The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-10-28
News in Brief

sittings the session of the Cuban CON
gress has closed.
Three were killed and fifteen wound.
ed in a fight with brigands in sub
urb of the City of Mexico.
Francis G. Laddon of Staatsburg,
N. Y, has been appointed third Sec
retary Of the American embassy at
Berlin.
Prince Henry of Prussia intends to
give up his residence at the old castle
of Kiel for his new chaCeau at Hem.
melmark.
The wealthiest congressional candi-
date this year is said to be Mayor An
drus of Yonkers, N. Y. His honor's
valuation is set at $3000,000.
At Mobile, Ia, Charles Harding shot
his wife three times and then turned
the pistol on himself, the bullet pene-
trating the base Of the brain.
A dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger
from Mukden says the Eighth Russian
army corps has arrived there and that
General Kuropatkin will make new
plans Immediately.
A movement has been begun in Raj
eigh, N. c., for the erection of mon
ument to United States Senator M. w.
Ransom, who died recently. 1t will
be placed in Capital square.
Frederick Douglas Morrison of Bal
tmore, recognized as one of the ablest
educators of the blind in the world,
died last Saturday from the effects
of an operation for appendicitis.
Great Britain keeps hold on Thibet
by proposing to occupy Chumbi Val
ley, the key to the country, until the
entire amount of the $3,75O,000 in
demnity demanded has been paid.
British military experts, are of the
opinion that the battle of the Shakhe
river has resulted in a victory for the
Japanese and that the Russians are
now returning north of the Hun river.
King Edward gave a luncheon at
Buckingham palace in honor of Ad-
miral Jewell and other naval officers.
Ambassador Choate, Secretary White
ent.
Edward L. Bartlett, solicitor of New
Mexico since 1889 and once adjutant
general of the territory, is dead at
Santa Fe of pneumonia. He was born
in Maine and went to Santa Fe in
1881.
When Mayor Mcclellan of New
York tried to register last week the
registrars did not recognize him and
demanded his naturalization papers
when he told them he was born in
Germany.
The unexpired portion of the SEN
tence of confinement of General Pris-
oner Benjamin Ladyburig, late pri-
vate of Company B, First battalion Of
engineers, has been ordered remitted
by General Wint.
The decision of the National Spir-
itualistic association, in convention at
ballot kept the assembly in an uproar
for two hours. 1t was f1ually decided
to postpone the election.
Charles B. Pfahler of Chicago re-
signed as chief clerk of the depart
ment of concessions of the Louisiana
purchase exposition. Mr.. Pfahler Or
ganized the accounting system in use
at the Columbian exposition.
A Lao Yang telegram says that ac-
commodations for the wounded are
exhausted. A service of hospital trains
has been organized to take the JAP
anese wounded to New Chwang, where
hospital ships are in the harbor.
Prof. Barrett Wendell OF Harvard
university has sailed for Europe to de-
liver, at the Sorbonne, in Paris, during
the coming winter, lectures in Eng
lish every week on America, Amerf
can Ideas and Institutions"
Frank F. Holmes of Chicago, in his
report as secretary-treasury of the
National Association of Local Fire In
surance Agents at its opening session
in st. Louis, hints at further trouble
in the Cook County insurance case.
There is a slump in the coke busi-
ness in the Connellsville region.
Ovens are being blown out throughout
the region, the yards contain thou
sands of tons of coke and the sidings
are filled with loaded cars with no
destination.
Mr.. Mccormack, the American am
bassador to Russia, called at the state
department to pay his respects to Sec
retary Hay and Assistant Secretary
Loomis. The ambassador had salts
factory reports to make regarding the
condition Of Russo-American relations.
A slight earthquake shock, travel
ing from northwest to southwest, was
felt at st. Louis. The disturbance
was recorded on the seismograph in
the weather bureau exhibit of the
Philippine government at the Worlds
fair. The earthquake caused slight
rattling of dishes in parts of st. Louis,
but did no damage.
A resolution disappearing Of reci-
procity with Canada was adopted by
the Vermont house of representatives
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