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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-12-05

wearing indoors is of emerald-green
velvet and brocade. The skirt is plain
in front, and the sides are of alternate
panels or velvet and brocade. The
folds of the bodice and the edge of the
skirt are bordered with fur. A good
deal of astrakhan can be seen on the
new walking gowns, but it only looks
we'll on dark, substantial materials.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-12-05
Uniform Butter.

Mrs. Hashley-I purchased that but
ter at the close of the military festival
yesterday.
Boarder-It's military butter, eh?
Why do you not dress it in uniform?
Mrs. Hashley-What for?
Boarder-To indicate it's rank?-Ar-
cola Record.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-12-05

A jolly Wizard.
Oh a wizard dwelt in a cave by the sea,
And a dreamer of dreams was he;
The wild waves roar as they broke on the
shore
Gave him irth and jollity;
For he'd people the rocks and the sounding
deep
With phantasies weird as the products Of
sleep.
Obi he dreamed of a maiden fair as a star,
Who came DER the rolling sea
On the snowy crest of the pillows breast;
With airy head walked she;
And her face was as white as the driven snow,
And her voice was like music sad and low.
OH. she sang of love, and Of lovers pain,
And she sang Of a dream SO sweet
That had urged her soul to a desperate goal,
For the sake of a wild heartbeat.
For the lover she loved in her fondest dream
Was false as the glitter of brook and stream.
OIL the wizard dwelt in a cave by the sea,
And a dreamer of dreams was he;
Through phantasies sad and phantasies glad
He kept his jollity;
syor a dream is a dream, and not life," Quoth
he,
= But love which is life ne'er a dream can be I"
Washington Star.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-12-05

"Death rides on every passing breeze, he Turks
in every flower"
And do our best we can't escape his grim and
awful power;
He stalks upon the battlefield, where thousands
meet their fate,
He's ever knocking at tho palace and tho cot.
tage gate.
In peace and war, by night and day, he's gar
nering his sheaves
OF fair and tender buds and blooms and sere and
yellow leaves;
But Of all places whore he loves to linger It IL
said
No other pleases him SO well as does the spare
ROOM bed.
Within this damp and awful thing that mover
gets the air
Death comes with bold impunity and makes his
fatal lair;
Its ticks are deep and chill and drear, its sheets
are moist and cold,
And death '~serenely smiles on him within their
icy fold.
In that far corner of the house where sunshine
never strays
Upon the helpless victim there his chilling hand
he lays,
The angels know how many of our loving friends
are dead,
Because they dar ed to sleep within the awful
"spare-room'' bed.
How oft is Providence accused Of stealing from
our hearts
The smile Of one whose going hence q gloom to
earth imparts;
W not the angels called him to his sleep
among the dead;
By giving him that awful room, we murdered
him instead.
IT'S not until our January guest is laid away
That we recall his couch was dressed Just warm
enough for May,
Our guilty conscience tells US then the column
at his head
Should read, Here lies a victim Of the damp,
cold, spare-room bed"
Chicago Herald.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-12-05
He Wanted Rapid Transit.

Farmer Oatcake ION elevated train)-
l wish you'd hurry this thing up; I want
to git to Forty-ninth street!
Train Guard (paralyzed)-Beg pardon,
mister, have you bought the whole road
or only leased this car?-Life.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-12-05
PERIODICAL POEMS.

Lies Changes.
No nfeis always sunahine
MOI yet it's wholly rain"
Life is full Of sunshine nevee,
Sounds Of sorrow ring out even
Little CLEANS Of light we see
Through the clouds which sail 50 freA
Tho they hide the glittering star
Well we know they gfimmer afar.
II we gaze with downcast eyes
Never then will we be wise,
God sends His mercies rich and fast,
Yet when they're forever past
Z We forget T. ey were so rare,
Do not see the sunshine there.
Quaffing sadly from the fountain
OF a mite We make a mountain,
Thinking life is wholly rain.
For 8 little have we gained
OF the warmth ever rich and light
Shedding rays so free and bright.
joys and griefs, fast they gather,
So do clouds and sair weather,
Let US then look upward, seeing
That the Author of our being
From goodness does no refrain,
For no life is wholly rain.
Brooklyn Eagle
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-12-05
Two Kinds of Dinner.

Clergyman-Young man, did you have
turkey for your Thanksgiving dinner?
Boy-Bet your boots we did. I had
turkey and my brother had goose.
Clergyman-How did it happen that
your brother had goose?
Boy-Oh, he married her-Arcola Rec
ord.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-12-05
The Hare in he Corn.

The Hare in the Corn.
Beyond, in the distance,
Goes by the gray moon,
And from the far sea-wall
Comes up a gay tune;
The music drifts nigh me,
And, sur as you're born,
'Tis a piper lad playing
1.-The Hare in the Corn"
How it quickens my pulses,
That lifting old tune,
And brings back the time
When, a merry gossoon,
Itripped it with Peggy
From night until morn,
And the piper's best tune was
1.-The Hare in the Corn"
Ali Peggy, sweet Peggy,
The stars on the sea
Shone never so bright
AS your blue eyes on me.
Small need of q ribbon
Your looks to adorn,
AS we jigged it so lightly
1.-THE Hare in the Corn"
twas backward and sideways,
And then an advance,
Like a feather you floated
Along in the dance;
We'd never a fiddle,
No flute or . horn,
Just the piper lad playing
1.-THE Hare In the Corn"
FaithI then was the day
I'd walk many a mile
For the touch of your hand
And the light of your smile;
Sure q queen or q princess
You'a put them to scorn
As I faced you when dancing
'The Hare in. the Corn"
But alas for US bothl
For you faded from sight
And the ghost of my youth
Walks beside me tonight,
And the faint echoes DER me
Sound sad and forlorn-
IT'S a piper lad playing
THE Hare in the Corn"
nest McGatIey, in Arkansaw Traveller,
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1890-12-05

NEWSPAPER men naturally get the
first ink-ling of the news.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20
TWO LIVES AT STAKE.

Desperate Struggle on tho Railway Track
Between Insane Woman aud q
Switchman.
WoBURN, Mass, Dec. 16.-James M.
Callahan, a switchman at the Green
street crossing, had thrilling adven-
ture Sunday evening. just as the ex-
press train was due he happened to
glance from the window of his shanty,
when he discovered Hannah Dillon, a
handsome and athletic woman, on the
up-track directly in the way of the in
coming train. The woman was intoxi-
Gated and absolutely refused to be led
to place of safety. Callahan endeav-
ored to remove her by force, when the
woman drew a revolver and fred point
blank at him. Callahan threw her arm
aside and the bullet flew wide of it's
mark. The woman leveled the revolver
again and before Callahan could seize
her arm the shot was iired, the bullet
passing through Callahan's coat. The
weapon was then wrested from her.
After a desperate struggle the woman
was dragged into the shanty and her
hands tied. The police were notified
and the woman was taken to the lookup.
The woman accuses Callahan of betray-
ing her, and She says she deliberately
placed herself on the track, knowing
that if Callahan saw her he would res
cue her. She then intended to kill him
as he carried her from the tracks in his
arms. She is believed to be insane.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The steamer Servia, which left Liver
pool for New York on the 14th, carried
| LOCI sacks of mail-the largest number
on record.
At Moscow few days ago Madame
Kartzhoff, beautiful woman, was found
murdered in her elegant home. There
were no evidences of robbery, and it is
believed she fell victim to the ven
geance of the Nihilists, whom she had
offended.
Railway employees in Scotland have
decided to go on strike December 21
for shorter hours The prospect is that
the railways will be tied up at the very
time when such an event will be most
exasperating to the public, as the
Christmas week travel will be interfered
with.
At Madrid, Spain, recently, man
suffering with consumption was inocu-
lated with the Koch lymph and died
soon afterwards. post-mortem exami.
nation revealed the usual consumptive
appearance and a pericardial swelling.
A young man supposed to be William
II. Pope, charged with embezzling Sc, 00O
of the funds of the Louisville (Ky.) City
National Bank, was arrested on the 18th
in Cayuga, Ontario.
Steamer advices from Hayti state that
wnile large force of men were recently
engaged in repairing the Matina bridge,
near Port Lemon section of the bridge
seventy-two feet long suddenly fell.
Six men were killed outright and nearly
every one of the workmen engaged were
injured.
A dispatch of the 18th from Rome say.
there is much anxiety at the Vatican
over the condition of the Pope, who ha.
been seriously affected by the extremely
cold weather Dr. Ceccerelli, who is il
attendance on his Holiness, has init
mated that the worse be prepared for.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20
LATER.

J. c. GILLESPIE, treasurer OF Boone
County, Mo-, is short over $50, 900 in his
accounts. The county will lose moth
ing, as his bondsmen are amply able to
make good the amount. Gillespie has
assigned all his property to his bonds
men.
WILLIAM SCHLACKER, the confidential
bookkeeper Of the wholesale grocery
house of Peoples & Trotter, of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, has been arrested on
three indictments for embezzlement,
laaceny and false entries.
AT Philadelphia on the 10th Mrs.
Seneca Fell, aged sixty-tive years, and
her grandchild, Olive Terrence, aged
eleven years, were found dead in bed at
their residence. 1t is supposed that
they were suffocated by coal gas.
THE Pottstown (Pa.) Iron Company
mas posted notices of reduction OF
twenty-five cents per ton in the wages
of puddlers and proportionate reduc-
tion in the wages of all employees in its
plate and puddle department. The new
rate goes into effect December 80.
CHARLES SE1DLER, receiver of the
Lorillard Brick Works Company, whose
failure was announced recently, states
that the company's liabilities will prob
ably reach $1,000, 900. The assets are
anywhere from 1.500, 900 to S2,0oO,0 900.
A JURY was obtained on the nth for
the second trial of the celebrated Saw
telle murder case in Dover, n. Ii.
MAJOR GENERAL TERRY, U. S. A.,
retired, died at his home in New Haven,
Conn, on the 10th. He was sixty-three
years of age, and had been in failing
health for over two years.
FOUR Hungarians were killed in the
mines near Hazleton, Pa, on the 18th
by fall of coal.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in
Muckle Bros. store at St Helens, Ore,
on the 10th and secured $4,000 in coin
| and 1000 in bonds.
THE Senate on the 10th passed the Morgan
| resolution calling for information about moneys
| paid John L Davenport as supervisor OF cleo
tions. A commun 'cation from Mr.. Davenport
| asking that charges made against him
| In the Senate be investigated was re-
| ferred Mr.. Dolph's resolution inquirlng
whether the right TO vote has been abridged
In any OF the States was discussed
| without action. Discussion OF the Elections
| bill was resumed and Messrs Morgan and Ken
| ma addressed the Senate in opposition to the
measure Mr.. Dolph secured the floor to speak
| against the bill but yielded TO n motion TO ad
| journ -. In the House resolution for holiday
recess from December 2e TO January was
! offered by Mr. Mills, and referred TO the Ways
! and Means Committee. The Apportionmen'
bill was taken up and discussed NJ length. Ar
agreement was hnally reached that after two
hours debate on the nth tho previous question
should be considered, as ordered end the R'uss
adjourned
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20
WEST AND SOUTH.

All attempts to locate the where
abouts of the missing Chicago million
aire, B. III. Campbell, have proved fruit
less and as final move the family have
concluded to raise the reward for his re-
covery from $500 to S., 1000.
President Polk, of the National Farm
ers' Alliance, has designated February
g. 1891, as the date, and Washington, d.
c., as the place of holding the first meet
ing of the National Legislative Council
which is composed of the national presi-
dent and the presidents of all State
Alliances.
Engineer George c. Ketcham, in
charge of the train which recently
killed Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Todd and
Mrs. c. L. Slayton at University sta
tion, near Minneapolis Mimi, has been
arrested on the charge of criminal negli-
gence. Ketcham has been in the en-
ploy of the Omaha company twenty
years and the Todd and Slayton fami-
lies were his personal friends.
The jewelry store of c. w. Seyfeldt
at Fort Worth, Tex, was entered by
burglars on tho night of tine 18th, who
carried off $4,000 in money, jewelry, etc.
The Royal Salt Company struck salt
in their shaft at Kanapolis, Kan, on the
18th at depth of $40 feet. The vein is
twentY-four feet thick.
Miles Ogle, the notorious counter
feiter, recently convicted at Memphis
Tenn, of having in his possession and
passing counterfeit money, was SEN
tenced fifteen years in tho penitentiary
in addition to fine OF $1,000, the ex-
| treme limit of the law.
A fire which originated in the Masonic
Temple at Kirkville. Nc, on the 13th,
| destroyed that structure and eight busi-
ness houses, causing loss of $50, 600.
One man was killed and three or four
dangerously injured by falling walls.
At Vanceburg, KY, on the 18th John
Blyem, colored, was sentenced TO the
penitentiary for life for the murder in
1869 Of Jack Foster, his wife, mother
and son. After two trials in 1873 Blyem
escaped from Jail, served five years in
the army and then went to New Orleans,
whore he married rich widow. On
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20
WASHINGTON.

The Senate bill to revive the grade of
Lieutenant General of the army has
been ordered to be favorably reported
by the House Committee on Military
Affairs.
Hon. T. w. Palmer, president of the
Worlds Fair Commission, waited on
President Harrison on the 18th and sub
mitted to him documents showing that
the Worlds Fair had reached the point
in organization that proclamation re-
questing foreign countries to participate
in it should be issued.
Postmaster General Wannamaker has
issued an order intended to exclude
from United States mails cirCufars and
advertisements of Mexican lotteries.
While the family of E. N. Jay, of
Washington City, were at church on the
14th, burglars robbed their residence.
Besides small amount of money and
some jewelry, they carried off four
$1,000 coupon bonds of the ST. Louis &,
Iron Mountain Railroad and the Arkan-
sas Bank.
The Treasury Department has decided
that importers of merchandise imported
and entered in bond prior to October /,
1880, and now in bonded warehouses,
have the privilege of Withdrawing either
at the old or new rate of duty.
Mrs. Matilda Dodge, seventy-two
years of age, sister of General Tracy,
Secretary of the Navy, died suddenly at
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 18th. She came
from owego to Brooklyn to spend the
holidays with her son.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20
THE EAST.

The jury in the case of Henry c.
Kemp the Reading railroad brakeman
charged with criminal negligence In
causing the disaster at tShoemakersville,
Pa. by which twenty people were killed
and many injured, returned verdict on
the 18th acqnitting the prisoner
Messrs. William O'Brien. Timothy
Harrington and Il. d. Gill sailed from
New York for Europe on the 18th.
o'Brien and Gill will go to France. Dill
Ion and o'Connor will remain in New
York for the present.
Neal McIlvain, Joseph Hussey and
Hugh Dever were instantly killed and
John McIlvain fatally injured while
driving across the railroad track in q
wagon at Mill street crossing in Bristol,
Pa, on the 18th. Joseph johnson, who
was crossing the track on foot at the
time, was also killed. The accident
was caused by the safety gate being
raised, after freight train had passed,
and just as the New York express was
due.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20

his return to Vanceburg last March he
was arrested and brought to trial with
tho above result.
BY the wreck OF construction train
on tho branch line of the Danville rail-
road, near Laurensvillo, N. c., on the
14th, four trainmen were killed and
four others badly injured.
AT Morrison, ILL.,, on the 18th Robert
Robinson, a widower seventy years old,
shot a young woman because she refused
his repeated offers of marriage and then
killed himself.
President Ernst Howard, of the Vir-
ginia Stock Exchange, OF Staunton, Va,
was arrested on the 18th on "a warrant
charging him with the embezzlement of
the funds of the exchange.
The Block Tobacco Company" was
incorporated a5 Wheeling, w. Va, on
the 18th. It's the largest tobacco COM
pany devoted to the manufacture of n
single brand in the world, having a
capital stock of $4,000 600. The princi-
pal stockholders are Aaron and Samuel
Block, Wheeling; the Westinghouse,
of Pittsburgh, and Ben Butterworth, of
Cincinnati.
The dead bodies of Joseph Marshal,
his son Charles, and Herbert Coone, of
Harbor Springs, Mich, have been washed
ashore near that place. They were re-
turning from fishing cruise and it is
supposed their boat was wrecked in the
storm of the 18th.
At New Albany, Ind, few nights
ago Samuel Brown and John Beard,
young men who persisted in refusing to
support those dependent upon them,
were taken out at midnight and terribly
flogged by White Caps until they prom
ised to reform.
Near South Bend, Ind, on the 18th
Mr.. and Mrs. Schafer, an aged German
couple, were struck by n train at "a cross.
ing OF the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railroad, and both were in
stantly killed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20
Pinioned by a Tank.

PITTsBURGH, Dec 16.-A bad wreck
occurred just south of this place Mon
day morning, on the Baltimore & Ohio
road. The freight crew were doing some
shifting. Several cars were left stand
ing on the main trac k while they went
into Uniontown, and as they returned
they ran into tho cars. The tank of the
engine was driven through tho cab,
pinioning the engineer, fireman, con-
ductor and brakeman, who were all on
the engine. W The conductor had q
crushed leg. and can not recover. The
engineers feet were crushed and he may
die. The fireman and brakemen were
badly cut and bruised.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20
EXPLORERS SHOWED IN.
Dangerous Situation OF n Party of Adven
turers in Alaska.

turers In Alaska.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.-An Alaskan
exploring expedition passed through
here five months ago, en- route to the
Northwestern Territory. Tho party in
cluded i. G. Glave, who was with Stan
ley in Africa; w. H. Wells, Cincin-
natl journalist; New York newspaper
man and several others. Glave returned
from the north a few weeks ago. Moth
ing was heard of Wells or the others of
the party until Saturday, when pri-
'vate letter from Juneau was received
here which stated that the members of
the exploring party had serious trouble
in their camp. The explorers quarreled
and divided into three parties. Glave
started for New York in disgust Wells
and band eff natives pushed on to the
interior. At last accounts they were
showed in for the winter, with but forty
pounds of -four in their camp. Others OF
the expedition took another route, strik
ing overland for Southern Alaska.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20

L 90 large
the old-fashioned pill. Too
reckless in its way of doing
business, too. 1t cleans you
out, but it uses you up, and
your outraged system rises up
against it. DR.. Pierce's Pleas
ant Pellets have a better way.
They do just what is needed
no more. Nothing can be
more thorough-nothing is as
mild and gentle. They're the
smallest, cheapest, the easiest
to take. One tiny, sugar
coated granule's a gentle lax
ative-three to four are ca
thartic. Sick Headache,
Constipation, Indigestion, Bill
ious Attacks, and all derange-
ments of the Liver, Stomach
and Bowels are promptly re-
lieved and permanently cured.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-12-20
Mrs. Fayorwsathor Begins Hor Contest

New York, Dec. 16.-Coudert Bros,
on behalf of Mrs. Lucy Fayerweather,
widow of Leather merchant Daniel b.
Fayerweather, who gave away about
S6,O0O,o0O to colleges and to his three
executors, yesterday filed objections to
the probate of the will. She claims that
the will was not the free act OF the de-
cedent, and thatit was procured through
wrongful and undue influence exerted
upon the deceased.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14
A Mortified Princess.


When the Princess Beatrice made up
her mind to wed with Henry of Batten-
berg, she got together an elaborate trous-
seau, and her household linen is said to
have been marvellous, both as to quality,
and as to quality. She conceived an idea
to have every article marked handsomely,
and instead of employing the conventional
monogram and coronet she selected lot
the Bible to be embroidered upon the
linen. 1t happened, however, that the
stock of these quotations gave out, and
in her despair the princess applied to her
fance for advice. Battenberg assured her
that he could help her, and he wrote
down a large number of German quota
tiOns which seemed to him to suit the uses
to which the articles would eventually be
put Beatrice was delighted: it seemed
particularly felicitous that, wedding with
a German, her belongings should be en-
blazoned with the vernacular of her spouse.
So everything went smoothly enough, and
these quotations suggested by Bat were
approved and embroidered in gaudy silk
upon divers magnificent pieces of linen.
But after the wedding, Beatrice discovered
(much to her horror) that the quotations
contributed by Bat were not from dignined
German:literature, but from drinking songs
popular among convivial and ribald stu
dents along the Rhine. Taken with their
context, many of these quotations were
simply shockingI The bride called Bat to
account; she was terribly aggrieved; she
was imbued with too much piety to enjoy
any such questionable humor. Bat tried
to laugh off the joke, but his indignant
bride had all that Objectionable embroidery
pulled out and replaced with proper bits
from the poems of Hannah More, Tupper
and kirke White.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14
See saw! Margery Dawl
Sold her bed to lie upon straw.
Wasn't she silly slut
To sell her bed and lie upon dirt?
NIHILIsT sTEPNIAK's NERVE.
He Sleeps Peacefully Between Soldiers
Who Think Him Peasant.
george Kenna,

george heQndn.
At one time the entire police force of st.
Petersburg were searching for Stepniak.
He had taken refuge in the house of a
wealthy Russian lady who was in SYM
pathy with the rcvolutionists. This Rus
sian lady had occasion to visit one of the
large prisons for the purpose of calling on
a suspect with whom she was acquainted.
Stepniak accompanied her in the disguise
of a servant. While the lady was making
her call Stepniak remained ut the gate of
the prison, where he passed the time chat
ting with the soldiers on guard, and telling
them stories in the peasant dialect, which
he knew so well how to assume.
Being very tired, having been out all the
previous night attending a secret meeting
of the revolutionists, Stepniak seated him.
self on the bench between two soldiers,
who were just then off duty and soon fell
asleep. When the lady came out of the
prison, she beheld her servant, who was in
reality the most noted revolutionist in all
Russia, and for whom the police were then
securing the city, fast asleep between two
gendarrnes, with his head resting peace
fully ON one of their shoulders.
The lady awakened her servant, and
they returned to her mansion without ex-
citing the slightest suspicion in regard to
Stepniak's identity.