The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-03-17
Brief kilograms

The anti-prize fight bill was defeat
ed in the California assembly by a
vote of SO 70 50.
The Central Passenger association
has granted reduced rates for, eighty
annual conventions.
The New York Evening Post is GO
ing to put up a modern office build.
ing occupying three lots.
Three hundred and eight West In
dian contract laborers arrived at Pan
anna to work on the canal.
Secretary Metcalf has appointed
Richard X. Campbell, law officer Of
the bureau Of immigration.
Sir Henry Irving has signed a con-
tract for an American tour under the
management of Charles Frohman and
beginning in October.
w. A. Tuley. general passenger
agent of the Frisco lines in Texas,
has rendered his resignation to take
effect April l.. Ill health causes this
step.
Emperor William, addressing the
naval recruits at Wilhelmshaven, held
up the Japanese soldiers as a lumin-
Gus example OF patriotism and sol
diery fidelity.
The London Times Paris CORES
pondent telegraphs that the Russian
government has placed an order with
a French firm for $4,000 three-inch
shrapnel shells.
According to a s~emi-Oficial state
ment given out at Schwerin, the mar
riage of Crown Prince Frederick Will
liam and Duchess Cecilia will take
place in Berlin on June 6.
Senator Burkett of Nebraska has
purchased a Washington home at a
cost of $17.500. The house is a hand
ONE new brick ss"ucture, with a
notified front, and contains twelve
rooms.
The Frawley boxing bill in New
York, permitting limited round con-
tests between amateurs under the
sanction of the Amateur Athletic as
sociations has passed the senate. The
bill now goes to the assembly.
Count ~BenkendOff. the Russian am
bassador to Great Britain, paid $685.
600 to Foreign Secretary L~ansdowne
in settlement for the North sea
claims, and the incident was thus
closed.
E. D. Tucker, division superinend-
ent of the Milwaukee railroad. died at
his home in Des Moines of pneumonia.
Mr.. Tucker took charge of this divi-
sion last October, coming from Aber-
deem, S. D.
A City of Mexico dispatch says the
volcano of COlima is emitting great
clouds of thick smoke, which rise
high, above the crater. Many people
living in the ~neighboring towns are
preparing for flight.
The cabinet c1siS in Norway has
been settled by the formation Of a
coalition ministry. of which NJ. Mich
olsen is TIE premier. Lovland. a for
mer minister. will head the section of
the state council sitting at Stockholm.
The Missouri senate passed q bill
making all pipe. lines. constructed or
to be constructed in the state for the
purpose of carrying oil, common car
riers and placing them under the di-
rection of the railroad commissioners.
The secretary of the treasury has
issued a warrant for $3.50, 600 in favor
of Mansfield. McMurray & Cornish,
lawyers. residing in Indian Territory,
as fees for services rendered by them
TO the Choctaw and Chickasaw In
dians.
In the present Of famous educators
representing the leading educational
institutions of the country, Samuel
Black Mccormick. D. D., IL. D., was
formally made chancellor of the West
ern University Of Pennsylvania at
Pittsburg.
New York Rapid Transit rolling
stock is to be augmented by two cars,
each 5000 feet long, containing 2,70G
seats, and a seating capacity of 5000
passengers. The motive power will be
electricity and the speed from nine to
twelve miles a. hour.
The resignation of w. w. Rockhill,
as. director of the bureau of American
republics, has been accepted and Mr..
Rockhill. who has been nominated TO
succeed Mr.. COnger, as minister to
China, will probably leave for his
new post some time in April.
Rev. DIR. William H. Roberts. stated
clerk of. the Presbyterian general as
sembly and secretary of the inter
church conference on marriage and di.
vorce. will send to 10000 ministers.
representing more than 10000 900
members of almost all of the Protest:
ant denominations in the country,
copies of an appeal urging the adop-
ton by the various state legislatures
of more stringest divorce and re-mar-
riage laws.
At Jackson, Miss. Governor Varda
man issued an address to the peace
officers of the state, declaring that the
situation is growing extremely critical
that crime is rampant in all quarters
of the commonwealth and urging Off
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