The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-11-22
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.
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Partial returns from every county in
Alabama indicate that the new consti-
tuition has been ratified by nearly thir-
ty thousand votes.
The Nicaraguan government raised
and formally saluted the British flag
in compliment to the birthday ami
versary of King Edward VII.
A plan has been introduced to form
an order of nurses in this country, in
memory of Mckinley. like the Victoria
Order of Nurses in England.
Emil Japp, the 2-year-old son of
Will Japp, farmer living near Blair,
Neb., died of suffocation, caused by
a bee flying down his throat.
At Cassopolis, Mich, the Grand
Trunk station cash drawer was re-
lieved Of s1,700 by robbers, who held
the agent at the point of a revolver.
Owners of asphalt mines at Ravia. 1.
r., have received an order from Ger
many for 10000 tons of asphalt de-
livered at Galveston, Tex, for ex-
port.
Professor Henry M. Howe of the
school of mines of Columbia univer-
sity, has been elected an honorary
member of the Russian Technical So
ciety.
AS result of fire in Thomas
county, West Virginia, eco families are
homeless. Sixty~two buildings were
destroyed, including the postoffice, and
several stores.
The members of the American In
stitute of Mining and Engineers were
received by President Diaz at Chap
ultepec. Ambassador Clayton made
the presentation.
! For fraudulent use of the mails in
the conduct of matrimonial bureau,
Charles L. Miller and Mrs. N. C. Col
Inns of Kansas City, were sentenced to
year and one day in prison,
The survey for the extension Ct the
Blackwell, Enid & Southwestern rail-
way has been completed from Black
well, Okl., to Coffeyville, Kan. This
line will be owned by the Frisco.
The municipal elections at BARGE
iona, Spain, were attended by blood
shed and excitement. Revolver shots
were exchanged and one person was
killed and forty others were wounded.
11v r. ic
est voter in Maine. He has lived IN
der every president except Washing
ton. He cast his first vote for James
Monroe and has voted for every pres
ident since.
Department Commander Martin Nor
ton of the Kansas G. A R. has started
a movement to raise fund TO be used
in erecting monument to the mem
ory OF Mother Bickerdyke, the famous
old army nurse.
Several delegates who attended the
recent Protestant Episcopal convention
in San Francisco have publicly crit
icized the lavish manner in which J.
Pierpont Morgan entertained his
brother delegates there.
Near Marionville, Mo-, Mrs. George
Justice locked her two small chill
dren in the house and went a consid-
cradle distance for water. When she
returned the house was in flames. The
children were cremated.
It is now remembered that in De-
cember, 1898, the president of the
United States and the governor of
Alabama were entertained socially at
Tuskegee, Ala, by Mr.. and Mrs. Book
er r. Washington. The New Orleans
Picayune said at the time: No white
hosts or hostesses could have been
more courteous in attending to and
more thoughtful in forestalling every
want of their guests than were these
refined and educated Africans"
Judge Moore Of the Eighth judicial
district, South Dakota, has granted a
divorce to Mrs. Sophie Harrison East
man, sister of Mayor Harrison of
Chicago, from Barrett Eastman, well
known journalist.
Work will soon be resumed on the
construction Of the largest gun in the
world at the United States arsenal at
Watervelt 1t is breech loader ana
the mechanism will be so adjusted
that child can operate and fire it.
1t will carry a projectile twenty-one
miles.
Navy department financiers say tho
cost of investigating Captain Tilley's
jag at Samoa will not exceed 5000.
The Nicaraguan presidential cleo
ton has passed off peacefully. Gen
eral Santas Zelaya has been reelected
president by large vote.
The report of sixty cases of small
pox in Long Pine, Neb., is prevarica
ton pure and simple.
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, has
purchased from Germany the special
service vessel Arminus, which will be
used as cruiser.