The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-03-28
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Mrs. Mary Dugdale of Omaha was
knocked from a street car and killed.
The cold wave that swept the north
was also severely felt in the southern
states
Former owners of the old Fort Om-
aha site will sue to recover the land
from the government.
Twelve milllonaires, it is said, have
left Denver because society would not
open its doorI to them.
Hugh O'Nenl is dead in New York,
aged SO. He founded one of the larg-
est dry goods houses of the city.
1t is announced that King Edward
will give 100000 dinners to the Lon
don poor during the week following
the coronation.
Andrew w. White, American ambas-
sador to Germany, will retire in Ne
vember, when he will have reached
his 10th birthday. His health is poor.
The duke of Loubet has endowed
the College of France with an annuity
of 5000 francs for the maintenance
of a professorship for the study of
American antiquities.
General Fitzhugh Lee, former consul
general at Havana, was presented
to both legislative houses Of Ohio
by Governor Nash, and thanked the
bodies for the honor.
The Irishmen of Chicago did not
celebrate st. Patrick's day, beyond the
wearing of green and individual OBJ
servances. The parades of former
years were abandoned.
Secretary Root announced that Gen
eral Funston would be assigned to the
command of the Department of the
Colorado, as soon as his present fur
Tough shall have expired.
William Gardner and Eugene Hulin,
wealthy cattlement of Texas, met in
a restaurant at Anthony and each
opened fire. Gardner was killed. An
old feud caused the trouble.
Representative Hill of Connecticut
has introduced a bill for the coinage
of the silver bullion in the treasury,
purchased under the act of July IA,
1892, into subsidiary silver voin.
The Twenty-second regiment, now
at Fort Crook, will be recruited to its
full strength of 1O4 men for each com,
pany. At present there are only
thirty-seven men to each company.
Charges have been filed with the
civil service commission against Post
master Coyne of Chicago by T. w.
Wittner, former employe, discharg-
ed, he alleges, for pon"cal reasons"
At Marrisa, ILL.,, safe crackers blew
open in the safe in the Commercial
hotel, causing a conf1agration which
did damage to the extent of 100000.
1t is said $1,50O was taken from the
safe.
Edward S. Doney, a newspaper man,
dropped dead of heart disease in a
room of the New York Press club:
He was 43 years old and was the
real estate editor of the New York:
Press.
Otto Pfleiderer of the theological
faculty of the University of Berlin
has accepted an invitation from Har-
ward university to deliver a course Of
lectures before the divinity school in
the spring of 1908.
A private cablegram received in
Baltimore announced the death at
Naples of General Clinton P Payne,
prominent f1nancier of that city. Gen
eral Payne was formerly active in
democratic politics in Maryland.
Democratic members of congress
have numerously signed a petition
asking Representative Hay, the eau
Gus chairman, to call caucus on the
10th to formulate policy in reference
to the Boer war.
Brigadier General Frederick Funs-
ton arrived in Washington, accompa-
MED by Lieutenant B. J. Mitchell, his
aide. The generals purpose was
mainly to pay his respects to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Root.
By a government decree published
in Panama war taxes CT $40 600 ard
$4,000 were imposed upon the liberal
residents of Panama and Colon re-
spectively. These taxes are the cor
responding shares of the tax of $780,
600 imposed upon the department of
Panama by the national government.
The district court of appeals at
Washington overruled a motion for
rehearing made by Delos K. Lotewolf,
chief of the Kiowa and Comanche In
dams in Oklahoma, and his associates
in their case against the secretary
of the interior looking to oyerturning
the governments action in throwing
open their lands last summer.
Sir Richard Temple, former COVER
nor of Bombay, is dead. He was
born in 1926.
A five days quarantine against all