The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-02-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


public officer.
Mr.. Kipling's home in South Africa
during some weeks to come will be
the house which in the past was lent
to him by Cecil Rhodes.
The British war Office has decided to
invite tenders from Canadian farmers
for the supply of fresh meat to the
British army in South Africa.
Names receipts from fees for the or
ganization of new corporations were
nearly 100000 last year. The cor
poration fees are doubling annually.
A head-on collision between two
Rock Island freight trains near Teco-
late, N. NJ, resulted in the death OF
five men and the injury of several 9TH
ers.
B. w. Knott, wealthy citizen OF
Bird City, Kansas, was found lying
dead in a pool of blood in his bed
room. He is supposed to have been
murdered.
Charles ?. Swigert, for eight years
state auditor of Illinois and for the last
three years custodian of Memorial hall,
public library building, is dead OF ap-
pendicitis.
Colonel A. ]. Gordon, aged 80 years.
a civil war veteran and one OF the
first settlers of Wright county, Mo-,
was found dead in the warehouse OF
his store at Hartville.
Charles Ward, one of the famous
crew Of Ward brothers, who held the
worlds championship for four-oared
races, died at his home on Park ave
nue., Rockaway Beach.
Prof. Friedrich Delitsch of the Uni
versity of Berlin, whose recent lee
lures on the Babylonian origin of the
Bible created sensation, will visit the
United States in March.
The correspondent of the London
Standard at Tien Tsin telegraphs the
rumor that the empress dowager is
dead the news being concealed until
me New ear ODSerVanceS.
A special from Hermosillo states
that there is little truth in the stories
published about the alleged fight be-
tween the Yaquis and the Mexican, reg
uIar troops, near San Marcial. ..-.
At Butte, Mont, Walter w. Brooks,
local bartender. found his wife and
Emery Chevrier barber, in room
in the Dubois house and he shot Chew
rier down. He gave himself up.
Lee S. Overman, the new senator
from North Carolina, is 40 years old.
He is a lawyer of ability, a native
of Salisbury, and in 1874 graduated
from Trinity college, North Carolina.
At Admission, Ala, a boiler in the
Southern Car and Foundry company
plant exploded, killing five persons in
stantly and wounding several. The
cause of the explosion is not known.
Italy has again threatened the porte
to the effect that if piracy in the Red
Sea is not effectively wiped out 1t will
be necessary for the Italian govern
ment to undertake the chastisement
of the coast tribes.
The British press is after Lord
Cranborne, under secretary Of the for
eign Office, with sharp stick for his
maladroit defense Of the Venezuelan
policy and admitting that the govern
ment got into a mess.
The territorial debt of Arizona is
$2,7O0,000, of New Mexico $1,100,000
and of Oklahoma $527,00O. The as
sessed valuation of these territories is:
Arizona $6S,OOO,OOO, New Mexico $780,
600 900 and Oklahoma $75, 100000.
The executive committee to inves-
tigate the cause for the coal famine
held its first meeting in Topeka. Four
teen witnesses were summoned and ev-
cry effort made to get the facts in
the case. 1t is announced the inves.
tigation will continue as long as neces.
sary.
The Rock Island telegraphers have
OSCluSu ~ d new SCdl0 VI
wages to the officers of the road in
Chicago next May. 1t has been some
years since the Rock Island has had |
a contract with the telegraphers on
account of the fact that the latter were |
not organized.
The Wyoming industrial convention |
adopted resolutions that strong me-
mortal be sent to the proper depart |
ment of the general government for !
the allotment in severalty of the lands |
included in the Wind River or Sho- |
shone reservation in Wyoming. The |
reservation comprises 2,S03,000 acres |
and there are on it 1000 Indians.
A New York legislator who travels |
on a railroad pass is liable to forfeit
ure of Office.
Prince Hugo Hohenlohe is working |
in a New York bank as volunteer in |