The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-09-19
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.


price of anthracite to $13.
Machinists of the Santa Fe had thei
wages raised 20 cents day.
Levi Ashenfelter, a noted Indiar
fighter, is dead at Covina, Cal.
Thousands of acres Of coal land!
have passed to new hands near Car.
bondale, Ill.
Robert Batty, who has been missing
from his home in Candy, Oregon, since
the middle of August, was found in
Sacramento.
The London Economist says steam
eI after steamer is being chartered
to carry pig iron from Europe to the
United States.
The Independent Brewing company
plant of Cincinnati was destroyed by
fire. Loss, 100000. Two firemen
were fatally hurt.
Camp Roosevelt on the lot south of
the white house is to represent a
great military post during the coming
G. A. R. encampment.
Hon. w. c. Anderson, who was con-
gresham from the First district of
Tennessee for the term of 1S94-96,
died Of typhoid fever.
Minneapolis railroad men indicted
for manipulating rates are to be ar.
rested at the instance of the inter.
state commerce commission.
DR.. Edward Eggleston, the famous
author and novelist, died at his cot
tage at Lake George, New York
Apoplexy was the cause of death.
At Topeka, Kan, James Kayne was
sentenced to serve twenty-seven years
in the state penitentiary for the MUIR
der Of his wife. Kayne pleaded guilty.
At Muscatine, Ia, because the grand.
parents Of 14-year-old Harvey Apple
gate, an orphan, insisted that he start
to school, the boy blew out his brains.
President Roosevelt has placed him.
self on record as opposed to any in.
human uses of horses in the coming
cowboy race from Deadwood to On
aha.
A tornado struck the towns Of Abba
and Hiteman, Ia. In the latter place
it is reported that several houses were
blown away. Details are hard to OBJ
tain.
While riding in Paris, Michael, the
bicyclist, had terrible collision with
Huret, the French champion, and the
latter was probably permanently dis
abled.
Bishop Terregianni of Australia, is
said to be the heaviest prelate in the
world, his alleged weight being 294
pounds.
! 1t is stated on good authority that
as result of the shah of Persia's re-
cent visit to England, a re-arrange-
ment of Persian finances had been ac-
complished.
, Frank Tousey, the founder of
Judge" and nephew of the late Sim
clair Tousey, founder and president of
the American News company, is dead |
in New York city.
At Nantes, France, a court-martial |
sentenced Lieutenant Colonel st. Remy
who August refused to assist in clos
ing the unauthorized schools, to one
days imprisonment.
H. E. Huntington, nephew of the |
late Coils P. Huntington, has been |
elected director of the Minneapolis
& st. Louis railroad, to succeed John
w. Mackay, deceased.
Senator Hoar celebrated his seventy
sixth birthday at his home in Wor-
cester, Mass, quietly on August 29,
He has been in public life since 1887,
when he was elected United States SEN
ator.
Mrs. Adair, one Of the most promi-
nent American in English society,
will shortly entertain the duke and
duchess Of Connaught at her beau.
tiful home at Glenveagh, Loch-Erne,
Ed Day, a sheepman, reported that
twenty-five masked men, supposed to
be miners, shot into his sheep upon
The Green Horn mountain in Grant
county, Oregon, killing and wounding
100 or more.
Prof E. A. Wright's investigation of
Uphold incubation, covering five years
Il South Africa, India, Egypt and
Great Britain, has resulted in the pub
ication of voluminous statistics DEM
,nstrating both the preventive and
curative results Of incubation, the
mortality being reduced fourfold.
J. C. Keller was chosen president of
he National Letter Carriers associa-
ion in session at Denver.
During a storm on lake near
kalamazoo, Mich, yacht containing
hree men was capsized and all