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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
Vas She Killed for BlackmalInu!

Des Moines special: An Ottumwa
special says Alice Kelly, a f~ine-looking
woman % to 80 years old, was found
dead at 7 o'clock this morning on the
edge Of the timber on the ''Old Field"
in the outskirts of the city. A horse
and buggy standing hitched near at
tracted the attention of two passers-by,
who found the body covered by a lap
robe, the throat cut, and head badly
pounded. Lying near were a razor and
an iron bolt q foot long. Miss kelly's
first appearance here was on June Is,
when she registered at Dicks hotel as
mailing from Detroit, Mich. About two
weeks later she left and went to a pri-
vate boarding house, and was arrested
for jumping a board bill. She escaped
on a point of law. Yesterday she left
her boarding house, the proprietor re-
fusing to keep her longer, and went to
the Revere house, where she took sup
per. About seven o'clock last evening
she engaged a buggy and drove alone
to the green house, where she got a bo-
quet afterwards found on her body. An
hour later she was seen on Third street
alone in the buggy. This was the last
seen of her. The nature of her wounds
show it to be murder. She was a bright
bold woman, and the opinion prevails
that the murder Is the result Of her
Matchmaking somebody.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
ONLY FOUR WEEKS MORE TO LIVE.
znss Is ar Be., mi.soa~p. Governor Can !

Nus "a he Best MissOarps Governor Can DO
for BROOKS, the Murderer.
st. Louis dispatch: The governor
/ morning rendered his decision in
which he declines TO grant a commute
ton of the sentence against Hugh M.
Brooks, alias Maxwell. but granted a
respite for four weeks.
The first news that young Brooks re-
'ceived this morning was that the gov
ernor had simply granted him a respite
for twenty one days. This he construed
to mean that the governor intended to
take time TO fully examine the case.
Later Brooks received a telegram from
his attorneys announcing a respite of
four weeks and stating hat the COVER
nor refused absolutely to commute the
sentence or interfere in the matter.
This vas a sad blow to Brooks hopes,
and he said that he could not under
stand ii. He had felt confident that the
governor would see his way clear to
grant his appeal for combination, but
now all hope is gone and he must pre-
pare for the end. There was no excite
ment and very little curiosity about the
Jail or four courts when the news came,
and there doesn't $ @ n to be much in
terest taken IN the matter by citizens
generally.
Mrs. Brooks said, after the governors
decision was known TO her: 81 conf
IDENTIFY expected Communication for my
son. The poor boy has never had a fan
trial. In that, / believe every fair
minded person will agree, whether he be
an En~slishman or of other nationality.
Not an atom Of justic has lie had from
the 10 winning to the end. My son is
not guilty of murder, and l did hope
that Governor Morehouse would save his
life and spare his family from the grief
and shame that now hangs overthem. /
don't know what | shall do. / have not
determined on my plans. 1 wish l was
at home. Beyond the pleasure of seeing
my son. my journey of several thousand
miles has been a fruitless one. L don't
know whether my husband will visit
Missouri again or not"
The lady broke down IN her deep grief,
and the sorrow and disappointment OF
both her and her daughter was very
great.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
A Disastrous cIoud-Bufst.

WHEELING, W. Va, July 13.-Advices
from Hughes river, a small stream flowing
through Doddridge and Richie counties,
say hundreds of farmers in those counties
are absolutely ruined. On Monday even
ing a cloud burst, and in q short time the
waters were higher than ever
known. Every bridge on the stream
is gone; houses, barns, granaries,
and growing crops have disappeared
entirely, and piles of drift and debris are
left ten or twelve feet deep in the valley.
For miles soil was washed of as clean as .
soor. leaving a hard, smooth clay surface.
The loss Is placed At $500, 000. On We'd
uesday Terra Alta, Preston county, was
visited By s cyclone. The track OF the cy-
clone lay through the heart Of the town,
aud twisted houses from their foundations
and carried roofs hundreds Of feet from the
buildings.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
BASELY BETRAYED.
Robbery and Desertion of a Deroied Husband
bu his Bride Of % Month.

Robbery and DesertiOn of n Deroied Husband
bu his Bride Of % Month.
MARYsvILLE, O., July Il .-Quite q sem
sation developed in our city yesterday
morning by the report that Mrs. Emma
Bayley had left for parts unknown, taking
with her over $500 of her husbands
money. Mr.. Sylvanus Bayley is a hard
working young man about twenty-five
years old. BY care and industry he had,
rs q common Iaborer, accumulated about
81, 600. On the 18th of juno he was
married in Springfield, Ohio, to q Miss
Emma Fleming, who, it is said, married
him not for love, but in order to save her
self from exposure for intimacy with a
wealthy and prominent married man Of this
city. Since her marriage she has striven
in every way possible to get possession of
what little property he possessed. He de-
termined to go west, and, drawing his
money from the bank, placed $500 in his
trunk, which she Immediately appropriated
and deserted.
Boyley Immediately ven to Springfield
and secured the arrest of Mrs. Magaw, a
s%piritualist and fortune teller of Spring
field, as an accomplice, and brought her to
Marysville this morning. She was released
the arrest left on the 5 o'clock train going
east. While here he found a clew of the
whereabouts of Mrs. Bayley, and will re-
turn Tomorrow, when he will have some
thing sensational to reveal.S
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
IN MALE ATTIRE.

a Roman MdsqueTades for Sic Years, Bmt
Is Finally Exposed.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, July "a few days
ago the officer of the Fort Madison peni-
Tertiary discovered that q prisoner con
victed and sent up for horse stealing at this
place was not a man, but a woman, and
The was promptly transferred to the
woman's department of the penitentiary.
The woman WAS convicted under the name
of Charles Miller. She had lived in this
place under that name for six years and
. half, and there never was a suspicion that
she was anything but a man. She passed
as the husband of o woman with whom she
lived, and whom she supported by mans
work. For two years she worked on a
rented farm, and then earned a living for
herself and family IS a barber. About a
year ago she and her supposed wife adopted
Q child, taking it from the poor house.
She took o team from a livery stable and
was convicted therefor, having maintained
tho fraud as to sex both through trial and
in jail. The alleged wife has suddenly dis
appeared and cannot be found. Whence
Miller came or what the motive for the
fraud can only be guessed.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
Gettinn Ready for the camnaidn.

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE republican
national committee at 3 p. m. received the
executive committee of the league repub-
lican clubs, headed by w. w. Johnson, Of
Nevada. Judge Thurston, of Nebraska.
was introduced as their spokesman. He
said the coming campaign was one of war,
and that his committee came to receive in-
structions as to their position in the battle.
Chairman Clarkson in reply said the
national committee appreciated their adj
vice and were glad to have the Co
operation in the campaign. 1t was decided
to request the national committee to ap-
point q committee to confer with the ex-
ecutive committee of the league as to the
best plan of utilizing the support of the
league. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of Iowa.
the woman's temperance advocate, was
ushered into the rooms and in q long adj
dress presented plan for the formation OF
Q woman's national republican club.
At a meeting of the national
committee tonight Senator NJ. S.
Quay, of Pennsylvania, was
chosen chairman, and State Senator J. S.
Fassett of New York, secretary. They
were also appointed to hold the same Off
ces on the executive committee. The ex-
ecutive committee was chosen as follows:
NJ. H. DeYoung, Samuel Fessenden, Geo.
B. Davis, John C. New, j. S. Clarkson,
w. C. Goodlee, j.. Manchester Haynes,
Garrett A. Hobart, A. l.. Conger.
The presidents of state leagues Of repub-
lican clubs held q conferenc tonight with
the national republican committee. A
conference committee has been appointed,
the leagues to confer with q similar COM
mittee of the national republican commit
tea t0-morr0w
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
Easy to Hit.

The following anecdote admits OF
wide and varied application. Most OF
us can apply it to ourselves if we will.
1t was the story of a minister who,
preaching in the pulpit of a brother
clergyman, said some things about
racing and fast horses.
He was told after the sermon that
he had touched one of their best MEM
bers at a tender point.
"Well," said the preacher, ri cam
not change my sermon o rhim."
In the evening the man was intro
duced to the minister who said, III I'M.
derstand that what, l said touched
n Of your weaknesses. l assure you
that l was altogether unconscious OF
the weakness when l said it."
"Oh, never mind" said the man.
sit Is a poor sermon that does not
hit me somewhere"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
Collision With a Hairpin.

"Marchy weather." remarked old
Mr.. Rottle, as he seated himself at
the breakfast table and examined his
napkin to see whether he recognized
the stains.
1t was one of those rare mornings
when all the boarders had come down
early to breakfast-an incident, the
Landlady remarked, which restored
her Pickering faith in human nature.
No m answered old Mr.. Rottle's
remark. He took the conversational
trick, as it were, and everybody waited
for his second lead.
The Bank Clerk was bending all his
faculties to decide whether the egg he
had just opened was genuine or q
counterfeit, and the Younger of the
Two Maiden Ladies, who dIsliked con-
densed milk in her coffee, was watch
ing for an opportunity to appropriate
unnoticed q goodly share of all the
natural articles on the table.
AS for the Young Lady Boarder,
she vas busy with the marriage no.
tices in the morning papers, and of
course could not be expected to an
swer. Old NJ. Rottle finished his
oatmeal, and finding that he had left
his spectacles up stairs gave up at
tempting to read the paper.
Thanks, Mrs. Codhooker," he said
affably, addressing the L~andlady,
you may give me a bit of hash this
morning. The fact is" added the old
gentleman to the table generally, al
fipd it delightful to be in a really
hOmelike clearinghouse, where | can
feel that thefood is trustworthy, and /
am not continually tortured by the
profound conviction that every article
OF food | eat IS composed OF alien SUBJ
stances.
81 remember. "hecontinued genially,
"when | was at college years ago, we
boarded in commons, and you never
could tell just what you ate. The
food was fearfully and wonderfully
made. One day my chum, who was
sitting next to me eating apple pie as
calmly as you please, all at once
struck a stratum Of unmistakable
kerosene in that pie, real coal oil,
mixed with the pie crust, and APP"
Old Mr.. Rottle suddenly stopped
his "reminiscences. He was on his last
mouthful OF hash, and there seemed to
have been a collision of some sort.
With an agonized expression on his
face, he slowly produced 3 piece of
bent wire. There was no room for
doubt. Even the landlady had to adj
NIT it. 1t was a hairpin.
There was a pause before Old Mr..
Rottle gathered strength to speak, and
then he spoke IN tones OF deepest sor-
row as of n whose confidence is
shattered:
"Mrs. Codhooker, l did not expect
this OF you. II | were young and my
eyesight sound, l shouldn't mind, but
ONE, an old man. and my spectacIes
upstairs-it's cruel"
The landlady, in a Mortified state
murmured that 1t was a mistake. But
somehow the excuse didn't seem very
fitting, and the kerosene pie episode
remained unfinised. Old Mr.. Rottle
sat in silence shipping his coffee in q
suspicious manner, and the Bank
Clerk remarked to the landlady that
perhaps he had better take another
egg and be on the safe side.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
The Minneapolis Flour Output.

Minneapolis dispatch: The North.
western Miller, in its issue of to-day,
says: The mills ran Unexpectedly heavi.
ly last week, and averaged over %, 00(
barrels of -four per day. The weeks
output was 1872, 800 barrels-averagine
p, APO barrels daily-against 100, 300 bar.
rels the week before, and 1885, 400 barrels
for the corresponding time In 1887. The
West Side Water Power company has
some work to do which requires an emp
ty canal. and the water was shut out
Tuesday and kept out Wednesday and
Thursday. As all but three of the mills
depend OF this canal for their power, il
will be readily seen that at least one
third of the weeks output will be cut
of, and many look for to-day to prac-
tically end this weeks operations with
the mills on the west side canal. The
extremely hot weather lately prevailing
makes the wheat grind much less freely,
and cuts down the working capacity
of the mills to quite a ~perceptible ex-
tent. There has been a very apprecia-
BILE improvement in the flour market the
past week, it taking the form of q con
siderably better demand, both at home
and abroad. The feeling is evidently
gaining ground among conservative
members of the trade, that values will
rather advance than decline further,
and there is an inclination to buy more
freely IN consequence. Local quota
tions for -four are the same as a week
ago, but they are held more firmly with
buyers bidding quite freely at figures
higher than heretofore offered. Several
orders of 10, 900 to 10, 200 barrels are re-
ported to have been booked for export,
and this branch of trade is regarded as
OF much more encouraging appearance
than formerly. The direct exports of
-four for the week were the largest for
several weeks. They were SO, 200 bar
rels against 81, 200 barrels the preceding
week.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
Brutality of a Father and Som.

DECATUR, ILL.,, July 12.-Marion county
is terribly worked up over a dastardly
assault committed on Blanche Peck,
the 17-year-old daughter of a we'll
TODD farmer living e Argenta.
The girl, who bears a clean reputa-
ton, was found this afternoon tied to q
post, where she had been left by the viii
lains after they had accomplished their pur-
pose. She charges Alfred Williams and
his son John with committing the crime,
and officers and farmers have been securing
the country all day in search of them.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
A New Counterfeit.

Washington dispatch: Yuisse Cru
giera, an Italian, was arrested in a fur
niture store in this city while attempt
ing to pass a counterfeit SIS silver GER
tificate of the new issue. The appear
ance of the note aroused the suspicion
of the salesman, and Crugiera was ar
rested. He said that he had just come
from New York, knew nothing about
the note, and did not remember where
he got it. The note was examined at
the treasury department, and pro
nounced to be one of the counterfeit
issue discovered last February in De-
troit. They are said to have been made
by Charles johnson, alias Davis, a no
torious counterfeiter who was arrested
in Toronto for making money on his
own account.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
Ihs RenubIican Committee.

NEW YORK, July I3.-rhe republican
national executive committee was in session
to-day. V~ioe-Chairman Clarkson, of Iowa,
presided in the absence Of Senator Quay.
Among the business transacted was the
creation OF . subcommittee for Minnesota,
Dakota and Montana, with Evans. of Min
nss0ta, as chairman, and a similar sub
committee for California, Oregon. Nevada
and Arizona, with De Young. Of California.
chairman A committee consisting of
Carlson, New. Dudley, Fessenden and
Hobart was appointed to establish and open
national headquarters, and to act foE the
executive committee during recess.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
caIIinu unon Gen Harrison.

INDIANAPOLIS, July IA number OF
visiting delegations have called upon Cen
eral Harrison. The principal event of the
day was the reception of a delegation OF
about 1000 persons from Boone
county, accompanied by three bands
of music. d. G.. Scull de-
livered an address on behalf of the dele
CATION, to which General Harrison replied,
and concluded by thanking them for their
early interest il the campaign. After the
speaking was over IN informal reception
and general ~handshaking took place.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
The Enuineers Stand Alone.

Cleveland dispatch: Concerning the
statement telegraphed from Philadelphia
that several labor organizations OF
America would be consolidated, Assist
ant Chief Engineer I~ngraham. of the
Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood,
says: 1.-The Brotherhood of Locomo,
tive Engineers will stand upon its own
strength, and will consolidate with nc
other organization. No such step has
aver been contemplated by us. [ know
nothing of the intentions of othel
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
The B. & NJ. has established q

The B. & NJ. has established a com
mercial agency in Lincoln. This agency
will look after the commercial interests
of the entire Burlington system in the
west.
The Union bank of Fairmont has
closed Its doors. It is not thought the
suspension will be permanent.
Secretary J. 81. McShane is sending
out the fourth annual premium list for
the Omaha fair, which convenes Sep
TENDER 3 and continues till September
s. Premiums amounting to $40, 600 will
be given.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20

A few days ago a drunken Kentuckian
OF the name of Dick" roamed around to
the cafe of the New York hotel threatening
to do up any one who would not agree
with him in all things. He declared that
he was a Southern fire eater and was
looking for blood. Finally a well-dressed,
good-looking young man walked up to him
and knocked him down.. Before the Ken
tuckian knew what had happened he re.
ceived a sound thrashing, and was glad to
make his escape. The g~ood-looking young
man was Fred May.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20
Accidentally DisemboweIed Himself.

LANCASTER, o., July 15.-E1-County
Commissioner Henry Lapgle, of Liberty
township, met with a singular and terrible
accident yesterday. Mr.. Langle is q man
of heroic size, weighing 325 pounds and
standing six feet four inches high. Taking
a large butcherknife and going into the
yard use it, he tripped and fell, plunging
the knife up to the hilt in his bowels. A
surgeon was quickly summoned from the
nearest village, who pronounced the ghast-
" wound most probably a fatal one.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20

them across the way upon the bal.
cony. And the next day, in writing
up items for the paper, | made the fol-
lowing: professor Ebenezer Microbe,
the distinguished scientist, who has
been spending some time in the
city, returned home this morn
ing, finding that the climate OF the
south did not agree with him.
Catharine Cole in New Orleans Picay-
une.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-07-20

1t is said that a man named John B.
Murray, a wealthy citizen Of New York,
has been abducted by his maiden sister.
becase he had married a young vile of
twenty.
Middletown transcript., 1888-09-20

THE sole significance of the Maine
election is in the demonstration it af-
fords that the voters are not frightened
by the Tariff Scare nor the British
Bugaboo.
The Republicans gained but SOL over
the Septemt sr vote in 1884, while the
Democrats gained 2,047 and the Pro-
hibitionists 1,7S1.
The meaning Of this is that the
''scare'' didn't work-the Bugaboo
didn't frighten.
The voters of Maine are familiar
with both these ''rackets," and FAM
.liarity has bred contempt. The peo-
pie remember that four years ago Mr..
Blaine predicted ruin to business and
starvation wages for Labor as the con-
sequence of his defeat. And they have
seen, instead, three of the most pros
porous years for both capital and labor
that have been known since the Re-
publican panic of 1870.
If Maine, with her lumbsrmen and
fishermen, could not be stampeded by
campaign bugaboos, the rest of the
country, with nearly two months more
in which to think should be scare
proof.-N. Y. World.
Middletown transcript., 1888-09-20
ONE experience comes alike to all.

ONE experience comes alike to all.
Even those who occupy the editor al
chair are not exempt from that which
comes to other mortals. That which
tries mems soul does not always es-
cape them. So that after days Of
anxiety, and nights Of ceaseless vigils,
neither body nor mind are very well
fitted for their usual work. This is
not said so much by way of apology,
as to explain the reasons for the edi-
tors silence in the present issue Of the
TRANSCRIPT. Since last he spoke to
his patrons through these columns, he
has suffered the loss Of an only son,
bright and promising babe of nine
months, after an illness, that for a
child, was not only very long, but un-
usually severe. Feeling the weight of
such burden resting upon him, he
can only ask the indulgence Of his
readers, in their overlooking what
they may discern as imperiections of
the present in the hope of better things
in the future.
Middletown transcript., 1888-09-20

The Philadelphia Times gives the
following advice 1t is evident that
our tariff laws do not protect the mat
rimonial interests Of the American
girls. While thousands of native
girls have spent the summer at the
watering places displaying their
charms to the utmost and with poor
success, twenty-four Swedish girls
who never saw America have secured
husbands and have crossed the ocean
to be married. Invertiug the famous
Cesarean boast, these Swedish damsels
conquered, came and saw their future
husbands, while the native girls were
left in the lurch completely. Now
let a big tariff duty be levied on all
Swedish or other foreign girls who
cross the water bent on matrimony.
The native matrimonial industry is in
danger from this invasion of cheap
foreign girls and should be protected
at all hazards"