The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-04-08
Brief kilograms

a log cabin and is now president OF
sam Houston college at austin, Tex.
Glenn Brown has been elected an
honorary corresponding member of the
Royal Institute of British Architects.
Clark h. Sampson, one of the most
prominent citizens of st. Louis, died
lfter a years illness from compiled
ions of rheumatism and Bright's dis.
.asc.
Lie latest reports from st. Johns,
y. F., say the seals captured up to
he present number $50, 900, which will
probably be increased to 800, 900 dur
ing April.
William N. Armstrong, a member of
he cabinet of Kalakaua, the last king
of Hawaii, has written an account OF
4 journey around the world with his
royal master.
A special from Miles City, Mont,
says: Fully two-thirds of the resi-
dences and business portion of Miles
City are submerged by the food wat
ers of Tongue river.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, who
has just announced his intention to
retire from public life, is one of the
few men to whom King Edward vain
ly offered a peerage.
The war department has refused the
application of Colonel Charles H. Heyl
Of the inspector generals department
to be transferred to the retired list
after thirty years service.
owing to a refusal of the bosses to
the demand for an eight-hour work
a instead of nine hours, and 80
cent per hour, 800 carpenters went
On strike at Dubuque, Iowa.
A circular is out announcing the ap-
pointment of John E. UT as general
agent of the Rock Island at Omaha.
Mr.. UT is in Chicago comforting with
the high officials of the road.
AT Evansville, Ind, Philip Veatch.
charged with having taken part in the
July riot in this city, was fined $50
and costs in the circuit court. Veatch
is n of the best known young men
in the city.
AT Greenville, S. c., in the state cir
cult court, Mrs. Susan L. Franklin of
NeWberry, S. c., obtained a verdict
for $4,000 damages in a suit against
the Southern railway, half of the
amount sued for.
Walter Westlake, who with his
young wife had been living for several
days at a hotel in indianapolis. Ind.
was arrested on a. charge of having
passed worthless checks drawn on a
Salt Lake City bank.
Secretary Taft has made an adverse
report on the bill which provides for
the promotion to a major generalcv on
the retired list of Brigadier General
George NJ. ~Sternberg, retired, formerly
surgeon general of the army.
Their were 1919 deaths in the
state of New York in the month of
FEBRUARY, an average of 440 deaths per
One thousand eight hundred and
twenty of this number died of pneu
monia, an unprecedented number.
The name of J. Clark Sprout, a for
mer editor of the now defunct Grand
(rdich.) Democrat, charged
with conspiracy in the Lake Michigan
water deal, has been added to the in 8
formation against the other respond
ents.
A favorable report was authorized
the bill granting statehood to Okla ,
noma and indian Territory under the
lame of Oklahoma, and Arizona and
Mexico under the name Of Ariz- !
INA, by the house committee on terri >
,ories. =
AZ Trenton, N. J., the United States 4
Steel corporation, through it's counsel, -
lied n the court of chancery a de- :,
nurrer to the bill of Alfred Stevens =
If Newark, who sued the corporation r.
of its passing of dividends on "
he common stock. II
At the Union Pacific railway Office g
n New York it was said that the re- :,
'ort received from the west to the &c
fleet that A. L. Mohler had been made
of the Union Pacific was in =,
orrect. E. H. Hartman is president HI
f the Union Pacific. -
A report received at the navy de- =,
artment from the New York navy "a
ard announces that about eighty DAYS
al NC CqullSu III Tie repairs TO be
on the Illinois, which was in.
lred in the collision between that yes. -.
ell and the Missouri. -
Rev. John Gordon, formerly presi. :,
en- tof Tabor college, Iowa, on April ~
was formally i~naugurated president .,
t Howard university, of Washington. -.
he principal feature was a public -
at night at the First Congre, =,
ational church, when the keys of the ~
University and the charter of the in -
were formally turned over to f.
r. Gordon. -
Lieutenant Commander Edgar Town.
md Warburton, chief engineer of the
attleship Maine, now in Pensacola
arbor, committed suicide in his cabin -
1 board that vessel. A bullet from 81,
revolver was sent crashing through ~
brain and death resulted within -.
rty minutes afterward. -
Traffic officials of the western roads -,
I've decided to refuse the request of
e live stock associations for the re-