The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31
BRIEF TFLEGRAMS.
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ploying over 1000 men.
Miss Blanche Fearing, the only blind
woman lawyer in the United States, IL
not in the world, and an author of con-
siderable merit. is dead at Eureka
Springs after an illness Of several
months.
The total population Of Kansas, as
returned by township assessors for
March /, through their county clerks,
and tabulated by F. d. Coburn, secre-
tary Of the state board Of agriculture,
is 1,444,708.
The navy department is offered by
Chicago citizens the ships bell from
the old brick battleship Illinois to the
new Illinois, now approaching compile
ton at Newport News. The offer will
be accepted.
An Iowa lumber dealer who recent
ly loaned a Livingston county, Mo-,
farmer $3.50 on 100 acres of walnut
timebr land, has hunted for three
weeks and found only twelve walnut
trees in the county.
Geronimo, the noted Indian chief,
recently reported to have become in
sane, is, 1t Is now said, about to marry
a youthful girl with "a bank account
OF SAC, 900. The old warrior is declar-
ed to be in his usual health.
Carl Ledieur and Ali Blackhawk, In
dams from the Crow reservation in
Montana, have been at the Chicago
stock yards watching the sale Of $40
head of range cattle raised by the
braves on the reservation.
At Pond Creek, Okla, fire broke out
in Berry's barn and before the flames
could be stopped the barn and Boze-
mans wholesale poultry establishment
were burned down. Dempsey's lumber
yard vas partially damaged.
The American window Glass COM
pany declared a 3h per cent dividend
on it's a 1000, 900 stock. This is the
second this year. All the plants will
be in operation September l, which Is
a most unusually early start.
Colorado seems to have been monop-
oliZing the western summer resort
business this year, to the undoing of
other western resort managers. 1t is
said that some 20, 900 people have been
carried into Colorado this season.
"The agrarians and some butchers
of Germany are trying to create a
popular prejudice against the con-
sumption of American meats, and par
ticularly of American lard" says Con-
sui General Guenther at Frankfort,
Germany.
Mrs. Ingersoll of gainesville, O., the
woman who in May, 1898, kidnapped
Gerald Lapiner, aged two and a half
years, at Chicago and kept him hidden
several months, has gone insane after
a years confinement in the state pen
itentiary.
At Centralia, ILL.,, Elizabeth Hoff-
man, an elderly German, who lives
alone, was robbed of s1,400 in cash, a
certificate of deposit for $1,000 and
other valuable papers. She had little
faith in banks and kept most of her
money in the house.
At Dubois, Pa, the entire works
above ground of the Berwind colliery,
which belonged to the Berwind-White
Coal Mining company, was destroyed
by fire. Sixty men were in the mine
al the time the fire broke out, but es-
capped. Loss, $1,000.
The population of Greater New York
indicated by the count just completed
at the census Office is 3,437,202. This
includes the population Of the bor-
oughs of Manhattan and Bronx, prev1-
ously announced, and those of Brook
lyn, Richmond and Queens. The OPP
proximate estimated increase since
1890 shows it to have been 37.9 per
cent.
The old contention that the best
wool cannot be grown in this country
has been thoroughly refuted. A Chi
a firm received on consignment a
clip of 500, 900 pounds raised in Wyo-
ming and all experts who have seen 1t
agree that in ~fineness, strength, length
of staple and silky fiber it is equal in
quality to the best grown Australian
wool.
John Pritchlaff, one of the largest
wholesale hardware merchants in the
west. died of diabetes at Milwaukee.
Rev. VIM. Walters, one of the old
est Congregational ministers in central
Illinois, died at his home in Wyoming,
Ill, after a long illness of a chronic
nature.
The Carnegie company has made a
deal whereby it will control the iron
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for fifty years.
At San Francisco, Colonel Victor c.
Dubois, First California volunteers,
died, after a long illness from disease
contracted during the Philippine cam
paign.
John G. Hawley of Detroit, we'll
known and widely quoted authority on
criminal law, died of uraemic poison
ing.
The postofice department has Or
dered the establishment Of free deliv-
cry service, September 1, at Eaton,
Colo.
At Caracas, Venezuela, former Pres
ident Andueza Palacio is dead.
At Shelbyville, Ind, Samuel Wallace
and John Boltz, accountants, finished
their investigation of the county books.
They will report a probable shortage
of S165, 900 in Treasurer j. Marsh Will
sons office. Wilson was convicted of
filing a false claim for $1,000.
The New York democratic state com
mittee voted to hold the state con-