The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-08-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

VIII Will be sold at auction on August
81.
The amount of 8 and 4 per cent
bonds received at the treasury to date
for exchange into 2 per cent consols
is sSO,157,S5O
An area Of coal estimated to contain
250,000, 600 tons has been located in
the Peace river country. Some oil
the seams are said to be nine feet
thick. The coal is reported to be OF
good quality.
Miss Alice Roosevelt is expected at
Newport August 8 and will be the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. r. Fulton Cut
ting. A series of entertainments will
mark her stay.
The Doylestown National bank of
Doylestown, Pa, has been closed by
the comptroller OF the currency. Bank
Examiner ]. w. Schofeld has been
appointed receiver.
William H. Seymour of Brockport,
N. Y, celebrated his one hundred and
first birthday last week by entering a
croquet tournament and making one
of the best scores.
The value of German exports to the
United States during the fiscal year
ending July 1 last was $119, 77S,625, or
a net increase of s1S,0 64,5 sol over the
preceding fiscal year.
The activity of Vesuvius, which re-
Gently became quite marked, is now
diminishing, says a dispatch from Ma
pies. Explosions are less frequent and
the quantity of lava emitted is almost
nil.
Ex-Congressman briggs appeared
before Judge Thomas in the United
States circuit court, Brooklyn, and
pleaded not guilty to the indictments
in connection with the postal investi-
cation.
Rev. DIR. z. o. Buxton has resigned
the presidency Of Baldwin university,
at Berea, O.. because the trustees tried
to force him, he says, to go out and
solicit the necessary money to pay
his salary.
Walter w. Condor, aged %, former
ly of Coldwater, Mich, said to be heir
to a S350,000 estate, was found in
Chicago after a long search employed
as elevator conductor in a down town
Office building.
At Bemidji, Mimi, w. F. Street,
townsite man and politician, was acct
dentally shot and killed by Louis
Bland, aged Is years, his step-son. A
full charge of shot entered the small
of his back at close range.
The Chicago Great Western and 9TH
er lines leading from Missouri points
and from other territory in that Sec
ton are already commencing to car
~ the wheat crop to st. Paul and Min
neapolis and to the head of the lakes.
Denying that he intended to re-
nounce his American citizenship and
become a "naturalized Englishman"
and accept a seat in parliament,
Bourke Cochran returned on the Kai-
ser Wilhelm der Crosse last week. He
still shows the effects of his illness in
Egypt.
MI. and Mrs. Charles j. Glidden Of
T0--oJl NEoee 1ofT ToDarhoDnn in
their automobile in an attempt to cross
the arctic circle. The United States
consul accompanied them to Elsinor.
The Automobiles received an enthu-
siastic send off from a big crowd at
the starting point.
A new issue Of the counterfeit of
the United States (buffalo) note de-
scribed in the press dispatches of Oc-
tober II, 1902, has been discovered.
The check letter has been changed
from &c" to 3D." and the plate num-
Der from 81 to 50. Otherwise the
notes are the same.
On account Of the prevalence of vel
low fever at Tampico, Mexico, Surgeon
General Wyman of the United States
marine hospital service has ordered
Assistant Surgeon Thomas B. Richard
son to that port to take charge, in coz
junction with Assistant Surgeon Frick,
of the ~disinfection of ships bound for
United States port.
The government will institute pro-
ceedings against w. w. Weighed, a
postal contractor, and the Fidelity
Trust and Deposit company of Balti-
more, for approximately sec, 1000,
which the postoffce department has
been compelled to expend above the
amount of contract for carrying the
mails in wagons IN New York City.
The American delegates to the con-
vention called to meet at Geneva Sep
TENDER Is next to revise the rules Of
the Red Cross relative to warfare
have been notified by the Swiss min