The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1901-12-27
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.


since 1900, has been gazetted consul
general of Great Britain at San Fran
cisco.
1t has been proposed in Washington
to invite ex-President Cleveland to ad-
dress congress on the occasion of tho
memorial services for President Nc
.Kinley. -
The appeal of Joseph Rinkard, who
murdered his wife, for new trial has
been refused by the Indiana supreme
court. He has been given. the death
sentence.
immigration Agent E. r. Workman
of the Great Northern expects that
the spring movement of settlers to the
Pacific northwest will be the heaviest
ever known.
Nine. Nordica's claim of $3,000,000
against the United States government
for the losses at sea of her ancestor,
,Ichabod Norton, appears to have been
filed about ten years too late.
Th Georgia legislature passes the
act granting certain lands lying in the
northeast part of the state to the Ma
tional Appalachian park, which is to
be named after President Mckinley.
The marriage of Miss Helen Hay,
daughter of the secretary of state, and
Mr.. Payne Whitney of New York, will
occur Thursday, February 6, at the
Church Of the Covenant in Washing
ton.
Secretary Long acknowledged in an
informal letter the receipt of re
quest from Admiral Schley for per-
mission to file bill of objections to
the recent decision of the court of in
quiry.
Senator Daniel of Virginia lives. in
very modest syle in Washington, and
has for thirty years spent nearly all
of his money in paying off debts in
CURED BIZ relative in the panic of
1873.
Cecil Rhodes, in long letter to the
Daily Telegraph, advocates the settle
ment of large number of suitable Brit
ish subjects on land among the Beers
as the only safe means of eradicating
race hatred in South Africa.
The Amsterdam correspondent of
the London Daily Express says that
Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry
of the Netherlands, her husband, drove
in an open carriage through Apple
dorm yesterday. The correspondent
adds the royal pair will return to The
Hague tomorrow.
The most recent investigation into
German labor conditions show the la
;bor situation to be growing worse.
The Arbeits Markt, Berlin newspa-
per, says there were 224 applicants
for 100 vacancies in November against
200 applicants for the same number Of
vacancies in October.
A rumor is current that Count Go.
luchowski, the Austro- Hungarian min
lister of foreign affairs, is about tc
resign, owing to the refusal of the
Emperor Francis Josef to sanction his
arbitrary proposal to satisfy German
complaints arising from the anti-Ger-
man demonstrations in Galicia.
Alexander Kirk, while delirious
from small pox, escaped from his home
in Amhert, Wis, and wandered about
in the snow storm His wife, who is
just recovering from the same disease,
followed him for about a mile, but
the cold compelled her to turn back.
Kinks frozen body was found three
miles from his home.
The Boer ballad is popular in Paris.
Publishers in this country has filed
hurry-up orders.
William H. Walker, once employed
as painter on the Pan-American
buildings at Buffalo, was found frozen
to death near Lyons, N. Y.
Third Clerk Mark Amerberg, of the
steamer Spread Eagle, one OF the
Leyhe fleet of st. Louis, in winter
quarters at Paducah, KY, was drown
ed yesterday by breaking through the
ice. The remains were shipped to his
home at Grafton, Ill.
An Italian psychologist has discov-
cred that Christopher Columbus was
insane for years before his death.
Seth Low took the oath of Office as
mayor of New York in the supreme
court of New York. Mr.. Low will as
sumo office at noon on January 1.
Finance Minister Limantour of Mex
leo has sent his budget for the next
fiscal year to congress. He says that
the depression which existed at this
time last year is disappearing, except
in regard to the cotton manufacturing
industry.
The Bulgarian minister has resign
ed, owing to the hostility of the So
branje to the proposal for a new loan.
Lady Barnett recently presented to
Queen Alexandra a Pomeranian dog,
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