The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-01-22
News in Brief


has been declared in Damaraland,
German Southwest Africa, and that the
hostile Hottentots have surrendered.
The state department has been in
formed of the recognition of the re-
public of Panama. by Guatemala.
The Episcopal bishops of the Sixth
district, now in session at Kansas City,
voted to hold the next missionary con-
vocation at Omaha in January, 1905.
1t was announced at Baltimore &
Ohio headquarters that George +. Ran
dolph has been elected first vice presi-
dent and traffic manager of the sys-
TEN.
Mrs. Leland Stanford is said to carry
a larger amount of insurance than any
other woman in the world. Her poll
cies amount to more than a milnon
dollars. .c
Chicago day" at the st. Louis ex-
position will be October 8, 1904, and
Mayor Harrison has been directed to
notify the exposition authorities to
that effect.
A charter was granted at Topeka
to the Denver & Kansas Northern
Railway company, capital 100000 600,
which purposes to build six short lines
in Northwest Kansas.
News has been received at Manila
that the United States gunboat Quiros,
which recently went ashore on the
coast of Borneo, has been floated with
little damage to me vessel.
Proof of the padding of registration
lists of Denver county previous TO
the late charter convention was un-
earthed at a joint meeting OF the
SUPERVISORS and the aldermen.
The directors of the American Sugar
and Refining company reelected the
officers. with the one exception that
w. r. Thomas was chosen to succeed
C. H. Senff as vice president
John Hazelt;ne, knowE throughout
Central New York as a philanthropiSt'
has announced plans to take a colony
of 900 Syracuse people to Montana
for the purpose of establishing a
town.
The paper mills about Mexico City
have formed a combine with an aggre-
gate capital of S5,000,000. The or
ganization now effected is for the pur-
pose of still further controlling the
market.
The National Business league began
a movement at Chicago to amend the
constitution of the United States SO
as to fix the presidential term at six
years and make the president ineligi-
bic for reelection.
The Eastern Ship Building company
announced that the launching Of the
steamship Dakota for the Great North
ern railways Pacific carrying trade
will take place at New London, Conn,
Saturday, February &.
The senate committee on Indian af-
fairs reported favorably on the bill
to provide for the opening to settle
ment under the homestead law OF the
remaining portion of the Colville In
dian reservation in the state of Wash
ington.
After having been friends and part
ners in business for over thirty
years. William Smith and George
Tinker, two pioneer brewers of St.
Louis, are dead. Mr. Smith died Fri
day and Mr.. Tinker was buried the
day before.
Delegate Wilson of Arizona appear
ed before the house committee on ter
ritories and made an argument for the
Arizona statehood bill His argument
was devoted to the legal and statisti-
cal rights of Arizona to be admitted
as a state.
The house committee On foreign af-
fairs heard a delegation, including B.
F. Trueblood and Robert Tfeat Paine,
in favor of the establishment of an
international congress where ques-
ions of common interest to the nation
wS2,ld be discussed
Tbs French government has present
ture of an ultimatum, regarding the
appointments of bishops to five vacant
French sees, subsequently saying that
either the pope must approve the Sc.
lections of the French government or
they will be announced without the
appreciation of the holy see.
The closed Windham county ma
tional bank of Danielson, Conn, has
been ordered to resume. 1t is solvent.
Orders have been issued at the war
department for the manufacture OF
forty 9-inch rapid fire guns 1908 model.
DR.. Henry L. Tolman, who had ma
tional reputation as microscopic, is
dead at Chicago, aged 30 years.
DR.. w J. Holland, director of the
Carnegie museums, is making ex-
tensive preparations to send out an
expedition next spring, composed OF
prominent ethnologists, for the pur-
nose of making a collection of the
work of the early indians of the
plains.
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