The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-04-07
News in Brief

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rier in the Lead, S. D., %postoffice.
Governor Frazier has vetoed the bill
increasing the salary of the governor
of Tennessee from $4,0 900 to IS, 900.
President Roosevelt received coz.
CALCULATIONS upon his election in a let
ter from the Catholics of the Armenian
church.
The stockholders of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad company, at a spe-
cial meeting, authorized the issue of
5000 600 additional bonds.
1t is announced that the Canadian
government has decided to grant a
bounty of Sc per ton to encourage steel
shipbuilding in that country.
Lord Norton, who, as Charles Ad-
derby, took an active part in the es-
adjustment of colonial self-govern-
ment, is dead, aged 80 years.
Letters and consular reports received
in London from Van and other parts
of Armenia, state that the situation
there is steadily growing worse.
Judge Henry S. Foote, son of ex-
Governor Foote of Mississippi, and
brother of Senator Stewards first wife,
died of pneumonia at Washington.
1t has been definitely ascertained
that the whole Russian second Pacific
squadron left the waters of Madagas-
car March 16 for an unknown destina-
ton.
A decrease of 81, 102, OO4 in it's net
earnings for the year ended November
80 last, is shown in the annual report
of the Sloss-Shefield Steel and Iron
company.
The lower house storthing in Nor
way, by a vote of 4S to 80, rejected the
government bill proposing to give wo-
men equal rights with men to hold
public office.
Governor Frazier of Tennessee has
signed the anti-race track betting bill,
prohibiting betting on race tracks in
the state. The law becomes effective
e December.
Zachariah Hamilton of Hawthorne,
New, crushed the skulls of his wife
and ~7-year-Old daughter as they lay in
their bed at a hotel, and then blew out
his own brains.
The First Methodist church of Ne
>braska City, Neb., will celebrate it's
fiftieth anniversary some time in
April. This is the oldest Methodist
church in Nebraska.
The Nevada legislature which has
just adjourned broke all records for
American commonwealths by repeating
every restrictive liquor and gambling
law on the statute books.
At Peoria, ILL.,, Otis Bolts, 81 years
old, was found guilty of numbering his
girl wife and punishment fixed at
death. The youthful defendant laugh
ed at he left the court room.
The Uintah Indian reservation in
Utah, soon to be opened to settlement
is described in a pamphlet just issued
by the passenger department of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
Maxim Gorky's lung trouble is in
creasing the anxiety of his friends.
The doctors declare that his transfer
from Riga to South Russia is abso-
lutely essential to his recovery.
The Appellate court has affirmed a
ruling of a lower court, unfolding the
validity of an ordinance of the city of
Chicago prohibiting the giving away
of cigarette papers with tobacco.
Judge Wall of Tampa, Fla, after
arguments, dissolved the Injunction Sc
cured by Adolphus Busch of st. Louis
to prevent the sale of the Tampa Bay
hotel to the Kaufman syndicate.
Governor Pardee of California has
approved the bill passed by the last
legislature fixing a fiat tax of SO a |
year on all corporations, foreign and
domestic, doing business in that state.
AS a reward for her faithful serv-
ices in the capacity of nurse, Mrs.
Aida H. Gray, employed in the State
hospital at Middletown, n. Y, will re-
ceive $40, 900 from the estate of a pa
tient.
Mr.. Bunau-Varilla, the ~negotiator of
the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty and
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States, who is in this country on a
visit, called at the White House to pay
his respects to the president.
The London Times states that Rus
STA has bought ten Hamburg-American
steamers for delivery at Libau with
cargoes of coal. 1t is supposed that
they are designed for employment as
Golfers to the Baltic squadron.
Mrs. Mary Brockwell of Paducah,
KY, whose three children, aged 8,
and 5 years, died from poisoning under
suspicious circumstances, broke down
and confessed that she killed them by
giving them morphine and coal oil.
Before President Roosevelt starts on
his Southwestern trip he will issue a
proclamation inviting foreign nations
to participate in the exposition to be
held in the summer of 1907 in the VII