The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-10-25
BRIEF TElEGRAMS.

Evansville, Ind, by members of tn
board of health.
The postoff1ce department has de
cided to place the late President Nc
Kinleys head on the new issue of pos
tai cards which will appear shortl!
after December / next.
The engagement is announced O.
Charles L. Mertens of Syracuse, N
Y, and Miss Agnes York Hamlin
daughter OF Attorney General How
land ]. Hamlin of Illinois.
The emigration from Bremen and
Hamburg from January 1 to Septem-
ber 80 was 156,649, which is an in
crease of 3,943 upon the emigration fo1
the corresponding period last year.
At the Chicago Athletic club ban
quet was given in honor of Sir Thom-
as Upton and he was made the re-
cipient Of a massive silver loving cup,
presented by his friends in. Chicago.
A general strike began in Seville,
Spain, although the tobacco workers
and some others have thus far de-
clined to join. There has been some
rioting, compelling the cafes and shops
to close
The safe Of the bank at Rudd, Iowa,
was blown open by dynamite and the
robbers secured $4,000 in currency.
They escaped by handcar and took
to the woods just east of Nora June
tion.
The last request of an old Kansas
soldier who died the other day was
that one of his army comrades should
throw the last shovel full of earth
upon his grave. The comrade did as
he was requested.
The Russian government has con-
firmed the plan to make a new har-
Dor at Cronstadt, by building an en-
bankment or dyke, connecting Cron-
stadt with Cranienbaum. The work
win involve an outlay of s3,O0e,000.
The ninety-second annual meeting
Of the American board at Hartford,
Conn, has ended brilliantly from the
financial standpoint. Over 500 mem
bers of the board and pastors and
laymen have pledge not only the full
amount to pay the debt of $102, 1000,
but s3,110 in excess of the debt.
Word comes from Boston that Mrs.
Stone, mother of Miss Ellen M Stone,
is sinking under the strain of anxiety
concerning her daughter. Mrs. Stone
is more than 80 years old, and she
has been in feeble health for years.
Her condition now is such that her
friends fear she will die from sus-
pense.
H. G. Henderson, who has been in
the Dallas, Tex, Jail for a year and
half, and who claims he assisted
in the kidnapping of Eddie Cudahy at
Omaha, was sent to the state peniten-
tiary. Henderson was year ago con-
yicted of swindling in Several cases,
and now goes to serve thirteen years
in the penitentiary
The gross postal receipts for Sep
tember at fifty of the largest post
offices were s4,225,752 a net increase
of 1928, or SO per cent over last
year. Receipts at only two offices de
creased, viz, Jersey City, N! j., $3,76O,
or little over IL per cent, and
Grand Rapids, Mich, 1858, or over 1
per cent. The receipts of New York
were s6S1,511, an increase of SO per
cent, and Chicago $697, ,16O, an increase
of IL per cent.
Prof. Thomas Shaw of Minnesota
has been elected to the chair of ami |
NAL husbandry in the state agricul- |
tural college at Brookings, S. l.,
which also carries with it the di- |
rectorship of the United States ex
pertinent station at that place.
Major Mclaughlin has succeeded in
securing sufficient number of the
of the Rosebud Indians to
ratify the agreement to throw that
part Of Gregory county now lying in
the reservation open to settlement
1t is announced that certificates of
Union Pacific stock estimated at from
1000 to 5000 shares, standing in the
name of John Jacob Astor, were sold
a few days ago, averaging $99 a share.
The stock bore the transfer date of
May 21 last, when it ranged from $100
to S107 a share.
Mark Thall, well known theatri-
cal man of San Francisco, died from
The ex-Empress Eugene is now set
tied in her English home and intends
to build there small convent in mem
Dry of her son and husband
Owing to the fact that two bridges
are yet to be finished and seven
miles of track laid, it will be about
November 1 before regular train SER
vice on the Toluca-Cody line of the
will be established into
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