The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-04-28
NEBRASKA.
Brief kilograms

Secretary Hays efforts on behalf OF
Roumanian Jews has greatly improved
their condition.
Plans for the financial reform of
Macedonia will probably be termin.
ated at the end of April.
Ex-senator Thurston of Nebraska
has gone to Portland, Ore, to defend
Senator Mitchell in the land fraud
cases.
Frederick e. Stees, national secre.
tary Of the Patriotic Order Sons of
America, died at his home in Philadel,
phia.
Mayor Dunno has sent a telegram
to President Roosevelt inviting him in
behalf of the people of Chicago to
visit that city.
The Rev. Stewart Dingwall For.
dyce Salmond, principal of the United
Free church college, is dead at Aber.
deem, Scotland.
Word received from Hot Springs,
Ark, where Bishop Spalding is now
staying, is to the effect that he is
rapidly recovering.
About 900 strikers of the Putiloh
works, st. Petersburg, were dispersed
by mounted police who were pelted
with pieces Of iron.
Governor Pennypacker signed the
Greater Pittsburg bill, which provides
for the consolidation of the cities of
Pittsburg and Allegheny City.
B. Heaton. principal of the English
civil engineering college of Calcutta
is travelling in this country. His OBJ.
ject is to study the educational
methods observed in American
schools.
Col. D. w. Emmons, founder of
Huntington, w. Va, and one of the
most prominent citizens of West Vir-
ginia, vas stricken with apoplexy
while seated at the breakfast table
and died within a few minutes.
Santiago ~Iglesias, the local organ.
izer of the American federation of Ia
Dor, at San Juan, P. R., confirms the
statement that the American flag was
dispersed the Ponce gathering April
18th.
The naval authorities are urani-
mously of the opinion that the re-
mains of John Paul Jones should be
buried in the cemetery at the United
States Naval academy at Annapolis,
because he vas a distinguished naval
officer.
Total exports of specie from the
port of New York for four days were
$486,O37 gold and $2OS,351 silver; i'm
ports of merchandise, $11, $40, 020; i'm
ports of dry goods for five days ST.
S4S,2S7.
w. S. Sands, former secretary of
legation at Korea, and adviser to the
king, has been appointed secretary of
the American legation at Panama to
succeed Mr.. Lee, who becomes coun-
sci general there.
The Hamburg-American line steam
Ell Amerika was launched at Belfast
in the presence of thousands of PEG.
pie including Walter Long, chief Sec
rotary of Ireland, and Lord London
derry, lieutenant of County Down.
On the retirement Of Major General
G. l.. Gillespie, in June, Brigadier Gen
eral George NJ. Randall will be made
major general and assistant to the
chief-of-staff. Colonel Arthur L. Wag-
ner will be promoted to be brigadier
general to succeed General Randall.
H. U. Nudge, general manager of
the Atchison, Topeka e Santa Fe
railroad, confirmed the dispatch to the
effect that he had resigned to accept
the position of second vice president
of the Rock Island system, effective
May l..
The control of the Ann Arbor rail
road company, which has been in the
the past three years, has been ac-
quired by Rudolph Kleybolte & Co.,
according to a statement issued by
that firm.
Something of a sensation in news.
paper circles of the Twin cities was
caused when the st. Paul Globe, the
only democratic morning paper in that
city, announced that on May 1 it
would cease publication after nearly
thirty years of existence.
The Daughters of the Revolution
dedicated Memorial Continental hall
in Washington with appropriate cere-
monies.
The United States supreme court
holds that the New York law regulat.
ing the time during which laborers
may work, is unconstitutional.
Secretary Of State Hays physicians
reports that Mr.. Hay has recovered
his health.
The Equitable Mutual Fire Insur.
ance company and the Mercantile Mu-
tual Fire Insurance company, both of
st. Paul, Mimi, were declared insol
vent.
1t is learned that the Japanese gov.
eminent is about to raise another do.
nestle loan of $50 00, 900.
DR.. D. K. Pearsons, the noted phil
anthropist, celebrated his e~ighty-ffth
birthday and announced his intention
of devoting the remainder of his life