The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-06-05
NEWS SUMMARY.

$4,000 ~'a
900 fire.
Severe storms inflicted considerable
damage in Kansas.
Ex-senator Van Wyck of Nebraska
took part in the Cincinnati conference.
Blaine is silent on the question of
being IA candidate for the presidency
in 1892.
1t is predicted that Parncll will
be reelected TO the leadership OF tho
united party.
The works OF the Joliet ILL.,. Enter
prise company were burned. Loss.
1925. 900; insurance 800. 900.
The colored miners from Missouri
have been put to work under strong
in the mines at Franklin. Wash.
A powder explosion at Aguas Cal
~lentes, Mex, caused eight deaths and
the destruction of much property.
Fire ut Houston, Tex. destroyed
seven stores and thirty residences.
Loss 5000. 900, with small insurance.
Towns in northern Ohio report u
pretty general frost which did con5id-
cradle damage to vegetables and small
fruit.
William Young and Drayton Cronk.
of keya Paha County. Neb.. have been
arrested for circulating counterfeit
money.
Among the passengers on the City
Of Berlin, which sailed for Liverpool,
was Pasquale Corte, late Italian consul
at New Orleans.
Reports OF heavy rains continue to
come to st. Paul from all over tho
northwest and the crop outlook is ma
terially improved.
The Kentucky prohibition state con-
vention met at Louisville and nOmi-
mated 4 full ticket with Josiah Harris
of Paducah for governor.
Before propagation Lord Salisbury
will ask parliament for a grant ena-
bling Great Britain to participate in
the Chicago worlds fair.
The will of the late p. e.. B~allingall, .
filed last week. gives the city Of OF
tumwa the corn palace property and
Ballingall house, valued ut $50, 900.
Advices received from several To-
c%alities in Iowa, where miners have
been on a strike, are to the effect that
operators are about to resume work.
Mrs. Harrison wishes to contradict
the report that she has solG her cot
tage 1T Cape May. She will take UP
her residence there for the summer.
The Belden motor and manufacture
ing company of Chicago has assigned
with $17j. 900 liabilities and I'M
scheduled assets. Cause, two bad fires.
There was u tremendous haiIstOrm
west OF Saiina, Kan. The district Gov
cred two miles wide and eight to ten
long anu wheat was almost completely
destroyed. The total damage will reach
$500, 900.
There are 1000 prisoners in Russia
awaiting suitable weather for their
transportation to Siberia. The pri5-
oners will be voluntarily accompanied
by their wives and families, mum oering
10, 900 persons.
The Northern Pacific express com
pany has been robbed of so, 900 TO
Sl2. 900 on the line between Chippewa
Falls and Abbot5ford. Wis. The safe
was taken from the 4 for transfer
and when opened the money was miss
ing.
The secretary OF war made allot-
ments of money to various states and
territories for arming and eqniDping
militia on the basis OF congressional
representation. Illinois gets $50, 271.
Iowa $11, 97S. Nebraska 81. COZ, South
Dakota So, 6S5. Wisconsin SO, $50.
Rev. Joseph Travis of Chicago is
dead. He has been in the active min
istry in the Free Methodist church
thirty-ive years. was n of the or
g~anizers OF the ILLINOIS,, Iowa and Wis
consin conference and presiding elder
OF different districts for twenty years
past.
A desperate fight occurred near
Stackhouse, in Madison county. North
Carolina, between six young men. The
fight came up about a girl with whom
two of the men were in love. Two
men were fatally shot and one was cut
with a razor so that he is not expected
to live.
The case Of Miss Phoebe CoUzins.
seeking to compel the executive com
mittee of the board OF LADY managers
OF the worlds fair TO restore her TO the
secretaryshlp, came up before Judge
BIodgett in Chicago. Miss Couz;n'5
motion to remand the case TO the state
court was denied.
The order Of railroad conductors re-
ceived the report OF the finance com
mittee. 1t showed a deficit for the
year OF nearly ST.. 900. The commit
tee recommended the suspension o: tn
paper, The Conductor, and the in
crease Of dues to $1.50 I help pay OF
the indebtedness. The report found
that legal expenses had been exhor0-,
tant.
A Windy Affair.
ST. JOsEPH, Mo-, May "a well
dressed man who rave his name *