The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-02-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

A bust of the late President McKin-
ley was unveiled i.l the Baltimore
postofIice by the Postoffice Mckinley
Memorial association.
1t was announced from Madrid that
the Spanish government had received
news that the Moorish pretender was
advancing to attack Fez.
According to advices received from
North China, fears are being enter
tanned that China is planning another
outburst similar to that of 1901.
A dispatch from Tangier announces
that Blu Hammara, the pretender to
the throne Of Morocco, mas been re-
pulsed and is retreating rapidly.
Justin Mccarthy has just passed his
72d birthday. He has apparently
abandoned novel writing and is de-
votin ghimself exclusively to history.
The agitation in favor of retalia-
tory policy against the United States
by Newfoundland should the Bond-Hay
treaty be defeated, is growing in
force.
Several members of the Iowa COM
mission inspected the worlds fair
grounds at st. Louis. The state cap
itol of Iowa is to be reproduced by
the commission on the site allotted
Iowa.
Mrs. Mccormick, wife of Rear Ad-
miral A. H. Mccormick, U. S. N. ire
tired), died at Annapolis after long
illness. She was the mother of A. H.
Mccormick, jr., of the navy depart
ment.
Senor Ajedsa, the Spanish minister,
submitted in behalf of his govern
ment the proposition to sell the gov
ernment of Cuba considerable
amount of ordnance now in possession
in the Cuban fortresses.
The Cincinnati & Columbus Trac-
ton company of Cincinnati filed pa
pers increasing its capital stock from
$1,500,000 to $2,500,O00. The company
will build an electric line from Gin
cinnati to Washington Court House.
Sumner J. Collins of Chicago, for
merly superintendent of the Wiscon-
sin Central railroad, has been appoint
ed general superintendent of the east
ern district of the Southern railway.
He succeeds John S. Sands, resigned.
A bill was introduced in the Connec-
ticut legislature making an attempt on
the life of a president Of the United
States or foreign ambassador equal
before the law with murder in the
first degree and punishable by death.
Gorge Bothner, the lightweight
champion wrestler, won his match
with August Faust, a heavyweight, in
New York. The conditions were that
Faust should throw Bothner four times
within an honr, catch-as-catch-can. He
failed to throw him once.
Creditors Of the Northern Building
company of Davenport, Ia, met and
received reports, showing that the
concern owed $160,000, with no assets
except possible profits on contracts
on hand in various cities in Iowa and
Wisconsin. These contracts amount
to $330,000.
The board of trustees of the Pea
body education fund held a special
meeting in Washington Tor the pur-
pose of formulating plan by which
the work of the board and that of the
general education board, which is
working along the same lines, shall
not be duplicated.
An American chamber of commerce
was organized at Berlin with 101 mem
bers who are engaged in business in
Berlin, Hamburg and other German
cities. H. Kreismann of Chicago, for
merly United States consul general
and now a street railway owner, was
elected president of the chamber.
Ohio's coming centennial celebration
at Chillicothe, which opens next May,
will not see President Roosevelt. In a
letter from his secretary, received by
Governor Nash, the president express
ed regret and says previous engage
m nts covering a trip to the Pacific
coast preclude the possibility of his
acceptance of the invitation.
]. R. Stephens, superintendent of
construction for the Santa Fe, an
nounced at Shawnee, o. T., that with
in a short time the work of construc'
ton Of the Santa Fe extension from
Owasso, l. T., to Tulsa will commence
and that from Tulsa line will be run
southeast.
There is no truth in the report pub
lished in the United States that fifty
persons are missing as a result of the
overfiowing of the Aragon at Cara
prose-, Spain. The food occurred
January q, and there was no loss oi
life.
A bill is being drafted for presenta