The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-10-03
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

MSF. Guluii dpOSUOlIC QelSBdCe W Tie
Philippines, has another conference
with Pope Leo.
Representative Newlands urges thai
the democratic party cooperate with
organized labor.
Commissioner Wares report will
show that the pension list now contains
over 100000 names.
Diplomatic relations between Vene.
zuela and Great Britain are on the
verge of being severed.
The state deartment expects no an
swer to Secretary Hays note to the
powers regarding Roumanian Jews.
Wesleyan university, Middletown,
Conn, has received gift of $4,000
to equip an astronomical observatory.
DR.. Guy Potter Benton, late president
of the Upper university of Iowa, was
inaugurated as president of Miami uni
versity.
Estimates for the rural free delivery
service for the next fiscal year aggre-
gate between $11,OOO,OOO and s12,0OO,-
600.
Alaska has aid its cost twenty times.
1t was bought for $7,2O0,000, and has
supplied $150,0OO,00O in furs, fish and
gold.
6nr1f Do oI1,oo or with n Ir.ar
al of remaining United States troops
from Cuba, and the matter has been
referred to Secretary Root.
Lord Curzon, yiceroy of India, tele-
graphs that the agricultural prospects
in that country have been further i'm
proved by the general rains.
The human body of average weight
contains three pounds thirteen ounces
of calcium, which at present market
rate is worth 5000 an ounce.
The forces of the provisional gov
ernment of Hayti commanded by the
war minister, General Nord, have sus-
tanned severe defeat at Limb.
Major ]. w. Powell. director of the
bureau of ethnology at the Smfthso-
1ian institute at Washington, died at
his summer home at Haven, Maine.
The earl of Dundon, the new COM
mander of the Canadian military, has
just issued a sweeping order abolish
ing the sword as a cavalry weapon.
Within the past fifty years 164,5S
persons have emigrated from County
Mayo, Ireland, nearly as many as in
habit the county at the present time.
Monsignor Guidi. who was recently
appointed apostolic delegate in the
Philippine islands, will be consecrated
September 20, Cardinal Rampolla Off
ciating.
The naval board of inquiry exoner-
ates Rear Admiral Coughlan and the
officers of the Brooklyn for accident
to the cruiser during the recent joint
maneuvers.
King Leopold's refusal to be recon
ciled with his daughter, the Princess
Stephanie Countess LonyaD, at the
bier of her mother arouses indignation
of the Belgians.
Manila papers received at the wal
department report that the "Katipu-
man," the society which is secretly
pledged to oppose American sover-
eighty, is again active in Manila.
All the gas companies of Greater
Boston are to be merged and eventu'
ally will furnish gas for fuel only, as
the result of conference of some of
the most prominent capitalists of the
country.
A directory company has completed
a count of the inhabitants of Salina,
which shows that the city has a pop
ulation of S,2O7, an increase of about
1000 over the number reported by the
city assessor.
William H. Craddock, fusion nomi-
nee for governor of Kansas, has filed
suit against Secretary of State Clark
to have his name placed on both the
democratic and populist tickets on the
official ballots.
Stanley Spencer, well known Eng
lish aeronaut, successfully accomplish
ed remarkable flight over London in
an airship of his own invention. 1t is
estimated that his ship travelled near.
ly thirty miles.
Mrs John Doley and Mrs. John Car
ney, sisters, met at Springfield, Ohio,
after fifty-one years of fruitless search,
ing on the part of Mrs. Doley. They
became separated in New York harbor
after landing from Ireland.
Captain Pershing of the Fifteenth
infantry captured seven forts of the
Moros In Mindanao.
The tariff bill may not pass the
German reichstag owing to the deter
mination of three leading parties to
abide by agrarian increases.
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