The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-05-18
BRIEF TEIEGRAMS.


Richard Storrs Willis. author, editor
and teacher, has died Of heart disease
at bis home in Detroit. aged 80 years
Both houses of the Swedish rigsdad
by a point vote of PIP to 149 have
agreed upon the expenditure Of 4,853,-
600 kroner for new defenses.
The president has sent to the sen
ate a communication from the secre-
tary of state, giving the expenditures
in detail of the Paris exposition COM
mission.
By direction of the secretary of war,
the small allowance of arms and am
munition for target practice will be in
creased one-third during the present
calendar year.
Herbert w. Bowen, United States
minister at Teheran, Persia, has had
conferred upon him by the shah the
decoration of the Grand Gordon of
the Lion and the Sun"
Judge Thompson, of the United
States district court at Cincinnati, O.,
decided that the law does not require
any revenue stamp to be affixed to
bonds OF notaries public.
ASCpi CSCHldIlNS OltWdTl, VI WlScOu-
sin, has introduced a resolution to au-
thorize the members of the Prairie
band of Pottawattamie Indians to pur-
chase lands in Wisconsin.
1t is understood that the president
las practically decided upon John c..
Baird of Wyoming, as United States
attorney for Hawaii and Daniel A. Rey
OF Illinois, as United States marshal.
The navy department has received
from Captain Chadwick the acknowl-
edgment OF the receipt of the receipt
by him of the departments letter Of
reprimand which he was directed to
return.
The amount Of bonds received at
the treasury to date to exchange for
the new 2 per cent concols is S265, SOL
$50, of which $4S, S12, 800 were received
from individuals and institutions other
than national banks.
Secretary Longs repuke to Captain
Chadwick for uttering sentiments re-
fecting upon Admiral Schley is &C
cepted as a rebuttal of the charge that
the administration has fathered Ad-
miral SIMPSONS complaints.
The Kansas India relief committee
has instructed Secretary Anderson to
order the purchase of 1000 bushels of
corn in New York to be loaded in the
relief ship which sails next week for
Bombay. Treasurer Coburn's cash re-
ceipts to date are $10,372.
General Silas M. Bailey, one of the
306 Of the famous "Old Guard which
stood by General Grant in the conven-
tynn in 7O00 If4l - IT;1-- n
aged GA years, of brain trouble, which
resulted from a bullet wound received
during the war.
The contract for supplying the row.
eminent military forces on the Amer
lean Yukon with beef supplies has been
awarded to Jack Dalton, the noted Alas
kan pioneer and explorer. 1t involves
about 100000, and provides that Dali
ton shall furnish the soldiers at Fort
Egbert, Circle City, Rampant and Fort
Giddon with all their fresh beef from
July L 1900, to July l, 1901.
Ben F. Morse, was convicted at Kan
sas City, in the United States district
court, Of ~defrauding dead mems heirs
and Of using the mails for his schemes.
His plan was to watch the newspapers
and learn of the deaths of men Of
more or less wealth or prominence. He
would then send a letter addressed to
the dead man, saying that a small
amount remained unpaid on valuable
mining stock.
The report that cnolera is strength
ening its deadly hold on the famine
stricken of India brings the pitiful CON
dition of that country more than ever
the public view. About SO. 500, 900 per-
sons, for this is the population of the
districts affected, are sweltering their
sQualid eXistences away among pesti-
lence and misery that show no signs
of abating. Hundreds of thousands
of pounds of good British gold, good
German marks and American ccIn
been thrown into the country,
but, judging from the latest advices,
this charity is merely a drop in
the cean.
Chicago porchclimbers. in a raid up
on the home of NJ. NJ. Munster, a dia-
mond broker, secured plumber valued
at nearly SIS, 900.
John E. Madden has sold the 3-year-
old colt Kilmarnock, by Sir Dixon-Miss
Used to William c. Whitney. 1t is
said that the price paid was $4,000.
NJ. S. Yeager of Chicago, is search
ing for his brother George, who has
been missing twelve years, and is now
heir to considerable money.
Governor Johnston has fixed August
6 as the day for a special election to
choose a successor to General Joseph
Wheeler as congressman from the
Alabama district.
The house passed the sundry civil
bill. 1t carries slightly more than $751;
500, 90, about $40, 600, 900 more than any
previous sundry civil bill. The general
deficiencies and military academy ap-
preparation bills are now the only gen.
eral supply bills Enacted upon by the
house.
Advices from Great Falls, Mont,
that the strike was declared off
by the employees Of the Montana Cen
trail.
Albert B. Schultz Of the Schultz
& Iron company, announces
that his company has entered the COM
bination of bridge and structural COM