The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-04-06
BRIEF TELfGRAMS.

Diil W oIOboChDuA6 JAN Wa
receive $40 per month.
Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, one of the most
noted Jewish rabbis in the United
States, Is lying at the point of death
in Cincinnati.
The Ohio Gar Light association viii
unite with the electrical companies OF
Ohio to combat municipal ownership
Of public utilities.
More than 5000 women have reg 8
tered in Cleveland, Ohio, in order to
be eligible to vote for director oil
schools at the spring election.
Reuben Griggs, colored, aged 1f
years, was hanged at Cumberland
Court House, Va, for criminal assault
upon a girl of his own color, aged
years.
Oliver D. Weeks, postmaster at Gri
gan, a suburb of Columbus, O., was ar
rested by Deputy United States Mar
shal Bauer, charged with embezzle-
ment of $3.50.
Mrs. Vesta Hogg of Vienna, ILL.,, shot
and killed Mrs. Clara Gurley of that
city in a fit of jealousy. Mrs. Hogg
was arrested and placed in Jail.
Information has reached Cleveland
railroad officials that the Glover Leaf
railroad when it is disposed of by
foreclosure sale April 2, will be bought
IL by the Erie company.
Representative Aldrich of Alabama
has introduced a bill for the establish
ment of a diplomatic, consular and
civil service college of the United
States" at or near Washington.
The Stoughton (Wis.) academy was
totally destroyed by fire. The institu-
tion was run under the auspices of
the Norwegian Lutheran synod and
was attended by 112 students hailing
from Iowa, Minnesota and the Dako-
taS.
The parliamentary secretary Of the
British war Office, Mr.. Wyndham, an
onunced that it was proposed to give
a total of 276 commissions in the army
TO the colonies and fifty to Lord Rob-
erts for distribution to the forces in
the field.
Mayor Ashbridge of Philadelphia
by that city for the republican conven-
ton is now in hand and will be for
warded in a few days. The work of
raising the fourth and final $25, 900 has
been started.
Edward Leasure, New York, TWEEN
ty-two years of age, killed George
Crotty, ~thirty-eight years of age, an
electrician, in Brooklyn. Leasure
boarded at Crotty's home and his re-
lations with Crotty's wife were such
as to cause a quarrel between the two
men. Leassure was arrested.
A death blow was given cigarette
smoking in the weather service at
Washington when Chief Willis L.
Moore issued an order prohibiting per-
sons connected with the service from
smoking cigarettes during Office hours,
and stating, further, that those who
smoked cigarettes at any time would
be mentioned in the confidential re-
ports.
The supreme court decided the case
of the Houston & Texas Central Rail
way company VS.. the State OF Texas.
The case involved the validity of pay
ments made in the state warrants IS
sued during the civil war, the supreme
court held that the payments in state
warrants were legal and proper; that
the warrants were not issued in viola
ton of the constitution.
General Lee recently ordered an in
vestigation into serious trouble be-
tween the mayor and police of Mari
ano, Cuba, on one side and about 200
citizens on the other. Captain Slocum
reports that he found four men in Jail,
of whom was charged with making
reflections upon the official acts of the
mayor at public meetings and the
other three charged with carrying
concealed weapons.
The ~17-year-old son of J. H. Lester
of ColfaX received a very serious gun
shot wound in the foot while hunt
ing for ducks on the river. He and his
elder brother were together, and in
creeping neal to get in close range of
the game, the hammer of the gun in
the hands of the brother who was in
the rear was accidentally caught, dis
charging the entire load in the side
of the younger mans foot.
Students of the Missouri state uni
versity engaged in a furious pitched
battle in the auditorium of the insti-
tuition at Columbia. There was intense
rivalry between the classes over the
preliminary contest to select represen-
tatives of Missouri university to ap-
pear in the debate with Nebraska uni
versity, which takes place in May, and
it was over this that the trouble oc-
Cured.
Over 200 delegates are in attendance
at Cedar Rapids upon the annual on
vention of the Northeast district of
Christian churches. A number of pa
pers relating to different branches of
church work were read and discussed.
The reports indicated general progress
IN every branch of church work. The
report of State Superintendent Denny
showed that in the district there are
ffty-six congregations with forty-nine
church buildings-one church to ev-
cry 9,1S6 population.
Governor Jones of Arkansas has an
nounced his withdrawal from the SEN
atorial race.
Three of the leading commercial
houses of ST. Louis have adopted a
memorial to congress favoring a
change in the law which will give to
the interstate commerce commission