The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-11-29
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

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lected Albany, N. Y, for the place o.
next meeting.
Minister Conger will soon be the
only foreign minister in Pekin who
passed through the siege and will ther
become the doyen of the diplomatic
corps
William Hoeppner, whose extra
dition was requested by the United
States government because Of charges
of defalcation and forgery against
him, sailed from Buenos Ayres.
Surgeon General Wyman of the
marine hospital service, received a
cable gram from Passed Assistant
Surgeon Thomas at Liverpool, say
ing that city was officially declared
free from the plague.
Congress will remove the duty on
raw sugar within a year and the re-
fined product will sell at cents a
pound" said w. A. Havemeyer, Chi
cago representative of the American
Sugar Refining company.
The Buena Vista county grand jury
sitting at Storm Lake, Iowa, indicted
the two Greenville bank robbers for
murder in the second degree. During
fight with citizens the robbers shot
and killed John Sundblad.
In spite of persistent and apparent
ly well founded denials that there is
any imminent danger of the pope's de-
cease. the air is full of speculation
and apprehension, indicating that his
end is not considered far off.
President Roosevelt has issued an
order amending the civil service reg
ulations SO as to return to the civil
service a number of civilian places
in the war department excepted by
executive order on May 29, 1899.
By close vote the executive COM
mittee of the Confederate Union asso-
citation decided to request that the
dates of the United Confederate Vet
erans' union in Dallas, Texas, be
changed from April 9and 80 and July
1 and 2, 1902, to April %, %, "a and
25, 1902.
1t is reported that the Rogers Lo-
connective works at Paterson, N. J.,
recently purchased by a syndicate,
will be enlarged. There is said to be
a scarcity of heavy draught locomo-
tives throughout the country and a
constant demand for them from all the
great freight lines.
DR.. r. S. Linn of Bctroit, who went
to China as a surgeon III the volunteer
army, has sent home several cases of
looted goods. Among other things is
a sacred yellow robe, which ng. Linn
thinks is possibly the only one sent to
America. He took it from the shoul.
der of a god in the sacred temple Of
Pekin.
The annual report of the commits
sioner Of internal revenue shows that
the total receipts for the year, ended
June 80, 1901, were s306,3 ,669, or
$11, ,555 ,561 in excess of the estimates
about the same amount in excess OF
the receipts for the year ended June
80, 1900, and s33,OOO,OOO in excess o:
the receipts for 1899.
Senator Hanna, vice president Of
the Mckinley Monument association.
said that he did not approve the plan
to use the surplus of $4,000 in tho
hands Of the Grand Army people to
erect bronze statue to Mckinley in |
Cleveland. He thinks these local |
monuments will detract from the
funds necessary for the national mon
ument at Canton.
The United States supreme court
granted leave to South Dakota to |
file its bill in the proceedings against |
the state of North Carolina to recover
on bonds of the Western Railroad
company, guaranteed by North Caro-
lima.
The Constantinople correspondent
of the London Times and the New
York Times, says the British ambas-
sador to the porte, the Rt. Hon. Sir
Nicholas r. O'Conor, is energetically
pressing the outstanding British
claims.
Lizzie Allie, wife of an employe of
the steel works, and William White,
one of the water pipe foundrymen,
both colored, were shot and killed at
Pueblo, Col, by Robert Hicks a negro
barber porter. Jealousy was the
cause.
Patrick Powers, one of the best
known cut-stone contractors in the
United States, died at st. Joseph, Mo.
Army officials wholly discredit the
published. story Of the reported con-
spiracy to secure the independence CT
Alaska.
Most of the state of New York is
now snow-covered.
The German cruiser Fake and the
training ship Stein have arrived at
a HJ1avro wbi1o tho or1,;cor Yyapata |