The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-01-02
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

by the raise of the Ohio and Wabash
rivers.
A disease, supposed to be the bu.
bonic plague, has broken out in Mazat-
Ian, Mexico. Several deaths have al
ready occurred.
The piano factory of Ernest Gabler
& Bros, New York. was almost totally
destroyed by fire Tuesday night, en-
failing a loss of S150,000.
The United States supreme court
has rendered decision, providing that
an insurance policy is invalid when
the holder thereof is hanged for MUIR
der.
An elevator man in one of the Chi
cago stores has been driven insane
by the questions of Christmas shoppers.
Even an elevator man can't stand ev-
erything.
One day last week four mail steam
ers bound for Great Britain and Ger
many left New York with 1000 sacks
filled with Christmas presents.
The isthmian canal commissioners
are paid 1000 a month each. With
such salary as this they ought to be
required to do a fair share of the dig
ging.
The United States Steel corpora.
ton has purchased the Champion mine
at Champion, Mich, and the large
tract of adjoining iron ore lands for
reported consideration of s2,000,000.
Pittsburg is to have new home for
working girls, to be built next spring,
at cost of S25O,00O. The building
will be skyscraper, twelve stories
high, and will accommodate 400 in
mates.
Monday was the shortest day of the
year. The sun arose at 1921 and re-
tired at 4:35; at least, these are the
hours he was supposed to keep in the
neighborhoods where he put in an ap-
pearance at all.
DR." Ryno, an aged farmer living
near Mcpherson, Kas., has been found
guilty of shooting Miss Maude Holmes,
an 1S-year-old girl. She was shot
while standing before the mirror in
her bedroom July 5.
After lingering three days in agony,
City Marshal R. E. Coulter and Justice
of the Peace A. E. Musgrave, who
were shot on the street at Pennington,
Ia, Friday afternoon by George Still
well, are dead of their wounds.
The second election for representa-
tive in the legislature from Yellow
stone county, in Montana, has resulted
in another tie. Before each candidate
received 73S votes and this time each
got 535. A third election will proba-
bly, be held.
Brookline, Mass, is the richest city
in America, but there are more mil
lionaires in Uniontown, Pa, than in
any other town of its size, leaving out
health restorts. "In fact" says trav-
eler from that place, "millionaires
are so common there that they cut no
more ice than the average citizen"
General Bourbon Y. de Castellvt,
cousin of King Alfonso, was arrested
io Modr;d oI,,h 10
arrraigned before the captain-general
and subsequently released. The gen.
eral has challenged the prefect, who
is responsible for the energetic at
tempts made to suppress club gam
bling.
Five hundred million dollars in gold
is the amount of American capital
invested in Mexico by LII American
companies and individuals, according
to estimates carefully prepared by
the consul general a. Mexico City.
Practically all of tn has been invest
ed within five yea 5. Seventy per
cent of the total is invested in rail-
roads.
A voluntary advance in wages for
the motormen and conductors in its
employ has been announced by the
Omaha Street Railway company. The
advance will be effective January 1
and will be per cent for the men
who have been employed by the COM
pany for more than a year and 10 per
cent for those who have served more
than two years.
James B. Ewing, whose home is said |
to be in Indiana, was shot and killed |
near Atlanta in the smoking compart-
ment of northbound Southern rail- |
way train by Frederick L. Stephen |
son, a railway clerk of the Southern |
railroad. Stephenson lives in Atlanta. |
According to all accounts obtainable,
Stephenson was intoxicated. There |
were no witnesses to the tragedy and