The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-20
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

store he was shot and his pockets ri
fed by foot paid.
Representative Crumpacker of Indi
ana has introduced a bill for an
amendment to the apoprtionment act
so that the membership of the house
shall be 372.
Attorney General Comstock said
that in his opinion North Dakota can
do nothing to prevent the consolida-
tion of the Northern Pacific, Burling-
ton and Great Northern.
Rev. DR.. Thomas Kennedy, rector
Of the American college in Rome, has
just purchased building near the
Pilotta palace, where the American
college will be installed
James Argyll Smith of the supreme
court of Mississippi, formerly super
intendent of public education, and a
brigadier general in the confederate
army, died of pneumonia.
Admiral Dewey denies the state
uucuIS IudI Iuc OCHlcy COulI VI iAquiiy
has reached a decision in the case
and that Admiral Schley has been
found guilty on five counts.
A monument to the memory of Rob-
ert Fulton, erected in Trinity church
yard, New York City, by the Ameri-
can society of mechanical engineers,
in cocci0r fhoro rUoc 11puQi1od
Fire in the storage compartment
of Foster & Gassels cotton warehouse
at Shreveport, La, destroyed the COM
partment and 1,5OO bales of cotton.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
The Texas Masonic grand lodge in
vites the members of the Mexican
grand lodge to participate in its de-
liberations, thus giving Mexicans rec
ognition in the United States.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro, Brazil,
says: Maria Louisa, negress, 100
years old, is dead. She was the last
representative of the slaves who were
imported directly from Africa"
The Rome Fanulla says the pope
will not send delegation to attend
the coronation ceremonies of King
Edward VII, as his holiness was not
notified of the kings accession to the
throne
At a luncheon given by the Press
club of Manila to Acting Civil Gov
ernor Wright, General Chaffee and L.
r. Whitley, attorney general to the
Philippines, the guests made short ad
dresses.
At Racine, Wis, it was announced
that valuable package of papers,
shipped from Mason City, Ia, to the
J. I. Case Plow Manufacturing COM
pany, had been lost from an American
Express wagon.
1t has become quite fad to send
miniature Christmas trees as gifts
They are miniature pines or hem
locks, the smaller the better, hand
somely trimmed, and they are sent to
old as well as young.
Charles D. Ford, chairman of the
republican state central committee, an
nounced that he had placed his resig- |
nation in the hands of the secretary |
of the committee to be acted upon |
at the next meeting of the committee.
Major Henry Fulton, member of |
orado, is dead of heart disease. He
was SIS years of age and was a native
of Greece, N. Y. He served with dis
tinction in the civil war, enlisting at
the age of Is years, and spent one
year in Libby prison.
1t is said at Vienna that the man
named Halju, who was arrested at So
fla December and alleged to be the
assassin of ex-Premier Stambuloff, had
a hand in the kidnapping of Miss Ell
len M Stone. the American mission
ary.
The Cramp Shipbuilding company
has notified the porte that it is ready
to commence building cruiser for the
Turkish government and has asked
the government to send officers to SUI
pervise the vessels construction.
London papers announce that when
the duchess of Marlborough, formerly
Miss Consuela Vanderbilt, visits the
United States with her children this
winter, she will spend Christmas with
her father William K. Vanderbilt, at
his country home, Idle Hour, and re-
turn to Great Britain in February.
Between 10000 and $4,000 women
pass annually through the prisons of
England and Wales.
General Wood, military governor of
Cuba, left Washington for New York,
where he will take the first steamer
sailing for Havana.
The death rate among negroes in
our large cities is nearly double that
of the whites.
A French engineer named M. Souza,
of Vitry-sur-S -Sef1ine, is reported to have
made successful experiments with a ,