The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-07-07
Brief kilograms

company promises to revolutioniZe
the insurance world by refusing to
write any more deferred dividend poll
cies.
A meeting Of steamship agents was
held at Colon, to consider a fatal case.
Sf bubonic plague recently reported
to have occurred at LaBoca, near Pan
anna.
Gorges Rodrigues, the Paris banker,
has committed suicide. It is stated
that the %financier lost heavily in the
recent sharp decline in rentes. The
liabilities of his bank are given at
$4,000, 900.
John F. Wallace has been compelled
to retire from his position as chief
engineer for the Panama canal under
pressure from the president and Sec
rotary Taft.
Announcement is made of a gift of
100000 by the University of Chicago
toward the ST., 000,O 900 endowment fund
of the American Academy of Fine
Arts in Rome.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon, charged
with land frauds, did not take the
stand in his own behalf and defense
did not take over an hour in present
ing it's testimony.
A charter was issued at Jefferson
City, Mo-. by the secretary of state
for the Kansas City and Excelsior
Springs Railroad company. The capt.
tai stock is $3.50, 900.
Memorial services for the late pre-
mier of Greece, Theodore P. Delyan-
mis-, who was assinated at Athens June
Is, were held in Washington Sunday
at the Greek Church of st. Sophia.
Former President Alexander of the
Equitable has made restitution of $685.
053.22, representing certain amounts
received by him in syndicate opera
tons referred to in Hendricks report.
A hostile demonstration took place
Saturday night at the Russian con-
sulate at Genoa, Italy. There were
cries of Down with the carl" and
windows were broken. The police dis
persed the mob.
The British house of commons. has
oShO 4LOu IAO 1olo1hS VI q lOdh "
exceeding 500, 600, 900 with the rev.
enues of India as security for the con-
%struction, extension and equipment Of
the railways of India.
The Cuban house of representatives
passed the Rice bill by a vote of "a to
10. The passage of this bill, it is ex-
pected, will open the Cuban market
to American rice and encourage the
culture of rice in Cuba.
The Pennsylvania board of pardons
finally disposed of the case of Mrs.
Kate Edwards, the Berks county wom-
an under sentence of death for the
murder of her husband, by refusing
to grant her a Communication.
President Cabrera, Of Guatemala out
Of his personal funds, has decided to
establish a practical school of sci
ences, acts and agriculture under
American professors. The tuition will
be given in the English language.
"Big Frank" Mccoy, the famous old
time bank burglar and partner of the
late Jimmy Hope of Manhattan
bank fame, died at the Metropolitan
hospital on BlackwelT's island, New
York, of a complication of diseases.
Under the terrible charge of having
killed and eaten many children whom
they had stolen, twenty Gypsies have
been arrested near. ~Jaszbereny, Hun
gary. The leader of the band alone is
alleged to have eaten eighteen child
ren.
William Harmon died in California
two years ago, leaving a large estate.
Only one relative is said to be living
John Beckett is his name, and he
is supposed to reside somewhere in
Missouri. So far he has not been
found.
: James S. Keer1, a prominent civil
engineer of Helena, Mont, who was
convicted of m~anslaughter for killing
Tom Crystal, a bartender in Helena,
three years ago, was sentenced to the
p~enitentiary for ten years by Judge
Leslie.
The duchess of Norfolk gave birth
to a daughter in London. This is an
interesting event in the light Of the
succession to the premier dukedom of
the kingdom, to which Lord Edmund
Talbot, brother OF the duke, is still
heir presumptive.
Assessment returns complete from
lightweight counties show the total
realty and personal valuation this year
is but s6,094,679 less than last year
in those counties. The total in the
Lightweight last year was S4S9,013,5 $50
and this year 1882, 1852.
w. W. Karr, the former disbursing
officer Of the Smithsonian Institution,
charged with the embezzlement Of
SAC, 900, was arraigned in the police
court at Washington. He pleaded not
guilty, waived preliminary examina-
ton and was released on $4,000 bail.
All laws of the late Nebraska legis-
lature without the emergency clause
became effective July 1.
Hartman of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroad systems and