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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
Iowa Patent ONCE Report.

Seven CD patents secured for west
ern inventors and heretofore mention
ed in our weekly reports, were issued
November 30. Six Co patents have
been allowed though our agency, but
not yet issued as follows: To J. H.
Brumbaugh and d. p. Stoll, of Lex
ington, Neb., for a land leveler, con-
sisting of frame that has runners at
it's parallel sides and wheels ut it's.
heels and adjustable scraDers mount
ed in the frame. By hitching horse
to it and dragging it over an uneven
surface the scrapers will loosen and
distribute ground to level the sur
face. To r. V. Barry, of Stuart, Iowa,
for an automatic check row corn
planter, adapted to plant four rows
at each passage across the field. To J.
n. Emarine, of Early, for wash boiler
attachment, adapted to facilitate heat
ing water and circulating it in the
boiler and through the meshes of ar
ticles placed in the boiler to be cleans
ed without rubbing them. To. f. w.
Jacobs, of Mason City, for an appa-
ratus specially adapted for lifting
bouIders and conveying and deposit
ing them in forming a stone fence.
The machine is mounted on a four
wheeled truck to which horses are
hitched for lifting and conveying
boulders and other heavy objects. To
G. w. Parsons, of Newton, for i'm
provements in his band cutter and
self feeder for threshing machines
that has been SO successfully manufac-
tured by the Parsons Band Cutter and
Self Feeder Co. at Newton, and for
which a plurality of patents have
heretofore been issued and noticed in
our reports. Valuable information for
valuing and selling patents
sent free to any address.
Thomas G. & J. Ralph Orwig,
Solicitors of patents
Des Moines. Dec. 1, 1897.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
nAsuISoroS NOTES.

Colonel Henderson and wife OF Iowa
h>ve arrived and are registered at the
Normandie Hotel. whure they VIII re-
main for the winter, and during the
session of congress.
Postmaster Gordon OF Chicago and
Mr.. Charles G. Dawes have reached
the capital. Mr.. Dawes nomination to
succeed Comptroller Eckels is expect
ed to be one of the first to be sent to.
the senate by the president.
The secretary OF the navy has FORM
ally accepted the Iowa battleship, and
she is now ready for commission in
service for the United States govern
ment, the best battleship Of her class
afioat The Foote was also accepted
by the secretary.
The navy department has ordered
the United States steamDship Alert.
now at San Francisco, to proceed to
Brito, Nicaragua, the western termi-
nus of the proposed Nicaraguan canal.
The vessel will be kept there in read
iness to cooperate with the American
commission.
The naval board appointed to ascer-
tain the cost of an armor plant has re-
ported to Secretary Long. 1t says such
a plant capable of making 5000 tons
per annum would cost about $780,
coo. No recommendation is made as
to the location, though the board has
a lot of information on the subject
which will be furnished when want
ed. The secretary, under authority OF
congress, will advertise for proposals
for building such plant.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
Wednesday, Dec. 1.

Congress will assemble on Monday
leXt.
The Leutgert trial is again in pro-
gress.
AsphyXiation caused the death of
three men in the Grand Trunk tun-
mel.
The steamer Dauntless landed a
large expedition in Cuba.
Government receipts for November
will reach about $25, 100000.
Tom Tracey and Joe Walcott, the
colored boxer, have been matched to
box twelve rounds on the night of
December II in Chicago.
Colonel A. NJ Coffey, aged 81, is
dead at Knob Noster, Mo. He was one
of the oldest Masons in the state.
'It is generally reported" says a
Rome dispatch, that King Humbert
has resolved to abdicate in favor of
his SON."
The report that Nathan Willis, col
ored, the murderer of young white
man named Stephens, was lynched in
North Carolina by burning is not cor
rect.
The national government will not
interfere with the state authorities of
Louisiana in their treatment of the
levees threatened at Algiers, opposite
New Orleans.
William Carr, in Jail in Kansas City,
condemned to die December II for the
murder of his child, swallowed glass
yesterday with the intention of taking
his live. He will recover.
The River Falls (Wis.) state normal
school burned. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, s55,OOO.
Charles Dabney, representing party
of about fifty Michigan people, who
propose to go to the Klondike region
early in the spring before navigation
opens, is in Portland preparing for the
journey.
John H. Dame, until recently a run
ner for the Western hotel, in Denver,
was locked up on charge of insan-
ity. He read the testimony in the Luet-
gert trial at Chicago and became poss-
essed of a frenzy to kill his wife and
children and to burn their bodies in
the old garbage crematory.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10

WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 6.-Fron
the best obtainable information it ap-
pears that no change is to be made in
the composition of the cabinet during
the remainder of the current year.
There are two good deasCns for this.
Attorney General McKenna has charg-
ed himself with the prosecution of
the Pacific railroad cases, and it is not
to be supposed that he will relinquish
his present Office until the Kansas
Pacific sale has passed into history.
It is generally understood that Gov
ernor Griggs of New Jersey has been
offered the place in the cabinet to be
vacated by Attorney General Mckenna.
but it will not be possible for him to
take the Office before the beginning
of next year.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
In Memory of Henry George.

CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-Exercises in the
memory of the late Henry George were
held in the Auditorium this afternoon
under the auspices of The Chicago Sin
gle Tax Club. Over 1000 persons were
in attendance. Mrs. George, the widow
of the dead economist. clad in deep
mourning, occupied g box. She came
to Chicago last week to attend the
wedding of her son, Henry George,
jr., and prolonged her visit in order
to be present at the memorial eXer-
cises. Edward o. Brown, of Chicago,
presided, and in opening the meeting
paid an eloquent tribute to the mem
ory of Mr.. George. Addresses were
also made by DR.. Emil G. Hirsh, eX-
Governor John P. Altgeld, Bishop
John L. Spaulding, Of Peoria, and Rev.
DR.. 6. S. Craig, of Toronto, Ont
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
Mrs. Mckinley Still Alive.

CANTON, o., Dec. 6.-Mother Nc
kinley passed the fourth day of her
illness and entered upon the fourth
night with the spark of life burning
dimly. There has not been a material
development in her case today.
There is still a possibility that she
may survive the night of even longer,
but those who have been at the bed
side most constantly have the least
hope of such a result.
The patient has taken no nourish-
ment since Thursday. 1t cannot be
administered by ordinary methods,
and the case is on in which heroic
methods of administering food are not
regarded as justifable. They could
not restore health, and would be dis
tressing and annoying and might
hasten the end.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6-President
Mckinley, accompanied by Assistant
Secretary Day, arrived in Washington
over the Pennsylvania railroad at 7:45
O'clock yesterday morning. He was
met at the station by Secretary Alger,
Secretary Bliss and Secretary Porter,
and driven to the White house.
Arrangements have been made for
the returr trim To Canton this evening.
The president, Mrs. Mckinley and
party of half dozen close friends
and relatives will leave Washington
at 7:20 o'clock, occupying in special
car attached to the regular Pennsyl-
vania railroad train, and arriving IN
Canton at about 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
Friday, Dec. 3.

Canals of New York have closed
for the season.
Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, has
gone to the national capital.
The E. J. Lobdell bicycle rim fac
tory was burned to the ground. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, 100000.
The output of the Cripple Creek dis
trict for November was $1,25S, 900, the
largest for one month in the history
| of the camp.
General Weyler, the former captain
general of Cuba, was feasted at Pal
ma, his birthplace Great enthusiasm
was manifested.
The boiler of the Glenwood Qowa)
mine exploded. Twenty men were in
the engine room and none escaped
injury. Only two were fatally in
jured.
The revolt of the Albanians agains.
Turkey at Diakova, northeast of Scurt-
ari, has been suppressed, and Riga
Bey, the leader of the insurgents has
been arrested.
Ex-United States Senator Patrick
Walsh, the citizens candidate fCi.
mayor of Augusta, Ca, was elected
over William Dunbar and Daniel KeA'
by majority of S24. -
Gen. Nelson F. Williams died at his
home in Brooklyn. He was a class-
mate Of U. S. Grant at West Point.
For thirty years he had charge of the
public stores in New York.
Rev. DR.. Richard Gear Hobbs, the
commissioner sent out from New
York for the purpose of relieving the
starving people of India, has return
ed, after an absence of nearly six
months.
The trunk line passenger commits
sion has authorized a reduction of S.
in the fare from Chicago to ST. Paul
and all points beyond.
Miss Mary Olivia Thornburg, ,daugh-
ter of the late Major T. T. Thornburg,
U. S. A., was married to David Dillon
Easement, of Ohio, in All Angels
Protestant. Episcopal church. New
York, by Rev. DR.. Charles S. Jessup,
of Baltimore.
China has practically agreed to cede
to England a strip of territory near
Hong Kong and all the surrounding
islands in order to enable England
to fcrtify them securely and to in
crease the garrison.
Charles Warren Spalding, ex-presi-
dent of the Globe Savings bank, Chi
chage, was sentenced to an inde-
terminate term in the penitentiary
He was charged with embezzling
funds of the university of Illinois, of
which he was treasurer.
W. H. Sage, of Ithaca, and Dean
Sage, of Albany, have presented the
Cornell university the magnificent
residence of the late Henry w. Sage
for Students hospital, and besides
equipping it, will endow it with $780,
900. The property is worth $4,000.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
AS TO CUBA.
Independence to Come In the Course
of Events.

Independence to Come In the Course
of Events.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.-Mr. Berk-
eley Balch, secretary of the Cuban
league, appeared today before Presi-
dent Mckinley and presented a long
argument in behalf of the Cuban in
surgents, in which he submits the fol-
lowing propositions for the presidents =
consideration, who promised to give
it his careful attention:
The three wars in Cuba within this
century are proof of genuine move
ment for the extension of democratic
principles and the attainment OF lib
erty from a tyrannical, corrupt and
alien government.
Autonomy is.a foolish dream. 1t is
evident that neither side understands
it, wishes it. or can administer It..
Spain clearly offers it to amuse this
government and to gain time.
A majority of the people of this
country desire to see a free and indie
pendent Cuban republic. An opposing
factor Of great force is the money pow
er. 1t Is fair conclusion to urge
that majority of our people believe
that the assistance of our government
till now has been given to Spain and
withheld from the republic on ac-
count of the influence that emanated
from great financial interests, usually
afraid of patriotic aggressive move
ments.
Our people have hoped for favor
able action for Cuba from the present
administration and have patiently
waited to give the administration time
for consideration of the wise
road to this end That patience is
now exhausted.
Very few Cubans and still fewer
people in this country desire immed-
late annexation, but independence is
clearly due to Cuba valor and sacri-
fees.
The friendship of the republic of
Cuba is worth vastly more to us than
that of Spain, for reasons of business
and defense. 1t is our duty and self
interest to recognize the belligerency,
and logically follow this, the indie
pendence of the republic, and to con-
clude with a defensive and offensive
alliance. If this is not compatible
with a continued friendship with
Spain, so much the worse for Spain.
II Spain attacks us we can take care
of our own.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
Monday, Nov. 80.

Monday, Nov. 80.
Edward Moore, of Pittsburg, Pa.
was shot and fatally wounded by his
wife.
The pope has appointed the Rev.
P. /. Chapelle, bishop of Santa Fe.
n. NJ, to the archbishopric of New
Orleans.
Police Officer Jim Gizzard shot and
fatally wounded John Rankin, prom
inent citizen of Austin, Tex, over a
political dispute.
1t is claimed that the electrical rail-
roads of Cairo, Egypt, are beating
those of Brooklyn in the record of
the number of the people killed.
The differences between Nicaragua
and Costa Rica, which threatened to
involve the two republics in war, have
it is reported, been amicably adjusted.
a receiver was appointed for Geo.
Fl. Pell, Wall street broker, at New
York city, who has 100000 against
him and his property in his wife's
name.
The records of the internal revenue
bureau show that the receipts for the
five months of the present fiscal year
will exceed those for the same period
last year by $S.OO00G0.
A determined effort is being made
to secure the pardon for Maude Lewis.
now serving fifteen year sentence in
the penitentiary at Jefferson City for
killing Senator Peter Morrissey in st.
Louis two years ago.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
Tuesday, November 80.

Damaging prairie fires are reported
in New Mexico.
The gold reserve at Washington is
over S156,00O,OOO.
Eight German cruisers are soon to
be in Chinese waters
Another strike, involving 200 cloak
makers, occurred in New York.
1t is reported that five fusionists
will vote for Mark Hanna for senator.
Two lives were lost and thousands
of dollars worth of property destroyed
in railroad accident that occurred
several miles south of Chester. Ky.
The grand jury has found true bills
against several firms for selling oleo-
margarine. The Colorado creamery
mems association instigated the pros
ecutions.
Dr. C. H. Parkhurst, who has been
away since June, has returned. He
said that it made him "unspeakably
sad' to come back to New York and
find Tammany in power.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Muenchene, which sailed for Bremen,
carried the forty-seven Austrian stave
makers who were recently arrested in
Mississippi for violation of the con-
tract labor law.
S. M. Gaines, now assistant super
intendent of the railway mail service,
with headquarters at Fort Worth,
Tex, has been appointed superintend-
ent of that division. He succeeds o.
L. Teachout, resigned.
The official vote of Colorado is as
follows: Gabbert, populist, and DEM
ocrat, 6S,SSS; Charles D. Hoyt, admin
istration and silver republican, 64,977
The vote for Bryan for president in
1896 was 15S,SS0; for Mckinley. 26,279.
Right Hon. William E. Gladstone
and Mrs. Gladstone arrived at Cannes,
France, where they are the guests of
Lord Stuart Rendel.
The records of the internal revenue
bureau show that the receipts for the
five months of the present fiscal year
will exceed those for the same period
last year by about $S,000,OOO.
Assistant Secretary Vanderlip has
authorized the director of the bureau
of engraving and printing to print and
deliver to the United States treasur-
er $4S,000,000, as follows: United
States notes, S1S,0O0,OO0; silver certi-
ficates, $24,0O0,000; treasury notes of
1890, $6,000,000.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
Bryan Their Leader.

RALEIGH, N. c., Dec. 6.-The der,-
ocratic state committee in session
here today issued an address to the
voters of the state, declaring that the
democratic party is the party of the
people, reaffirming the Chicago and
state platforms of last year, declaring
that William Jennings Bryan is the
great leader of the party, denouncing
republican misrule and inviting all
populists to unite with the democrats
in regaining control Of the state. The
sentiment that the democrats must
make a straight fight and that there
must be no fusion was overwhelming
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10

Mrs. Matilda Deliah Shields, a
grandmother of Richard Henry Poto-
max, and Indian chief, died here, aged
113 years.
For the first time in six years the
Mitchell & Tranter rolling mills in
Covington, KY, are running a double
force of over 400 men.
Competition between the Canadian
Pacific and Grand Trunk railroads for
Klondike business next spring is like
ly to lead to rate war.
AS result of the visit of Clifford
Sifton to the Yukon country, the gov
ernment will probably subsidize a
trail from Edmonton to the Yukon.
Seven hundred blast furnace en-
ployes at Sharon and Sharpsville, Pa,
have been given an unsolicited ad-
vance in wages of 10 and 20 per cent.
A dispatch from Shanghai confirms
the report that the Chinese govern
ment is seeking to have the demands
of Germany submitted to arbitration.
The War department has granted to
the Transmississippi management the
exclusive free use of Fort Omaha and
all the buildings thereon during the
year 1898.
Five robbers broke in the Miles
& Higbee bank at Milford, Ind. and
were SO enraged when they could not
dynamite the safe, that they burned
$1,000 worth of securities out of sheer
wantonness.
President Bashford, of the Ohio
Wesleyan University, announces that
President Mckinley has accepted an
invitation to be the orator of the day
at the commencement exercises at
Delaware, Ohio in June.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
ThurstiaY. DEC. 2.

Canadians still insist on commits
sion to settle the seal question.
Courts in Milwaukee nave decided
the tax levies on Archbishop Katzer's 8
residence. illegal, holding is to be
church property.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give
$4,000 of the 100000 needed to build
suitable home for Ginter mechanics
institute in Richmond, Va.
George Douglass, the negro who ac-
cidently killed Albert Grayer at Snow
den, Pa, mining hamlet near Pitts
burg, last spring, in attempting to
murder another man, was hanged Oh
the first.
A special from Beloit says that fifty
freshmen have been suspended in
definitely from Beloit college tor at
tending the class banquet at Rock
ford, ILL.,, on Thanksgiving withoT
permission.
William Ellis, prominent farmer
living near Evergreen, Ala, took q
negro named Cook King to swamp,
tied him to tree and shot him to
death. Intimacy with Ellis daughter
is the alleged cause.
A sensation was created in Florida
Pythian circles when Red Cross lodge
Knights of Pythias of Tampa defied
the authority of the grand chancellor
and refused to obey his orders or re-
linquish their charter.
Rev. Prof. James Legge, D. D., LII.
D., is dead at London, aged 81 years.
Sir James Winter, Newfoundland's
new premier, and the members of ,kis
cabinet have all beeen reelected.
Benjamin Harris, a rag merchant of
Detroit, was arrested, charged with
transporting across the oeiroit river
So 900 worth of Woolen rags, evading
the duty of $3.50, and attempting to
bribe the customs officials.
The grand jury found presentments
against the officers of the Best Tele-
phone company of Baltimore, carging
them with having made false reports
Of the financial condition of the con-
Germ with intent to deceive.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. 6.-Gov-
ernor Tanner has issued a proclama-
ton calling a special session of the
general assembly to meet here Decem-
br 7. The session is called to consider
amendments to the laws for assess
ment of property for taxation and reg
ulating the maner of conducting prim-
ary elections, and to pass a re-appor-
tionment bill. The governor will also
ask for an appropriation to defray the
expense of testing the constitutional
itv of the inheritance tax law and its
enforcement.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
Mexico Stays by Silver.

CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 6.-The
Mexican Herald denies authoritatively
the report from Paris, published in
London, that Mexico is making pre-
parations to go on a gold basis and
says: "Mexico's finances are handled
with admirable caution and sagacity,
and whatever may be the future policy
of the government regarding the cur
rency there is at present no thought
of changing from the silver standard
which is contributing to the growth
of manufacturing and other indus
tries"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
Mexico's Exposition Commission.

SANTA, FE. N. NJ. Dec. 6.-At a
meeting of the New Mexico Trans
Mississippi exposition commission to-
day Ex-Governor L B. Prince was
elected president, T. ]. Curren Of AL
buquerque secretary and S. H. Day of
Santa Fe treasurer. Strong resolu-
tions were adopted protesting against
the charging of 81 per square foot
for space. President Prince of the
commission stated that the western
states would not submit to any charge
for space for their exhibits at Omaha.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
U. S. Patent Office Report.

The United States Patent Office last
week issued Sos patents to citizens OF
the United States. Amongst the curl
GUS invention was a duplex trolley,
a combination collar and cravat, an
improved bicycle chain, and simple
stamp cancelling machine. Above are.
shown four inventions embracing
stop movements which will be under
stood by the ordinary mechanic. Par
ties desiring free information as to-
the law and practice OF patents may
obtain the same in addressing Sues ~
Co., registered patent lawyers, Bee.
Building, Omaha, Nebr.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10

OGDEN. Utah. Dec. 6.-There was
filed in the district court at Ogden
tonight the complaint of John O'Hara
against the Oregon Short Line rail-
road company, claiming $4,000 DANA
ges. O'Hara had been a conductor and
brakeman for twenty years at the time
Of the American Railway union strike
in 1894, and has ben unable to get
steady employment since that time.
There will be about thirty cases filed
here on the same basis.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
ITEMS OFINTEREST GATHERED
HERE AND THERE.

CondensntIOns that Emb0dy q Good Deal
of Information without Requiring
Much Space-Foreign and Domestic
Newsy Notes on All Subjects.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-12-10

Mrs. Ross. of Nickerson, Kans., set
her clothes on fire and was burned to
death.
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