The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-05-23
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.


Rural free delivery will be estab-
lished in Cass county, Neb.
The Daily Telegraph of New York
is in the hands of a receiver.
At fire in Dubuque, Iowa, four fire.
men were crushed by falling walls.
Four hundred union metal workers
of Cleveland, Ohio. are on a strike.
The Southern Pacific railroad in a
short time will take over the man
agement of the eating houses along its
lines.
A new isthmian canal route bill was
announced by Senator Hoar. This bill
leaves to the president the selection
of the route.
Mrs. Tomas Estranda Palma, wife
Of the president-elect of the Cuban
republic, sailed for Havana on the
steamer Havana.
The remains of Gen. w. S. Rosecrans
were taken from the vault at Rosedale
cemetery at Los Angeles and shipped
to Washington, D. c., over the Santa
Fe route
The senate committee on commerce
decided to report the nomination of
H. Clay Evans to be consul general
to London. with a favorable recon-
mendation.
The body of Mrs. Patrick Burke, of
Owensboro, KY, was removed from
the wreck of the Pittsburg at Cairo,
Ill. This is the sixteenth known vic
tim of the disaster.
The $4,000 suit of Louise M. knight
of Fairbury, Neb., against Oscar C.
Pusch of Marysville, Kansas, which
was to have been tried in the district
court soon, has been settled.
Mr.. Mondell has introduced a bill
in the house appropriating $4,000 for
the purpose of furnishing national
trophy and other prizes to be pro-
vided and contested for annually.
The grand jury of St. Louis has SUBJ
poenaed several retail butchers to tes-
tify as to the charge that decayed
meat is sold at st. Louis, and that dis
eased cattle are killed for that market.
The British embassys state that,
while Ambassador Pauncefote's illness
may be regarded as serious and is
causing his family considerable anx-
iety, no immediate danger is now ap-
pretended.
E. H. Hartman, president of the
Southern Pacific, rendered an elabor-
ate banquet to Governor Odell of New
York. The banquet room was beauti
fully decorated, and seventy-one
guests were present. q
The net earnings of Iowa railroads
during the past year were 1914, ,68760
more than during $1,000. The aggre-
gate gross earnings for the past year
were $56,549.76, the operating ex-
penses, $50 1903, 1899.
The weekly report of Lord Kitch-
ener shows nineteen Beers were killed,
six wounded, S02 prisoners, nine sur
rendered and 600 rifles, 157 wagons,
400 horses and 4,3O0 head of cattle in
the hands of the British.
1t is reported that ]. w. Richards of
Waterloo, Ia, at present confidential
secretary to Speaker Henderson, is
slated for the first assistant secretary
ship of the treasury. Mr.. Richards
says he knows nothing of the matter.
Preparations are being made by the
sailors and marines of the Brooklyn
navy yard for the dedication of the
100000 Y. NJ. C. A: building erected
by Miss Helen Gould. Ex-Secretary
of the Navy John D. Long will make
an address. Miss Gould will also
speak.
An official dispatch from Pretoria
says: Bruce Hamilton has captured
twenty-seven, Colenbrander seventy
and Hamilton S57 Beers, with prac-
tically all the wagons and stock of the
commanders in the central area east
OF Hart's river (TransvaaL) Since
March Delarey's force has been re-
duced by $50.
The weather bureaus weekly sum-
mary of crop conditions, issued on the
18th, says little corn has yet been
planted in Minnesota and Wisconsin,
and the planting has been delayed in
South Dakota and northern Iowa, ow-
ing to excessive rains. Throughout |
the middle Atlantic states, however,
this work has made rapid progress.
+. L. C. Richards, a prominent business
man of Lincoln, died suddenly from !
,hemorrhage of the stomach.
In the naptha explosion at Pittsburg |
twenty men were burned to death and |
many others so badly burned that they |
cannot survive.
In the anthracite regions of Penn
sylvania $4,000 men are on strike.
Mary A. Livermore, the well known
woman suffragist, is confined to a |
darkened room at her home in Mel |