The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-09-12
BRIEF TEIEGRAMS.

IN Madagascar.
A. d. Jones, who was Omaha's frs
postmaster, is dead.
Britons are uncertain how to com
bat the ship combine.
Canada Is about to enter a period
Of great Industrial activity.
George w. Bissell, a prominent 10
cal capitalist of Detroit, was killed il
a runaway accident.
The Colombian government is rush
ing re-enforcements of troops to
Isthmus Of Panama.
The rebellion in Sechuen province
China, is spreading, and foreigners
ara considered to be in great danger
The eighteenth report of the civil
service commission shows many op-
portunities for able young men who
can pass the examination.
Carlisle D. Graham made his second
trip through the Niagara rapids, swim
ming from the whirlpool to Lewiston,
four miles, in fifty minutes.
Lieutenant Hildebrand, the pardon
ed duelist, has been dismissed from
the German army on account of the
ovation rendered him at Gumbinnen.
Banks of the south and west have
deposited with the treasury depart
ment government bonds to secure ad-
ditional circulation in moving the
crops.
Marshall Field of Chicago is head
ing movement to colonize the num-
berless abandoned farms of New Eng
land with farmers and mechanics from
the old world.
The Chinese government has asked
the United States to investigate the
riot at Baker City, Oregon, and see
that justice is done the Chinese in
jured at that time.
A Capetown dispatch says that a
high military officer says the chief re
suit of the army and navy maneuvers
will be to show weakness Of the sys-
TEN of coast defense.
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., and the
party of railway men sidetracked in
palace cars between Arlington and
Hetland, S. D., bagged many birds in
their first days shooting.
Eighteen vessels, mostly sailing
craft, were driven ashore in a gale
at Port Elizabeth. Five of them were
dashed to pieces and all the members
of their crews were lost.
Sir Edmund Burton, premier of Aus
tralia, and his party were unable to
pay visit to the tomb of Washing
ton owing to the fact that Mount
Vernon is closed on Sundays.
The contest for attorney general
was settled by the Chickisaw Indian
legislature which declared J. P.
Thompson regularly elected over 1.
D. Lee Of Medill, by a majority of
votes.
An trade, as recently agreed upon
by the sultan, has been issued repeal
ng the exceptional measures adopted
against the Armenians if the Armen-
an patriarch would guarantee that no
outbreak would follow.
The second trial of w. N. Dimmick,
accused of having stolen $4,000 from
he United States mint in that city,
vas begun in the United States dis
rict court at San Francisco. The
irst trial resulted in a disagreement.
Judge Samuel Treat, former United
States judge of the eastern district of
Missouri, died in Rochester, N. Y. He
vas born at Portsmouth, N. H, in
515, was on the bench for thirty-three
ears, retiring in 1887, and was one
# the original founders of Washing |
on university.
The monthly circulation statement |
ssued by the comptroller of the cur
ency shows that at the close of busi- |
less August 80, 1902, the total circula-
ion of national bank notes was $751;
80, ,691, an increase for the year of |
3 1863, ,5S6, and an increase for the
month of s2,2sS,5O7.
Miss Emily Etheridge, a nurse in
he Presbyterian hospital, Chicago,
nd the daughter of the late DR.. James
(. Ethridge, one of Chicago's leading
confessed to Coroner Trae-
,er that she had made fatal mistake
n administering strychnine to a pa
lent in the hospital.
Every veteran Of the thousands ex-
'ected to march in the grand parade
f the Grand Army of the Republic
n Wednesday, October 8, when they
will be reviewed by President Roose-
elt, General Torrance and a number
t other distinguished gentlemen, will
AIRY small American flag.
The treasury department expects a
urplus of S15,000,O0O in receipts for
he year, basing the estimate upon the
usiness for August.
:4oao,+ Colonel ISII;o44 I,o- :.