The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-11-25
News in Brief

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dead at Washington.
The Eastern Bar Iron association
ordered an advance of So per ton in
the price of it's products.
The president has nominated John
e. Watson Of Bonneville, Mo-, to be
registrar Of the land office at Boone
vile.
The straw vote in the American
colony in Mexico City resulted: Roose.
velt 355, Parker 215, Swallow 13, Debs
10. Watson 4.
The steamer Coptic, which arrived
in San Francisco from the Orient,
brought 100000 worth of raw silk
and over 100000 in gold.
The pressing mills of the Hamilton
Powder company at Windsor, Quebec,
blew up. Joseph Witty and George He
bert were blown to pieces.
The report Of an encounter be.
tween Russians and Afghan at Kushk,
resulting in the blowing up of the
magazine there is unfounded.
The Neal hospital in Nebraska City
has been sold to the Sisters of Char.
fly, who will take possession the first
of the ear. It will be made a public
hospital.
At the meeting of the American An.
ti-Saloon league at Columbus, O.,
twenty-seven states were represented.
Rev. w. D. Palmere of st. Louis de-
livered an address.
President w. w. Leighton of the
Lima, O., Savings Bank and Trust
company was held to answer before
the grand jury for embezzlement un-
der bond of $4,000.
The entire business district of the
town of Dublin, Miss, on the Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley railroad, with
the exception of one building, was
wiped out by fire.
The navy department has authorized
the commanding officer at the torpedo
station at Newport to accept dis
patches to and from ships at sea by
way Of the Nantucket lightship.
The London pier and shed Of the
Warren line in Charleston, Mass,
filed with oil, wood pulp and other
highly inf1ammable material, was COM
pletely consumed by fire. Loss, $780,
900.
The contract for the construction
renee, Kas., has been awarded to
Richey Bros, Of Hastings, Neb., at
$44,63S, to be completed on January 1,
1906.
Charles C. Brooks, formerly pro-
prietor Of the Broadway Vannuy's
hotel of Los Angeles, Cal, and ac-
cused by the federal authorities of
swindling, has been held in $4,000
bonds.
A dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeit-
ung from Constantinople, says that
Turkey is ordering 100 new batteries
of artillery from German, French and
English factories at the cost of S10,-
100000
In view Of published statements
from various physicians, that the
amount of oxygen in the air in the
New York subway was considerably
below normal, an official investigation
is to be made.
A private cable from Montevideo an
nounces that the sealing schooner
Agnes Donahue of Halifax, has been
seized by the Uruguayan authorities.
The Donahue is owned by the Bal
combe company.
K. C. Cooley, aged II years, for
many years chief claim agent of the
Iowa Central railroad, was found dead
of apoplexy in a chair at the home of
his daughter in Pueblo, Colo, where
he had been visiting.
Governor Peabody of Colorado is.
sued requisition for the return to
Colorado of Wellington c. Lewellyn,
now in Joliet prison under the name Of
Mabran, who is charged with murder
ing two policemen in Denver.
The first tribunal of the Seine at
Paris is hearing the sensational di-
vorce proceedings of Countess Tzay-
kowski, the American wife of Count
Tzaykowski, who is secretary Of the
Turkish legation at The Hague.
Many prominent guests identified
with the work of the Young Mems
Christian association in all its
branches attended the annual dinner
at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York.
Among them were Paul Morton, secre-
tary of the navy; General F. D. Grant,
u. S. A., and Rear Admiral A. S. Bar
ker. u. S. N.
Secretary Wilson has designated
Prof. Elwood Mead, chief of the irri.
cation and drainage committee Of the
agricultural department, to give ex.
pert testimony for the government in
the legal contest between Kansas,
Colorado and the general government
for the control of the waters of the
Arkansas river for irrigation purposes.
Losses of s500,OO0 through shop
lifting have been suffered during the
past year by twenty-one department
stores in New York City, whose pro
prietors, because Of such losses, have
formed an alliance to fight petty Pill.