The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-04-03
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.

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Is per cent for freight men and con-
ductors.
The general strike of the textile op-
orators at Lowell, Mass, will probably
go into effect Monday, unless their
demand for a 10 per cent increase in
wages is granted.
1t has been decided to establish a
Twentieth Century benevolence fund
for all objects of the church. Every
Lutheran is to be asked to give 1 cent
a day for a period of one year.
By direction of the president the
women immigrant inspectors employed
In connection with the immigration
service will be continued in Office until
his return from his western trip.
Sir Augustus Hemming announced
to the Jamaica legislature that the
proposed reciprocity convention with
h United States had been abandoned.
President Roosevelt ISSUED an order
extending to certain large cities the
registration system for laborers to the
civil service outside of Washington.
w. J.. Cogan shot and killed his
wife and then himself at the Balti-
more & Ohio depot at Hyndman, Pa.
He and his wife had peer quarreling.
The convention of the National
Suffrage association came to a close
Friday at New Orleans. The lex
convention will be held in Washing
ton, d. c.
II. c. Clements, general auditor of
the Texas Southern railroad and of
the Delaware Western Construction
company, died at his home in Kansas
City, aged 81 years.
Guerino Ciccone is held in 50, 500
bail at New York to answer to the
charge Of presenting a fraudulent
claim of insurance to the John Han
cock Insurance company.
Arrangements for the thirty-seventh
annual encampment of the department
VI nv Al"S VI liz NJ
public, have been completed. The en-
campment will be held May 5, 6 and Z
at East st. Louis.
At Hamilton, o., the grand jury re-
ported indictments for murder in the
first degree against Alfred A. Knapp
and Samuel, Keller, both charged with
wife murder.
Isaac W. Anderson, represeting Cy-
rus Pierce & Co., of Philadelphia, has
secured practically all the stocks and
bonds of the Spokane Falls Gas Light
company for New York and Philadel-
phia parties.
The 26Sth anniversary Of the set
ting of the colony of Maryland was
observed in all the public and many of
the private schools throughout the
state. This was the first general cele-
bration of Maryland day"
The American Tobacco company
has declared the regular quarterly div
dend of 2 per cent on it's preferred
stock and a dividend of 8 per cent on
its common stock. This is an increase
of y per cent in the latter issue.
There was a gain of S10,5 SIP, 995 in |
Chinese exports to the United States
last year as compared with the pre-
ceding year, according to a special re-
port to the state department from the
United States consul general at Shang-
hal. The total of the trade was $27,-
1S9, 2S3 in gold.
A vote taken in the 125 miners |
locals of Indiana will decide whether
or not the $500 men employed in the
bituminous coal fields will quit work
on April 1, or accept the offer of the
operators to continue last years agree
ment with 12k per cent increase in
wages as agreed upon at the Indian
apolis convention.
Two thousand picture frame workers
and helpers in Twenty-Five picture
frame and molding factories went on
a strike at Chicago because of the re-
fusal Of the employers to grant a uni
form wage scale. The union also de-
mands recognition and a Saturday
half-holiday for four months of the
year without reduction in pay.
The postofice department has in
contemplation the establishment of a
better postal service for Point Bar
row, the northernmost p~ostofice in
the world, and the Alaska coast to-
ward that point. Instead of mails be-
ing carried to and taken away from
Point Barrow once a year, it is now
proposed, if suitable arrangements can
be made, to have a round trip once
in two or three months.
The officer in charge of the tele-
graph lines in Alaska says that the
posts of st. Michael, at the mouth of
the Yukon; Valdez, at the mouth Of
the Copper river, and Fort Edgebert,
on the upper Yukon, will be connected
with the United States by wire in May.