The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-05-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

1890 AC0o
French imports for the past four
months increased $11645, 600 and the
exports increased 81, 059, 600.
Official reports place the number of
Christian victims at Monasitr and in
the surrounding countr" at Y.
Benito Legard, a Filipino member of
the Filipino commission, has donated
a site in Manila for a general hospi-
tai.
Mayor Low of New York and sew
eral citizens have stopped the preach
ing of Mormonism in the streets of
that city.
Advices from Morocco say the Amer
lean missionary has practically aban-
doned Mequinez, owing to the critical
situation.
Henry Berry, a rancher at North Yn-
kima, Wash, shot and killed his G..
year old foster son, Charles, and COM
mitted suicide.
The reports of a great Jewish mas
sacre at Tirrospot, Russia, are pro-
nounced in st. Petersburg to be with
out foundation.
The health board is preparing to
inoculate the Chinese population of
Manila with bubonic SERUM to prevent
the spread of that disease.
The contract for placing 156 new
steel cells in the Nebraska peniten-
tiary has been awarded to the Van
Dorm works of Cleveland. o.
st. Johns cathedral. the most pre-
tentious church building belonging to
the Protestant Episcopal church in
Denver, was destroyed by fire, believ.
ed to be of incendiary origin.
The memorial arch erected to the
memory of the thirteen missionaries
of the American board of foreign mis-
sions who suffered martyrdom in Chi
ma in 1900 was dedicated at Oberlin, o.
The Bulgarian cabinet resigned.
Prince Ferdinand accepted it's resig-
nation and summoned NJ. Petuoff, lead
er of the Stambuloff party. 1t is pos
sible that a coalition may be ordered.
General Davis, commanding in the
Philippines, has disapproyed the find
ings in the court-marital clase which
acquitted Lieutenant Joel r. Lee,
Tenth infantry, tried for manslaugh-
ter.
Assistant Secretary Armstrong and
Mrs. Armstrong left Washington for
Chicago, where they will attend the
Vanderlip-Cox wedding, and then go
to Iowa to visit Mrs. Armstrong; par.
ents.
The Southern Cotton Spinner's as
ISOLATION, in annual convention, chang.
ed it's name to the American Cotton
Manufacturers association and decid-
ed to urge a general curtailment of
production.
About 5000 emigrants arrived at
Hamburg last week for transportation
to the United States. Owing to the
phenomenal number extra steamers
have been put on for the accommoda-
ton of the emigrants.
Application was made before Judge
Hallett in the United States court at
Denver for the appointment of Harry
P. Gamble, an attorney of Boulder, as
faster in %chancery to manage the Colo
RADIO & Northwestern railroad pending
an application for a receivership.
The twentieth annual convention OF
the Women's General Missionary So
ciety of the United Presbyterian
church closed at Pittsburg after adopt
ing a resolution pledging themselves
to contribute sufficient funds to pro-
vide for a oma missionary for every
man missionary in the field.
The state department has given no.
tice of the appointment of General H.
M. Dufield of Detroit, Mich, as UNI
pire in the arbitration at Caracas be-
tween Germany and Venezuela. Gen
eral Duffield led one of the volunteer
regiments in the Spanish war and is
a prominent lawyer in Detroit.
Executive officers of the western !
railroads discussed in an informal man |
ner the question of eQualizing rates
on import sugar and the rates froR |
the fields where sugar beets are rails
ed. No action was taken and no de-
cision was reached which promises &C
ton of any kind in the near future.
The Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati
& st. Louis railroad filed with the in
terstate commission an an
Bwer to the complaint of William Rig
ley, Jr., & Co., of Chicago, involving
the legality of it's increased freight
rates and amendment to the southern
classification schedule. The road de-
uies that it has imposed unjust or dis
criminative charges.
The conductors and motormen en-
ployed by the Connecticut Railway and
Lighting company at Bridgeport went
On strike, tying up all the lines IN
.he city. The company offered a
slight increase, but refused recognition
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