The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-10-04
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BRIEF TELfGRAMS.


prisoners released.
Captain Levi S. Mann, aged 81 years.
for twenty-five years a master OF
steam and sailing vessels on the lakes,
died at Benton Harbor, Mich, Of con-
sumption
1t is estimated at Fall River, Mass,
that 4S,0O0,000 yards of black cotton
cloth will not supply the demand dur
Ing the designated period of mourning
for the late president.
1t is announced that dinner in
honor of Sir Thomas Upton will be
given at Chicago on October 5. Gov
ernor Yates and other distinguished
men have been invited
Secretary Gage will leave Washing
ton on Thursday for Colorado where
he will spend his vacation. Secretary
Gage was on his way to Colorado when
President Mckinley was shot.
The Society of American Wars in
tends, with the financial assistance of
patriotic people of San Francisco, to
secure the erection Of a monument to
the memory of John Paul Jones.
Mrs. John Morris, wife of the ven
cradle Judge Morris, late of the In
diana supreme bench, died at Fort
Wayne, Ind, aged " years. A hus-
band and six children survive her.
The death of John Paul Jones in La
Grange county, removes one of the
historic figures of Indiana. He was
great-grandfather of Philip Jones, one
of the surveyors who laid out the city
Of Baltimore.
Complete success has attended the
tests Of the submarine vessel, Marques
at Rio Janeiro. The experiments
were made in an aquarium and in the
presence of representatives of the
Brazilian navy.
There is terrible destitution in tHe
Yang Use district" says a dispatch to
the Times from Shanghai, lowing to
the recent foods, which have not yet
subsided. More than 100000 per-
sons are homeless
In the belief that Czolgosz will be
executed in Auburn, N. Y, prison,
more than one hundred persons have
already made application to Warden
Mead to witness the electrocution of
the assassin of President Mckinley.
The annual statement for the fiscal
year of the American Board of For
eign Missions shows total receipts of
the year applicable for current ex-
penses was S697,370; total expendi-
lures, S717,0S1; the excess Of expendi-
lures over receipts was S19, ,710, which,
added to the debt Of year ago, makes
the present debt, s1S2.341.
The addition of two prisoners from
Johnson county makes the number of
convicts in the state penitentiary at
Larimie, Wyoming, 191. This is the
largest number in the history of the
institution. Owing to delay in recov-
ering steel, caused by the strike, the
new penitentiary at Rawlins will not
be ready for the prisoners October 1,
as arranged. The prisoners will not
be moved before the middle of next
month
The last Iowa crop bulletin says:
The last week was unusually cold, the
daily mean temperature ranging from
8 to II degrees below normal Frosts
occurred in all districts, reported as
heavy" or killing" in the western
counties, and light in the balance
of the state. The damage resulting
from the frosts in the state as whole
appears to be relatively light. The
percentage of unmatured corn was
small and the damage to that portion
of the crop has been mainly in killing
a portion Of the leaves, thereby i'm
pairing the value of the fodder.
1t has been determined that the
memorial of the late Senator Stephen
NJ. White of California shalf be in the
form of a life-sized statue which will
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at Los Angeles.
Captain Herbert L. Draper, United
States marine corps, died of heart di
sease at Hong Kong on the 10th inst,
according to a report from Admiral
Kempff, to the navy department. Cap
tain Draper was appointed from Kan
sas and entered the marine corps in
July, 1889.
Cmer Peelee, aged 10, was fatally
shot at Winchester, Ind, while posing |
as President Mckinley at Buffalo for |
Emil Miller, the same age, who was |
the supposed anarchist in the case |
The lads were playmates and decided |
to go through the Buffalo case.
United States Judge Estee has de- |
cided that the constitution of the |
United States was extended to the |
Hawaiian islands by the Newlands |
resolution, sustaining the decision of |
Circuit Judge Gear and reversing the