The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-06-06
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,

The Rock Island railroad is making
arrangements to enter Kansas City.
The president has signed the Indian
appropriation bill and the omnibus
claims bill.
Up to the present time there has
been twenty-five cases of cholera
among Americans in Manila.
Frank Bacon has been reappointed
receiver and George E. French as
register of the land Office at North
Platte.
All mills in Augusta, Ca, have start
ed up, and, with the exception of the
King mill, every one has full COM
plement Of hands.
The navy department has agreed to
transport to the homeless people Of
st. Vincent a large quantity Of build
ing lumber which the Canadian gov
ernment has donated.
Isabel Irving is no longer with Rich
ard Mansfield. 1t is said that Mans
field criticized her acting. Miss Irving
Immediately Cancelled her contract and
left for her home in New Jersey.
Engineer James Couch and Fireman
J. E. James were killed and Conductor
Grant Robson was severely injured in
a freight wreck on the West Pennsyl-
vania railroad, near Porters Curve.
1t is said on good authority that
Charles F. Price has mailed from
Louisville his resignation as general
manager of the New California Jockey
club to President Williams at San
Francisco.
L. T. Ohketo, Japanese, and Miss
Carolyn Walber, a comely white girl,
were united in marriage at Evanston,
Wyoming, by Justice 0'Flynn. The
couple claim Ogden as their place of
residence.
Generals Corbin, Young and Wood
have been formally invited by En-
peror William to attend, as his per-
sonal guests the German military
maneuvers next fall. The three gen.
erals will accept.
A bill has been introduced by Sem
ator Lodge providing for the removal
of the battleship Maine from the har-
Dor of Havana and the recovery of the
bodies of the American sailors who
sank with the vessel
Senator Quay introduced a bill pro-
viding for the promotion of Major Gen
eral Brooke, the senior major general
of the army, to the rank of lieutenant
general, and for the generals retire
ment with that rank.
The Kentucky board of health de-
clared quarantine ugainst the state
of Indiana on account of smallpox in
the southern part of the latter state.
The quarantine is to go into effect on
Sunday, June l, at noon.
At the inquest held at Opal, Wyom-
ing, over the remains of Austin Park
er, who was shot and killed in the
Austin saloon last Thursday by Nick
Garcia, it was decided that Garcia act
ed in self-defense, and was exonerated.
Herbert H. Matteson, the defaulting
cashier of the First National bank of
Great Falls, Montana, who pleaded
guilty in the federal court, was SEN
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary
by Judge Knowles. Matteson's short
age was s196,O0O. He lost the money
in speculation.
OF the s456,0Or appropriated by the
Iowa legislature for the state institu-
tions, the school for the feeble minded
at Glenwood will receive $69,575, the
state hospital at Clarinda $51, 800, and
the school for deaf at Council Bluffs
s., 3,100 exclusive of the appropriation
to make good the loss suffered by the
recent fire.
The steamer Camana, laden with
wheat, sunk in the Columbia river.
Commander Booth-Tucker of the
SdlNdIlOu AImy duuOullCGS IudI IuS
commander in chief, General William
Booth, Will visit this country in Octo-
Der next
Over 300 head of cattle were drown
ed in the flood at Butte, Montana.
Emigration statistics for 1901 show
that $4,000 Norwegians left Norway
for TIE United States last year, and
it is estimated that during 1902, 10000
Norwegians will leave for America.
The Presbyterian general assembly
will be held next year at Los Angeles.
President Roosevelt has informed a
number of senators that he would sign
the Indian appropriation bill. Some of
the objections be has had to is have
been met by special legislation.
The president nominated Robert S
Mccormick of Illinois to be ambas
sador to Austria Hungary.
The largest cargo of wheat that has
ever left the Pacific coast for South
Africa will be shipped from Portland