The Tribune Publishes by E M and E M Kimmell
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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1884
Page
2
Nebraska News Time Capsule Highlights Nebraska Events
A wide range of 1884 rural and city happenings across Nebraska is reported, including school and factory openings in Geneva Beatrice and Ashland, stockyard activity in Omaha and Columbus, road and public works costs in Omaha, farm losses from bog cholera, a rattlesnake bite in Sarpy, and a fatal threshing accident. Also noted are political, legal, and social items from various towns, including union work disputes resolved, a Madrid-like influx of visitors for the state fair, and a planned cheese factory near Tobias with strong tax receipts in Nance county.
Capital Briefs Highlight Financial and Indian Affairs Notes
The United States Treasurer guides payment in notes, and interior actions include a survey denial for Arsenal Island, Indian land leasing talks with Kiowa Wichita and Comanche delegations, and the Greely relief vessels heading to neutral status. Treasury cuts gold payments, and a cold wave flag will aid farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greely
Hancock
Governor's Island
Lieut
Sebree
Interior Department
Indian Territory
Indian Bureau
Joslin
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Market report notes heat affects crops across regions
The Mark Lane Express reviews the corn trade and reports intense dry heat since August 1. Harvest advances quickly and early wheat is in perfect milling condition. Barley and oats vary by district, beans fail, potatoes likely small but disease-free. New wheat appears in markets in phenomenal condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Lane Express
New Theory Links Volcanic Eruptions to Atmospheric Core Formation
A theory proposes that volcanic eruptions are caused by axes or cores of molten material forming under atmospheric pressure. The hypothesis attributes seismic and eruptive activity to pressure-induced molten structures within Earth’s crust.
Fragments from a busy news day across the nation
Fire in Erie destroys property worth 200000 pounds. Missouri nominates Marmaduke for governor. Western Export association formed by 45 distillers in Peoria. Pleuro pneumonia hits Elmhurst cattle. Dynamite blast kills Robert Knight at Grand Falls. Milwaukee soldiers home probe ready. Arlington murder shocks Texas. Marble dealers Jacoby & Son in Philadelphia assign. Traveling agents meet in Denver with Boston as next venue. Texas Pacific to withdraw from transcontinental rail group. Cincinnati man Anton Baccioco convicted of second degree murder. Sycamore farmer Louis Taylor shoots 17 year old Kittie Mitchell. James Parke, Buffalo merchant, disappears. Coal producers form a pool in Chattanooga. Union Pacific shopmen strike for wages. Japanese traders study US tea and silk markets. Three children burned in a South Perry barn. Mrs Langtry touring America may return in autumn. Lincoln Kish Henry story spurs investigations. Illinois bar hosts banquet for notable jurists. American bankers oppose standard silver dollar coinage. Only two pleuro pneumonia and Texas fever cases in Pennsylvania. Platte county tragedy ends with wife and daughter killed, husband suicide. Washington hotel owners blamed for unsafe building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democrats
Missouri
Marmaduke
Peoria
Elmhurst
Til
Robert Knight
Grand Falls
Milwaukee
Texas & Pacific Railroad
Transcontinental Association
Anton Baccioco
Cincinnati
Adam Doller
Louis Taylor
Sycamore
Kittie Mitchell
Chattanooga
Union Pacific
Denver
Cheyenne
K. O'Kara
M. Yokoyma
Japanese Chamber of Commerce
United States
South Perry
Ohio
Robert Wood
Louie D. Wood
Kate Shaw
Lincoln
Neb
Henry
Greely
Bock
Brock
Fifth Judicial District
Illinois
Charles A. Zane
Springfield
Utah
Cullom
John M. Palmer
Bluford Wilson
American Bankers’ Association
Saratoga
Congress
Political notes and candidate shifts across states
Gen Logan arrives in Albany and Watertown with enthusiasm. Butler ally backs him for president. Ex Mayor Cooper resigns New York party post due to ill health. Ohio GOP nominates Foster for congress by acclamation. Georgia Democrats back Cleveland and Hendricks. Cedar Rapids plans two rallies during central Iowa fair. Holmes renominated in Tenth Town. Judge Miracle renominated. Blaine to sue Indianapolis Sentinel for slander over wife’s honor. Missouri Democrats nominate Marmaduke for governor and complete ticket. Iowa Democrats and Greenbacks fuse on electoral ticket with Greenbacks taking six electors and Democrats seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Albany
Butler
Gen. Logan
Watertown
N. Y
Edward Cooper
New York
Democratic State Committee
Ohio
Foster
Congress
Georgia
Cleveland
Hendricks
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Holmes
Judge Miracle
Eleventh
Greenback Call Sparks Clash Over Illinois State Convention
A circulated circular among Chicago greenback clubs argues against a second Bloomington convention duplicating the August date and urges attendance at the original August 19 gathering. It cites A H McKeighan as opposing Butler and names Z Waters James Freeman and Jesse Harper as signers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bloomington
A. H. McKeighan
Butler
McKeighan
Z. Waters
James Freeman
Greenback State Committee
Jesse Harper
National Committee
Foreign Notes on War, Plague, Drought and Politics
Advices from India report Bengal crop prospects harmed by drought. French prepare two regiments of marines and three ironclads for China. French officers suspected at Coblentz. German fishermen may use arms in the North Sea if molested. Patenottre says France will not interfere at Shanghai. Bismarck and Kalnoky plan joint action on anarchists. Duke of Wellington dies at Brighton. Dumont the archeologist dies. Vienna suffers fires causing panic. Copenhagen hosts medical congress with Washington 1877 invitation. Gordon relief to Wady Halfa. Nile boats ready. Marseilles plague feared to worsen. economy stagnant. English fear American mediation with France and China. English doubt Young will curb England’s supremacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Bengal
China
Coblentz
North Sea
Patenottre
Shanghai
Bismarck
Count Kalmoky
France
England
Brighton
Duke of Wellington
London
Dumont
A captured brute hauled to Omaha jail
Marshal Cummings received a circular describing James Augustus Phillips who attacked a girl near Council Bluffs and fled. A photo with a red headed belts seller led to a trap at a saloon where Phillips was arrested and jailed. Authorities to identify him from Council Bluffs. Reward rumored at 100.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha Herald
Cummings
James Augustus Phillips
Council Bluffs
Elevent
Harney
Gorman
Phillips
Phillip
Murder of Mormons in Tennessee by masked attackers
A Centreville dispatch reports about forty masked men raiding the Condon home in Lewis County Tennessee during a Mormon meeting. Martin Condon and elders Gibbs Berry and others are named among those killed or wounded, with gunfire driving the attackers away and one assailant Dave Hinson shot dead. The elders say they were sent from Utah to establish churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centreville
Lewis County
Tenn
Martin Condon
Condon
Gibbs
Berry
J. R. Hudson
Dave Hinson
Hinson
Hudson
Tennessee
Utah
Cannibalism rumors tag Arctic rescue saga in Washington
Washington reports debate over the Greely relief expedition with officials split on truth of cannibalism claims. Admiral Nichols denies Navy records confirm the tale while Hazen hints at possible congressional inquiry next winter. A Portsmouth interview with Lieutenant Greely cites Henry's execution and food theft as factors in starvation collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Dispatch
New York Times
Greely
Navy Department
Nichols
Navy
Chandler
New Hampshire
Jeannette
Times
Hazen
Kung Henry
Schley
Portsmouth
Henry
Portamouth
War Department
War
Navy Departments
Courtess
Hizen
Washington
Army
Davy Department
Sergeant Brainard
Louisville Evening Times
Lieutenant Lockwood
Henry Clay
Louisville
N. H
Irving
Courier-Journal
Garlington
Cape Sabine
D. L. Brainard
Lady Franklin Bay
Beayonces Kent
Marco
Hunter
Grely
Brainard
Navy Yard
Envy
York
Alert
Thetis
Bear
Cape Kabine
Xevas
Schl
Locust Plague Ravages Mexican Crop Areas
Late advices from Vera Cruz report locust swarms in Yuentin and South Mexico with vast crop destruction. Despite large numbers killed, a hundred square miles are ruined including corn and grass. Thousands of families relying on small crops may need government support for six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Cruz
Yuentin
Mexico
Passenger Rates Cut Across Western Rail Routes
Indianapolis dispatch reports west bound passenger rates demoralized with tickets to Kansas points selling at five dollars, down about 29 percent. A group of 23 from eastern Indiana traveled west on round trip tickets to southwestern Kansas for 12 dollars each, a notable cut. Eastern rates also show reductions of two and three dollars per ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Kansas
Indiana
Earthquake Felt Across Northeast with Widespread Aftermath
A ten second tremor on the tenth sent shock waves from Atlantic Highlands to Portland, with New York City reporting the strongest effects. Buildings shook in Philadelphia and Hartford, clocks toppled in Brooklyn, and crowds flooded streets as residents alarmed by the rumbling and trembling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Atlantic Highlands
Sandy Hook
Long Branch
Philadelphia
New Haven
Boston
Elizabeth
Plainfield
Spring Lake
Cottage City
Martha’s Vineyard
Portland
Sixth
Reed Streets
Seabright
N. Y
Hartford
Brooklyn
Cape May
Atlantic City
Cleveland
Yonkers
East Side
Long Island City
Flushing
Whitestone
College
Disputed Accounts in UP Government Settlement Case
The Omaha Herald reports John Blair and Judge Wilson are taking depositions of Union Pacific officials in a government suit for disputed accounts. The case seeks amounts owed by the government for transportation and sums due from the railway under the Thurman sinking fund act of 1878. Proceedings begin with the Court of Claims in Washington in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Omaha Herald
John & Ee Blair
Department of Justice
Wilson
Shellaburger & Wilson
Washington
Union Pacific
United States
Thurman
Treasury
Court of Claims
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the Tribune
E. M
E. M. Kimmell
Geneva
Omaha
Ashland
Beatrice
West Point
Auburn
Catholic Society
Columbus
Kearney
Clarence H. Wilder
Adams County
Ellsworth Murphy
Buffalo County
H. M. Porter
Cherry Creek
Presbyterian Society of Nelson
Beatrice Canning Company
Potter
Hobart College
Nebraska
A. 0. Henry
Wayne
J. F. Shelbahn
Valentine
Nat Ross
Capt. Ross
Fort
D. A. Russell
A. Bianchi
Sarpy County
Freemont
Saline County
North Platte
Ernest Snelling
Lorenzo Wicer
Doniphan
Waterloo
Guthrie
Lincln
Tom Lowrey
Elder Howe
Clay
Fulton
McDonough
Ilinois
Clay County
Max Grimm
Margaret Klensch
St. Mary's Avenue Convent
Jackson
Nance County
Tobias
Elk Precinct
Nuckolls County
Buck
Job Allen
H. E.cady
Chicago Lumber Company
Nebraska City
Columbus Journal
Schuyler
Verley
Ord
Dundy
Charles B. Henry
Willard F. Mallalinen
D. D
Mass
Red Cloud
12Th
Douglas Streets
E. 0. Ferrer
Franklin
J. W. Deary
Franklin County
Ferrel
Capital Briefs
Secretary of the Interior
Robert Carrick
Arsenal Island
St. Louis
Erie
Arlington
Texas
R. A. Lindsey
George W. Jacoby & Son
International Association of Traveling
James B. Parke
Buffalo
Pennsylvania
Board of Agriculture
Platte County
J. Daniels
Belding
Democratic and Greenback State Central Committee
Des Moines
Greenbackers
Davenport
Vienna
Copenhagen
John &. Billings
United States Army
American Medical Association
Wady Halfa
Semnech
Dongola
Nile
Marseilles
Young
Arctic
Grasshoppers
Long Branch Hotel
Beiz
New York State
Connecticut
New Jerey
New York City
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