The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-06-20
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Mrs. Roosevelt and children left
Washington for Oyster Bay, where
the family will spend the summer.
At Creston, Ia, w. p. Hepburn was
renominated for congress by the re-
publicans of the Eighth congression-
al district
President Palma has signed the bill
fixing the salary of the members of
the Cuban senate and house of rep
resentatives at $4,000 4 year.
Father Pitouval, now of the Colo
rado diocese of the Catholic church,
has been appointed auxiliary bishop
to the archbishop of Santa Fe.
The University of Cambridge con-
ferred the honorary degree of doc
tor of laws on Whitelaw Reid, spe-
cial American representative to the
coronation.
department from Minister Conger re-
ports that a fatal case of cholera has
appeared in the Japanese barracks at
rived from Tien Tsin.
The May statistics of the gross
postal receipts at the fifty largest
postoffces in the United States show
a net increase of II per cent over the
receipts for May, 1901.
A S50,900,000 syndicate, promoted
by ex-Mayor Washburne ana others,
has been formed to build an under
ground railway system in Chicago
after the New York model
A proclamation has been issued at
Pretoria substituting q lax of - per
cent on the profits Of mining opera
tions for the per cent tax that was
imposed by the late volksraad.
Rev. Gjermind Hoyme, president Of
the United Norwegian church of
America, died at Eau Claire, Wis.
Bishop Hoyme has been ailing long
time and death was not unexpected.
DR.. J. w. Woods, retired medical
director of the United States navy,
well known in army and navy cir
cles, is dead in San Francisco. He
was born in New Bedford, Mass, in
1888.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, Attorney
Thomas F. McGarry was convicted by
a jury in the Allegan circuit court
at Allegan of the charge of bribery
in connection with the Lake Michigan
water supply scandal.
Alice Lewis, aged %, the beautiful
daughter of George Lewis, promi-
net business man of St. Louis, COM
mitted suicide by hanging herself to
the transom of a bath room in the
Plaza hotel, New York.
The secretary of war has directed
the sale at public auction of the
Grant and Sedgwick, they being need
ed no longer in the transport service.
The Grant is at San Francisco and
the Sedgwick at New York.
At a meeting of the trustees of
the Miami university, DR.. Guy P.
Benton, president of the Upper uni
versity of Iowa, was unanimously
elected to succeed DR.. Daird Tappan
as president of Miami university.
A memorial service was held in the
Apostles church at Rome for the vic
tins of the volcanic outbreak in the
West Indies. Cardinal Satolli repre-
sented the papal court and fifteen old
cardinals and the French and Span
ish ambassadors to the vatican were
present.
The corporation of London. the
Rothschilds, the Morgans and Sir Err
nest Cassel, the financier, have each
donated $4,000 to the mansion
gift to King Edward, which is to
be applied to assist their majesties'
hospital fund.
At Princeton, Mo-, Daniel Porter,
a wealthy farmer, was shot and IA /
tally wounded by his 1S-year-old son. |
At the local yards in Kansas City |
lOdu VI uOSS SOlu lOI pt'OO uuu-
dred, the highest price reached on that
market since 1893.
Referring to the report that the |
control of the Cunard Steamship |
company had been secured by the |
shipping combination, ]. P. Morgan |
stated that absolutely no negotiations
were on between the shipping COM
bine and the Cunard company.
The physicians who attended Queen |
Wilhelmina during her recent illness |
have been decorated.
The British troop ship Bavarian |
sailed from Capetown with 1,400 |
troops who are ordered home to take
part in the coronation ceremonies.
The bishop of London, the Right |
Rev. Archur Ingraham. y. D.. has an
nounced that Queen Alexandra will |
provide a tea" for ten thousand fe-
mala domestic servants in pelehra-