The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-12-19
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

coal supply becoming exhausted.
The Austrian minister, NJ Ladislau
Hengelmueller Won Hengeritar, has re
ceived official notice of his promotion
to the rank of ambassador.
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, forme
dean OF the women at the Univer
sity of Chicago, and well known il
educational circles throughout tn,
country, died suddenly at Paris.
Goldman, Sachs & Co., of New
York, announce that they will shiI
$500,000 in gold to South America
This makes S1,OOO,OOO going to that
country.
The Allegheny presbytery of the
Presbyterian church, like the Pittsburg
presbytery, declared in favor of the
revision of the confession of faith. The
vote was 33 to %.
Judge John w. Henry, for many
years chief justice of the state su.
preme court and now Judge of the cir
cult court at Kansas City, is dying
at his home in that city.
Robbers broke in the postoffice at
Rocky Ford, Colo, and dynamited the
safe. They took only money. Regis
tered packages and stamps were not
molested. There is no clue
A proposition to bond Helena,
Mont, in the sum of $6I4,O0 for the
purpose of installing a municipal water
plant for fire and sewerage purposes
was carried at tax payers election.
AT meeting of the Joplin, Mo-, mine
operators 1000 tons of ore was pledged
for export and a general shut down Of
mines reported, as result of the oper-
ators' effort to raise the price of ore.
All doubt as to the fate of the barge,
Celtic, was settled by the finding OF
quantity of wreckage near Thessalon,
Ont. The Celtic was commanded by
Captain Jeffrey and carried crew of
eight
The total vote of the state of New
York at the last election has been
received by the secretary of state. 1t
shows plurality for Governor Odell of
$500. The figures are: OdeIl 667 $50;
Coler, 656,347.
Advices received at Washington an
nounce that Mrs. Henry G. Davis, wife
of the ex-senator from West Virginia
and mother-in-law of Senator Elkins,
died at "Graceland," her summer
home at Elkins, w. Va.
The assets of the w. R. Bennett
department store at Omaha which
was turned over to a receiver are
listed at $6O5,O0O. The stock of goods
is valued at S225,0OO and real estate
and equipment at S3S0,O00.
A gang of four bank robbers attacked
the bank at Cropsey, ILL.,, twenty miles
east of Bloomington, but they secured
only $50. The robbers were discovered
while at work on the inner safe, after
having dynamited the vault door.
Countess Boni de Castellance will sail
for New York December IA, accom-
panied by her children. Count Boni
will remain in France to conduct the
for his reelection to the
chamber of deputies, which was re-
Gently invalidated.
The Prince line steamer, Tartar
Prince, Captain MacFarlane, New
York, November 10. and St. Vincent,
November %. for Port Natal. was
burned at sea November 25. The |
crew and passengers were saved by |
the steamer Argyll.
Eighty firms in Denmark have al |
ready promised to exhibit at the st. |
Louis exposition and great pressure |
IS being brought to bear on all the |
business interests to induce the Danish |
government to make an appropriation
10 provide for it's official representa-
ion.
Professor John T. Stinson of Noun
ain Grove, Mo-, has been appointed |
of pomology in the de-
Jartment of horticulture of the LOU
siana Purchase exposition. Professor
Stinson is a graduate of the Iowa state
agricultural college as we'll as horti-
,ulturist in the experiment station of
hat state.
The charter of the Interstate Rail-
say company was made public at
n. J., at the office of the sec
etary of state. The company has an
capital of $10,000,o0O, of
shich $4,000 is paid in. The incorpor-
tors are: Frank B. Hausel, William
,. Eidell and George B. Morton, all
!: Camden. i
Samuel Evans, prominent man of
Wagner, l. T., was shot and killed
instantly at Stroud, Okla, by James
lcGee, some of the proprietor of the
{. Louis hotel. The men quarrelle6
yer a room that had been assigned
vans.
The Rock Island will complete it's
M f-o,,, 7 q u,top Olylo fhrouob Ton,