The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-01-17
BRIEF TELEGRAMS,

45l5, ,59Z, an increase OF j. ,SS5 over
1900.
Judge Eugene S. Elliott of the cir
cult court of Milwaukee county, Wis
consin, died suddenly from heart fail
ure, aged 20.
Mail service through the flooded dis
tricts in the south has been resum-
ed, the line from Montgomery to New
Orleans now being open.
The Great Northern has announced
an excursion rate of Sc to those who
wish to leave Indiana and Illinois and
settle in Dakota and Minnesota.
Joseph and Mamie Kelley, children,
were drowned in a pond at Hills
Grove, r. l., while sliding. The boy
perished in an effort to save his sis
ter.
Superintendent of Masonry Stephens
Of the Illinois Central was ground to
death near Watson, Ill.,, while attempt
ing to take from the track a rail-
road volocipede.
Bishop Brent of Boston, consecrated
bishop of the Philippines last month,
has decided to issue an appeal for a
fund of 100000 with which to endow
the new jurisdiction.
The late George M. Pullman's will,
filed in the probate court at Red
wood City, Cal, showed the estate
was worth only $4,000, although the
petition to the court stated $5O0,0G0.
Secretary Long will, for personal
reasons, resign from the cabinet next
April or May. The probabilities are
that the president will offer the port
folio to Governor Crane Of Massachu-
sets.
Representative Kahn of San Francis
co introduced a bill for a submarine
tunnel under San Francisco bay, with
openings on Goat island, where the
United States military reservation is
located.
The Utah supreme court holds that
the law raising the salaries of the
governor and other state officials is
constitutional and has issued per-
emptory writ Of mandamus to compel
the payment.
Hiram P. Mills, one of the oldest
bank presidents in the Unitsk States,
died suddenly at Mount Morris, N
Y. He celebrated his Goth birthday
on Thursday last and danced with
the company.
Among the bills Introduced in the
lower house of the New York legis-
lature was one by Assemblyman Will
liam S. Bennett of New York making
it a misdemeanor to f1irt on a public
thoroughfare.
Representative Grosvenor of Ohio
introduced an anti-anarchist bill. The
death penalty is provided for as
saults on an officer Of the government,
without specifically designating the
president as the one assaulted.
At the Inauguration of the new
city government at Everett, Mass,
Robert H. Jenkins fell dead while
making a speech accepting the Office
of president of the board of alder
men, to which he had been elected.
President Roosevelt will be invited
to visit Chicago as the guest of the
three leading republican clubs of Chi
cago. This was agreed upon when
representatives of the Marquette, Ham,
ilton and Lincoln clubs gathered in
the banquet room of the latter and
took concerted action.
The British war Office, on the au-
thority of Lord Kitchener, denies the
report telegraphed from Pretoria, jan
uary 1, that two officers from the in
telligence department who were sent
to parley with Beers who desired to
surrender, near Warm Baths, were
treacherously shot by concealed Beers.
Henry c. Tatum, secretary and
treasurer of the Western Commercial
Travellers association, was found dead
in bed at his residence in st. Louis.
Death is supposed to have resulted
from a dose of poison which he took
before retiring.
Governor Aycock of North Caro-
lima named Wednesday, February 25,
for the hanging of six white men,
such a wholesale execution in one day
being without precedent in that state.
In each case there has been an appeal
to the supreme court.
Alonzo Kilby, an escaped prisoner
from Billings, Mont, was fatally shot
while resisting capture.
Governor General Wood of Cuba has
liberated twenty-seven prisoners on
the recommendation of the Cuban sec1
retary OF justice.
Joseph Harker, known among fnan.
ciel men as Honest joe" died at
New York. He was an able financier.