The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-08-15
BRIEF TEIEGRAMS.
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27.
Disastrous forest fires have been
prevailing in some portions of Colo
rado.
The street car strike at Huntington,
w. Va, is all over, differences having
been satisfactorily adjusted.
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
ford, NJ p, will visit the United States
the coming autumn to study the Amer
lean navy and to inquire into the
working of the Morgan shipping COM
bine.
The 700 or 800 employees of the
Cleveland City Railway company, of
which Senator M. A. Hanna is presi-
dent, met in downtown hall and pre-
sented Senator Hanna with a valuable
cane.
The largest cattle receipts of the
year were recorded at the South On
aha stock yards on the 5th. There
were $50 cars, making 5000 cattle.
Aside from this 1000 sheep were re-
ceived
Isaac Minor, the Humboldt county
California, redwood king, announces
the sale of $4,000 acres of timber land
in Del Norte county to syndicate
of Wisconsin capitalists headed by N.
G. Foster.
Commissioner Of Pensions Ware
said that legislation enacted by the
last session Of congress will result in
at least 10000 new pensioners. The
number of pensioners on July 1 Of
this year was sS9,446.
AS result of late alleged COM
bination between the limekilns of the
south it is said all the smaller corpo-
rations have beep absorbed and the
price OF lime has been advanced from
16 to % cents per bushel.
Through the generosity of A. Abra-
ham of Brooklyn, Cornell university
has been enabled to purchase the
Psychological and Assyriological IL
brary of the late Prof. August Eisen-
1ohr. of Heidelberg university.
Henry Rechtin, late disbursing Off
Ger of the department of justice, de-
posted with the United States treas
urer certified check for $7,60452,
the amount of the shortage in his
accounts recently discovered.
]. W. Perry, known throughout the
eastern Montana range as BLACK
Perry notorious cattle rustler, was
shot and killed by James Haynie, fore
man of the Hysham Cattle company,
at Sanders Station, Montana.
If present plans are carried out
there will be no interchange of passes
among western roads during 1908.
The meeting of the pass committee
representing all western lines has
been set for early in October.
At Santiago de Cuba there was a
great celebration by the Spanish col
ony on the occasion of the opening
of the Centro Beneficio hospital in
the building formerly used as head
quarters by the American officers.
Mrs. Margaret Uzzell, mother of
"Parson' T. A. Uzzell, is dead at the
age of rs years. She was born in
Kentucky and came to Colorado in
1877. Mother" Uzzell, as she was
called, had been a widow since 1856.
The correspondent of the London
Daily Mail at The Hague says in a
dispatch that it is becoming increas-
ingly difficult to combat the generally
accepted Dutch theory that the Boer
leaders here are campaigning toward
the ultimate subversion of British rule
in South Africa.
A Manila dispatch says the United
States transport Genalava will leave
that place for Singapore Straits Set
tlement, to meet Governor Taft, who
is returning from Rome, and bring
him ~ Manila. The chamber of COM
merce and the federal party are now
arranging to give banquets in Gov
ernor Taft's honor on his arrival.
The state department has received
the following cablegram from Minister
Squires, dated Havana, August 4:
The house has passed the bill au-
thorizing loan $350O0,OO0; maximum
interest per cent, redeemable in for
ty years
Secretary Furnas of the Nebraska
state fair says that in so far as en-
tries of exhibits are concerned, they
were never so crowded and overflow
ing. The demands for space are
equally great and promise more than
TO keep up with the entries.
Grave diggers at Concordia GENE
terry are on strike.
William H Wright, better known as
s'Uncle Billy" Wright, 72 years of age,
o,o of ba o1dact and hest known