THE TEIBUNE. F. M. & E. M. K1MMEIX , Pubs. McCOOK , NEB ' NEBRASKA-ITEMS. Payment of election bets is now in rder , and many are comtag forward to make good their promises. C. O. Charleston , of Phelps , was severely injured by falling on the skatimj ring at that place. Buffalo County Beacon : "W. C. Voso , living two miles south of town , lost seven teen stacks of hay by prairie fire Wedneg- day ; about 100 tons was burned , This , is a Tory big loss to Mr. Voso , and should be a lesson to those careless fellows who set out these fires. Eight thousand sheep belonging to Mr. Fordyce" were driven to Gibbon last week. Mr. Fordyce expects to feed and prepare the whole herd for shipping next spring. ' Glenwood Eagle : A fatal accident happened on Friday last to the little five- year-old girl of Mr. Garfleld , Hying about five miles southeast of here. She was play ing on top of a hay stack , and accidentally slid down the side of the stack , coming 'in contact with the rod of an end gate to a wagon , which was leaning up against the etack , the rod striking her in the left groin and passing through her bowels to the right Ii side and coming out at her shoulder blade. She lived until Wednesday. Many churches throughout Nebraska t < Joined in celebration of the fourth centennial anniversary of Martin Luther's birthday. a e Vast quantities of fruit is in store ( ready for shipping at Auburn. Auburn's ladies quartette band made their first appearance on the street last week , and with their new instruments at tracted much attention. Nemaha Granger : Last Saturday night young Highfield and Spidel , who were In the county Jail charged with burglary , ucceeded in escaping by making a hole through the floor Into the county"clerk's of fice and then going out through a window. They had a piece of a wood-saw to work with. Efforts are being made to bringthem . back. Superior Journal : Last Sunday Rosa y Willoughby , a little girl of about 11 years , it daughter of Mr. H. Willoughby , was bitten it on the ankle by a large rattlesnake. Remedies 61 dies were promptly administered and a St physician sent for , but the poison seemed particularly venomous , and at eight o'clock in the evening the child expired. In the . sato vicinity of Mr. Willoughby's house are a tl3 number of stone quarries where the snakes * a for many miles around pass their winters. to Tha neighbors formed a party and after tl some digging found a den of rattlers , six in th number. re The Little Blue valley lays claim to being the most.desirable section n Nebraska PI for stock raising. At Superior , Nuckolls county , Dave St Myers was arrested for horse stealing. It ta was proved at the trial , however , that My of t ers was allowed to take the horses , with in structions to trade them for something bet COW ter. Though he traded them for something W th worse , it was not considered horse stealing , and Myers was turned loose. Valentine Reporter : The rush for Wl free government land still continues , and fei our land officers are kept busy from morning Oil ing till night. Many land seekers file on pa claims before seeing the land , fearing that an other parties will get ahead of them if they un delay matters. unH. H. ! The Sioux City & Pacific engineers pr returned.from the west a few days ago , ci ? having completed their labors for this sea cei ! son. tec Fairfield Heraid : A number of trav foi eling men at the Lepin hotel In Hastings last Sunday morning , after employing a boot dit black , happened to inquire into the little na fellow's condition , and finding him to be 141 one of a needy family , they all united , took of ! the little fellow to a clothing house , fitted rig him out with an entire new lot of clothing , re : < including overcoat , and left the snug sum bu of $27 in cash for the benefit of the family. m < Blair Republican : The gang of burg bn lars who have infested Blair and vicinity for at some time past , are again on the rampage. da On Saturday morning of last week , about 12 11 ] 2o'clock , the office of the C. , St. P. , M. ofTl ! & O. freight depot was entered by prying Tl open the door with a large iron bar , and re ! with the same Instrument , ono end of a 44 ( email safe was broken in. The only booty obtained was some $35 in silver , the prop ha erty of the telegraph operator , Mr. Reese. in i Hon. W. B. Nems , of Lexington , Michigan , has removed his trotting horses heYc to.Omaha. It is one of the most valuable Yc Ycme acquisitions In this line ever brought to tne me stat * . by 4An Omaha collection firm has adoptm } * ed the scheme of sending bills to debtors by ! a burlv negro who wears on his hat and also on a shield on his coat the inscription , "Bad in debts collected. " on onh Paddy Ryan , the pugilist , who has * h < been in training at Hot Springs , Utah , for a coi glove fight with Prof. Miller , the Australian , shi knocker , who is backed by Richard K. Fox , passed through Omaha last Sunday , accomnai panied by his backer , Parson Davis. The 14t occasic i of , the. sudden , return was a tele . TV gram-amiouncing th'at Byan/s , daughter vfas pic At Falls City , on the 10th , the Union wi house , kept by Joe Opelt , caught fire , and for awhile it looked as though it would be burnt to the ground , but by hard work on LaWi the part of the citizens , who came promptly Wi to the rescue , the fire was put out , doing to hut little damage. I at : NEWS OF THE WEEK QENERAIi.v - ' The Chicago press club held a memo rial meettng on the 12th and unvclled a portrait of 'the'Iate Samuer J. Medlll , man aging editor of the Tribune and president of the club. An eloquent memorial address was delivered by Congressman Finerty and several feeling tributes uttered by oldjnem- bers of the city press. In the greater number of the Protest ant churches In New York on the 12th sermons - i mons on Luther were preached. Robert Collycr's sermon was entitled "Our Saint Martin. " Dr. Lemanpreached on ' 'Luth er and Leo. " All banks at Des Moines , Iowa , adopted meridan time on the 13th. At Mirabile , Mo. , oil the 12th , Homer Belton beat out his father's brains with a club. No cause In assigned for the murder ous act. Charley Ford , of the James gang notoriety , fears his brother has met with oul play. He says Bob was last heard rom at New York , Oct. 14. Ho had money nd valuables amounting to ยง 2,500. Owing to inadequate railway mail ervice , 150 sacks of mail from St. Paul and astern cities , for points between Helena nd Portland , were lying at Portland , Oregon gen , on the 12th , and the quantity was daily increasing. At Livingston , Montana , on the night of the 12th , the Flathead Indians visited the Crow agency and stole fifty ponies. Tie Crows pursued them , overtaking the party at daybreak. A severe fight followed jre- j suiting in the killing of two Flatheads , one Crow wounded and the ponies recaptured. Hanlari gives an exhibition row in SanFranciseo on Thanksgiving day. A naked light upon a miner's head it the "West End , Pennsylvania mine on the L2th , caused a terrific explosion. Michael Barcoski , John Escolus and JohnKoller" ivere killed. The first snow of the season fell in I Sew York on the 12th. John Schermerwas killed and several I lersoas injured in a collision on the West shore railroad near Troy , N. Y. , on the .2th. .2th.Charles Charles Wilson , a Swede , fifty-two i old , was brutally murdered at his res- ; dence in North Leavenworth on the morn- ng of the 12th. He was found with hfs skull n mashed. The weapons used were two r tone Jugs , one of which was broken. v A Springfield (111. ) special of the 14th d ays : Governor Hamilton "has forwarded e be transcript of the act of the Illinois legis- t < iture ceding the Illinois and Michigan canal ci o the federal government , .and the vote of t > tie people upon the proposed transfer , to tie president of the- United States , with a equest that it be presented congress with uch recommeneations as he may deem ai roper in view of the importance of the ct3- ei 0113. The Mexican excursionists arrived at tt t. Louis on the 13th. The party were then ttw w iken : to flie new custom house , a number cc large business houses , the bridge , and tton merchants' exchange , where they eVE VE ere ( cordially received and introduced to VEBl Bl le members. ar The Western Export associatipn held secret k session at Chicago on tie 14th , . hich was unusually largely attended. Dif- , rences which have existed between vari- Wl is members of the association a to the ca- th icity of their respective distilleries were CO nicably settled. The association took ader consideration a resolution offered byre . B. Miller , president of the association , co fo roviding that the prices fixed by the asso- > ation be maintained under all circumstan- 8 , and authorizing the executive commit- e to use the funds of the association , if iimd necessary , to accomplish that end. * DiT Mortimer Deneher , aged 121 years , T ( ed at the residence of his sone in Dorry- Wl ine , Lesueur county , Minnesota , 011 the tii th. Daneherwas the last surviving brother best a remarkable family , which for down- m ght longevity surpasses anything in the st ; < cords of modern times , not only in this , it in any otner country. Mr. Daneher's thm other died in her 101st year , his eldest m rother at the age of 108 years , his second cil the age of 117 years , 7 months and 20 Jo ITS , and himself soon after at the age of ho years. The father was the shortest-lived sh the family , having died at the age of 80. th he combined ages of the three brothers fir fached 346 years ; including the mother , th G , and taking in the father , 526. Bti * A strike among laborers and freight he mdlers on the Panama railway culminated the wreck of a train. Ct J. H. Haverly verifies the report that toi is to build two new theatres , one in New on orkandthe other in Philadelphia. The de oney for the enterprises will be furnished tht Chicago capitalists , but he will have thb Oc anagement of the building and furnishing ke the theatres. Four thousand bales of cotton burned in the Norfolk & "Western depot at Norfolk thi the 14th. The cotton was consigned toe cu Merchants' and Miners' e Transportation tei unpany. The bulk was to have been ve : tipped to Boston. Morton's iron works , rolling mill and dl mill at Ashland , Ky. , burned on the .a th. Loss partly covered by insurance , ivo hundred hands are thrown out [ of era- oyment. ha : Two negroes were killed ) and two wa bites badly injured on the 14th by the a ving In of a gravel pit at. Dallas , Texas. jev The propeller St. Paul bound up 4.De ike Michigan , caught fire , and the tug De inslow worked with hose two days trying Na put the fire out. She was finally scuttled poi Detour in twelve feet of water. kil Hanlan , the rower , left Toronto on the 13th for San Francisco. At Chicago ho was joined by Qebrga Lee. Hanlan remains in San Francisco ten days and then goes to Australia. 1 .The general passenger and ticket agents'of the roads in the Trans-Continental association have issued a circular In accord ance with the Topeka compact with con necting lines , to withdraw from sale all tickets via San Francisco to points In Oregon gen , "Washington Territory and British Columbia and all tickets to San Francisco via St. Paul , Duluth or Portland. This Is understood to be directed especially against the class of ticket brokers known as "scalp ers , " against whom a general war is now being waged. The general passenger agents of roads west from Chicago are in receipt of information that Commissioner Pieraon has ordered the New York trunk lines to dis- coutlnne selling through tickets from the east to points west of Chicago and St. Louis. This is to overcome the alleged abuses grow ing out of ticket scalping. The now regula tion will compel travelers to repurchase tickets after reaching the two cities named , and the action of the commissioner is stated- to have occasioned unusual wrath amongthe officials of western roads. It is reported the Gorman govern ment will ask the reichstag for a grant to build fifteen torpedo boats. Oglethorpe barracks at Savannah , Qa. . werepold by the government at auc tion on the 14th for $67,381 , to a new hotel company. Dr. Frank B. Smith , of Detroit , has begun a $50,000 suit in the United States district court against Dr. John H. Roach , secretary of the Illinois board of health , whoso name he-alleges was signed to the cir- lar revoking his ( D. Smith's ) license , for unprofessional conduct. A New York telegram reports that officers of the Union Pacific railway dtate that the decrease in PTOSS earnings for Sep tember and October will not be greater than 5200,000 as compared with the same months last year. At the same rate operating ex penses last yew wre 47 per cent. This would imply a decrease probably of $125- 300 in the net earnings of the two months. n But it is well understood that there has ti : tid been some cutting of rates by competition d with the Denver & Rio Grande , and also n hat the Union.Pacific has been'buildmg and q Derating considerable new mileage , which h nay have increased the proportion of ope- ti ating expenses to what they were in 1881. iie riz. : 51.45 per cent and if this was the case e luring two months the decrease of the gross ti iarnings ; and increase of operating expenses in ogether would make the approximate de- scY Tease say $260,000 in the net earnings of the Y wo months. aid On Lake Erie on the night of the 17th he wind's velocity reached twenty-six miles d uhour. Captain J. Harley , oftheschoon- ci r Leadville , and Captain P. Griffin , of the Pto chooner Blazing Star , arrived at Buffalo to rom Erie , accompanied by members of tieir crews. They report their vessels , th hich went ashore on Long Point , were st : ompletely wrecked. The Leadville was bi wned by Cumming , of Oswego , and wag ne alued at $15,000 ; insured for $13,000. The dc Hazing Star was also owned by Cumming , re nd valued at$10,000 ; insured for $8,000. er The steamer S. H.- Parish was do- tal troyed by fire on the 17th at Bullet's sis ayou , eight miles above Natchez. No lives go rere lost. The Parish- left Vicksburg on IB 16th for New Orleans with 3,100 bales of ex Jtton , 1,300 sacks of oil-cake and 500 bar- 5ls of oil. Loss over $200,000. The boat m DSt $60,000 two years ago , and was insured _ 14I r $10,000. h'f CRIBLK. tie A variety actress , known as Lilly IslHi al , playing at Holland's theatre , Dallas , Hi exas , left there fully dressed as an old rut oman. Since then it has liqen discovered tui lat certain parties with whom Lilly has tom < een associated lost $5,000 worth of dia- m < lends , and the girl is accused of having of ! olen them. ' shl West Lebanon , Indiana county , was de by IB scene on the llth of a brutal double bv lurder. Wm. Samer , an old and respected J O1 tizen , had .an' altercation with his son aseph , about putting a kitten out of the ouse , when the son drew a revolver and lot the father in the hip. The old man ten fled , but was followed by the son , who vai red a second shot , ' the bullet crashing re : trough the father's brain , killing him in- cai antly : The patricide then returned to the stn 9use and killed Bella Kelly , a servant girl "l Tll"i Mud McGraw , Dick Slighoo , Butler , no barles Forney , and Bill Guyley , notorious ge : : iughs , were arrested at Fremont , Mich. , tat the llth , by John Mathiss , a Chicago to Jtective , for robbin Darling's store , at an te latter place , of $500 worth of goods last . ctober , and for cracking two safes at M s- pn gon. res In view of the intensely bitter feeling mv Beuton county , Indiana , against Nelling , be < 10 murder of Ada Atkinson , and the dffi- I i iltyof obtaining a jury , it has been de- bin rmined to bring the case on a change of tie mue to Tippecanoe county. vet E. Martin and the Wm . Brockway , Lewis is. 'B. Foster , of "New York , have been dieted for forgery iu the first degree. e Win. Lawlerj a noted safe cracke'r , pla is been arrested at Hamilton , Ontario. He cot as the principal in the-burlaries at Simcoe enc week or twVagol wlien$12,0 < 5o worth of oth welry was carried off. < A special to the New Orleans Tiines- jrrc emocrat says : A train on the Mexican wit atioual railway was wrecked for the purse - tri : se of robbery. A number of men were thr lied and wounded. o' The trial of Martin and Coffin at Denver , charged with complicity In the Grand Lake assassination last July , was called at Golden on the"l5th. The prosecu tion moved to dismiss the case on the ground of insufficient evidence to convict. Luther Bowman , aged 84 , father-in- law of a Troy fire commissioner , whilefcleep- ing In a shoemaker's shop at Lanslngburg , N. Y. , was awakened and called to the door on the morning of the , 16th , and murderous ly assaulted by two men , who escaped after stabbing and beating.him until ho was un conscious. He will probably dlo. A dispatch to the Now Orleaus PJcayunefrom Raceiand , La. , says : In a quarrel at his homo on Bayou Btcuf on the 10th , Captain A. Chotard was shot by Felix Grcnier. John Clair , superintendent of Wad- del'smine , of Mill Hollow , Pa. , was fatal ly wounded by Dennis Keller , of Clinton , la. Clair has four balls in his body and will die. George , alias Ted , Brimmer , a fugi tive incendiary , was captured in Harrisburg on the 17th. The officers fired a number of shots at him , one of which took effect in his arm. Ike Hubbard , another escaped con vict , was in Brimmer's company within a few days , but left at Harrisburg to Join his brother Abe in the Euphratamountains. Brimmer is the third one out of-twelve es caped convicts captured. ' i At Giddings , Texas , James Taylor , colored , was sentenced to hang on Decem ber 21 for outraging and murdering Sarah Chapin , colored. BurtEllis , colored , charged with the the murder of Mrs. Logan , was found guilty at Charleston , S. C. , and sentenced : to be hanged on the 14th of December. Frederick M. Ker , cashier for Preston 01 IE ton , Kean& Co. , tbaokcrs , Chicago , who > Bed in February , 1883 , short $40,000 in his iccounts. and was captured , after a long ' : hase , in Peru , South America , was convicted di victed and sentenced to ten years in the diM penitentiary at Chicago on the 17th. M ei WASHINGTON. The annual report of the quarter- ve naster-general of the army shows that the th otal resources were $12,051,850 ; the expen- thm litures , $14,756,577. The construction of m linetynow buildings , such as barracks , bi luarters , stables , storehouses , guard- pa louses , etc. , have been authorized at anes- fo imatedcoatof$147,178. Repairs to exist- ng buildings have been authorized at an fo istimated cost of $425,559. An appropria- W ion of $125,000 is urged to replace the build- ou ng used as a recruiting depot and training lit chool for recruits at David's Island , New Nemi fork. The expenses for transportation mi mounted to $2,149,051. an Complaint has reached the postofllco wl epartment that mails on the Northern Pa- re ific : road are not properly worked by the > ostal clerks , and instead of being distribu- li.8 d at various points along the route are car- as ied through to Portland and stacked up lere. Superintendent Thompson says this ate of affairs is brought about by a com- ination : of postal clerks , who purposely de eglect to work in order to compel him to oublo the force , which he maintains ii al- ady sufficient to distribute the mails prop- rly. Postmaster-General Grcsham has iken the matter in hand and assigned As- nai stant Superintendent Jameison to duty , \ ring over the whole line of road from St. . aul to Portland , and making a thorough lnt lamination of the postal sen-ice. waI Lieut. Garlington resumed his testi- cha < in the Proteus court of ony inquiry on the ane th. He said he never saw the instruction of vento Capt. Wildes , of the Yantic , until ofl s return to St. John. His own instruc ts ordered him not to stop at Littleton land on his way up and ho obeyed them , To i is party went south in boats , hoping to Tov eet the Yantic and find some way of re- C irningto help Greeley. Gen. Hazen then OF ok the stand ana testified that the pupple- p ertal memorandum formed the fore part Garlington's instractions. "Garlington lowed me , ' ' said the witness , ' 'all his or- as * ira , and I told him he must be controlled mai Coi the regular orders he had given him and Qu directions of Greeley on which they were Pot unded. Greeley's letter was a law to me Qu : id I didn't feel authorized to give any or- Pot Qu ; irs that would conflict with it. " lia A dispatch of the 14th says : The Qul Ser mguard of the forty-eighth congress has Gra ached Washington , where several of the Ap ' ] udldatesforthe minor offices have already Pea ationed themselves , on the alerj to secure Fir Cor pledges" of votes. General Clark , of Cor aine , one of the candidates for the office Spr w filled by Edward McPhersou , ex-Ser- Gra ant-at-Arms Thompson and ex-Represen- tive Leedam , of Ohio , who are ambitious succeed Colonel Hooker as sergeant-at- ms , and a half dozen other candidates Cine .ve been on the ground fora week or more CineC essing their claims. A western rep- hav sentative is quoted aa saying : "We hail ust have a man for speaker who has she en tried and found to bo entirely safe , and really ought co vote for Mr. Randall , hat it 1 feel under some personal obliga strs ns to Mr. Cox and my first te will'be cast for him. After he is out of ago field I shall support Mr. Randall. I iderstand he drafted the platform of the emi snnsylvania democrats last summer , and I his- not see why it is not as liberal as the Ohio whi itform , as far aa the tariff question is the * ncernedHe has-had five years' experi- has i ce inthefipeakers { chair , antl that ia an- still 1 tier strong thing In his favor. dea On the 15th Senator Vest and Con- ' esmen Carlisle , Casey and Young called , th Commissioner Morehead , on the Aus- prej an minister , with a view to securing , rough the Austrian government , transfer A the late Vienna electrical exposition to kno the World's exposition at New Orleans next year. The Austrian minister evinced the Greatest .interest , and promised to use bis r best endeavors to.f urthor the plan. A vis it to the department of state was aldo made , where it was learned that foreign affairs at the World's exposition , which , underact of congress , are iu charge of this depart ment , are in the most satisfactory and en couraging shape. The department has re ceived a large number of letters from var ious foreign countries evincing the utmost interest and desiring to make an exhibit at the Now Orleans exposition. Secretary Teller hag rendered an im portant decision in reply to a question from the commissioner of pensIonH asking for a proper and uniform construction of the re vised sta utes concerning pensions to dependent - pendent mothers. The secretary maintains that If the son was a minor his father was entitled to his services , or , if not living * his mother was so entitled , and therefore [ de pendent father or mother should be allowed thp pension. The testimony taken up to the 16th in the Proteus court of inquiry relates to supplementary instructions , and show that Garlington had none but original orders , which he obeyed to the letter. The president has mitigated the sen tence of dismissal in the case of Lieutenant- Colonel Morrow to suspension from that CI rank and command with loss of half pay for ) no year , and reduction in ! iueil rauk to 'oot of the list of lieutenant colonels. CII A Government Prisoner. Herald. 15th. For some weeks past United States I Marshal Bierbowerhai been in receipt of let- era from variouh points in the South Plattc ountry inquiring about one G. W. Walker , \ho represented himself as a bpeel.il agent f the revenue deportment , and wascollcct- ng money in its name. The marshal relied - lied that ho know of no such person , and hat no such authority had been given any 'no. Last Sunday Walker was fouud and letainod at Hebron by the sheriff , and the aarahal , being notified , sent out Deputy f.irahal Hastings , who brought the prison- r to this city yesterday. Papers found on the person of Walker ro- ealed his scheme , and showed that while tie documents had been clumsily gotten up liey had served to bring in a round sum of loney from the sympathetic or politic rowers and saloon-keepers. The princi- al paper was the subscription , headed aa llows : "Whereas , a call for help has como to UB r ; the flooded and storm stricken district of restern Kansas and Nebraska , we feel it ir. duty to call on all you brewers and luor ] dealers and saloon men in Kansas and ebraska to help UH make a small sum of oney for those that are suffering the worst id to relieve their immediate wants , and hatsoover you can give will be thankfully iceived by Mr. G. W. Walker , of Atchi- - ' n , the special U. S. revenvo agent for ansas and Nebraska ; and in return we will U. S. officers help you as we can. Very respectfully , yours , C. S. D"O.VKI > V. " To the list were appended the names of U. Marshal Bierbower and several of his iputies ] as paid subscriber- * ( all forgeries , course ' ) , and the names of a large number liquor dealers , who evidently had paid e $3 and $5 subscriptions set opposite their .mes. Walker was armed wlth > any quantity of bpccuas and other'legal papers apparently tended to convince any doubters that he 13 really an officer. Ee was taken before Judge Dundy on a arge of assuming to be a reveuuo officer d collecting moneys aa such , and in defaultx bail ! he was committed to await the action the grand Jury. Statistical Reports. Correspondents and Newspapers , an svell as all Persons interested in u Statlstl- al ; report from Nebraska : KICK : OF THK STATISTICAL RK- ) L'OKTER FOR THE U. S. , Pi-ATTSMOUTir , NEB. , Nov. 12. J We find from reports the following the summary and result of all report * ide to this office up to this date : rn yield per acre 41 buahels lality. : . 85 per cent tatoes ( Irish ) 147 bushels ality 109 ocr cent tatoea ( Sweet ) 114 bushels ality Ill percent .y , average tame and wild. . . . y tons lality. . 107 per cent rghum , , yield per acre Ii9 gallon apes , yield and quality 88 percent 'P'68' ' " ' I' ' ; 97 percent ars 52 percent at frost October 5th. rn ready for market Dec. 1. nditionof orchards 100 percent ring wheat threshed at date. . 82 percent ado of spring wheat No. 2. DANIEL H. WHEELER , Statistical Agent for Nebraska. t - _ Still Waiting for Henry Clay. cianatl Commercial-Gazette. 3n the streets yesterday one mio-ht 7e seen an aged gentleman whose ir flowed in white waves over his mlders , while his beard wis b"shy long , and his wide-brimmed , soft and strange garb told that he was a anger. He was Judge N. Banning' non , from Dallas , Texis , and years he was a violent whig. When nry Clay made his first great race the presidency Judge Norton sol- nly yowed that he would never cut hair until he saw his leader in the ite house , and ! consequently for all e years since 1842 the judge's hair been growing and growing and will continue to grow until the hand of ith cuts it short. 'AIRVIKLD. IOWA. Dr. J. L. Myers says- irown's Iron Bitters is the best iron paration I have ever known in my thirtv rs of practice. " J Ml those who know their mind do not aw their heart.