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The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
WAS NEVER SO DRY.
A GREAT SCARCITY OF WATER
IN THE WEST.
An Unprecedented Drought that Extends
Illinois the Greatest sufrerers-The
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Un-
usually Low.
Wide Extended nrourht.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. limited
States Observer Frankenfield said to-
day that the present unprecedented
drought extends all over the country.
He added Speaking from this sta
tion. the states of Illinois, Missouri,
Indiana. Kansas, Nebraska and Ar
kanss are all in the need of wet
weather. Iowa has had more rain
than some of the surrounding states,
but is now in almost as bad condi-
tion as the rest.
Missouri and Illinois are suffering
the most, particularly the southern
portion of Illinois and Central Mis-.
souri, There is yet no indication of
rain"
Reports from these states say the
ground is too dry for fall blowing and
all the country roads are from four to
six inches deep in dust A white film
covers all the land. The ripening
corn hangs dull and apparently life
less in the heat of summer sun, and
every thing is parched. In many sec
tions of Missouri cisterns have gone
dry and the danger of fire in the small
cities and towns is imminent.
The Mississippi and Missouri rivers
have not been so low in ten years.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Senate File 169."

The officials of a number of coun ties
in the state, says Lincoln correspond
ent of the Omaha Bee, have written to
the attorney general to find out wheth-
er the new law which appears in the
new copy of the session laws and which
is labeled :'senate file 1863" is valid and
can be put into practice at the com
ing election: The attorney general
has answered all these inquiries by
setting forth the record on this partic
ular bill, but has rendered no decision
as to it's validity. The bill, as intro
duced in the senate, was calculated to
allow counties having a population of
5000, or voting population of 1,600,
to elect clerks of the district court at
other times than the regular time for
electing such officials. The bill was
introduced for the special benefit of
Valley county, but if valid could be
taken advantage of by about ten coun-
ties in the state this year. The record
shows that the bill passed the senate,
but that on the last day of the session
it came to vote in the house and fail
ed to pass, the vote being forty-eight
in favor and nineteen against. In
spite of this failure to pass the bill
however, was certified to the governor,
received his signature and is printed
in the session laws.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Cody Does the Proper Thing.

Some time ago Adjutant General
Barry sent to each member of the gov
ernor's staff and the officers of the Ne
braska national guard an invitation
to accompany Governor Holcomb to
Nashville and participate in the exer-
cises on Nebraska day, October 8. An
answer has been received from Colonel
w. F. Cody, Buffalo Bill" in which
he says: II am pleased to say that [
will be in Nashville with Nebraska <
wild west exhibition on October and
8, and that if the governor wants any
horses for himself and staff, a band.
regular army soldiers as escorts, or if
he wishes the entire wild west show to
turn out on Nebraska day, that | and
my entire company are at his command.
| also wish to extend to him and his
officers, and ladies, an invitation to
visit the wild west exhibition during
our stay in Nashville"
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Monday, Oct, q.


All indications point to a flow of gold from
Europe to America.
Town elections in Connecticut do not show
much change since last fall.
Gov Holcomb OF Nebraska has issued the
usual election proclamation.
Edward Langtry. former husband OF Lily
Langtry. has become demented.
The pope of Rome is in excellent health,
reports TO the contrary Notwithstanding.
By floods in China fifteen or twenty thous-
and persons have recently lost their lives.
The London Globe predicts that Henry
George will be the next mayor of New York.
The new Spanish ministry has taken the
oath of Office and entered upon their duties.
The town of Austin, Pa, was swept by fire,
but five buildings being left Hundreds are
homeless
A protest has been fled at Lincoln against
admitting the national democrats to the Off
cial ballot.
A strong London syndicate is comiug to
this country to endeavor to purchase the
Union Pacific.
Disastrous prairie fires have occurred in
Minnesota and South Dakota. Some loss of
life is reported.
1t is rumored that Grover Cleveland is pre-
pairing to re-enter politics, having an eye on
the New Jersey senatorship.
The steamship Christina has arrived ut
Havana with S2,0OO,OOO for Gen. Weyler, to be
applied to military operations.
The condition of the national treasury on
the 1st showed: Available cash balance,
S2l3, 1860; gold reserve. S14s 17O.S2I.
w. r. Finch. of Wisconsin, has been appoint
ed envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentiary from the United States to Para
quay and Uruguay.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15

ing railroads to issue 1000 mile tickets Ton
$40. good for use by any member OF the pur-
chaser's family.
Weddcrburn & CO.. of Washington. ID. c.,
were disbarred from practice before the In
terror department as patent attorneys or
agents. The firm is held to have been guilty
.'of gross fraud and unprofessional conduct"
According to private adyices vessel car
rying supplies of medicine, clothing, arms
and ammunition for the Cuban army left
Montreal for Cuba last Tuesday. The scheme
was not authorized by the Cuban Junta In
New York.
Attempts to get the Union Pacific to arbi-
trate its differences with the lines OF the
Western Passenger Association have fallen
fiat. The Union Pacific takes the stand that
1t will not arbitrate until the other roads
have declared that they will not allow the
Oregon Short Line any better commissions
than they have been granting to the Central
Pacific.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
LIKE Mr.. POTTER OF TEXAS
Man From Missouri Creates q Scene in
Chicago Hotel.

Man From Missouri Creates a Scene in
Chicago Hotel.
CHICAGO, Oct TT. r. Reed, a
stoclsman from Culbertson, Mo-. awoke
from a troubled dream this morning
at the Ross hotel, Root and HaIstead
streets, possessed with the idea that
someone had entered his room and
taken from under his pillow $500
which he had received from a sale of
stock the day before.
Without looking to see if his fears
were correct, Reed bounded from his
bed, dashed out of the door and down
the hallway with revolver in his
hand, yelling at the top of his voice.
When he reached the elevator shaft
the car was at the top floor and Reed,
thinking he saw at the bottom of the
shaft the man who had stolen his
money, fired three shots into the base
ment.
No one was on the floor at the time
except the porter and clerk, and they
hurried above and overpowered the
imaginative cattleman before he tried
to shoot again. He was held until po-
licemen from the stock yards station
arrived, and his revolver was taken
from him and he was sent to the sta
ton
His pockctbook, containing $500, was
found under his pillow. He was not
locked up, but was warned by the Off
GERS at the station to go home at once.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
He HAD ELEVEN WIVES.
DE-. William Six Sentenced to the Illinois
PenitentiarY for BigamY.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. Oct 7-Dr. Will
lam Six pleaded guilty in the Sanga-
mon circuit court to the charge of
bigamy, and was given an indefinite
sentence, under the new law, to Ches-
ter penitentiary. The complaint was
made by James Hornung, brother OF
Miss Katie Hornung of Berry, Ill his
latest victim, whom he married last
spring, when he had ten other undi-
vorced wives living in various cities in
Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas. Miss Hornung, with an
unaccountable infatuation, stuck to
Six to the last. He is veterinary
surgeon, about 40 years old, and fairly
good looking.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Thursday, Oct. 2.

Three men were crushed to death In the
Homesteak mine at Lead, S. ID.
The business portion of the town or Me-
dora, H., was destroyed by fire.
The shops of the Central railway system of
Macon. Ga, burned. Loss, $4,000.
The president has appointed Augustus O..
Seyfert of Pennsylvania consul at StratfOrG.
Ont,
During the fair festivities at Kansas City
thirty persons were injured by q falling plat
form.
On the 9th the sum of 100000 $500, ,09N was
withdrawn from the Bank of England for
shipment to the United States.
The girls dormitory Of the South Dakota
industrial school was destroyed by fire.
Seven lives were lost In the confagration.
Yellow fever is gradually increasing in
New Orleans and other southern cities At
Mobile the disease has reached the 100 mark.
The general officers of the national w. G.
r. u. have requested all local unions to hold
memorial services for the late General Neal
Dow.
The Detroit opera house is a mass or ruins.
The flames spread to other buildings and be-
fore controlled had done damage to exceed
SsO0.COO
Eight bandits held up a Chicago & Alton
express train near Kansas City. They only
succeeded in robbing the conductor and ex-
press agents of personal effects.
Editor Bran of the Inconoclast received a
severe drubbing at Waco. Tex, at the hands
of three trustees OF Baylor university, about
which he had published an article.
George III. Robinson, who several months
ago mysteriously disappeared from Omaha,
has been found in Michigan. During his en-
tire absence he claims his mind has been a
blank.
Gautemalan insurgents have lost QueZal-
tenango and sustained severe defeat at
Tototonicapan, turning the war strongly in
favor of Director BarriOS, says q New York
Herald dispatch.
Official notice has been given by the Union
Pacific to its connections in Chicago that the
negotiations between that road and the Ore
gon Short Line have been brought to a con-
clusion without any of the matters in dispute
being settled.
Harvey Cherry, who had just returned
to Washington from Nebraska, where he had
sold his farm and had $4,000 on his person,
was waylaid by three footpads, knocked
senseless and robbed of the money and q val
liable gold watch.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Tuesday, Oct. 8.

Thirry-five conventions have been secured
for Omaha next year.
The railroads are bringing many home
seekers into Nebraska.
In the intercollegiate tennis contest at
New Haven Harvard won.
A large hotel collapsed at Charlevoix,
Mich, killing two and injuring ten.
Prof. Francis w. Newman, author and
philosopher, is dead at London, aged SO.
Five political organizations will support
Henry George for mayor OF the greater New
York.
The yelled prophet pageant at st. Louis
was said to be the finest ever presented in
that city.
There is fight on in Chicago over the
price of beer The price has been cut and
the end is not yet.
Ex-Governor Boies announces that he will
make no more speeches in Iowa during the
present campaign.
Contracts have been let for standard
gauge road from Canon City to Cripple Creek,
Col. to cost about S1,OOO,O0O.
The land owned by the Northern Pacific
| amounts to nearly 34000,000 acres, of which
almost all is west of the Missouri river.
statement of the condition of the ma
tional treasury shows: Available cash bal
ances S213 S62.0S1; gold reserve, S14s, s,46S, ,63i.
w
elected president of the Union Pacific if the
reorganzed company gets control of the
road.
Samuel r. Mcmillan, United States senator
from 1876 to 1888, died at his home in ST. Paul
of anameia. He had been ill for nearly q
year.
The London Times says the Wocott COM
mission intends to request the government
to give an immediate and final reply to it's
financial proposals.
Captain w. 4. Dunn has sold his six-mile
hill copper mine at Houghton, Mich, to Cam
eron, Currie- s. Co. of Detroit, brokers for
New York capitalists, for S50o,O0O
AS Il result of the revival in trade, the mint
in San Francisco will at once resume the
coinage of silver dollars in accordance with
! instructions received from Washington.
Daniel s. Lamont has been elected presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific Express COM
pany. which is an adjunct of the railroad
company of which he is a director and vice
president
Jacob Harlan, republican nominee for Cir
cult clerk of Harlan county. Kentucky. was
| killed in q political fight on Straight creek.
| Joe Milton, democratic candidate for jailer
| was mortally wounded.
Commissioner General Sullivans annual
| report to the secretary of war shows the ex-
| penditures during the year amounted to
s. 1G5, ,209 OF which 81 972, ,7O2 were for the sub
sistence of the army and the balance to set
| tie claims and other purposes.
| The supreme court of Iowa has affirmed the
| decision of the lower court in not holding S.
| j. Spauldng, who embezzled $4,000 from the
| secretary of the state pharmacy commission.
! The court holds he is not public officer, but
| merely an employe of the commission.
| Spaulding appropriated the sum to speculate
| In grain.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
"Wednesday. October 6.

1t is so dry in Kentucky water famine is
threatened.
London DISPATCHES report indications Of a
Carlst rise.
Prairie fires have done much damage in the
vicinity of Chicago.
The government has received no offer from
the English syndicate for the Union Pacific.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
will build 900 addition to its plant at
Pueblo.
Ten states were represented in the west
ern waterways convention held in Davenport,
Iowa, by fifty delegates.
a passenger train on the Boston and
Maine road jumped the track, resulting in
thirty persons being injured.
rs.'Lena Ripley Waters. n bride of three
months, committed suicide by hang
ing herself at the home of her sister.
The appointment of Hosea A. Townsend.
of Colorado to be judge of the United States
conrt for the Indian Territory, is announced.
Mrs. Langtry makes the announcement
that she has retired from the stage and that
her steam yacht. Whyte Ladye, will be sold.
The president has appointed Newton c.
Bates, U. S. N. surgeon general and chief Of
the bureau OF medicine and surgery of the
navy.
The funeral of Neal Dow, the veteran tenn
peaance worker. at Portland, Me-, was large
ly attended, many distinguished people
being present.
The annual executive session of the Ma
tional Conncil of Women of the United
States will be held October %. 26, q and 2S at
Nashville, Tenn.
From Washington 1t is reported that Min
lister Woodford has received no additional
instruction from Secretary Sherman or any
other government officer since he sailed for
Europe.
J. r. Burton says this year Is 'the best that
Kansas has seen in nineteen years. The neo-
pie will live this year, not merely exist and
will put away in the neighborhood OF
175.0O0.0Oo.;'
The supreme court of Michigan has sus-
aimed the act Of the state legislature reguir-
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Friday, October 8.

Disastrous forest fires have been raging in
Manitoba.
Eugene V. Debs is about to make speeches
in a number of eastern cities.
Senator Thurston was in Washington on
the 9TH and called on the president.
The drouth in Tennessee is unprecedented.
Late crops have been literally burned up.
John E. Hart of Nebraska has been REIN
stated as tagger in the agricultural depart
ment
Hon, L. NJ. Ammermann of Scranton, Pa,
capitalist and eX-congressman, died sudden
ly of heart disease.
Jose SilvOrio JOrrin, formerly Cuban Sena-
tor, is dead at his home in New York City of
pneumonia, aged ST years,
The design of Prof. Reinhold BegaS, the
celebrated sculptor, has been selected for the
Bismarck monument to be erected in Berlin.
The comptroller of the currency has called
for statement of the condition of the ma
tional banks at the close of business, Octo-
ber5.
The lord mayor of London announces that
the Indian famine fund contributed by Great
Britain, the United States and India amounts
to el,50O000.
Secretary Wilson of the agricultural de-
partment is making arrangements for the
purchase of foreign seeds for distribution by
the department..
October Sth was Nebraska Day at the
Nashville Centennial exposition. Governor
Holcomb, Hon. W. j. Bryan, Senator Allen
and others were in attendance.
The president has appointed the following
consuls: Rufus Scanning of Ohio, at Edin-
burgh, Scotland; Samuel A. McAllister of
Delaware, at Barbados, West Indies
1t is understood that the supreme court
will hand down it's decision this autumn in
what are known as the Nebraska maximum
freight rate cases and that it will be in favor
of the railroads and against the state.
DR.. Jameson, the leader of the Transvaal
raid. will seek seat in the Cape's assembly
at the next general election. The chief plank
in his platform will be Federation for
South Africa"
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Big Copper Mining Deal.

HoUGnroN, Mich, Oct. 7.-Captain
W. A. Dunn has sold his SIX Mile Hill
property to Cameron, Currie & Co., of
Detroit, brokers for New York cap
italists, for 5000 The property
has the richest showing of copper of
any mine opened since the discovery
of the Calumet and the Hecla, and
mining men are unanimous in predict
ing a prosperous future.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Chicago to Have a Beer War.

CHICAGO, Oct. 7.-Chicago is des-
tined to have cheap beer for time,
and a beer fight thrown into the bar
gain. A war of determination was
threatened by the beer trust to-day on
the rebellious brewers who remain
outside the breastworks. 1t is re-
ported unofficially that an immediate
cut in the price from S4. so to S4 will
be made, and that the prices will be
scaled down to So even, if need be, be-
fore the fight is finished.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15

Mr.. Adam Kleinkauf, an old resi-
dent of Grand Island, has received a
letter from his son William, who is at
present making his way to Klondike
with party of eighty men. The let
ter states that the party has yet two
months to travel before they reach
Dawson. 1t has been very rainy, says
the writer, for eight days, and supplies
were becoming mouldy and worthless
in the dampness of the atmosphere.
The letter was sent away on August
81. The tone of the letter showed that
the writer felt considerably discour-
aged Some of the most beautiful
scenery Imaginable was seen, but there
were also districts that were terrible.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
joWA PATENT OFFICE REPORT.

DEs MONIES, Sept. 29.-During the
current week applications for United
States letters patent have been allowed
% Iowa inventors as follows: To
Peter j. Quirli, of Des Moines, for an
apparatus for weighing and dumping
coal This machine is constructed To
receive quantity of coal as 1t IS
dumped frCm the mine elevator, 10
automatically weigh the coal thus
received and held, to indicate the
weight upon suitable dial, and to
provide simple convenient and easily
operated means whereby the coal thus
held and weighed may be discharged
into a car or wagon. To Matthew
Kehoe, of Cushing, for a two horse
evener, the object of which a. Gcs-
cribed in his specification Is Ito
relieve the single trees pivotaliy con-
nected with the ends of the double
tree from tOrtional strain, and to-
avoid the dangers and accidents
incident to the ordinary manner Of
connecting and using double trees and
single trees on 4 two-horse evener."
To Burton a. Walrath, of Lehigh. on
mechanical movement. This ipven-
ton is designed for use in governing
the motion of an engine as it is i'm
parted 20 other machinery, and Is so
constructed that the motion of the
driven shaft may be reversed or held
stationary while the driving shaft OF
the engine is continually rotated in
the came direction.
Valua bic information about obtain
ing. valuin@ and selling patents sent
free to any address.
THOMAS G. and j. RALPH ORwrG,
Solicitors q Patents
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Saturday. October @.

Ex-senator John R. Mcpherson of New
Jersey is dead.
The corn crop yield of Nebraska this year
is 222S, ,9O7, ,S53 bushels.
Senator Allen made quite a lengthy address
at Nashville on Nebraska Day.
The Second Presbyterian church at La
fayette Ind, was destroyed by fire.
The report that $50 900 has been bid for
the Union Pacific has been confirmed.
The president has appointed G. H. Bridge
man of New York minister to Bolivia.
Discrepancies amounting to s5e0000 have
been discovered in the accounts of the
auditor OF Brooklyn.
The government building at the Trans
Mississippi exposition is at once to be pushed
forward to completion.
Governor Drake of Iowa, now at Excelsior
Springs, Mo-, is SO sick that it is feared he
will never leave there alive.
A dispatch from Toxic says it is reported
there that the king of Corea has proclaimed
himself emperor of Corea.
Failures for the week ending Oct were
212 in the United States as against 29s last
year. and 29 in Canada against 46 last year.
Charles s. Davis of Sisseton, S. D., has de-
clined an appointment as superintendent OF
the Clontarf and Morris Indian schools, Min
neSota-
Ncol5e WIZ Was db OL1aNa,
is said by one of the loca! papers to have
made confession and by another that he
did not.
The first Chicago ball player to sign con-
tract for next year was Shortstop Dahlen,
who affixed his signature to an agreement 20
play in Chicago.
Special Master Cornish will conduct the
sale of the entire property embraced by the
Kansas Pacific railway consolidated mort
gage at Topeka, Kan, Nov. B at Ii a. m.
Among the diplomatic changes reported at
Madrid rs being imminent is that the Duke
OF Almordova. or Senior Murugua, will re-
place Senior Dupuy de LONE as Spanish min
lister to the United States
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15

CoTToNwooD FALLS, Kan, Oct O.
Last night about IL o'clock Gn unsuc-
ccssful attempt was made by two rob
bers 20 loot the general merchandise
store of c. l. Maule Mt Strong City.
One of the robbers was shot by Mr..
Maule's son, Alex. who was sleeping
in the store at the time The wounded
robber. gives bis name as George X.
Bishop of Bloomfield. Iowa There is
little hope of his recovery. He said
his partner was barber from New
ton. Kan, whose name he refused 10
give.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
salvation Army Colony Plans.

DENVER, Col, Oct. 9.-Thomas lloi-
land, national social secretary for the
Salvation army, will leave for New
York To-day. Commander Booth
Tucker will hold conference with
capitalists in New York October Is,
when the last details of the proposed
colony will be arranged. 1t is now
definitely settled that 1000 families
will be placed in the Arkansas valley.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Cbrjstian Churchmen Convene.

EMPoRIA, Kan, Oct. 6.-The annual
convention of the Christian churches
of the state of Kansas convened here
to-day and viii hold sessions until
Friday evening next The attendance
is very large. every section of the
state being represented.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
A Nephew OF Cleveland.

EMPoRIA, Kan, Oct. "a warrant
was issued yesterday for the arrest OF
C. E. Hastings, n nephew of Grover
Cleveland Hastings is charged with
embezzlement by G.. w. Yates, state
agent of the Union Central Life Insur-
ance company.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
weyIer May Make Trouble.

MADRID, Oct. General Weyler, II
is believed, will fight tooth and nail
against being removed from Cuba He
is trying to terrorize the Liberal min
istry into retaining him in cpnmand
in Cuba until next June, and, if re-
called now, he will use his influence
to create disturbances in the penin-
sula or deliver himself to the Carlists
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Heavv Damages for Injuries.

LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, Oct "A jury
in Judge Myers court yesterday
awarded a verdict for $3.50 to Mrs.
Bridget A Cusiclz against the Electric
Street railway for injuries alleged to
have been received in 1894 while
alighting off car.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Bank Teller Charged With Robbery.

NAPANEE, Ont, Oct. 6.-W. Fl. Pom
ter, teller of the Dominion bank
branch here, which was robbed of $780,
600 few weeks ago, was arrested to-
day on charge of committing the rob-
berry.
The McCook tribune., 1897-10-15
Odd Inventions.

Above are shown three odd contri-
vances taken from Sues Machine
Movements, copyrighted 1897. The
first shows a bread cutter, while the
other two show mechanical contrivan-
ces. by means of which the wheels. ID
and B may be rotated. Inventors and
others desiring free information as to-
the best method of securing their in
ventiOns should address Sues ~ Co,
attorneys at law and patent experts,
Bee Building, Omaha, Neb.