The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
Brief kilograms

MOI.
John L.. Willis, 10 years of age, Of
Toronto, Canada, was arrested on the
Eads bridge at st. Louis as he was
about to spring into the river.
Advices from Constantinople to the
Turkish embassy at st. Petersburg
say the troubles in Armenia nave
ed and that absolute tranquility pTG
walls.
The president has appointed Post
Quartermaster Sergeant Ernest Flack-
er, stationed at Fort Sill, 1. T., q
second lieutenant in the Philippine
scouts.
Thomas G. Dawson, who for seven
years has been secretary of the lega-
ton at Rio de Janeiro, has just been
appointed United States minister to
San Domingo.
Charles L. Tucker of Auburndale.
grand jury on the charge of numbering
Miss Mabel Page at her home in Wes-
ton March 81.
Prohibitionists of Pennsylvania in
e~ulogizing General Miles and stating
that the party would be honored in
having him as their leader.
J. P. Morgan & Co. confirm the re-
port that they, as syndicate bankers,
have completed the sale of about S12,.
100000 of bonds for the Terminal
Railroad association of st. Louis.
Populists of Oklahoma elected an I'M
convention to be held at Springfield,
ILL.,, July 4. The delegation is sup
posed to be opposed to national fusion.
The protective bureau of the Ma
tional Wholesale Liquor Dealers as
sociation during the past year took
part in 2S7 elections where the local
option of other liquor issues were in
volved.
Antonio Sperano, a life prisoner at
the Connecticut state penitentiary,
who on Monday last was granted a
conditional release by the board Of
pardons, has declined to accept the
release.
The London Daily Telegraph has a
dispatch from Tien Tsin that Louis
Etsel, who was killed by Chinese
while acting as a correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph, was buried at New
Chwang.
The questions pending between Bra
zil and Peru now seem to be in a fair
way to a peaceful settlement. 1t is
reported that a joint administration
will be established in the disputed
Acre territory.
The report of the Congregational
Educational society shows two new
colleges instituted, one at Redfield, S.
D., and the other, French-American, at
Springfield, Mass. Twenty academies
were helped financially.
1t is understood in Brussels that the
Congo State government considers the
proposal Of a special commits
sion to inquire into its administration
as unacceptable and contrary to its
dignity and independence.
United States Consul Lee at Pan
anna has cabled the state department
that the government of Panama has
consented to suspend action upon the
pending coinage legislation until a
conference is held in Washington.
President Capen of Tufts college
announces that the honorary degree
of Ii. D. will be conferred on Sec
of the Navy William H. Moody
and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe at the
forty-eighth annual commencement.
Coal is dearer in South Africa than
in any other part of the world. 1t is
cheapest in China.
Archduke Frederick of Austria ar
in London. He is the bearer
Of tke field marshal's baton bestowed
by Emperc< Francis Joseph on King
Edward.
S. NJ. Wanamaker a leading mer-
chant of Philadelphia and brother of
he former postmaster general, died
asst week Of heart disease.
Inc Wu1CS oIdI: DOullulOu duQ AL
en- lines have decided to cut steerage
'ates from Liverpool and Glasgow to
American and Canadian ports to SIS.
The American Bridge company of
oittsblsrg, Pa, accepted a contract for
200 tons of structural steel at the
owes price ever given. The contract
S for the steel framework of the Mis-
ouri Pacific shops at Sedalia, Mo.
Thomas F. Kennedy, alias William H.,
/. Warren, whom the police allege is :
member of the famous Knox-Whit-
IAN band of forgers, was arrested in
Jew York on a charge of forgery, ;
referred by the American Banking :.
ssociation. The prisoner is charged :
18th having raised a draft of $40 to =.
10, :
In the United States district court
t Boston, Atherton n. Hunt was ap-
ointed trustee in bankruptcy of the
II. Green Nervura company. '
At the thirty-secopd commencement :
the Kansas university 1t Lawrence =
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