
side are paying for gold a fraction over
the nominal price. Kuhn, Loeb & Go.
have just ordered S512, 600 in gold bars
from the assay office for shipment to
Europe. The total gold shipments so
far this week amount to 81, 654, 900.
Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles
assumed command of the division of
Pacific on the 23d. General o. o.
Howard, the retiring commander,
greeted his successor, who was then
presented to those of the staff with
whom he was not before acquainted.
General Miles issued Immediately a
brief order to all military posts, setting
forth that he had formally taken COM
mand, and stating that Lieutenants
Gatewood and DAIRY will act as his
aides. General Howard and Lieuten-
ant Greble started for New York.
Anarchism Again Coming 10 The Front
Chicago dispatch: An anarchist circu-
lar of the style made familiar by Parsons
and Spies was well distributed to-day
through the saloons of the west and
northwest sections of the city. After
asking subscriptions to defend the sup
posed d~ynamiters, Hronek, Chleboun
aud Sevic, whose trials are to begin
Monday, the circular says:
Notwithstanding it Ghe law has
murdered a number of our brethren, this
capitalistic beast thirsts for more blood,
and apparently will not be satisfied un-
til it gets 1t. Workingmen of Chicago
cannot tell nowadays what will happen.
Any day they are liable to be taken away
from their breakfast tables-torn from
their families-and locked up in Jail on
account of some trivial complaint from
capital"
The paper goes on to say that capital
must be crushed and claims that the
only way to do it is for the workingmen
to organize and fight for their rights.
The circular is printed in German and
Bohemian, and signed by Fritz Benthin
on behalf of the newly-organized Arbei'
ter Rechts Schultz Verein.
"A man named Coon was caught sell
ing whisky from a key at the Weep1ne
Water quarries the other day- and was