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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1884
Page
2
Storms Hit Ord Crops and Town Narrowly Escapes Damage
A hail and wind storm at Ord caused extensive crop damage. The report also notes various local incidents including injuries from falls and accidents, arson and theft cases, weather impacts, a fair schedule in Valley county, a teachers institute in Colfax county, and an embargo on stock shipment by Union Pacific to curb cattle disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ord
Valley County
Colfax County
Typhus and cholera sweep Europe and Asia
Typhus outbreaks kill ten of forty in the Vosges while cholera claims twenty four lives at Marseilles and eight at Arles within a day. Reports from Shanghai discuss a France China peace treaty and indemnity. Other items note political waves in Dublin Madrid and Rome with calls for sanitary action and potential reforms to franchise and alliance shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marseilles
Arles
Shanghai
France
China
Democratic Party Leases West Twenty Fourth Street HQ
The Democratic National Committee will lease 11 West Twenty Fourth Street in New York for headquarters. Campaign advisors appointed to the committee include Senators Gorman Ransom Jones Barbour Thompson Browne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic National Committee
West Twenty-fourth Street
New York
A. P. Gorman
M. W. Ransom
N.C
B. F. Jones
J. 8. Barbour
Herbert C. Thompson
N. Y
A. H. Browne
Ind
United States
Indian Territory
Interior Department
Land Office
The
Marine Hospital Service
Joseph H. Holt
Louisville Estate Board of Health
Annie D. Silver
Indian Department officer arrives in Washington orders Boomers to quit
C Rogers of Muskogee representing the Indian department informs Captain Paine and followers they must leave the Indian territory at once. General Hutch plans immediate removal, with destruction of Boomers' improvements on Cherokee lands and arrest of older offenders to Fort Smith Ark. New offenders to be sent to Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Rogers
Muskogee
Indian Territory
Indian Department
Washington
Paine
General Hutch
United States
Fort Smith
Ark
Kansas
Lovee
Civil Service Commission screens 500 for 150 examiner posts
The Civil Service Commission in Washington examined about 500 candidates for 150 special examiner positions in pension offices. Marking by the examining board is underway. No further exams for this branch will be held now, except for about twenty candidates from southern pares where applications are in progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Service Commission
Washington
Pers
Pares
Numerous fires and accidents plague 19th century towns
A sequence of brief notices details fires in Philadelphia Laning Nevada and Hot Springs Arkansas with wide damage. Other items report a Western Export association formation in Peoria a rail line extension near Watertown and various legal, labor and crime notes including a fatal shooting in York Pennsylvania a prize fight near Brownstown Pa and a deadly home rocket explosion in Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Western Export Association
Laning
Nevada
Knights of Pythias
Sioux City
Lake Shore
New York Central
State board weighs Jay Eye See race at state fair
Omaha business leaders discuss inviting Jay Eye See to race at the state fair. Case offers the trotter for 2500 with 1000 extra if he beats 2104. Omaha businessmen would add 1500, but a quick survey indicates little interest, making the plan likely to be dropped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omahs Herald
Furnas
Barker
Davis
Dinsmore
Hartman
State Board of Agriculture
Paxton
Jay-Eye-See
Case
Imaha
Claims for Army pay and record amendments urged
Claimants under the June act to provide for muster and pay of officers and enlisted men and the July act to relieve soldiers from desertion should apply to the adjutant general for amendment of records. After amendment the second auditor of the treasury may consider and act on pay claims. Intermediation of a claim agent is unnecessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adjutant General
the Treasury
Terrible elevator tragedy in Englewood flats
New York dispatch reports 15 year old elevator boy John Keene died in an Englewood six story building elevator shaft accident. He swung on a bar inside the car and the freight car rose to the sixth floor before he fell to the shaft bottom. he was mangled and instantaneously killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John Keene
Englewood Flats
Englewood
Eighty-first Street
Lexington Avenue
Keene
Hoor
Ind
Scourge Abroad Cholera Report from Marseille and Toulon
New York Times correspondent visits Toulon and Marseille to document cholera conditions. He describes hospitals and cemeteries, notes distress in poorer quarters with filth and foul smells, and contrasts city streets with slums where transmission fears and sanitation issues loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Marseilles
Toulon
Arles
Rue Caisserie
Capelette
Horrors of the Deep in Collision Tragedy at Sea
London dispatch reports the steamships Laxham and Gijon collided in thick fog. Laxham sank within twenty minutes as Gijon also listed. About 140 perished with crew and passengers fighting for lifeboats amid chaos and near-collisions aboard both vessels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hambly
Lothean
Gijon
Red Jacket Warriors Cause Durango Town Turmoil
Durango Colorado erupted after Red Jacket and forty warriors arrived heavily armed. A city marshal arrested a man for disturbance and carrying firearms. he was knocked down as Indians fled. A running two mile chase produced about twenty shots with no known injuries. Cattle men demand troops to guard the reservation and protect southern Colorado herds amid fear of wider Ute violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durango
Col
Red Jacket
Colorado
Omaha Merchants Plan Banquet During State Fair Week
A group of Omaha merchants and manufacturers at the Paxton hotel agreed to host a state fair week banquet for visiting merchants. A finance committee led by Gen Gallagher W W Morse and Allen Koch will raise about 2500 dollars to fund a meal for 30 guests. An executive committee from each leading house will supervise invites and a citywide canvass will be conducted, with a Monday meeting to review progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Paxton Hotel
Gen Gallagher
W. W. Morse
Allen Koch
Democratic Executive Committee Names and States
The announced Democratic executive committee lists members with their home states including W H Barnum Connecticut T A P Gorham Maryland M W Stansom North Carolina Hubert O Thompson New York Wm Wallace Pennsylvania John S Barbour Virginia W F Vilas Wisconsin Austin H Brown Indiana M M Ham Town H D McHenry Kentucky J P H Kelley Minnesota Bradley B Smalley Vermont J W Sulloway New Hampshire F W Dawson South Carolina W W Armstrong Ohio Miles Ross New Jersey 858 Corning and J B Barnstedy Rhode Island J D Prather Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Executive Committee
W.H. Barnum
Connecticut
T. A. P. Gorham
Maryland
M. W. Stansom
North Carolina
Hubert O. Thompson
New York
Wm. Wallace
Pennsylvania
John S. Barbour
Virginia
W. F. Vilas
Wisconsin
Austin H. Brown
Indiana
M. M. Ham
Town
H. D. McHenry
Kentucky
J.P. H. Kelley
Minnesota
Bradley B. Smalley
Vermont
J. W. Sulloway
New Hampshire
F. W. Dawson
South Carolina
W. W. Amstrong
Ohio
Miles Ross
New Jersey
Refusing Diseased Cattle Sparks Regional Probe
General Freight Agents Shelby and Smith of Union Pacific and Burlington and Missouri lines barred receiving cattle with Texans fever. At Calalla several cattle have died, suggesting the disease is in Maxwell Nebraska. A governor appointed commission of cattlemen and others investigates the outbreak but has not reported yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby and Smith
Union Pacific
Burlington & Missouri Lines
Calalla
Maxwell
Nebraska
Cheap Labor Plan Faces Senate Setback
A Washington firm led by real estate agent W. H. Main plans to import Welsh and Italian workers under contract to supplant American labor. The bill blocking foreign labor under contract failed in the senate after passing the house, allowing continued overseas recruitment and a proposed colonization scheme to buy timber lands with capital from German settlers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Senate
Washington
Europe
W. H. Main
Main
Congressman Culbertson Survives Apparent Suicide Attempt
In Washington one congressman, Culbertson, wounded himself with a pistol in a room on the 27th floor. Officials arrived after two shots pierced the skull walls but did not injure the brain. He asked for loading the gun and told doctors he feared he was getting better.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressman Culbertson
Washington
Representative Culbertson
Talking Up a World's Fair Event Planning Committee Named
At a St Louis meeting of exposition and fair association reps the idea of a 400th anniversary world fair to commemorate America’s discovery was approved Julius Walsh of St Louis to form a planning committee The panel includes K ke Beatty Jerseyville IL Col A J Johnson Topeka H Hartwig St Joseph MO H J Hill Toronto Daniel B Gillham Alton Edwin Haren Kansas City Robert Mitchell Princeton IN L M Humsey Richard Green Samuel M Kennard St Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Julius 8. Walsh
Walsh
K. Ke
David E. Beatty
Jerseyville
Col
A.J. Johnson
Topeka
H. &. W. Hartwig
St. Joseph
H. J. Hill
Toronto
Canada
Daniel B. G. Gillham
Alton, Ill
Edwin Haren
Kansas City
Robert Mitchell
Princeton
Ind
L. M. Humsey
Richard Green
Samuel M. Kennard
The Murder Trial at Madison Verdict Guilty Manslaughter
After 22 hours of deliberation in Madison the jury found Chas D Wilmore guilty of manslaughter for the April killing of Chas F McCallum. Wilmore waived a new trial and was sentenced by Judge Crawford to six years in the penitentiary. He showed emotion but accepted the sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi Zimmerman
Valley County
Seth Quigley
Steele City
Kearney
Superior
John Kane
William Zorn
Fremont
Lincoln
Johnson
Burdette
Dole
Orleans
Gaslin
George F. Paine
North Loup
Madison
Chas. D. Wilmore
Chas. F. McCallum
Crawford
Wilmore
Withal
Cholera Conference Invited States Health Officials
A New York notice states on August 24 that Illinois Tennessee Kentucky New York and other states will hold a conference in Washington August Tth to plan methods to meet and master cholera if it appears in the United States Marine and quarantine hospital officers are asked to participate ERxastus Brooks chairman and I N McCormick Kentucky secretary
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
State Boards of Health
Ilinois
Tennessee
Kentucky
Washington
United States
Erxastus Brooks
Laceration Accident Injures Mrs Klouda Near Clarkson
Mrs Klouda living two miles west of Clarkson was badly injured while driving a self raking reaper attached to oxen. A misstep or sudden start pushed her into the sickle severing a leg and badly tearing the other. Drs Wood and Miles attended today. amputation feared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schuyler Herald
Klouda
Clarkson
Defying Authorities: Anchor Line Refuses To Return Immigrants
The Furnesia of Anchor Line brought over assisted Irish immigrants and refused to repatriate them when demanded by U S emigration commissioners. It sailed after obtaining clearance papers, prompting plans to reuse other Anchor Line vessels for returns and to board all Anchor Line ships at quarantine with no assisted immigrants allowed to land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Tax on Whisky Tax Order Rescinded Then Enforced
The internal revenue commissioner previously ordered the whisky tax by assessment to end after September 1 1581 but now notifies petitioners that the original order will be enforced. Tax due dates trigger collection and failure to pay may lead to distraint of property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Boys or Girls
A veteran teacher recalls a 15 year old pupil in physiology asking if there is a straight passage through the head from ear to ear. The remark prompts the teacher to quip that boys would explore the subject with a lead pencil, perhaps in a younger brother.
Local preacher questions God’s power with impossible rock riddle
A suburban pastor tells a catechism class that God can do anything. A boy asks if God can make a rock so big He cannot lift it, and the child’s question goes unanswered. The exchange highlights a classic theological paradox in a small-town setting.
Railroads and the promise of faster transits
A Scientific American piece compares London to Holyhead travel and New York to Washington, noting 268 miles in four and a half hours and 228 miles in six hours twenty minutes. It argues for a daily express between New York and Washington to cut travel to three hours forty minutes, enabling same-day business and return home for tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Holyhead
Dee
New York
Washington
Congress
Scientific American
The Family Physician on Remedies and Cures
Practical home medical notes cover sore throat gargles and wound care with egg white varnish. It praises rupturewort Hyphorbia maculata as a DIY diuretic cure and claims a Vienna doctor’s pomegranate root method to expel tapeworms. Also advises dramatic heat foot baths and fasting during the first day of a cold.
Alcott on governing children and moral influence
The New York Commercial Advertiser comments on A. Bronson Alcott’s belief that a person must govern others by moral force, eye contact, charm, intellect, and manners. It then humorously suggests he would need to govern a rooftop boy marching in processions with a kerosene lamp broom, offering him free board and a new suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Bronson Alcott
Winter Palace
New York Commercial Advertiser
Elephant disrupts Philadelphia theatre performance
An elephant used in a Philadelphia play escaped its stable and burst into the street overturning a wagon and stalls on the way to the theater. He entered the stage before realizing the lights were off and the audience missing, then returned to the stable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Scientific American Calls For Battlefield Telephone Use
The Scientific American urges adopting the telephone on the battlefield to convey information and transmit orders rapidly and accurately while protecting the commanding general from enemy fire. Special modifications are needed but feasible for field use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Cadet enrollment and local public temperance effort noted
A young man dies of heart disease at St Paul while proposing marriage. Jr T Darnow, a temperance lecturer, offers 1000 to establish a reading and amusement room in Sidgport to keep youths away from saloons. Seventy one cadets join West Point this year, including two Spaniards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Jr. T. Darnow
Sidgeport
West Point Academy
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