The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-11-01
BRIEF TFLEGRAMS.

III with cancer OF the stomach.
The Chicago and Southeastern rail-
way, which has been tied up by a
strike for seventeen days, has been
opened and trains will run regularly
henceforth.
Twelve more Boer leaders, including
Commandant Scheepers, whose cap
ture was announced August IL, have
been permanently banished from
South Africa
James T. Woods, who drew first
prize in the Lawton district land lot
terry last summer and settled on a
claim valued at $4,000, has died OF
typhoid fever
DR.. c. M. Bartlett, for twenty one
years president of the Maryville col
lege, Maryville, Tenn, died, aged 81
years. He was one of the best known
educators in Tennessee.
Commander Seth M. Ackley of the
navy has been placed on the retired
list, with the rank of captain. His
advancement is due to his service in
the war of the rebellion.
Dalziel's Berlin correspondent states
that the police of that place are
searching for an Italian anarchist
named Napoli, who is reported to be
en- route to Berlin to assassinate the
kaiser
Indiana republicans who have been
in Washington recently bring back
the information that President Roos =
velt will put the rural mail delivery
under civil service rules about the first
of next year.
An unconfirmed report, which has
reached London through Berlin, says
part of the Russian garrison at
Warsaw recently mutined, firing upon
the officers, and that 300 men will be
court-martialed.
The cup presented by the Chicago
Athletic association to Sir Thomas
Upton is of sterling silver, two and
one-half feet high and weighing six
teen pounds. The figures on it are
sailors, ships and sea serpents.
Owing to grave scandals in the ad-
ministration of companies working the
iron ore fields in northern Sweden,
says the Stockholm correspondent, the
government will ask the reichstag that
the state buy out the interest.
The safe of the county treasurer OF
Butler county, Iowa, at Allison, was
blown open by burglars. Only s100
was obtained. The safe is wreck
The robbery was not discovered until
after the robbers had disappeared.
Ex-Governor ]. S. Hogg and J. w.
Swayne of Texas have gone to New
York for the purpose of interesting
capitalists in the formation of a big
combination Of all the independent oil
producers in the Beaumont fields.
Victor O'Brien, graduate student
of the University of Chicago and son
of F. w. O'Brien, a leading lawyer in
San Francisco, was placed in the de-
tention hospital, apparently suffering
from acute mania. Young O'Brien is
said to have become insane over
love affair.
The interior department has re-
ceived word from Governor Orman of
Colorado that 300 Indians from the
White Rocks, Utah agency, have left
the reservation and are destroying
game in direct violation OF the Colo
rado laws. He predicts that unless
something is done to keep the In
dians on the reservation there will be
serious trouble.
Mayor Hartenbower of Des Moines
has announced his intention of plac-
ing ministers of the gospel ON the po-
lice force. The Rev. Conrad Hooker
and the Rev. G. w. L. Brown criti-
cised the work of the police in main
tanning order during the carnival.
Secretary Gage has accepted the
treasurership of the Mckinley Arch
association. Prominent men in every
section will be selected to organize the
work in their localities, and it is be-
lieved that the $2,OOO,OOO needed will
be raised in a short time
The Hamburg-American Packet
company has commenced fortnightly
service to Cuba.
NJ. Paul Blouet, who is better known
as MAX O'Rell," has become mem
Der of the editorial staff of Figaro,
Paris.
Sir Thomas Upton sailed for home
on the steamer Celtic.
Richard Trip of Colfax. Ia, aged
19, is not expected to live as a result
of injuries received in foot ball con-
test between the Colfax and Prairie
City High school.
Laura D. Barnard OF Omaha will
receive $4,000 and interest at the
rate of z per cent by recent decision
of the United States court Of appeals.
affirming a verdict of a lower tribunal.
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