The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-02-21
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

The eleventh Continental Congress
of the Daughters of the American Rev
olution is to be held in Washington
during the week commencing Febru-
airy II.
Unwilling to face her husband in a
compromising situation, Mrs. Lydia
Timmons, wife of J. Z. Timmons OF
Edwardsville, Kan, attempted suicide
at Omaha.
Emperor William visited at the al
cohol exhibition which WAS opened in
Berlin, and showed keen interest in
the plans for introducing alcohol fuel
on warships.
The Virginia constitutional conven-
tion is to recommend that city, like
county, treasurers should not be ELI
gible to reelection after two terms
of four years each.
Secretary Of the Navy Long, in the
statement sent to the senate, says the
total cost of the new navy has been
$99, ,803,92 for construction and $9,-
343,233 for repairs.
A report by the Illinois state board
of health shows that smallpox in that
state is rapidly declining, the number
of cases now extant being 1000 less
than on January l.
Tommy Ryan and Australian Tim
Murphy have signed articles for ten
round boxing contest at catch weights
before the Tuxedo club in Kansas City
Tuesday night, February 25.
1t is related of Samuel Alvin Sper-
~, VINO has just died in Reno county,
Kansas, that he was one of a family
of fourteen children, all of whom liv
ed to be more than rs years old.
Ex-senator Chandler says President
Roosevelt has set a pace in his atten-
tion to the transaction of public busi-
ness that will kill any of his sue
cessors who may attempt to keep it
up.
Temp Percifield, an eXpressman Of
Charlton, Iowa, received word from
Mexico, Mo-, that his grandfather has
died at an advanced age and left him
a portion of his estate, valued at $780,
600.
General Manager Dickinson of the
Union Pacific, while on a trip over
the southern lines, received a tele-
gram announcing the death Of his
brother, James Dickinson, in Cleve-
land, o.
Representative Cooper of Texas in
troduced a bill to provide for the Sc
lection of site for United States
naval station and dry dock on or near
Sabine Pass, or the Neches or Sabine
river, Texas.
Senators Dietrich introduced bill
extending the time allowed for the
Omaha & Northern railroad to con-
struct railroad and erect stations on
the Omaha and Winnebago reserva-
tions until 1906.
In the senate yesterday a bill ap-
propriating 100000 for the erection
of public building at Newcastle, Pa,
was passed at the request of Mr..
Quay of Pennsylvania.
crease of s4,036.
A special dispatch received in Lon
don from Rome says that at meeting
of representatives of Italian lodges of
Free Masons it was decided that Ital-
ian Free Masonry should cease to be
a secret society.
Former Lieutenant Diraison of the
French army announces that he has
now given full satisfaction to all per-
sons offended by his book, Les Mari
times" and will now devote himself
to the advertising of his work.
Robbers tunneled into a bank at
Muskegon, Mich, and secured 1925 in
bills.
The gross receipts of the Omaha
postoffice for the month of January
were s40,259, against s35,223 for the
same period of last year
The condition Of General Funston,
who was operated on recently at Kan
sas City, is much improved.
The Mexican government has voted
$4,000 in aid of the victims Of the
earthquake at Chilpancingo and the
City Of Mexico will send aid also.
Miss Nancy Roberts died at Port
land, Ore, aged 1O9 years. She came
from Missouri to Oregon in 1852
Attorney w. A. Lewis Of Spokane
was sentenced to seven years in the
penitentiary for the theft of $1,000
from one of his clients.
Pottawattamie Indians near Guthrie,
Okl., are preparing to migrate to Ia
maulipas, Mexico.
Small, Maynard & Co., publishers
of Boston, have made an assignment.
No statement of assets or liabilities
is given.