The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-02-14
BRIEF TfLEGRAMS.

ming TO regard Miss Stone as a Valu-
able asset on which it is difficult to
realize.
The Chicago Coliseum, which can
seat $1,000 people and is located in
the center of the city, is to be utilized
as a mammoth indoor summer gar
den.
Secretary Root has sent to congress
a resolution adopted by the American
chamber of commerce at Manila urg-
ing congress to provide for a Pacific
cable.
Senator Mason introduced bill to
limit the effect of the regulation of in
terstate commerce between the sew
eral states in goods, wares and mer-
chandise
A. ]. Patterson, convicted of en-
bezzling $4,000 in city funds from the
city of Clyde, Kan, of which he was
treasurer, was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary.
Wolff, the famous concert hall man
ager of Berlin, is dead. Herr Wolff
began his career as a manager for
Rubenstein and later was manager for
Hans Won Buelow, the musician.
1t is understood to be the purpose
of the state department to make the
cession of proper coaling stations on
the isthmus condition of the under
taking to build an isthmian canal.
The Bavarian government has sold
a loan of S6,000,00O marks to a syndi-
cate of Bavarian bankers. The loan
bears interest at 3h per cent and sub
scriptions to it will soon be opened.
N. D. Parker, young man who lives
at Ottawa, Kan, has been held for
the federal grand jury on a charge
of fraudulent use of the mails by OBJ
tanning goods under false pretenses.
Old, enfeebled and victim of SOM
nambulism, Robert Hayden, aged 80
years, of Washington, Ind, arose from
his bed and wandered down a nearby
lane, where he was frozen to death.
The British government replied to
DR.. Kuyper, the Dutch premier, that
if the Beers in the field desired to ne
gotiate for peace, negotiations can be
entered into, but only in South Africa.
In his weekly review to the war Of
flee Lord Kitchener states that for the
week ended February 1 twenty-nine
Beers were killed, six wounded, 142
taken prisoners and forty-eight surren-
dered.
A thousand Maoris of New Zealand
have volunteered to do garrison duty
anywhere in the British dominion with
the object of reliving like number
of British troops for service in South
Africa.
The commission on arid lands in the
house is pushing the consideration of
an irrigation bill with the expectation
that something in that direction will
be accomplished by the present con-
gress.
The Minnesota legislature convened
in special session to act on the new
tax code. The bill prepared by the
special commission is severe on the
corporations and has the approval of
Governor Van SAINT.
In the United States court at Chey-
enne A. D. Spaugh, the Mannville
stockman, was sentenced to one day in
jail and to pay a fine of $50 and the
costs in the case for illegally fenc-
ing government lands.
During the negotiations for the re-
lease of Miss Stone. between the dele
cation and the brigands, the house in
which the party was lodged burned
down, but the inmates escaped with
the money to be paid as ransom.
James w. Tufts, the millionaire soda
water fountain manufacturer of Bos-
ton, died suddenly of apopIexy at Pin
churst, n. c.
In the senate the urgent deficiency
bill as reported allowed pay to John
Shaker of Hastings as clerk to Sena-
tor Dietrich from April to December
l; for J. B. Haynes as clerk to Senator
Millard from April II to December l.
This action is made necessary because
the senators were elected or appoint
ed after the senate adjourned last
March.
A Russian bishopric for Manchuria,
with headquarters at Pekin, will be es-
tablished during the present year.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the Omaha National bank as
a reserve agent for the First National |
bank of Genoa. Neb.
The Kelley institute at Dwight, H., |
was destroyed by fire.
Indian Territory is suffering the |
worst grass famine in years and in |
many parts cattle in poor flesh are |
dying by hundreds. There have been |