The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1902-04-18
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

w. l.. Grain of Nebraska has been
appointed a fireman in the state, wal
and navy building.
The shah of Persia will visit Berlin
in May and will pay his respects to
Emperor William. The shah is going
TO ContrexeVille, France.
st. Johns military school at Man
lius, n. Y, ten miles east of Syracuse,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at from $4,000 to $125,000
Malarial fever has developed in the
case of eX-Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter,
who has been i'll for a week past at
the military prison at Fort Leaven-
worth.
False teeth worth $4,000, which
are alleged to have entered the coun-
try without the payment of any duties,
have been seized by the custom Of
ficials.
Edward Kappelle, a life insurance
agent, Is under arrest at Niagara
Falls, N. Y, accused of obtaining $3,-
600 from George F. Greene, a far
mer.
The last quarters exports to the
United States from the South German
consulates. except Coburg amounted
to 9,717,15S, an increase of 1905, ,6S2
marks.
Partial returns on the referendum
vote taken in Manitoba, Canada, on
the prohibition question, indicate that
the proposed dry" amendment has
been lost
The measure appropriating $25,000
for the erection of monuments in hon
or of the Iowa soldiers who fought
at Lookout Mountain, has passed the
Iowa house.
The body Of Dan Mclaughlin, a
stockman, who perished in the recent
blizzard, was found in snow bank ten
miles northwest of Medina, n. D., by
Hugh Marston.
Peter Lund, one of the best known
mining men of Montana, died suddenly
OF heart failure at Nebart, Mont, aged
a5 years. Lund had been connected
with many prominent mining ven
lures.
Jacmel, a town on the southern
coast of Hayti, was captured on April
5 by the insurgents, who held it for
L day and then retired to the hills,
after releasing all the prisoners in
the city.
The Progressive Indian party will
hold convention on April II for the
purpose Of nominating candidate for
governor of the Chickasaw nation. Ex-
Governor William Byrd will probably
be the nominee.
The president has directed that
more than seventy townships in north
ern Montana be withdrawn from pub
lie entry for use in the big irrigation
scheme known as the St. Mary's canal
and Milk river project.
Secretary Hitchcock has sent to the
senate Indian committee letter dis
approving Senator Rawlins amend
ment prohibiting the leasing Of min
eral lands on Indian reservations out
side of the Indian territory.
Caspar Kruger, the eldest son of
the president. and twenty-four other
relatives of Mr.. Kruger, bearing the
same family name. are among those
who have recently taken the oath OF
allegiance to Great Britain.
The republican congressional con-
vention for the Eleventh district, held
at Athens, Ohio, renominated Con-
gress Charles H. Grosvenor by accla-
nation. General Grosvenor made an
address accepting the nomination.
The gunboat Marietta. which has
been keeping watch over American
interests at Colombia. sailed Sunday
for New York. The cruiser Philadel-
phia still remains at Panama, on the
Pacific side, to await developments.
Mr.. Anthony Matre, national secre-
tary of the American Federation Of
Catholic Societies. stated that the re-
port that Bishop G.. Hessmer had been
appointed was correct Bishop Hess
mer is one of the spiritual advisers
of the Federation of Catholic Socie-
ties.
The son of Yang Yu, the former
Chinese minister to Russia, died at st.
Petersburg. and it is now admitted
that he committed suicide. The de-
ceased minister's son came to ST. Pc
tersburg to repatriate the body of his
father, who died there February II.
Bishop Thomas O'Gorman of Sioux
Falls, S. D., is in Washington. He
said that his visit at this time had
nothing to do with the question Of
the disposition of the friar lands in
the Philippines to the United States,
but was on personal matters.
The Rock Island will build an ex-
tension from Enid TO Guthrie, Okla.
First Lieutenant Bert H. Merchant