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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1884
Page
2
The Tribune paper from MCCOOK lists FP M and E M KIMMELL as publishers and dates or offices in a brief catalog style entry. The readable snippet indicates local newspaper lineage and ownership line with no further details.
Population updates and county results abound as hog cholera spreads through several counties, state fair crowds top twenty five thousand, crimes and accidents dot Omaha and towns, with elections and public notices shaping civic life across Nebraska in a lively but unsettled week.
Hot New York heat causes numerous prostrations while McCullough is said to have become demented. Cleveland fire losses rise to 2.5 million. Cleveland blaze yesterday destroyed 2.5 million in property. Arkansas City block burned with unspecified loss. Fayetteville Savings Bank closes. White House orders preparations in President's absence. Kentucky election predicted to be bloody. Gov Cleveland at Elmira fair. Alvin Indiana postmaster arrested in Chicago for rifling. Ex secretary Folger funeral draws 49 000. Bane Valley cotton firm fails in Louisville. Gov Hamilton issues cattle disease proclamation. Philadelphia speeds rail time 190 miles in 3 hours movement. J H Equier NY banker suicide. Denver mining exposition opens. Anthony's will filed. legacies to sister and relatives. Sioux City hit by severe storm. barns unroofed. Maine vote count 142 410 with Robie leading. Sam Jackson hanged by mob at Hamburg Arkansas. Edgar Thompson Steel warns wage reductions or idling. Baxter wires case allows occupants to cut lines. Benedicts and Bratt warehouses burn from spontaneous combustion. Hall warns rag exports risk smallpox from London. New York weekly bank stats show loans up, deposits up, reserves down. Chicago line wreck near Freeport injures engineer. passengers uninjured including Sitting Bull. Geneva NY mourns Folger death. funeral arrangements set.
In Alpine township nine miles north of Grand Rapids Dre W. Dreamhand and Joel C. Parker examined a mastodon over twelve and a half feet tall, among the largest finds besides one by Professor Warren. It was recovered from marshy ground on Aaron Hillis’s farm, buried two feet beneath vegetable mold in quicksand. The largest rib measures four feet and one tooth weighs three pounds ten and a half ounces.
Stafford and Co of Providence and Fall River cotton goods firms fail with liabilities of 200000 pounds. A negro named Bill Taylor hanged in Dallas after assault on Mrs Flipper. Rival suitors in Chatham Virginia settle a dispute with deadly violence leaving one dead. National Bank of New Jersey at New Brunswick shows deficits but some surplus and intact capital. Payne and Oklahoma boomers arrive in Wichita amid grand jury indictments and protests. Women's Christian Temperance Union held annual meeting at Garfield Memorial church with Clara L Roach elected president. Acting Secretary of State Davis commends Consul Frank H Mason for courage during cholera in Marseilles and Toulon. French and English crop reports show large wheat yields with good quality. rye and corn crops also strong. outlook remains favorable.
Turmoil grips New Brunswick as the National Bank of New Jersey collapses amid a $1 million theft by cashier Hill and implicated president Runyon who killed himself. Police quell crowds as Deputy Cashier Campbell faces arrest. director Letson dies from stress, and state-wide fear follows the bank’s suspension and massive losses.
An observer notes wheat prices fall daily in France and protectionists urge higher duties on imported grain. The wheat crop is estimated near 316 million bushels with superior yields, while Indian corn at about 36 million bushels feeds the nation alongside imports from England and continental countries.
James D. Brady renominated for Congress in Virginia. Hendricks to give speeches in Ohio and Indiana. Democrats in Iowa's 5th district nominate Benjamin Frederick. Pussey re-nominated by acclamation in Iowa's 9th. Missouri Republicans nominate Neville in the 7th. Greenbackers align with Republicans against Democrats in Missouri. New Hampshire Democrats nominate John M. Hill for governor. Presidential electors chosen. Illinois Good Templars back St John for president. Maine GOP holds 31 to 0 with 8 Republicans 2 Democrats in the House. Maine bans constitutional anti prohibition with 49 444 in favor and 19 165 against. majority expected to exceed 40 000. Maine Greenback convention endorses James L. Curtis for governor and backs Butler style reforms.
Nebraska Democrats met in Omaha selecting James Sterling Morton as temporary chairman and later unanimously nominated Morton for governor. The convention readies a platform denouncing railroad power, advocating honest administration, and promising investigations into school land fraud and reforms aligned with the Chicago 1884 Democratic platform.
Nebraska anti monopolists set a fusion strategy with the democratic and greenback camps. Resolutions demand government control of railroads, curbs on convict labor, and constitutional reform while pledging fair state governance and tax relief. A conference committee is named to negotiate with Omaha allies for a two on the electoral ticket.
A New York dispatch reports a stranger seen walking the Marine railway trestle from Manhattan to Brighton Beach at Coney Island. An officer boarded the train and recognized him as actor John McCullough. He was watched closely after the start of the train and tried to jump off but was prevented.
A quirky report from Waterloo New York notes a hen laid an unusually large egg measuring 5 by 7 inches in diameter. The story plays on local pride and playful bragging from residents about the remarkable poultry.
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