The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-08-22
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Fire destroyed the plant of the Ar
mour Packing company in Memphis.
Advices from Skagway, Alaska, state
that several distinct earthquake shocks
were felt there.
The Grand Lodge of Elks, in ses-
sion at Salt Lake, elected George P.
Cronk of Omaha excelled ruler.
Within the last fifty years 164,539
persons have emigrated from County
Mayo, Ireland-nearly as many as in
habit the county at the present time.
Rock Island trainmen in Nebraska
and perhaps over the entire system
will send grievance committees to the
management of the road in the near
future
At Boise, Idaho, news has been re-
ceived of an outrage committed last
Friday by outlaws at Mormon basin,
in the Malheur country in eastern
Oregon.
Harry A. Faulkner, convicted of
completely in the St. Louis municipal
bribery matter, was sentenced to two
years. He gave bonds for $4,000 and
will appeal the case.
Advices received at Washington in
dicate that President Roosevelt will
call the senate in extraordinary ses-
sion early in November, to act ON a
reciprocity treaty with Cuba.
Charles E. Pratt. once widely
known musician, is dead of apoplexy
He was undergoing treatment for
Bright's disease at a hospital in New
York. He was born at Hartford, Conn,
in 1S41.
Steamship advices from Australia
are to the effect that the prolonged
drouth in New South Wales and
Queensland has caused the greatest de-
vastation. Sheep are literally dying
by the million.
At Lone Elm, village thirty-five
miles east of Fort Smith, Manse Hug
gins, assistant postmaster, shot and
killed his wife while in jealous rage
and then committed suicide. They
leave five children.
The fruit crop of South Dakota will
be far below the average this year,
owing to the devastation caused by
bugs which have left vines and trees
in a nude condition. The watermelon
crop will be especially poor.
The retirement of Justice Gray and
the appointment of Judge Holmes to
the bench of the supreme court will
cause a Encouragement of the positions
occupied by the members of the court
when they meet in October.
The popu1ist state executive ce=1.
mittee of Georgia named Judge J. K.
Hines Of Atlanta for governor. Judge
Hines, however, declined to run, and
a committee of three was thereupon
named to make a nomination.
What appears to be a forerunner Of
a determined effort to stop American
commercial invasion of European mar
kets is on foot in Berlin. The leading
ship owners and iron masters of Ger
many will meet August Is and on SUBJ
sequent Fridays to discuss the mat
ter.
At Seattle, Wash, J. NJ. Kidney, an
employe of the Stetson-Post mill, was
burned to death in roaring furnace,
used to consume waste paper. While
in an epileptic fit he seized a wire
conveyor cable and was dragged more
than 400 feet to the furnace. His
charred body was later recovered.
Wong Yen, a Chinaman recently ar
rested for entering the United States
in violation of the immigration laws,
committed suicide at Toledo, Ohio, in
the county Jail by hanging himself
with strips torn from a sheet. Yong
Yen was occupied in smuggling his
fellow countrymen across the border.
The Illinois auxiliary of the McKin-
ley Memorial association reported that
the fund of $4,000 asked of the people
of Illinois had been raised. The fund
consists of over fifty thousand subscrip-
tions and, counting the individual
school children who sent their pennies
in through schools, the contributors in
Illinois run into the hundreds of thou
sands.
At a conference at the governors
office in Indianapolis, final arrange
ments for the dedication of the Nancy
Hanks Lincoln City, October 1, were
made. Col. Charles DENLY of Evans
vile, former minister to China, will
be invited to deliver the address.
A recent act of congress decided that
union soldiers who, during the civil
war, were pressed into the service Of
the confederacy, and later served as
union men, should be eligible for PEN
sions. having formerly been disquali-
fed.
The official statement of the Chi