The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-12-29
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

The Coal company, Peoria,
Ill, has gone into the hands of a re-
ceiver.
Terry McGovern, at Cincinnati, put
Charles Mason of Chicago out in ten
rounds.
Mans great brewery at ~Indianapo-
lis, long idle, will be converted into
a distillery.
Former President Grover Cleveland
is confined to his house with an at
tack Of rheumatism.
Illinois anti-department store bill
of last legislature declared %unconsti-
tutional by state supreme court.
Frank Doubleday will withdraw from
the Doubleday-McClure in January to
form another publishing company.
Joseph n. Gill of Colby, Kas.. has
been confirmed by the senate as judge
of the northern district of the Indian
territory.
The Georgia legislature has been
asked to appropriate $4,000 to found
a summer school for teachers in the
public schools.
Congressman Bailey of Texas, at his
own request, retires from the ways and
means committee, MI. Cooper being ap-
pointed instead.
The total number of women over 1e
years old employed in the factories
and workshops of the British islands
is about 500, 600.
Crawford Fairbanks of Terra Haute
says the strawboard combine PROPOSE
ton has been abandoned. Manufac-
turers failed to unite.
The Southern railway is opposing
the use of cigarettes. An order has
been issued for the southern division
that all employees must stop using Gig
arettes or resign their positions.
At Toronto, Ont, LuciuS h. O'Brien,
the landscape painter, is dead, aged
67 years. He painted many celebrated
pictures, some of which were given a
place in Windsor Castle at Osborne.
The American Federation of Labor,
al Detroit, passed a resolution favor
ing the appointment of the next min
ing inspector of Missouri from the
ranks of the lead and zinc miners.
An invitation signed by Mayor Phe-
Ian and the grand officers of the Native
Sons of the Golden West, has been sent
to Admiral Dewey requesting his pres
ence in San Francisco on admission
day, September 8, 1900.
Proof that the income tax in Ger
many operates with some difficulty is
furnished by an official report from
Hamburg showing mat the tax collec-
ton department has been defrauded of
$500, 600 marks within five years.
At Nicholasville, KY, three children
of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Reynolds, aged
six, three and one, respectively, were
burned to death. They had been
locked in the house while Mr.. and Mrs.
Reynolds were on a visit to a neighbor.
At Topeka, Kan, Frank McFadden,
a member of company A. Twentieth
Kansas, committed suicide by taking
morphine. While in the Philippines
he was detailed to act IS assistant
manager of the Manila Military rail-
way.
The will of the late w. G. Saunders
of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, has been filed
for probate. The estate amounts to
about $500, 900. He was a widower and
left no children. Two-thirds of his es-
tate he divided up among about 200
relatives and friends scattered all owe
the country. Every one who had been
hl1u W Hill il Ills uSCSdSCu WIZ Will
get a check for $500 to $1,000.
Solicitors were sent out by the Cit
liens Republican Convention associ-
alton to get pledges to the campaign
fund of 500, 600, which is being raised
to secure for Philadelphia the nation
al convention of 1900. 1t is proposed
by the executive committee to have
the fund as large as possible before
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behalf of the movement may be start
ed in other directions.
The supreme court of Iowa has rem
dered a decision holding that a church
subscription made on Sunday is col
lectible. E. M. Donald, of Fort Mad
ison, defendant in a case brought by
the First Methodist Episcopal church,
appealed from a similar decision by the
Lee county district court. Donald set
up as defense that the obligation, hav-
ing been entered into on Sunday, was
illegal and that there was no consid-
Grafton. Both claims are overruled.
Physicians at St. Joseph, Mo-, are
greatly mystified over the condition of
o. S. Busklrk, a farm hand sent to the
county farm with a peculiar throat
disease. For many years Buskirk has
been shedding his outer skin once a
year, but this year it came off four
times. 1t slipped off his bands like a
glove, leaving the flesh underneath as
pink as that of a baby. For several
days after he sheds his skin Buskirk
is unable to work, on account of his
hands and feet being tender.
Iowa did not fare badly in the COM
mittee distributions, five chairmanships
going to it's members, which, with the
speakership, gives the state almost as
good a representation as Maine with
only four members had when Reed was
speaker and each member was at the
head of a committee. These chair
manships are: Military affairs, Hull;
public lands, Lacey: interstate and
foreign commerce, Hepburn; eXpendi-
lures of the treasury, Cousins; expendi-
lures department of justice, Dolliver.
Out of LOO, 900 in Massachusetts, en-
gagged in gainful occupations, only 81
600 are employed on Sundays.
United States Consul Hollis cabled
the state department announcing his
arrival at Pretoria. He will act as
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