The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-05-16
BRIEF TEIEGRAMS.

CURED in Oklahoma.
Fire at Davenport, Ia, destroyed
$250,0O0 worth of property.
Announcement was made at New
York that Mrs. Marie H. Tiffany had
been granted an absolute divorce from
Perry Tiffany.
Eight or ten thousand women are
in Los Angeles attending the biennial
convention of the General Federation
of Womens clubs.
President ]. w. Springer of the Ma
tional Live Stock association has sent
a telegram to President Roosevelt
asking him to veto the oleomargarine
bill.
The Bolivian minister at Washing
ton, Senor Don Fernando E. Qua
chlale, has been granted by his gov
ernment permission to proceed to Eu-
rope.
Ex-Governor Morrill's apple or
chard in Kansas now contains over
64 900 trees, and is said to be the
largest single apple orchard in the
world
Postmaster H. w. Harris of Lytton
Springs, twenty-five miles south of
Austin, Texas, was shot and killed by
Joe Halden. also of that place. Halden
was arrested.
Admiral Dewey, Rear Admirals
Coghlan and Entwistle and others cek
ebrated the fourth anniversary of the
battle of Manila bay at banquet.
ity Of accident.
The royal family Of Greece has been
safely landed at Chalkis, Euboa is
land, thirty-five miles from Athens.
The royal yacht Amphitrite has not
yet been floated.
A cablegram received at the state
department from Minister Conger
states that there are serious disturb
ances in the southern portion of the
province of Chi Ii.
The Associated Press understands
that J. Pierpont Morgan gets e2,500,-
600 in stock of the shipping combine,
in return for his services in organiZ-
ing and financing it.
The bill for commission to in
vestigate the status of the coiored
race caused a warm discussion in the
house committee on labor, but no ac-
ton was taken on it.
bers of congress are base ball cranks
of deep or shallow dye and over half
of them were at the opening g~me of
the season in Washington.
The Neue Erie Presse of Vienna
says that as the result of systematic
persecution, 5000 Jewish families,
comprising 1900 persons, will leave
Roumania for the United States in a
few days.
souri, is made the defendant in suit
for $4,000 damages instituted in the
district court at Washington by Au-
gust Scholz, waiter at local hotel.
He alleges assault.
A dispatch to the London Central
News from Rome says Princess Be-
atrice Borrone, daughter of Don Car
los, the Spanish pretender, attempted
suicide by throwing herself into the
Tiber, but was rescued.
Emperor William has ordered Direc-
tor Fritz of the government shipyard
at Kiel to proceed to the United
States to study the methods of Amer
lean shipyards, particularly as re-
CARDS labor saving machinery.
At Youngstown, O., May 1, two
thousand men employed in the build
ing trades went on strike for an eight
hour day and increase of wages, all
efforts to settle their differences with
the contractors proving unavailing.
1t is reported in Liverpool shipping
circles that the British government
has intimated it's willingness to SUBJ
sidize British shipping in the event of
the Atlantic shipping combine prov
ing really harmful to the mercantile
marine of Great Britain.
The magnificent silver service
made from silver coins taken from
the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon.
to be presented to Admiral Winfield
Scott Schley by his friends in his own
state and in Washington, has been
completed and is on exhibition.
There is no truth in the story that
Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy
has decided to enter a convent.
AT his own request, Ambass ador
Meyer has been granted a leave of
absence of sixty days from his post
at Rome.
Carroll D. Wright, United States
commissioner of the bureau of labor
statistics, has been elected by the
trustees of Clark university, president
of the new collegiate department to
be established in connection with the
university in Worcester, Mass.