The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-05-30
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.


Agents of the British government in
this country have been ordered to
stoy buying horses.
The Boer delegates who are as
sembled at Vereeninging, Transvaal,
held prolonged conferences.
At Baskerville, Cal, John McCartys,
aged %, shot and killed his mother
and then gave himself into custody.
1t is possible President Roosevelt
will attend the Philippine reunion in
Council Bluffs, to be held in August
Senator Teller Of Colorado said that
the session of congress would be like
ly to continue sixty days from the
first of June.
The farewell reception given to
General Lloyd Wheaton at the Amer
iican club, in Manila, was attended by
over 200 Americans.
Captain Bertram S. Neumann of the
marine corps has been dismissed from
the naval service as a result of his
trial by court-martial at Pensacola.
The cholera situation in Manila and
the provinces remains unchanged. The
increase in cases continues and the
fatalities are still about 80 per cent.
King Alexander has accepted the
resignation of the Servian cabinet M.
Passios, formerly a radical, has been
entrusted with the formation of a new
ministry.
The Santa Fe has been granted a
franchise to enter Oakland, Cal. 1t is
to run fifty years. The company must
build the road through the city within
two years.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers sent a telegram to Senator
Joseph Blackburn thanking him for
his efforts in behalf of the Grosvenor
antf-injunction bill.
The monthly report of the collec-
tions of internal revenue shows that
for the month of April, 1902, the total
collections were $21, ,937 ,699, a decrease
as compared with April, 1901, of So
OO3,SSO.
The executive committee of the Ne
braska republican committee has de-
cided to recommend Deputy Attorney
General Norris Brown of Kearney for
temporary chairman of the state con-
Yention.
in RI hr,f I,n
London board of trade, not a single
passenger was killed by English rail-
roads during the year 1901. This is
the first time that such a record was
ever made
The bandits who recently crossed
the Oklahoma-Texas line with forty
stolen horses under the alleged lead
ership of the outlaw Bert Casey have
made a raid into Oklahoma, securing
big herd.
. OF the total yearly production of
anthracite coal, amounting to about
100000 tons, the three states of
Pennsylvania, New York and New
35,OO0,O0O tons.
Governor Sayers has appealed by
wire to all mayors of Texas towns of
over 1900 inhabitants, urging them to
send food and assistance to the Goliad
sufferers, and also requested the rail-
roads to transport the shipments free. |
oh ;oE
of the Chicago fire department during
the great fire of October, 1871, died |
at the Garfield Park sanitarium in |
Chicago. He was " years old and had |
been in poor health for several years. |
The will of Archbishop Michael A.
Corrigan was filed for probate. The |
estate is valued at about s125,0O0, and |
is bequeathed entirely to Right Rev.
Charles E. Mcdonnell, bishop of |
Brooklyn; Rt. Rev. Winand M. Wig J
ger, bishop of Newark, and Rt Rev.
Henry Gabriels, bishop of Ogdensburg,
New York
In an opinion delivered by Justice
OShAoA11 IAC Cu1lSo OldlCS oupl
court decided the case of Captain
Peter c. Deming in that officers favor
The case involved the right of
court-martial, composed entirely of |
officers of the regular army, to pass
upon case involving the rights of
volunteer officer.
Our East India trade is said to be |
largely on the increase.
, A Washington dispatch says there
is much uncertainty at the depart
ment of justice as to the course to |
be pursued in beginning litigation
against the anthracite coal trust.
Three brothers named Symmington
ware drowned while crossing the
Pembina river in North Dakota.
An ordinance for the acceptance
from Andrew Carnegie of $150,O00 for
a free public library, mas been re-
jected by the city council.
The condition of Lord Pauncefote
is reported as much better.