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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1884
Page
2
A wide survey from Cedar Rapids to Beatrice notes numerous local events. Crimes, accidents, and political notices fill the page, with creamery openings in Madison and Stanton, floods of cattle dealings, and post office changes across Nebraska.
Mr McElhone of the New South Wales legislative assembly speaks to the Chronicle about drought wrecking stock, with about eight million sheep dead, unemployment rising, and emigration likely to fall. He notes land prices boomed, railways under private versus public builds, and poor Sydney streets after a costly asphalt block swindle.
Joseph Carter of Savannah Missouri reports Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy bought for his mother did more good than any other medicine she has taken. Sold at 25 and 50 cents by all druggists. The piece ends with a barroom anecdote about a man kicked out at noon.
Chicago June 1 delegates observers study early sentiment at the Republican National Convention as Blaine Arthur Edmunds Logan Sherman and Hawley vie for support with Wisconsin Indiana Michigan and New York pivotal. Early caucus activity hints at a possible deadlock pending further ballots.
Public debt figures show a May decrease of 34 763 241 20 and a cumulative drop since June 30 1883 of 91 828 714. The comptroller of the currency orders final dividends of eleven and a half percent to Georgetown creditors of the Miners National Bank of Colorado. Edward F Egai longtime St Louis Republican staffer commits suicide by ingesting Rough on Rats.
The Berlin press objects to retaliatory moves amid anger over London blasts. Other items note Charles Reade's distress over theater ties, grain outlook in Britain, uncertain Chicago election forecasts, and tragic deaths including Oscar Wilde's London marriage and a Vienna self immolation.
In Chicago the Republican National Committee passes a resolution thanking Chicago citizens and the arranging and finance committees for the convention. A New York Blaine circular circulates in Chicago. Illinois Democrats endorse the old ticket. Oregon results pending with Herman favored for congress by about 1700 votes and Thayer possibly elected supreme judge as interior reporting slows final tally.
Brewster Cameron ex chief examiner of the United States department of justice was attacked in the Grand Pacific hotel rotunda by George Turner of Alabama. Cameron defended himself with a cane as Hon. Paul Strobach joined with an umbrella. Cameron emerged the victor after the scuffle that centered on testimony given to a committee on expenditures in the department of justice regarding Alabama marshals.
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