The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-05-09
BRIEF TELfGRAMS.

John Field, an old-time Omaha con-
tractor, died in Dubuque, la.
At Pittsburg, Pa, Michael Connolly
cUarrelai with and killed lis mother
iE-law.
Reports from the sealing vessels
be 270,O0O.
So far forty bodies have been re-
covered from the City of pitteburg
wreck at Cairo, III.
Miss Ellen M. Stone has been en-
gagged to lecture at the Iowa Chautau-
qua meeting in June.
Mayor Crane of Denver, Colo, has
just invented rotary ore-working ma
chine for use in gold mines.
James M. Humphreys of Franklin,
Neb., has been admitted to practice
before the interior department.
Governor Yates of Illinois was re-
Gently in wreck on the Illinois Cen
tral, but was not much injured.
Colored women of Iowa will meet
at Ottumwa on the 23d and oath Of
May to plan permanent organization.
Congressman Mercer has secured a
favorable report on his bill for a $685.
600 fish hatchery for Sarpy county, Ne
braska
Thirty ladrones, armed with Maui
sers, ambushed five of the constabu-
larry near Manila, killing one man and
injuring another.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson en-
tertained President and Mrs Roose-
velt and a number of other guests
at reception and dinner party.
W. D. Lowell of Des Moines, Ia,
was the only bidder for the erection
of the tank and pumping plant for the
Fort Bartholdi Indian agency, n. D., at
$6,44O.
The nomination was announced by
the president of r. NJ. WithroD of
Massachusetts to be secretary of the
United States legation at Brussels,
Belgium.
Alfred Smith, colored, was strangled
to death officially in the Moyamensing
prison at Philadelphia for the murder
Of his wife last spring. She refused
to live with him.
The Kings Daughters home, a
charitable institution at Oakland, Cal,
was destroyed by fire. William Bray,
an ex-New York editor, lost his life in
the conflagration.
Every white laundry is closed in
Portland, Ore, on account Of a strike
of the employees, who demand recog-
milton of their union and an s per cent
increase in wages.
While ]. P. Glass, cashier Of the
Bank Of Brownsville, Org, was at din
ner a robber effected an entrance to
the bank and escaped with $500,
which was left outside the vault.
According to dispatches to the Co
Iombian revolutionary junta in New
York, Rio Hacha, a city on the north
ern coast Of Colombia, has been cap
tured by the revolutionary forces.
Manufacturers of burglar proof
safees will test their safes with high
explosives before the coming meet
ing of the South Dakota Bankers as
sociation, to be held in Huron, May q.
Bishop Frank R. Millspaugh of Kan
sas will continue in the charge of the
Episcopal missionary diocese of Saline
until fall, on account of tie refusal
of Rev. Nathaniel Thomas to take the
place.
The senate has passed the Flynn
resolution, which has already passed
the house, directing the printing Of
5000 additional copies of the last re-
port of the governor of Oklahoma ter
ritory.
1t is reported that the Santa Fe has
purchased the ST. Louis, Kansas City
& Colorado line. This would give the
Santa Fe valuable connections for the
coming worlds fair, and st. Louis an
additional line to Kansas City.
The president has signed the legis-
lative appropriation bill. Under it's
provisions the 1000 or more clerks
who were temporarily appointed dur
ing the war with Spain are given per-
manent employment and placed with
in the operations of the civil service
law
The discovery of copper ore in
rush of prospectors from Guthrie, Okl.
The report that he will resign is
vigorously denied by Bishop James
Conaty, rector of the Catholic univer-
the Wichita mountains has caused
sity of America.
The machinists' strike on the North
ern Pacific in Minnesota is at an
end.
Morris Hickey, aged II, is dead at
st. Joseph. He was railroad con-
structor and one of the originators of
the Hannibal road in Missouri.