The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-02-08
BY THE TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.

BY THE TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
Correspondents of the Paris Figaro
and Rationale have been expelled from
Germany.
The nomination of Robert s. Atkins,
as postmaster at Kansas City, has been
confirmed.
The principal cashier of the National
bank agency at Bologna has absconded.
He embezzled $3.50. 600.
It is stated on reliable authority that
the French government, fearing q start
ling movement, will adopt means to
maintain strict order in Paris on Sun
day.
Mrs. Harrison and party spent the 25th
shopping and sightseeing in New York,
and went to the opera house in the even
ing with Stephen b. Elkins.
o. W. Gibson, of Allendale, Indiana,
fatally shot Thomas Gibson, Of Vim
cennes, Ind, on a street of the latter
place. Both parties are highly con-
nected, and will not give the cause of the
trouble.
f, The vote on United States senator in
the West Virginia legislature resulted {:
Goff, 40; Kenna, %; Governor Wilson,
8; Janney (union labor, 4; scattering, 9.
The whole number of votes cast was 81;
necessary to choice, A. The joint as
sembly dissolved until noon to-day.
All trainmen on the st. Joe & Grand
Island, aside from conductors, will suf-
fer a reduction in wages of from 10 to
Is per cent, commencing February 1.
Reports concerning the matter are to
the effect that an eruption among the
employees is likely to result.
Yankton, Oak, has raised 800, 900 for
the railroad project between Yankton
and Norfolk, Neb., and the money has
been placed in the hands of the agent
of the English syndicate that is backing
it up, J. T. NJ. Pierce. Work on the
proposed line will be commenced in a
few weeks.
An attempt was made to wreck the
Colorado, Utah & Pacific passenger
train ON the Union Pacific, near Wilson,
Kan, by placing Instructions on the
rails. Had the train left the track there
would have been O fearful loss of life.
No reason except robbery can be as
signed for the act.
One of the largest liquor seizures yet
made under the %prohibitory law was
quietly effected at Burlington, Iowa,
last week. Three large breweries be-
longing to Werthmueller & Ende, Aug
usta & Berthold and Bosch & Casper
He'll, and representing a capital of over
$3.50, 600, were taken possession of. The
alliance people, though greatly in the
minority, are hard fighters and say that
they will close every brewery, saloon or
liquor house of any description in Bur
lington before the fight ends. The
liquor interest is immensely wealthy
and numbers many of the most prom
inent men in the city, and the action
will precipitate a long legal fight.
The Paris Peace Congress.
Boston dispatch: At a meeting of the
American peace society to-day the
names of E. s. Tobey and Rev. F. B.
Howard of Boston, Warren A. Reed of
Brocton, and Rev. George ". Cutler of
Buffalo, were added to the list of dele
gates to the Paris peace congress next
autumn. Interesting foreign CORE
spondence was read and replied to, and
resolutions were adopted congratulating
America. Canada and England On the
recent absence Of cause of irritation re-
earding the fisheries, and on the in
crease of friendliness indicated by pro-
iects for commercial and political union.
expressing sympathy with the efforts of
the French republic to maintain peace,
and hope that the Panama canal. if COM
pleted, will be free to the peaceful COM
merce of the world; favoring settlement
of the Samoan troubles by negotiation
or arbitration, and the maintenance OF
the neutrality between England and
Germany; deprecating the continuance
of civil wal in Hayti, to prevent which
was one of the objects of the proposed
congress of American states ut Washing
ton; expressing hope that America will
not initiate the European policy OF large
and expensive military establishments,
and strongly condemning the recent
suggestion of United States engineers
at the Beacon club that $40, 600, 900
should be expended on Boston d~efences
and s., 900, 600. 900 on similar works fog
the entire country.
How He Got Out Of the PredicamenL
st. Louis dispatch: Parks Pledger,
described as a happy-go-lucky sort of a
fellow, living with his brother-in-law
near Holly Springs, Ark, blew his
brains out two or three days ago. He
was engaged to marry two young ladies
and had arranged for the marriage cere-
mony to take place in each case on the
same day, but finally realizing the pre-
dicament he was in, and not knowing
any other way to get ont of it, he went
into the woods, spread his overcoat on
the ground and deliberately shot him.
self. /
Another Arkansas Assassination. 4
Little Rock ARK dispatch: Advices
from Wynne, Ark, say that Edward
Pa-dew. a prominent merchant, was
shot and killed in a saloon while play
ing pool. He was standing near Mar
shall Hudson, when the door behind him
was opened and some one outside fired
a shotgun at him. 1t is claimed that
George Cogbill is the murderer and in
tended to shoot Hudson. who had him
arrested one day last week for some mi
nor o~ffense, and against whom he
threatened vengeance.