The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-13
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

ed.
1t is given out flat-footed that the
st. Louis fair will open for business
April 80, 1903.
DR.. Jefferson Cawood, one of the
best known physicians in Tennessee,
dropped dead at Knoxville.
Out Of 10000 houses or flats in
Glasgow, $4,000 were found to have
but one room and 10000 but two
rooms.
In an interview Governor Stanley
of Kansas denied that he was a can
didate for governor for a third term.
He said he wouldn't have it if he
could get it.
An order has been prepared at
the war department for the return to
the United States from Cuba, about
January Is, of a battalion of the Sec
ond regiment of cavalry.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
has telegraphed William Grimes, Sec
retary Of Oklahoma, to act as governor
until the newly appointed governor,
Mr.. Ferguson, takes charge.
Paul Deschanel, former councillor
of the French embassy at Washing
ton, where he married a daughter of
General George B. Mcclellan, has been
appointed French minister to Hayti.
The secretary of the interior sent
to the house of representatives copy
of resolution of the legislature of
Hawaii making duty on coffee in
order to protect the coffee industry of
Hawaii.
Delegate Flynn of Oklahoma intro
duced bill providing for statehood
for the territory. The bill is practi-
cally the same as that introduced by
him for the same purpose during the
last session.
1t is now almost certain that Lord
Dudley will succeed Lord Cadogan as
viceroy Of Ireland, says Dublin cor
respondent. This puts an end, to the
rumors that the Duke Of Marlborough
would receive the post.
The monthly comparative state
ment Of the receipts and expenditures
Of the government just issued shows
that during November, 1901, the re-
ceipts amounts to s45, 5,776,776, and the
expenditures, $40, 1886.
At meeting of railroad officials,
representing the Chicago and Ohio
river lines and the east bound lines
from st. Louis, in Cincinnati, it was
decided to maintain the present tariff
rates during the year 1902.
The order for the coronet for Mrs.
Bradley Martin, which she intended
to wear at the coronation OF King
Edward, has been countermanded.
The coronet was modelled after that
worn by Empress Josephine.
Wilbert P Clarke, city editor of the
Toledo Times, committed suicide by
swallowing an ounce of laudanum.
He was respondent because the
parents of his second wife would not
permit her to live with him.
Twenty-Five of the leading shoe
manufacturing firms in Cincinnati will
post notices in their factories declar-
ing their independence of labor Or
ganizations. If a strike is declared
5000 employees will be affected.
The Meade court-martial at the
Brooklyn navy yard concluded its de-
liberations on the testimony taken at
the trial and disbanded. The findings
of the court were at once sent to the
navy department at Washington.
Secretary Root, at cabinet meet
ing, presented to the president and
each of his associates a cane made
from the wood of an ancient Chinese
gun carriage captured at the siege or
Pekin. The carriage was said to be
over 800 years old.
A cablegram has been received at
the state department from Consul Gen.
eral Gudger, dated Panama, stating
that the liberals have been defeated,
and that the government forces are in
possession of Colon.
Theodore Duddleston, confidential
clerk at the National Stock Yards
bank, East St. Louis, confessed to c.
G. Knox, president of the bank, that
his books showed shortage of be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000. The
money, he said, was lost in specula-
ton.
Charleston is calling her exposition
grounds and buildings the Ivory City
on the banks of the Ashley.
Honolulu papers say Delegate Will
cox will ask congress for ten mil
lion dollar appropriation for improve
ments in the islands.
Mrs. Louise Worden, a pioneer OF
the Klondike and one of the regions
most famous women, died at Victoria
A bill is to be introduced by Sen
ator Knute Nelson, establishing
bureau of commerce and industries
,,,;+b cabinet representaIion