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Newspaper

Mccook Weekly Tribune

Location

Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Feb 05, 1885

Page

2

Worthington named Nebraska bishop to be consecrated in Detroit

Advices report Rev. Dr. Worthington will be consecrated bishop of Nebraska in Detroit, due to absence of consecrating bishops. Detroit pastors praise his near seventeen years at St. John’s parish, highlighting his devotion, parish missions, charitable work, and influence on clergy and lay leaders.

George Worthington T. D St. John’s Church Detroit Nebraska Clarkson Worthington St. John's Church Diocese of

Gibbon Incorporation and Regional News Highlights

The state brief covers Gibbon's incorporation, coal findings near Tobias, and Saline county pauper board costs. It notes G A R and G A K events, diphtheria impacts in Kearney Fullerton, and surveys at Republican City. Also mentioned are Burglaries, new stations, coal reports, revival meetings, livestock counts, and early town developments across several counties.

G. A. Kt Schuyler Kearney Fullerton Republican City

Nebraska items and notices from the state press

A date of notes from Nebraska papers covers fires destroying homes with no insurance, a jailed man in Lincoln on a pending assault charge, powder missing from coal, grain exhibits boosting Nebraska flour, editor changes, senate bills on penalties and delinquency, a 12 year old mother case, county treasurers pay ruling, a scalding death, cattlemen fears, state fair moves to Lincoln for five years, a wallet theft at a post office, land office district debates, and a coal seam found near Bigley’s bluff with two coal layers observed in rock formations.

Chris Rushmann Richland Precinct Sarpy County Texas Livestock Association Texas Lincoln Omaha Sidney North Platte State Farmers Alliance J. Burrows Allen Root L. D. Willard A. A. Steadwell van Wyck Mancerson Anthony Senate House Committee On Public Lands Wright Kilmer Barney Kaley Cox Stone Olmstead Rickley Taggart Crawford and Lee Furnas Joseph Scott Colfax Schuyler Herald

Bell of Liberty Arrives in New Orleans Amid Welcoming Parade

New Orleans greets the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia with Jefferson Davis among guests. The bell train arrives at Elysian Fields around 4 PM as crowds line the levee. A planned reception in Music Hall is delayed by unforeseen issues and may be held later.

New Orleans Philadelphia Jefferson Davis Beauvoir Mississippi Elysian Fields Seaius Gupta Music Ha

Nebraska Legislature Reports Move to Regulate Railways

The Nebraska Legislature debates regulate railways with lower passenger tariffs, committee actions on constitutional amendments, and bills on liquor prohibition. House and Senate discuss road and railway rates, extraditing clerks, and funding for the New Orleans exposition.

the Board of Regents Szxate Senate McAllister Sowers John M. Thurston Committee On Railroads House of Representatives Howse House Nebraska Suken Lei Howe Shervin Fremont

Outlaw Nicholas Aragon Surrenders After Canyon Fight

Nicholas Aragon once with Billy the Kid posse near Chaporito thirty miles south of Las Vegas New Mexico holds out in an adobe hut. He defies surrender until deputy Joan Hurley is killed and Brent wounded in a failed assault before he finally surrenders.

Nicholas Aragon Billy the Kid Chaporito Las Vegas New Mexico Joan Hurley

Multiple Unfolding News From Around The Nation And Beyond

The report surveys a wide range of brief items including political shifts in Oklahoma and Kansas, a new electric streetcar line planned in Cleveland, and an ice carnival opening in Montreal. It notes a bank run near New Haven, a Missouri house petitioning to open Oklahoma to settlers, and a Kankakee asylum fire tragedy with seventeen deaths.

Missouri House of Representatives Congress Oklahoma Kankakee Nashville and Chattanooga Memphis John Prough Jersey County Illinois Jude James Cole Plaquermine

Murder and other crimes fill early crime losses

Michael Roch an Irish resident of 36 Mulberry Street Cleveland murdered his wife and then cut his throat. Ellis a government building supervisor in Rochester N Y faces bribery charges. In Chicago Louis Bachus a peddler killed Theodore Lay after alleging Lay raped his daughter and abused her under a marriage pledge. In Winnipeg two men assaulted two girls leaving one dead. Ruf Miner alias Charles Stewart altered alias Pine alias Rogers was arrested in Brooklyn for lounging after long bank thefts totaling over 110000 in cash and securities. Norwich cashier Roath embezzled 40000 to 50000 from the Shetucket bank and additional 5000 from the New London County mutual fire insurance.

Michael Roch Mulberry Street Cleveland Ellis Rochester N. Y Board of Supervisors Chicago Louis Bachus Theodore Lay Bachus Lay Winnipeg Manitoba Ruf” Miner Charles Stewart Pine Rogers National City Bank of Brooklyn Miner Baltimore Philadelphia Roath Norwich New London County Mutual Fire Insurance Company

Political notes and indictments shadow Illinois election scene

The piece reports large inauguration plans with 100000 marching men and 100 bands and notes ex Governor St John lecturing in Bloomington while reporters were avoided. It covers talk of General Grant retirement, Cook county grand juries indicting 83 and 245 election judges, and criticism of inadequate election laws and police funding.

St. John Bloomington Slocum General Grant Senate Randall House Military Committee Cook County State House Ill

Seven Polling Precincts Free of Election Violations

Report notes seven precincts in the city divided area had no violations of election laws. Some issues arose from ignorance, others from carelessness, and some likely from criminal intent.

Clares Jis Precintson

Steam Vessel Regulations and Public Building Funding Notes

The board of supervising inspectors adopts a rule requiring barges in tow of steamers to carry proper signal lights. Fire damages books in the House of Representatives roof but firemen extinguish it. The treasury supervising architect urges $45,000 more for Des Moines public building and raises St Louis limit to 300,000. A committee favors lowering newspaper postage to one cent. life-saving mattresses may replace life-preservers on steamers at specified ratios.

Board of Supervising Supervising Architect The Treasury Des Moines Iowa St. Louis House Committee On

Foreign notes from around the world report wars and shocks

Dispatches from Cairo flag a Beresford march on Khartoum while France may declare war on China. Reports claim French and Chinese ships clash near Shanghai. dynamiters threaten Britain. Irish protests grow in London. A deadly Sydney train wreck kills forty. Vienna presses halt mechsarath coverage. Metemneh fighting costs and casualties. debris removal at the White Tower follows a dynamite blast.

Cairo Charles Beresford Metemneh Khartoum France China England

No Fight Warned by Creek Leader on Indian Territory Affairs

Chief Perryman of the Creeks, in Washington, predicts no clash between Hatch troops and the Couch faction. He says boomers are frontiermen who could defeat Hatch, but leaders push to force land sale under government entry. He argues capitalists seek to drive terms, while Creeks and Seminoles hold 5,000,040 acres and would sell to the government at 1.25 per acre, recouping proceeds quickly via taxes.

Perryman Washington General Hatch Couch Colony Hatch Oklahoma Country United States

President-elect Cleveland's Albany Reception Stirs Social Scene

President-elect Cleveland met Governor Hill Eurastus Corning Colonel Lamont and General Rathbun as Albany hosted a grand social gathering in Fort Orange. Over seven hundred invitations were sent and about three hundred guests attended the capitol reception marking his last public appearance in Albany.

Cleveland Albany Fort Orange Governor Hill Capitol Eurastus Corning Lamont Rathbun

Lumbermen form association to curb production

An Oshkosh Wisconsin special reports a meeting of lumbermen forming an association to unite sash and door manufacturers from Oshkosh Fond du Lac Appleton De Pere Wausau and Kipon. They resolved to restrict output by half time or with a force and withdraw all traveling agents for thirty days.

Oskosh Wis Fond du Lac Appleton Depere Wausau Kipon

Senate Debates and House Actions Across January Events

Reports from Washington detail Senate and House proceedings in late January including committee actions on agricultural and military bills, the London explosions resolution, claims settlements for Pacific railroads, and the retirement list for long-service army personnel. Debates cover treaty ratifications, river and harbor funding, and responses to grants for recognition of Siberia survivors.

Wasmorox Senate Kansas Plumb Committee On Public Lands Iowa Umb Nea Jay London Riddlebe Ingalls Senate of the United States House of Parliament HOUSE Findlay Secretary of State Hewitt New York Washneton Morrill Committee On Finance Cameron Committee On Military Affairs United States Army McComas Grant Washington Sloar Judicial Committee Venezula Slocum Fitz John Porter Secretary of the Navy Russia Siberia Vance

Fenians Denounce Bayard Resolution in Chicago Meeting

A prominent Fenian calls a Chicago Irish Americans meeting a rebuke of Bayard’s Senate resolution and urges Irish supporters of Congressman Lobb of Indiana to show appreciation on his return home. The debate centers on measures against Britain and the national stance of Irish groups.

Fenian Brotherhood Chicago United States Senate Bayard

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