The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-08-16
BRIEF TElEGRAMS.

dead.
The broom trust will raise prices 25
to so cents per dozen.
Acting Adjutant General Warren has
received a cable announcing the death
of Major William E. Almy, Porto Ri
can regiment at San Juan, from appen-
dicitis.
People who are in close association
with Mr.. Kruger say that up to the
present it has not been decided tina.
the Boer statesman will visit the Unit
ed States
Bishop John Moore was buried at ST.
Augustine, Fla. The funeral was large
ly attended and dignitaries of the
church from all over the United States
were present.
Prussian officials take seriously the
statement from st. Petersburg that
Russia will forbid Russian farm labor
ers to cross the frontier for summer
work in Prussia.
Commander William Swift, COM
been ordered to relieve Commander
Seaton Schroeder as naval governor of
the island of Guam.
The bureau of admissions announces
the attendance at the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo during the first
three months ending at midnight on
July 81 as 2,724,9OS.
Former Congressman Blount is not
critically i'll. He received a slight
touch of paralysis some days ago, af-
fecting the muscles of his face and
limbs, but he is steadily improving.
Myron A. Decker, well known New
York piano manufacturer, is dead, aged
SO. Mr.. Decker was born in the Cats
kills and began the manufacture of
pianos in New York about forty years
ago.
The navy department is about to es-
tablish a private school for children on
the Samoan island of Tutuila. The
naval commander, Chaplain Tilley, has
made an urgent recommendation to
this effect
At Marlin. Tex, Porter Sawyer, aged
IS, shot and killed his father and was
overcome by heat while trying to es-
cape and died. The boy is said to have
become angry at his father for whip
ping horse.
The president has commuted to life
Imprisonment the sentence of death
pronounced by court martial upon
James w. Allen, private, Company F,
Forty-sixth infantry. Allen was con-
victed of rape at Humingan, Luzon.
The Cincinnati Price Current in it's
weekly review of the crop situation
says: Important relief to corn by
rains, but indications not above 60 per
cent, or 1,5O0,0O0,OOO bushels. Wheat
threshing maintaining expectations"
Court martials are to be held in Ma
Mia on Lieutenant Preston Brown and
Captain Francis p. Fremont, Second
infantry. The lieutenant is accused of
killing a native who refused to recover
the body of soldier from the river.
Dr. Henry 3. Horlbeck, for many
years health officer of Charleston, S.
c., is dead. He was confederate sur
geon of ability, former president Of
the American Medical association and
an eminent authority on yellow fever.
The weekly crop report shows that
in the great corn states late corn
and, fortunately, a much larger pro-
portion than usual of this years crop
was planted late-has experienced a
general and in some cases decided
improvement, but the early corn has
been practically ruined.
Henry c. Payne, the Wisconsin mem
ber of the republican national commit
tee, is dangerously i'll in Berlin.
Shares in some of the Texas oil COM
panies are selling as low as cents
each, with a splendid chance of losing
even that amount
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the First National bank of
Dysart, Ia, to begin business with a
capital of $4,000
President Mckinley has sent the fol-
lowing message to Emperor William Of
Germany on the death of his mother:
II learn with deep sorrow of the death
of your majesty's beloved mother, the
dowager empress aud Queen Frederick.
Her noble qualities have endeared her
memory to the American people, in
whose name and in my own 1 tender to
your majesty heartfelt coincidence"
Wall street is greatly alarmed at the
loss of the coarse grain crops and its
probable effect on the railroads
The president has made the follow
ing appointments in the navy: William
P. White, lieutenant commander; AL
fred A. Pratt, lieutenant
An offer of $4,000, made by H. NJ.
Hanna, president of the Cleve-
land Driving association, for Eleata
f9.023L0 who won the M e. M stakes