The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-02-10
Brief Telegrarns

NIT excesses.
Disorders in Poland are spreading
and are causing serious concern to
Russian authorities.
Walter l.. Campbell, one of the best
known blind men of the country, has
just died at Youngstown, o.
The city of Berlin offers three
prizes for the best plans for monu-
ment to the late Prof. Virchow.
The Russians seem to have gaineS
q slight advantage in fighting which
is now going on before Mulzden.
The Japanese claim a victory in the
recent fighting in Manchuria, which
is not now regarded as important
The British vice consul is reported
to have been assaulted and cut by
swords of drunken Russian Hussars
in the streets of Warsaw.
The United States supreme court
rules against the beef trust and or
ders continuance of the Injunction
against alleged combination
The largest diamond ever discov-
cred, weighing 3,032 carats and
worth $3,5OO,OOO to $4,O0O,OO0, is
found near Pretoria in the Transvaal.
In the French chamber Of deputies
a hostile demonstration is made,
with cries of down with the czar,"
at a reference to the Franco-Russian
alliance.
The site for the Washington statue
of General Mcclellan, which is to be
an equestrian figure. is in Connecti-
cut avenue. in front Of the British
embassy.
The cabinet decides on organizing
board of army and navy officers to
revise American fighting methods in
accordance with the lessons of the
eastern war.
John B. Hale, ex-congressman from
Missouri and for many years lead
ing member of the bar in that state,
died suddenly, aged "A years, at his
home in Carrolton.
Leaders in the Santo Domingo de-
bate in congress agree on a truce
pending the arrival of the protocol,
giving the United States control over
The house judiciary committee IA
vorably reported the bill to authorize
the president to invite the interna-
tional prison congress to hold it's
eigth annual session in the United
States.
The house committee on public
lands authorized favorable report on
the bill to permit the taking up of
homesteads consisting of GAO acres,
but amended so as to apply only to
eastern Colorado.
The agricultural appropriation bill
was reported to the senate by Sen
ator Proctor. 1t carries appropria.
tions aggregating $6,7S7,170, an in
crease of $2O6,740 over the bill as
passed by the house.
1t is announced on the authority
of President Roosevelt that Freder-
lex I. Allen, commissioner of patents,
will be continued in that Office. 1t
had been rumored that Mr.. Allen con-
templated retiring soon.
New York Academy Of Sciences
and the Electro-Chemical society
honor DR.. Henri Moissan of France
for his discovery of a new carbon
silicide in the meteor found in Canon
Diablo, Arizona, by christening 1t
''Moissanite."
William E. Curtis writes of the
Kremlin in Moscow, the treasure
home of Russia, which, he says, sure
ly will be sacked if a mob seizes the
city. There is no such enormous
collection of jewels and gold any
where els in the world.
President Palma of Cuba has for
mally declared his allegiance to the
moderate party to a committee of
prominent members of the party who
called at the palace. This act means
President Ualma's candidacy for a
second term and his probable re-elec-
ton.
From figures compiled by A. L. Ur-
ick, president of the State Fedora
ton of Labor, the laboring women of |
Des Moines who are organized re- |
ceive very much more in wages than |
those who are unorganized and the |
unorganized receive on the average |
as low as S1.07 a week.
The fourth game between Frank J.
Marshall of Brooklyn and l.. Janow-
ski Of Paris in the international chess
match resulted in a draw. The pres
ent status of the players is: Mar
shall, two games; Janowski one. The !
match continues until eight games |
are won draws not being counted. !
While in prophetic mood the |
other day Senator Depew made this
prediction: in ten years from now
the steam locomotive will be in the
museums, whilej we Viii be carried
along, clipping the seconds off sew
enty-fve miles an hour, by electric
locomotives"
The monthly comparative state
ment of the government receipts and
expenditures shows for the month of
January, 1905 the receipts were s43,-
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