The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-09-20
NEBRASKA
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
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PurcnaSe exposition call Tor ~ per
cent payment of subscriptions was
made on the stockholders.
The German emperor has appointed
his youngest sister, Princess Margaret
of Hesse, to be chief of honorary col
onel of the Eightieth Foot, in success
sion to her deceased mother.
Tie Weldon Grocery company, a
corporation with a capital stock of
100000, went into the hands of re-
ceiver at Pittsburg. The assets and
liabilities are said to be about $135,-
each.
Albert Zimmerman, steward of the
Theatrical Business Mems club, of
New York, was found dead in his
room at the club. At his side was
bottle which had contained carbolic
acid.
Joseph Choate, United States am
bassador to England, has remarkable
memory for faces and names and rare
ly fails to recall either in the person
of any one he has met socially or in
business.
Mayor Jones of Toledo has failed in
an experiment in municipal ownership
of public utilities The city of Toledo
has been forced to lease the gas plant
which it had established to a private
corporation.
Charles r. Mackenzie, aged 46, well
known as a turf writer under the
nom de plume of THE Gadfiy," died at
the city hospital at ST. Louis as a re-
suit of street car accident in which
his skull was fractured.
The home of John Bechtel, wealthy
farmer two miles east of Wakarusa,
Ind, was entered by burglars. Bechtel,
his wife, female servant, and two
children, were bound and gagged after
which the house was robbed.
Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang have
sent Minister Conger warm letter of
regret at the attempted assassination
of President Mckinley, and Prince
Ching is requesting the court to issue
an edict to the same purport.
Andrew Carnegie has given $500 each
TO Sheldon, Law, Jones and Dick, four
miners who displayed conspicuous
bravery in the rescue of their COM
rades at the time of the recent Doni-
bristle, Scotland, colliery disaster.
H. NJ. S. Indefatigable and Tribune
and torpedo boat destroyed Quail have
gone to sea from Halifax. N. S., to
meet the royal yacht Ophir OF Cape
North and escort her to Quebec, where
the rest of the squadron await her.
The United States grand jury has
returned indictments on two counts
each against Pedro Sanchez, census
supervisor for New Mexico, for signing
false accounts and returns, and
against his chief, Mariana Sena, for
signing fraudulent accounts and vouch-
erS.
The National United Postofice
Clerks association adopted the report
of the committee on the eight hour
bill, providing for forty-eight hours
per week, exclusive of Sunday work,
and Sunday work not to exceed eight
the service demands.
]. G. Maulick, OF Peoria, ILL.,, agent
for the J l. Case Plow company, was
robbed of securities amounting to $12,
600 in hotel at Lewiston, Ill. He
placed grip containing the money
behind the counter in a hotel and
when he came to look for it it was
gone. There is no clue to the thieves.
Two hundred members of the Ma
tional Association of Merchants and
Travellers met at the Auditorium in
Chicago for semi-annual banquet and
a discussion. J. Sterling Morton of
Nebraska, the guest of honor, pleaded
in behalf of taxation for revenue only
The postmaster at Nome, Josh
Wright. has been arrested and held for
trial On the charge of embeZzling $3,
200 from the government of the
United States. Postal Inspector Clum
is the principal witness against Post
master Wright.
The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy announce their intention to
have the monument to Jefferson Davis
in Richmond, Va, completed and un-
veiled in 1903. They have now $4,000
of the fund they require, and say they
must have $4,000 more.
William L. Wright, said to be spe-
cial organizer of the Pattern Makers
League of North America, is under ar
rest in Denver on charges of kidnap-
ping and highway robbery. He is ac-
cused of completely in the kidnapping
of c. W. Walters, pattern maker.
The comptroller Of the currency has
approved the application of the follow
ing persons to organize the CONNER
cial National bank of Charles City,
Iowa, capital, $4,000: George E.
May. J. w. Wallis, ]. Hecht, p w.
Eurr and F Werder