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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1884
Page
7
Supreme Court decisions shape political crime and foreign news as the conference between the B M and Union Pacific ends without a settlement.
Grand jury in Yankton returns two indictments against Governor Ordway. Deaths at Evanston and Chicago. Loot and fraud cases surface in Pittsburg and Newark. A water spout in Missouri kills a child. a house fire destroys Wamsley. Railroads face rate cuts and regulatory moves. Battles, trials, and international tensions include the Mussel Shoals case, Cuba and Egypt issues, and unrest in Prussia and Palermo.
Debrazza, a French explorer, signs a treaty with the Congo’s most powerful ruler. The agreement places all states on the right bank of the Congo from Brazzaville to the equator under French protection. Prince Victor, awaiting majority, will soon be raised to the peerage.
A group of leading democrats claim Tilden will not run under any circumstances, leaving Flower and Cleveland as New York contenders. Republican districts report varied Chicago conventions preferences with Edmunds favored by several delegations. Maine greenbackers back Butler. Kentucky Democrats push tariff for revenue only. Watterson not a delegate at large. The independent republican committee in New York discusses a candidate slate with Edmunds as the likely preference.
Mr. S Carpenter of 463 Fourth Avenue New York endured eight years of rheumatism before using St Jacobs Oil the great pain reliever and now reports a complete cure with no recurrence of the condition.
An 19th century style advertisement promotes Piso’s Cure for Consumption as a remedy. It asserts the medicine removes cough and phlegm, framing it as a cure rather than a temporary relief.
Havana dispatch reports troops fail to capture Aguero as authorities maintain silence. Gold premiums rise to high levels, signaling unrest. Aguero's faction split into three, complicating the pursuit. Rumor says he was offered money to leave Cuba.
Professor Law of the Trans T7 cattle commission reports from Kansas that all attempts to communicate the disease by motion have failed. He telegraphs associate J H Sanders of the Chicago Breeders Gazette that the case is settled beyond controversy: it is not foot and mouth disease.
A New York Grand Army meeting story recounts Captain Alfred Rensom recognizing veteran W. K Sage of St Johns Michigan after years apart. Sage describes severe malaria related fevers nervous dyspepsia and loss of appetite before claiming Warner's Tippecanoe restored his nerve tone stomach vigor and energy. The piece anchors on his health turnaround and a hotel ad filler.
Anxiety grips Colorado Springs as Signal Service Observer Ramsey on Pike's Peak station for seven weeks faces a grim fate. His companion George Buckhaus reached camp three weeks ago in a near death state after snow drifts 20 to 30 feet deep. Provisions dwindled to rice apples condensed milk flour and salt fish with no means to cook. Multiple relief efforts have failed.
A Savannah news sketch depicts a Cobb county cyclone as an enormous globe with rotary motion. The black globe flashes vivid lightning while a stem feeds it and a crimson cloud encircles the spectacle. The noise resembles a coal burner engine.
During a performance of A Bunch of Keys at the Capital theater an actor cracked a nut on a hotel clerk’s bald head. A bald-headed man in the audience objected claiming it reflected on all in the house and urged lawfulness. He was quieted, later the clerk was struck again with a hotel match and police had to intervene.
Beecher muses on heaven revealing surprises for nearly all. He compares earthly pretensions to chestnuts in burrs, suggesting many will be astonished by their humbler state in the hereafter.
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