The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-07-19
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
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secretary Omlley OF tne hdnSdS
Grain Dealers association, after max
ing personal investigation, said the
oats crop in Kansas will be the worst
failure in ten years.
Samuel Moffat, the oldest brother OF
David Moffat, of Denver, Colo, died in
Hudson, N. Y. In 1857 he established
the Bank Of Nebraska, said to be the
second west Of the Missouri river.
J. r. G. Pitkin, ex-postmaster of
New Orleans and ex-minister to the
Argentine Republic, and president of
the Transmississippi Commercial con-
gress, died suddenly at New Orleans.
A commission of thirtyt-wo persons
has returned to Lima, Peru, from an
exploration Of the River Santa Chu-
quicara. The members report that
they found plenty of gold in the river
The grasshopper situation in some
sections of Minnesota is alarming. The
Red River valley is suffering. In
many places the insects have cleared
up acres of young wheat, fax and
potatoes.
Hon. Mortimer Nye, ex-lieutenant
governor of Indiana, and one of the
best known men in public life in La
Porte, was stricken with paralysis at
Union IuIlls just as he closed Fourth
Of July address.
George w. Partridge, for eight years
private secretary to Zach Chandler,
former United States senator from
Michigan and ex-secretary of the in
terror, was found dead in bed at his
home at Detroit.
The state department has received
information of the death from sun
stroke on the 9Th instant of Robert
O'Neil Wickersham, vice and deputy
commercial agent of the United States
at Castellemar Di Stabia, Italy. He
had been in the consular service since
1879.
The Washington correspondent Of
the New York Herald is authority for
the statement that Frank w. Hackett
will tender his resignation as assistant
secretary of the navy in the fall.
Charles H. Allen the governor of Por-
to Rico, has been suggested as his sue
cessor
General Daniel E. Sickles is serious
ly i'll in Pleasantville, n. Y, at the
Of
Hayes. He went there on the Fourth
Of July to make an address to the
residents and has been so i'll ever
since that he has had to remain with
his host.
The endowment rank of the Knights
Of Pythias has a deficit of $225,267.
This announcement was made by Su-
preme Commander Ogden H. Fethers
to the supreme lodge of the order,
which has been assembled in Chicago
for the purpose of looking into the
affairs of the rank.
The navy department received ca
blegram announcing the departure of
Rear Admiral Cromwell aboard his
flagship, the Chicago, from Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, for st. Vincent, Canary
Islands, enroute to the Mediterranean
to assume his new duties as command
er-in-chief of the European station.
An appeal for the relief of fire suf-
ferers at Versailles, o., has been sent
6,,M Coll nj
M. Baker, pastor of the Christian
church of that town. They state that
100 people are homeless, many desti-
tute and several injured as the result
of the fire which devastated Versailles
Saturday.
Ernest Reid, colored, was hanged at
Carthage, Mo-, for the murder of his
wife, January 19, 1900.
Mrs L. P Kennedy of North To-
peka, Kan, has been appointed a
seamstress at the Winnebago Indian
school, Nebraska.
Secretary Hitchcock has decided that
there is no authority of law permit
ting a delay until October ] in the
opening of the Wichita Indian reser-
walton in Oklahoma, as desired by GER
tain cattle interests.
Secretary Hitchcock said he anticf-
pated no serious trouble with "soon-
ers'' at the opening of the Oklahoma
lands in August. He said there might
be several thousand people now on the
lands, but there was no reason to be-
lieve that they would not be gotten on
easily.
Governor Allen, who will hand to
President Mckinley the request of the
Porto Rican assembly that free trade
be established between that country