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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1884
Page
2
The Nebraska Women’s Work committee appeals to Nebraska women to contribute samples and models for the New Orleans World’s Exposition. They seek items in women created inventions publications editorials poems stenography penmanship and textiles plus grain crops and seed samples. Send to Mrs. C Elliott Commissioner for Neb Woman’s Work New Orleans La.
The four Knights of Pythias lodges in Omaha plan incorporation to erect a Knights of Pythias building with a Castle Hall and business stores and apartments for use by the order.
Charles Stevens alias Omaha Charlie, who killed Herbert Kramer in Maryville on December 3, was taken from jail by a mob of sixty masked men at 2 a.m. and hanged from a railroad bridge a mile and a half away after Sheriff Anderson resisted. Stevens, pardoned recently for a prior murder, met a violent end as the mob overpowered authorities and fired on them during the assault.
A delegation led by Morehead Lamar and Hampton asks President Arthur to open the New Orleans exposition by electricity. The plan would wire motive power to the machinery and launch the fair at a prearranged moment from the White House. The president will consider the proposal.
Julius Prebs and Herman Bellman both about 24 were arrested in Chicago on charges of attempting to wreck the incoming Omaha passenger train near Mount Clair on the Milwaukee and St. Paul line. A village resident's warning prevented disaster. They were held to the grand jury in 5000 dollars bail each.
An Indian territory dispatch reports George Christy fatally shooting Sanders, son of Senator Sanders, Cherokee council. A bankruptcy bill suspension vote in January is unlikely to pass. Secretary Teller mandamus case over Arsenal Island is certified to general terms. George Cook hanged at Laramie for murder. A knife duel in Idaho leaves two dead. Naval appropriations unlikely to advance. Malden farmer Blanton defends himself, wounding one assailant. Senate executive session discusses McCulloch treasury tenure and holiday postponement.
Edwin Packard and Alexander Forman are expelled from the Kings County Republican general committee for disloyalty to Blaine. South Carolina reelects Wade Hampton senator with near unanimous votes. Cleveland and Hendricks celebration spreads from Charleston to Washington with gunfire and lights. Eastern Pig Tron seeks tariff clubs. Boston mayoral results show O'Brien leading by 3,111. Chicago election fraud defendants post bail at 10,000 each. Levi P Morton reiterates commitment to Republican protectionist policy.
In Bedford Kentucky Lafe Gammons and James Davine quarreled and Davine’s son shot Gammons in the head, killing him. Gammons was killed instantly and Davine was stabbed twice with a penknife by the killer’s father. Perry Reilly, linked to a Sulphur Springs Texas robbery, was lynched after confessing the break in and assault on F P Jones and his wife. Charley Palmer fired on William Akers in Pittsylvania Virginia, later beating a black man. Deacon Terry, who fled Northville Long Island with Rev Downs’s wife, wrote a note expressing remorse and threatening self harm. Mrs Downs sought forgiveness from her mother in Bridgehampton.
A Congo conference reports progress with plans to finish by December 20. One hundred operatives have departed Nottingham for America where positions are already filled. A Odessa dispatch notes rising Turkish atrocities in Macedonia with two hundred Christians reported killed and three villages affected.
Reports describe widespread fear in Russia with a nihilist decree and executions threatened. Arrests rise in St. Petersburg while trials for eight nobles move slowly. In Tonquin Kee Lung tensions persist as German recruits swell China’s service. France debates Tonquin credits and colonial policy amid rising friction with China.
The Pastoral Letter from the third plenary council at Baltimore urges Catholics to align with American liberties while maintaining church authority. It condemns propaganda attempts, highlights education through Catholic schools, defends Christian marriage, and condemns Sunday liquor sales. The role of clergy education and public conscience in sustaining Catholic influence is emphasized.
The letter calls for stricter Sunday laws and broad Catholic participation in temperance, condemns liquor traffic, and urges forbidding membership in secret societies. It appeals for Catholic associations, church guidance, and support for foreign missions and missions among Indians and African Americans.
Senate discusses Grant letter on pension, Blair funding for 1885 Chicago event, and presidential inauguration holiday. House debates inter state commerce, Mississippi restoration bill, and Dakota admission opposition. Senate opens open session treaty rule debate with Spain.
The committee on Pacific railroads informally decided not to urge the bill regulating transportation rates on the Union Pacific and Central Pacific roads, due to a crowded calendar.
The article outlines proposed reforms in bishop elections and governance. Bishops to select six priest counselors for life, with ten percent of priests designated as irremovable rectors. The council confirms bishops cannot remove counselors or rectors except for cause after trial. Final approval rests with the pope.
A Little Rock bound train was seized by three masked robbers three miles south of the city. They forced passengers to raise their hands and looted the express safe and passengers’ valuables. About $7,000 in cash watches and jewelry taken. bloodhounds tracked the suspects to Little Rock and five people were arrested.
Gen Brisbin of the national cattlemen executive committee argues in a Helena Herald letter that free ranges are no longer practical and that most U S cattlemen favor leasing public grasslands, a Texas cattle trail, and an animal industry bill. He warns one sixth of west of the Missouri cattle are English owned or controlled and urge protection of American cattle growers against foreign capital to keep beef affordable at home.
Mr Beach proposes a bill to keep ballots secret in elections for representatives and delegates to Congress. It requires a uniform separate ballot with specified paper quality and type size. The bill allows ballots to be printed written or mixed and makes violations misdemeanors with fines or imprisonment.
Correspondence from across Iowa shows widespread farmer and business discontent over rail charges. Despite low grain prices, rates stay high as special manufacturer and wholesaler discounts vanish. Some communities discuss calling an extra session to tackle transportation and urge the governor to convene January legislature.
The Chicago dispatch notes a discouraging wheat outlook with bullish brokers unable to sustain January and May orders and traders seeking a bottom price. Corn remains nervous, price movement driven by receipts and weather amid freight and producer tensions.
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