The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-04-29
News S in Brief

The CHIEF source Of wealth OF Japan
is her coal, of which 100000 tons
were mined in 1901.
The Brooklyn Yacht club has ac
cepted cup from Sir Thomas Liptor
for race of small racers.
Another foreign wrestler has arrived
in America ready for business. He is
Spaniard, and is known as Napoleon
Pascal
Colonel Thomas Marshall Green, one
of the most widely known historians
in the south, has just died at his home
in Danville, Ky.
Senator ]. w. Bailey of Texas has
resigned as, director of the Kentucky
Trotting Horse Breeders association.
He gave no reason for his action.
Hadji Mohammed Bui Abdullah, the
Mad Mullah, against whom the British
have been conducting a campaign in
Somaliland, has escaped into Italian
territory
A great-great grandson of Thomas
Jefferson is a candidate for mayor OF
Richmond, Va. He is Colonel George
Wayne Anderson, a member of the
state senate.
Harry Y. Hill, a veteran theatrical
manager, is dead at his home in Sara
toga, N. Y, as a result of a stroke of
paralysis. He was 6S years old and
native of Troy.
Henry Marr of Columbus, Ind, a
farmer, lives in a house exactly in
the middle of this great country A
stone in his barn lot marks the spot
by census officials.
Rev. Samuel A Taggart, for many
years state secretary of the Young
Mems Christian associations of Penn
sylvania, and widely known through,
out the country, is dead.
Charles A. Robinson, who in part
nership with Mr.. Peyton of Califor
mia, made a national reputation as an
owner of coursing greyhounds, is dead
at his home in st. Louis. Mo.
There are more than a dozen bust
ness women in Chicago enjoying in
comes of from $4,000 to $4,000 year
resulting from their own enterprise
prompted and managed by themselves
1t is believed that the Rothschild
family, as a whole, is worth about
81, 800, 100000, the French section be
ing represented by about $35O,OOO,0O0
and the English branch by considera
bly, more.
Charged with misappropriating
100000 of the funds of the suspended
Federal bank at New York City, David
Rothschild, former president of the
institution, yesterday was held in S25,
600 bail for examination April 20.
The st. Petersburg correspondent
of the Paris Journal says that Grand
Duke Cyril was on the bridge of the
Petrapavlovsk when the explosion oc-
CURED, and was thrown into the sea,
which led to the saving of his life.
In a volume just published in Ger:
many by Prof. Viereck, he credits
Benjamin Smith Barton, of Philadel-
phia, with being the first American
student to visit a German university.
Barton studied at Gottingen in 1889.
There was a general suspension of |
business in Danbury, Conn, during
the hour of the funeral service over |
the body of Lieutenant Ernest A |
who was one of the victims
Of the explosion on the battleship |
Missouri.
In the hope that one of the eighteen
George Millers named in the Chicago
city directory may turn out to be the
missing son of the late Charles Miller
of Brooklyn, who left an estate of
100000, Chief O'Neill of the Chicago
police detailed men to investigate.
Former Chief Jail Guard W. F. Huff
man is charged in an indictment re-
turned by the grand jury at st. Louis
with conspiracy. 1t is alleged that
Hoffman was implicated in the effort
to get saws into the city Jail to aid
George Collins, who was executed
March 26 for the murder of Detective
Schumacher, to escape.
Nearly every day for the past two
years the secretary of war has re-
ceived letter from man in Massa-
who simply gives his address
and says nothing else. The letters
are supposed to be reminders that the
writer is awaiting a reply to some
to the department on
l. matter of interest to him.
Postmaster General Harris, chief of
he naval bureau of supplies and ac-
counts, already has received about
$500 in subscriptions to the fund for
he benefit of the dependent relatives
If the men who lost their lives on the
Missouri. This does not
include the proceeds from the enter
ainment given Monday at the Lafay-
.tte theater, which is estimated to be
bout $1,000.
There is movement on foot to
pply the curfew law to the national
apital About 1000 cities and tcSns
n the United States, mostly in the
vest. now have curfew laws to keep
hildren who are, unattended off the
treets after stated hour in the even,
ng.
The loss of life from accidents and
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