The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-03-22
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.

There is an order from the United
States government for 1000 cavalry
horses for the regular army service.
The Standard Gas company plant,
south of G~reensburg, Pa, was totally
destroyed by fire. The plant recently
was leased from the National Glass
company and was to be started up
soon.
Robert c. Ogden, philanthropist, will
start from New York City on or about
April Is with forty invited guests on
a visit to the educational institutions
of the south. The party will be com
posed of persons interested in educa-
ton.
The postoffice department has re-
jected all bids for furnishing street
letter boxes for the postal service and
new advertisements will be issued
calling for steel boxes only. The sam
pie boxes submitted were not salts
factory.
The bodies of all the miners who
persisted in the fire at the Diamond
vile, Wyoming, mine have been re-
covered, the twenty-eighth and last be-
ing taken out. The fire is out and
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a few days.
Four suits ~aggregating in all $780,
600 were entered at Pittsburg in the
United States court against the Erie
railroad to recover for the loss of oil
wells located along the defendant
company's roads in Mexican county,
Pennsylvania.
The tonnage carried through the
Sault canals at the outlet of Lake
Superior last season involved freight
charges of S25, 000, 900. though the
price per ton for each mile carried
was the almost infinitesimal figure OF
LIS mills.
Experiments just completed have
demonstrated the practicability OF
lighting up Niagara Falls by electric
ity to be generated by the falls. New
and powerful apparatus operating
searchlights will hereafter enable Wis
itors to see the falls at night.
AS a further illustration of the
milder attitude recently assumed by
the imperial government to ward Al
sace-Lorraine, the Berliner Tageblatt
mentions a report that Emperor Will
liam is planning to give it a repre-
sentative in the bundesrath.
After figuring with every large food
manufacturer in the country, Lieut..
Evelyn B. Baldwin closed a contract
with the Chicago Packing company
for the entire supply of food for the
Baldwin-Zeigler polar expedition,
which will sail in the spring.
Fifteen Angora goats, offered by
Kansas and Missouri breeders, were
sold Monday at the Kansas City stock
wards sale pavilion. The registered
animals were sold singly at prices
ranging from Sc to $3.50. The grade
animals were sold in car lots.
The official statement of gross postal
receipts for February, 1901, compared
with February. 1900, at the fifty larg-
est postofices show for New YORK. an
increase of 1872 per cent and Chlcago
20 per cent increase. The biggest IN
crease, 1877 per cent, is at Dayton, u,
and the only decrease at the fifty larS-
est offices is AT per cent, at Syracuse,
N. Y.
At Bowling Green, O., Ody McCar-
thy. who almost thrashed to death >.
d. Insley, a school teacher of North
Baltimore, and escaped to a mouse
near that place, where he detled ar
rest. was finally taken into custody by
Deputy Sheriff Farmer AMI a posse.
MCCARTHY held the officers off all day,
but. seeing that his capture was inev-
liable. finally gave himself up was
placed in Jail at Bowling Green.
Secretary Wilson has authorized
LITE of +ha uroothnr hI1-
reau, to create three new forecastlnS
division under the general authority
of the last appropriation act. Those
division have been selected as follows:
Rev England, headquarters at Bos-
ton: Western Gulf states, headquar-
tiers at Galveston, and Central ROCKY
Mountain Plateau, headquarters at
Denver This will make a total OF
seven f~orecasting divisions in the
weather service.
The loss in the burning Of the iowa
university buildings is $250,OO0.
During the absence of the parents
the residence of Guy Williams, seven
miles north of Washington, Pa, was
DESTROYED by fire, and their three chill
dren. aged /, 3 and 5 years, were
burned to death.
Prince Albert Zolmel Braunsfels has
committed suicide at W~iesbaden, nav
ing learned that the disease from
which he was suffering was i~ncurable.
The senate bill taxing insurance
companies passed the New York assem-
blv. AS the bill was suggested by
Governor Odell it is sure of executive
signature.
The Archer Starch company's fac
tory, just north of Kankakee, H.,
burned, involving a loss of $325,OOO.
Gaylord, Blessing & Co., n of the
Oldest brokerage firms in st. Louis,
Mo. have filed a deed of assignment.
Liabilities are admitted to exceed the
assets by $4,000.
Daniel Jones, farmer, was frozen to
death near Preston, Kan. He was a
veteran of the civil war.
Prof. Henry Thatcher Fowler, of
Knox college, Illinois, has been elected
10 the chair of Biblical literature and
history in Brown university, Provl-
dence, R. l., to succeed Prof. Charles
va