The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-04-25
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
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Governor Odell of New York will
spend six weeks in California.
J. D. Mcfarland, formerly of Lin.
coin, died last week at Los Angeles
Cal.
The bank of Milligan, Neb., was
robbed of a considerable sum by safe
blowers.
News has been received of the loss
of the American ship Iroquois in the
Java sea.
Lord Kimberley, the liberal states
man, who has been i'll for some time,
died on the Sth.
The regents of the Minnesota State
university have refused to accept the
resignation of Prof Thomas Shaw,
well known all over the country as
an expert in sheep and cattle hus-
bandry.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations considered, but did not finally
pass upon, the bill granting an annu-
ity of $4,000 year to Miss Clara Bar
ton for her services as president of
the Red Cross.
A total of 175 cases and 1877 deaths
from cholera were reported in Manila
on the 7th. The natives are making
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established and in so doing one native
has been killed.
Ex-Secretary John w. Foster has
accepted an invitation to deliver the
oration at the dedication of the SOL
diers' and sailors monument in In
dianapolis, Ind, in May.
The Mexican Central passenger
train was wrecked by an open switch
at Gomez Palacio, near Torreon The
fireman was killed and the Pullman
conductor fatally injured.
The trial Of Berry Howard of Bell
county, charged with being one Of the
five principals in the murder of Will
liam Goebel, was begun in the Frank
lin circuit court at Frankfort, KY.
More than $4,000 shares of the
Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad
stock have been deposited in favor Of
Speyer & Co. Of New York. The total
number of shares of the road is 1885,
900.
George Gray Wood, who is in San
Francisco arranging for the Great Pa
Thanksgiving day the United States
will be doing business with Honolulu
by wire
The liabilities of Lord Francis Hope,
who has become bankrupt, are an
nounced to be $4,000. Of this amount
$4,000 is claimed on a bill of eX-
change given to May Yoho, his d.
vorced wife.
A son of John S. Sargent, the fam
Gus American portrait painter, has
been appointed one fthe pages who
will attend the queen at the corona
ton. The pages will hold her majes-
tvs train in the procession.
1t is expected that the work on a
railroad from Valdes to Eagle City,
Alaska, will begin shortly and will be
rushed to completion without delay.
The company which it is said will con-
struct the road is an English and
American concern and capitalized at
e3,0o0,0O0
The Patriotic League of the Revo-
luton has petitioned congress to Sc
cure pension for Theodore r. Tim
by, who, it is alleged, is the true in
the Monitor in its battle with the
Merrimac He is a native of Duchess
county, New York.
Justice Hagner in the district SUI
preme court dismissed the petition OF
Louis F. Primeau and others, repre-
senting a tribe of Sioux Indians of the
Standing Rock reservation, for an in
junction to restrain the secretary OF
the interior and the commissioner of
Indian affairs from leasing certain
portions of the unoccupied land Of the
reservation for grazing purposes.
The president has decided not to
make any change in the governcrship
of Hawaii.
George w. Saunders has been nam
ed by the president as Indian agent at
the Santee agency. The agency is to
be discontinued after July 1.
The remains of Rev. Talmage were
buried in Greenwood Cemetery, New
York.
Rev. J. A Becker has resigned his
pastorate Of the Congregational
church at Spearfsh, S. D., to accept a
position in Omaha.
The German emperor owns 359 car
riages for the use of himself and his
court.
Mavroyeni Bey, who was Turkish
minister to Washington a few years
age, has been appointed by the sultan
prince of the Island Of Samos.