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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The underground trolley system is a
success at Washington.
The seed division of the agricultural
department is to be abolished.
John FL. Brady. who robbed the Ore
gon express and killed Sheriff Bogard,
has been captured.
The interior department, replying to
Senators Allen and Thurston, upholds
the course of Captain Beck.
Hon. H. C. McCaoe retired from the
gubernatorial race in Mississippi. He
was an administration candidate.
Chairman Tanner is to have the Hi
.nois legislature pass a new tax levy
bill and adjourn sine die next Friday.
Tom Johnson, who assaulted Mrs.
fairfield and two daughters at Hat
tiesburg, Miss, was riddled with buck
shot.
All reports unite in pronouncing
Western crop prospects better than
they have been for years. The rail-
ways are preparing to handle a very
heavy traffic.
Archbishop H~ennessy of Iowa will
make his last visit to Rome in Septem-
Der. He is approaching his roth year.
President Cleveland is to act as arbi-
traitor and settle q dispute between
Italy and Colombia as soon as he re-
turns to Washington from his vacation.
Edward Bullet was recognized by
the Creek council as acting principal
chief Of the nation, vice Perryman. sus-
pended.
James C. Allen. a convict in the Ar
kansas penitentiary, says that he
knows all about Holmes and that the
Williams sisters are alive.
II. II. Holmes lawyer suggests that
the Minnie Williams murdered in San
Francisco may have been the girl who
disappeared from Chicago.
A joint debate has been arranged for
ex-Congressman Bland and Congress
man Hall of the Second Missouri dis
trict at Huntsville, Randolph county,
August 3. Hall is to speak for the
gold standard and Bland for the white
metal
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
FOR THIRTY YEARS
The Silver Debaters Discuss Wages and
Wheat Figures.

The Silver Debaters Discuss Wages and
Wheat Figures.
CHICAGO, July 29.-When the last de-
bate, but one, of the ~Harvey-Horr sill.
yer convention opened this afternoon,
Mr.. Horn began with a comparison Of
the wages and the cost of products
during the years from 1860 to 1890, as
shown in the table prepared by Stats
tician Carroll ID. Wright. With
wages and prices in 1866 taken as
the index, Or 100, it showed that in
1890 prices were O., wages l59, and the
purchasing power of wages liz. He
argued hat at no time in the history
of the nation vas the country as pros
porous as it was then, in spite of the
''crime of 1878" He submitted that
these statistics were more applicable
to the conditions under discussion than
those of Mr. Sauerbeck, quoted by
Mr.. Harvey on Thursday, as Mr.. Sauer-
beck's figures were made from prices
in England.
Mr.. Harvey, in turn, took up the
prices of wheat for a series of years, in
reply to Mr.. Horr's statement Thurs
day that the farmer received as much
for his produce in gold as he had re-
ceived before silver was demonetized.
He quoted the prices from year to year
and declared that the arguments of
Mr.. Horn were those which had been
used in all time to bulwark tyranny.
The Declaration of Independence was a
proper answer to such arguments. The
proper index of prices was to measure
them in articles of international uSe.
Tables made up by gold men even, on
these articles, showed that they were
lower than in 1850. Referring to Mr..
Horr's argument touching the measure
of value in human toll. he quoted from
an article by Mr.. Horn in a New York
paper in reply to a correspondent sug-
costing the making of SO much work
the equivalent of a dollar. Mr.. Horn
declared the proposition absurd and
confusing.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
DEMOCRATS SPLIT.

Sound Money Men and Silverites of But
Ter County Hold Separate Meetings.
HAMILTON, Ohio, July 29.-When the
Democrats of Butler county met to-day
to select delegates to the state conven-
ton, each of the two factions had a
large following present. The main
fight was on securing the majority
in the central committee for
silver. The convention was called to
order in the opera house but there was
a split and the sound money men adj
journed to the court house, with ex-
Governor Campbell as presiding officer,
while the free silver1tes remained in
the opera house with Allen Andrews as
chairman. The excitement was in
tense and for a time pandemonium
reigned. 1t finally became necessary
order out the police force okeep order.
The court house convention elected
James E. Campbell and Paul j. Sorg
as delegates at large to the state con-
ventiou. The other selected II. c..
Gray, Peter Schwab, David Pierce,
John f. Nielan, Christian Benning-
hoffen, E. F. Bundy of Middletown
and ALT Demoret of Ross township.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Will Have Floats.

The executive committee of the Bust
ness Mems association of Omaha held a
meeting and transacted a large amount
of routine business Word has been
received from a large number of our
ties which will have floats in the Ne
braska parade, but still a number of
e%nterprising cities and counties have
not yet sent in word of any kind. The
Omaha business Mems association has
made arrangements with the railroads
to transport the floats free of cost, and
is anxious for every county through its
principal city to be represented in the
parade. Every effort will be made to
make the parade the biggest advertise
ment ever given of the whole state of
Nebraska. William Lyle Dickey, sec
rotary of the association, will answer
all letters on the subject addressed to
him, and the association will assist in
every was possible any city which de-
sires to send a float.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

The announcement has been made
public that President Seth Low would
give to Columbia College its new Ii
brary. to cost about 81 1000, 900, and w.
C. Schermerhorn would give $500, 900 to
pay for the erection of one of the build
ings on the new site. The New York
Evening Post says in this connection:
President Lows magnificent gift of
81. OOO, 900 to Columbia College for a
library building, makes, we believe,
nearly six millions the college has re-
ceived in gifts since he succeeded to the
presidency. This may fairly be said
to "beat the record among American
colleges, if we except the foundation
of the Chicago University"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
WESTERN CROPS.
Traffic Managers Declare They Will Keep
the Roads Busy Twelve Months.

KANSAS CITY, No, July 29.-Traffic
managers of the Western roads are
busily engaged these days in estimat-
ing the prospective size of the forth
coming corn crop. 1t is believed by
them that from information they have
a conservative estimate is to give the
states of Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas
500, 600, 900 bushels. OF this amount
800. 600, 900 is credited to Kansas, 225,-
900, 900 to Nebraska and the balance to
Iowa. This is of corn alone, leaving
as much other cereals to be moved to
market. The amount of traffic which
is looming into sight will certainly
keep the roads busy fer at least twelve
months to come SO traffic men figure.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Three Girls Drowned.

A Columbus dispatch says: A most
shocking and heart rending accident
happened about o'clock this after
noon. Three young girls lost their
their lives by drowning in the Platte
river, just below the wagon bridge
near Columbus.
Lizzie, aged 10, daughter of Charles
Klaus; May, aged IL, and Hulda, aged
:, daughters of Gottlieb Klaus of Co.
lumbus, were bathing or wading in the
river in company with an older Klaus
girl about Is. In some way the entire
party got into the swift current and
the three younger ones were lost while
the older one by hard struggling, after
drifting half a mile. managed to escape
on a sand bar and gave the alarm.
The bodies were recovered, two of
them one-half mile and the other two
miles below the scene of the accident.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
OUTRAGED AND MURDERED.
Horrible Fate of the Young WIFE OF =
Missourian.

MlsSOurlnn.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, July 25.-ln-
formation was received here last night
of a most horrible crime committed IL
Galloway county, about five miles from
Fulton. Mrs. j. w. Cain, wife of q
young farmer, was criminally as
saulted and had her throat cut from
ear to ear. She was Is years old and
had only been married two months.
Her husband found her body in the
yard when he returned to the house
about noon. The alarm was sounded
and a large posse headed by Sheriff
Windsor Immediately commenced
securing the country. 1t is said two
negro tramps were seen tn the vicinity
of the Cain farm during the forenoon.
William Divers, a negro, is the man
supposed to have assaulted and muir
dered Mrs. Cain. He was arrested and
strong evidence of his guilt estab-
lished. He was brought to Fulton,
and at this hour is missing from jail.
The city of Fulton is wild, and hun
dredS of men are hunting for the sher-
if and his posse, under the belief that
the former is trying to take the negro
to Mexico. 1t will be a miracle if the
negro is not mobbed. The details of
the crime are horrible. The poor
woman had her hands tied behind her
back, every stitch of clothing torn
from her body and her throat cut from
ear to ear. Here is some of the posi-
tive evidence against the negro; Half
of a suspender buckle found under the
woman fitted a missing part from a
similar buckle on the negro. A part
of the Negroes shirt had been torn
from him and was held by the woman.
The negro was bloody, and a part of
Mrs. Gains hair was found sticking
to his clothes.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
DEFENSE FOR WALLER.
The Ex-ConsuI's American Counsel Makes
Out a Strong Case.

The Ex-ConsUI's American Counsel Makes
Out a Strong Case.
WASHINGTON, July 25.-Mr. Cram
mond Kennedy, who has become the
principal counsel in the case of ex-
Consul Waller, now serving a sentence
in a French jail for violation of neu-
trality laws between this country and
France, called at the state department
yesterday for the purpose of present
ing certain phases of the case.
Mr.. Kennedy is disposed to lay much
stress on the fact that at the time Of
Walters arrest, there was no actual
state of war between France and Mad
agascar. He contends that Waller,
for this reason, could not have been
guilty of the charge on which he was
tried and convicted. In conversation
with a representative of the press he
said this phase of the case had not yet
been presented by this government,
and as soon as Mr.. Olney should re-
turn he would present the matter to
him in this LIGHT.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

The special newspaper room in the
new public library building, Boston,
will contain representative newspapers
from every country in the known
world, and in every language in which
newspapers are printed. Nothing
which is not a newspaper can be ad-
mitted to this room-all magazines, re-
views, etc., being prohibited. This is
the first distinctively newspaper read
ing room ever established in connec-
ton with the educational institutions
of this country, and its foundation has
been made possible through the bequest
of the late ]. H. Fiske, who left a per-
petual endowment of $1,000 a year for
its maintenance.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
state Assessment

The state board of equalization has
completed Its work Of equalizing the
state assessment by counties and finds
that the amount charged against the
counties is 81. 1876, 276. SO. The amount
SO charged in 1894 was 81, 257. 00s. % and
for 1893 it was 81. 1858, 995. 50. This year
the total assessed valuation is $171. 1885,
207. 4s. ascompared with $1S3. III, 49S. 70
for 1904 and 1894, 733. 1874. 70 for 1898.
The assessed valuation. state levy and
total assessment charged against each
county is as follows:
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Killed by a Runaway.

Two men named Mckenzie and
O'Leary started from Omaha in a buggy,
intending to drive to their home at La
Platte. About six miles north Of
Plattsmouth, a heavy wagon pulled by
a large span of horses, was coming di-
rectly back of their buggy and the ami
mails became frightened and dashed
into the light buggy. The two occu-
pants were thrown violently to the
ground and run over by the heavy
wagon.
Mr.. Mckenzie was frightfully bruised
and crushed and died in great agony
the next morning. Mr.. O'Leary is
quite seriously injured, but his physl'
clan thinks he will recover.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

The last official report from Argen-
tina showed that over 100000 acres
had been sown in wheat, and it was
estimated that the harvesting of this
crop cost 1920, OOO, 900 in paper money,
gold being at a premium of 270 per
cent. Many of the farmers, it is said,
did not harvest the wheat. The total
weld of the present crop in Argentina
is put at 100000 tons, for which the
farmers would get s4s, Ooo, 900, causing
a loss of s162, 0OO, 900. The average price
of wheat there is 81 for 100 kilos of 22o
hounds. The export of this years crop
In Argentina is put at 10000 tons. If
Argentina is losing money on wheat,
n NAV be a sign that the farmers in
tbe United States have a chance to
make some little profit on their crop.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

Tacoma, Wash, has a horse-canning
establishment which cans meat es-
pecially for the French market. The
Cayuse Indian horse they use is a very
different animal from the old spawned,
broken-down dray horses and plugs
used in Eastern and European locali-
ties. A party of Chicagoans were re-
Gently Toasted on "Cayuse," and found,
while coarse, it was tender, and rather
pleasant to the palate. The coarseness
of the fiber makes it easily detected.
Speaking of the question, the New York
Times wants to know where we shall
look for the horse of the future. The
Cleveland Plain Dealer says: Look
for him in the bologna sausage"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

By the merest chance the Frankfurt
er Journal has discovered the oldest
man in the world in the person of a
merchant residing at Hebron. This
gentleman, in a letter to the editor Of
that periodical, styles himself "a sub
scriber from the first appearance of the
paper" Such loyal devotion deserves
appropriate acknowledgment in this
tickle age, for the Journal has now COM
pleted the 2S0th year of its existence.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Horse Thieves Hold Up Officers.

PERRY, Ok, July 29.-South of here
yesterday deputy sheriffs in pursuit of
swamp, but did not sec them until the
thieves had covered them with VIM
chesters. The officers were compelled
to dismount, give up their guns, mon
ey, watches, and all other valuables
and retreat on foot.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri,
Ohio and Georgia farmers must prepare
for war. So says Chief Entomologist
Howard, of the Agricultural Depart
for these. Those of the west central
group will be invaded by vast armies of
the seventeen-year brood, which last
appeared in 1878, while Georgia will be
visited by the nineteen-year or Southern
brood, last seen in 1882.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Promoting Irrigation.

Much attention is being attracted to
windmill irrigation in this portion of
the Lodge Pole valley, says Dix dis
patch, by the remarkable discovery
made in the irrigation well of Hon.
John Clausen. This well is 1sx2O feet,
and tw%enty-four feet deep. In the bot
tom a hole was broken through a crust
of hard pan, through which a stream
of water rises with great velocity. A
nine-inch pump running continuously
in a high wind fails to lower the sup
ply. A colony of well-to-do families is
now forming in eastern Nebraska to
come to this place in the fall and settle
on forty-acre irrigated farms
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Bennett to Be Married.

New YORK, July ga dispatch
from Berlin says that James Gordon
Bennett is to marry Mrs. Annenkow.
the divorced wife of General Amen
kow, a Russian. who built the Trans
Caspian railroad. She is said to be
one of the richest women in Paris.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Utah Red Men Also Unhappy.

SALT LAKE, Utah, July 29.-Quint
Panqueutch, an Indian known through
out Utah, was shot and killed at Pan
queutch lake in the mountains, Thurs
day, by a man named Haegelsted. The
verdict rendered was accidental death,
but the Indians in that vicinity are
anything but satisfied with the case as
it now stands. They are quite numer-
Gus around the lake, which is an iso-
lated place, and they may make serious
fro11h1a
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
PAPERS FOR
Agricultural Department Proposes to Pub
lish Articles of Much Interest.

IISh ArticIeS OF Much Interest.
WASHINGTON, July 25.-Hereafter the
agricultural department will call on
specialists in certain lines of agricult-
ural work, though not connected with
the office, to make Investigations of
Importance to agricultural interests
and to prepare brief papers or articles
embracing the results of the work.
These will be paid for at rates which
the department regards as reasonable,
the funds being provided for in the
congressional appropriations. Many
persons well known here and abroad
will be asked to contribute. Its object
is to do away with labored articles,
couched in technical language. and of
little interest or mnOrtance-
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Wesley Davis ut Home Again.

TOPEKA, Kan, July 25.-Wesl-y
Davis of R~ossville. in this county, who
lost so heavily in grain al Kansas City
some weeks ago and afterward disap-
peared, has returned to his home. He
declines to give an account of his ab-
Sence
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Ina Donna COoIbirth Dying.

OAKLAND, Cal, July 29.-Ina Donna
Coolbirth, known to magazine readers
both in America and England as a
writer of short poems, is dying at her
home in this city. She was stricken
with p~eritonitis a few days ago and
the physicians say that her case is now
hopeless.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

The progress of reform in New York
is shown by the refusal of a man to
accept a $500 Office. Under the old
regime 1t would not have been offered
to a man who would refuse.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

Virtue is always at a disadvantage
In a legislature. 1t has no money to
spend for virtuous purposes, and it
seems wrong to bride a man to do his
duty however much noble patriots ex-
pect such greasing.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

1t has been suggested hat the Ger
man allowance Of fifty bottles of cham
payne to each member of the press at
kiel was prompted by a desire for full
reports.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

Canada is going to reduce her militia
force. This is the most sensible thing
Canada could do under the circum-
stances. She doesn't need militia to
protect her from the United States, and
if she ever gets into a fight with Great
pritain Brother Jonathan will protect
her with his new navy.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
INDIAN AGENT TEEFER POSITIVELY
DENIES THE REPORT.
The Indian Bureau at Washington So In.
formed by Telegraph-The Cause of
the Trouble Fully Explained
by Mr.. Sitter in an
Official Report to the
Authorities.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-The Indian
bureau has received a dispatch from
Agent Teter saying there is absolutely
no truth in the report of a massacre of
the Jackson's Hole settlers
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

According to a census bulletin on
churches there are only twenty-five
"altruists" in the United States, and
judging from the general tone of mod
ern society, these twenty-five confine
themselves to faith without works.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Emporia Bicycle Riders Fineo.

EMPoRIA, Kan, July 25.-Forty lead
ing bicycle riders were arrested last
night for not ringing bicycle bells at
crossings. Among them were mem
bers of the Hood, Eskridge and Whit
ley families, and others equally promi-
nent. Each paid S4 in fines and costs.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
An Oklahoma Postmaster Jailed.

GUTHRIE, Ok, July 25.-J. G. Crump,
postmaster at Zion, Ok, was brought
in and lodged in the United States jail
to-day on a charge of resistinga United.
states officer in the discharge of his
duty.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Corbett Will Not Fight Divorce.

New YORK, July 29.-James j. Cor
belts attorney has notified Referee
Jacobs that his client will make no de-
Tense to the suit of Mrs. Ollie Corbett
for divorce.s
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

Winfield. Kan, had a shower Of
grasshoppers the other evening, and at
Chicago it rained snakes. The diff
ference in the effects on the mind in
a prohibition and a free whisky state
of affairs is clearly drawn.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

b Macedonians are in open revolt
against Turkey, but it has been a long
time since Macedonia was anything
more than a shadow in history.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02

as she will. She likes it, and she's
Just as fond of the old man as ever.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-02
Trouble in Oregon Possible.

PORTLAND, Ore, July 29.-An Indian
war, similar to that which has broken
out between the Bannocks and Utes
and the settlers of Wyoming, may en-
gage the attention of the Oregon au-
thorities in the near future unless the
interior department at Washington
takes immediate steps to prevent the
Indians now on the reservations in
this state from Unfortunately
slaughtering game and fish in season
and out. Ever since Fish and Game
Protector McGuire has been in Office
he has had trouble with reservation
Indians. Last summer about 100 In
dams from the Warm Springs reserva-
ton fshed out of the Clackamas river
in the vicinity of the new experimental
hatchery, a spot which has been their
favorite fishing grounds for many
years. Another fishing party is eX-
pected to arrive and go into camp at
the new hatchery within the next
three weeks-just when the salmon
are spawning-and upless some meas
ures are taken to stop them they will
surely have trouble with the hatchery
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