The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-09-26
BRIEF TElEGRAMS.

Governor Dole of Hawaii reports IN
creasing herds Of cattle destroying fop
ests. He needs the aid Of a packing
house.
William Waldorf Astor's daughter
Gwendoline, died Of consumption al
Cliveden, England. Her body will be
taken to New York for burial.
The weekly cholera returns for
Egypt show that there have been 1880
fresh cases reported. making total
since July Is of 20,32S cases and 16,209
deaths.
Prof. Doolittle. the Pennsylvania as
tronomer, says Prof. G. ". Hough of
Northwestern errs when he decuares
he is sure that Mars and other planets
are inhabited.
At London a syndicate with a cap
ltal of s50,00O,000 is being organized
by the coal combine, which proposes
to purchase the Fife and Clyde COM
panies' mines.
President Roosevelt has issued an
executive order closing the depart
ments in Washington on the day Of
the G. A. r. parade during the encamp-
ment next month.
At Carlinville, ILL.,, Mrs. Sarah
Bound, wife of Harry Bound, one of
the most prominent and wealthy citi-
zens of the city, committed suicide by
jumping into a well.
Stephen Mccormick, said to have
been the Oldest employe of New York
City in point of service, and the Oldest
member of Tammany Hall, is dead.
He was rs years old.
Growls from Mount Pelee are fin
ally diminishing, says disatch from
Martinique, by way of London. The
volcano is still in eruption, but its &C
tivity is now Insignificant.
The Bijou Opera company of Boston
went to pieces in Topeka and several
of the chorus girls are stranded there.
The Elks have started a subscription
to send the girls back to Boston.
Red Eagle, a full blood Usage, living
about thirty miles from Tusla, 1. T.,
Is dead, aged so years. He was
prominent character and served in the
union army during the civil war.
1t is rumored in London that a COM
bination of steel manufacturers, rep
resenting plants worth e60,000,000.
has been formed for the purpose of
resisting the invasion of the United
States Steel corporation.
Governor Otero of New Mexico re-
ceived narrowing details of the suffer
Ing caused by the recent Mfmbres
valley food. A letter from the relief
party says: "Rations have been dis
tributed to S36 people. Crops are laid
Charles V. Weston of Chicago has
been commissioned by Director of
Works Isaac S. Taylor to design the
eight miles of intramufal railway
which will be constructed on the
worlds fair site at a cost Of $3.50, 900.
A treasury warrant for $4,000 was
forwarded to Mrs. Ida s. Mckinley,
widow of the late president, for salary
which would have been due him on
July 1, 1902, the appropriation for
which was made at the last session Of
congress.
The birthday of President Diaz of
Mexico was celebrated as usual. The
corps, cabinet ministers,
senators and deputies and officers of
the army and navy called at the ma
tional palace to congratulate him on
the 72nd anniversary of his
birth.
High records for stock exchange |
seats in New York have been broken
by the purchase of a membership for
an unknown western man for S81, 600 |
In addition to this sum $1,000 will be
In0 price VI LlC AhASAoIfOAl- GASA1bSh'
ships were sold seven years ago as
low as s13,5O0.
At Norfolk, Va, DR.. William
Schmoele of Portsmouth has been sued
to recover s5,O00,o00 by Charles h.
Dorwn of New York. Dr.. Schmoele Is
the only surviving officer Of the former
Memphis, E1 Paso & Pacific railway,
which is now a part of the Texas &
Pacific system.
A dispatch to the London Standard
from Shanghai says force of armed
Boxers entered Chepg Tu Flu, capital
of Szechur province, September Is.
Some of them were killed or captured
in the streets of the city and the shops
there are closed.
Heads of the passenger departments
Of the roads in the western passenger
association decided not to change the
position taken last week in the mat
ter of declining to give rates for ship
oers' excursions to Minneapolis, st
Paul and other cities.
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