u Broomes wife nmmmiiTiiBmM McCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA 3 News in Brief Tho only important independent stales now remaining in Africa aro Abyssinia and Liberia Tho strike of coal miners at Ells worth Pa is ended the company ac ceding to the demands 01 the men Within a mile of Johannesburg building contracts to the amount of over ten millions are being carried out Dr Emmet a grandnephew of Rob ert Emmet the Irish patriot has just celebrated his golden wedding in New York city Congressman William A Reeder was renominated by acclamation by the republicans of the Sixth district pf Kansas Paper flywheels are coming into use Tho tensile strength ot paper is enor mous hence its advantage over iron for this purpose 0 George A Brooke of Philadelphia won tho racquet championship of the United States by defeating Quincy A Shaw jr of Boston John Phillips secretary of the na tional organization of hatters and well known in labor circles died at New York aged 07 years At Cincinna the convention of in dependent telephone companies in the Ohio Valley convened with over 100 exchanges represented Switzerland is inaugurating a sys tem of itinerant school teachers who will visit and spend some time in tho isolated outlying villages W T Stead has broken down under the strain of publishing his new daily paper in London and has started for South Africa tor a complete rest Maior Arthur MeCIellan brother of the late General George B McClellan and uncle of the mayor of New York died suddenly of heart disease at Drif ton Pa Harry A Zillafro was hanged at Kit tanning Pa for the murder of his ivife Zillafro who Avas scarcely 22 Tears old was cool and collected on the scaffold William Miller probably the oldest engineer in service in the United States has just been killed near Lead ville Colo Miller began railroading fifty two years ago The Senate Committee on Com- merce authorized a favorable report Dn the nomination ofW D Crum to he Collector of Customs at the Port of Charleston S C John Millikan the oldest editor in Ihe State of Indiana lives in Crown Point in good health and at the age of 89 years He is still connected with the Lake County Register Advices have been received that an enormous tonnage of exhibits is now enroute to St Louis Within two weeks this freight will begin to arrive on the grounds in great bulk Prof W B Morgan late of Rich mond Ind one ot the roremost o Quaker educators died at Lowell Kas He was prominent in the movement that brought about co education in Quaker schools Replying in the House of Commons ihe Chancellor oil the Exchequer Aus ten Chamberlain said the government had no intention at present of reim posing the tax on grain which was abolished last year Mrs Bradley Martin the society leader who is now making her home n England has ordered twenty seven pairs of shoes made to her own last from a manufacturer of womens foot wear in Lynn Mass The Right Rev Joseph C Hartzell misionary bishop of the Methodist church nas just returned to London J from a tour of the African missions extending ovei nine months and trav eling about 30000 miliv Two men were lost by the steamer York Castle which arrived at New York from Delagoa bay in an attempt to give aid Sunday to the American schooner Willie L Newton 200 miles south ast of Sandy Hook The private car used by President Lincoln during the Civil war and which carried his body to Springfield for burial has been loaned to the St Louis Exposition -or exnibition in the Lincoln Museum by the Union Pacific railroad Emil Kuehnel of Manchester N H has a clock which it is believed was used in the days of Columbus On the upper part of tne wooden face is carved a picture of the great discov erer wihle on the lower part is neatly carved Anno 1492 The heaviest man in the British em pire is dead from a cancer says a lispatch from London He was Thom as Longley of Dover His weight ex ceeded GOO pounds while he was six feet one inch in height and had a chest measurement of seventy inches John Britt of Medora N D has written to the authorities of the Lou isiana Paurchase exposition that he can secure for the fair a log cabin in which President Roosevelt once lived on a ranch in North Dakota The Pope has sent a magnificent chased gold chalic to the church at Quero a town in the Venetian prov inces to take the place of the one which had been used there for a cen tury but which was recently stolen Captain George Broome of the Unit ed States army now stationed in to Rico filed in the United States su preme court a suit for 250000 dam ages against James F Barbour and his wife Annie D Barbour for alleged alienation of the affections of Captain FLIGHT OF JAPS RUMOR THAT RUSSIAN CAVALRY HAS BRUSH WITH ENEMY JAPANESE CONCEDE AN INJURY Two Battleships and Dispatch Boats are Said to be Missing Survivors of Sunken Transports not Allowed to See Anyone ST PETERSBURG A dispatch re ceived here from Liao Yang and dated February 28 says that Chinese on the Yalu river report that an advance guard of Rusian cavalry which has penetrated Corea for a distance of about 200 versts across the river had an encounter with a detachment of Japanese and that the Japanese were compelled to retreat and fled leaving their horses which were seized by the Cossacks General Linevitch dis patched cavalry and a body of infantry in pursuit and with orders to occupy northern Corca An official dispatch received from Major General Pfiug Viceroy Alexieffs chief of staff which is dated Febru ary 28 says CHE FOO While the Japanese re port that their fleet Avas unscathed in their latest attack on Port Arthur they are using every endeavor in at tempting to prevent details of any in jury to the Japanese fleet from leaking out Survivors said to be from sunken Japanese transports who landed here Saturday are not allowed to see anyone They will be sent home on parole The original Japa nese fleet in front of Port Arthur con sisted of sixteen ships Two battle ships and a dispatch boat are missing It is learned from two sources that two of the missing warships were taken to Sasebo in a disabled condition It is being circulated among the Chinese that Port Arthur has fallen The Japanese sailors who arrived Saturday are from the Jinsen Maru and the Bishiu two of the five mer chant vesels with which it was at tempted to block the entrance to Port Arthur on the morning of the 24th Lieutenant Saito commanded the Jin sen Maru and Lieutenant Tarishi the Bushiu The latter was manned by thirty men One man of Lieutenant Saitos command was killed while low ering a boat on the Jinsen Maru The details of how the steamers were taken into the entrance to the harbor and sunk are being withheld by the sailors but Lieutenant Saito stated that they got so ciose to the Retvizan that had they been armed with rifles they could have hred into crew When it was tound that the scheme was a failure they dropped anchor and the crews crowdeu into the re maining boats They then blew up the steamers FIGHT IS GETTING FIERCER Burlington Announces Rate on Sugar to the Missouri River CHICAGO Officials of the Burling ton railway announced a rate on sugar from Chicago to the Missouri river of 2 cents less than the cut rate put in effect by the Great Western Its new rate will be 10 cents per 100 pounds from Chicago to the Missouri river 5 cents from the Mississippi river to the Missouri river and 7 cents from Chicago to St Paul and Minne apolis The old rates on sugar were 27 cents from Chicago to the Missouri river 22 cents from the Mississippi to the Missouri and 14 cents from Chi cago to St Paul The Great Western had made no reduction in the rate from Chicago to St Paul and the 50 per cent cut in the St Paul rate by the Burlington is taken as an indication that the Bur lington will become more aggressive in the prevailing war of rates THE WORLDS FAIR BANK Chartered by the Government and Lo cated on the Grounds ST LOUIS To facilitate the han dling of large sums of money during the exposition period seventeen of the largest banks and trust companies of St Louis have organized the Bank ers Worlds Fair National bank char tered by the federal government and capitalized at 200000 The specific purpose of the bank is to have a convenient depository for the government funds the gate re ceipts of the worlds fair and the con cessionaires and for all those that wish to deposit their money for safe keeping The bank which will be lo cated inside the grounds will cease to exist with uie close of the exposi tion Kaiser Pleased with Railroad BERLIN Emperor William has tel egraphed to Dr Fischer president of the Shan Tung railway as follows The news of the arrival of the first railway train at Tsi Nan Fu afforded me much gratification I congratu late the management upon the suc cess which the German spirit of en terprise has achieved in the far east and hope your indefatigable labors in China will be rewarded with other similar successes Loss of Wisconsin Capitol MILWAUKEE Wis A special from Madison Wis says that Governor La Follette had a conference with a num ber of state officials to consider steps to be taken with regard to the replac ing of the state capitol which was practically ruined by the recent fire Nothing definite was reached at the conference but it is the general im pression that the governor will call an extra session of the legislature to take action on the matter The governor announced that nothing would be done for a few days FOURTEEN LOST AT SEA Steamer Queen Takes Fire Off North Pacific Corst PORT TOWinoEND Wash After suffering the most harrowing experi ence from fire and storm that has ever befallen a craft on the North Pacifis coast the steamer Queen put in here Sunday to report the loss of fourteen lives About 345 oclock Saturday morn ing while off the mouth of the Colum bia river the Queen caught fire in her after saloon in some unexplained way With indescribable swiftness the fire gained headway and threatened soon to envelop the whole ship To add to the horror the heavy seas running meant death to any one sent away in the lifeboats The flames became more and more threatening until when it seemed a choice of deaths Captain Cousins ordered the lifeboats launch ed They were manned by the crew and ordered to remain close to the ship Into these the women and chil dren were placed Hardly however had the boats been cast loose than un able to weather the fierce waves two ot them were capsized with the loss above indicated SOME BILLS BY NEBRASKANS C ngressman Hitchcock Introdues One for Relief of Marines WASHINGTON Congressman Gil bert M Hitchcock of the Second Ne braska district has introduced a bill for the relief of the members of the First Second and Third marine corps and for other purposes The text of the bill is as follows That the claims for pay of the members ot these corps who were mus t red into the service of the United States under the order of Major Gen eral John C Fremont dated Septem ber 12 18G1 and also the like claims of legal representatives of the deceas ed members ot the said corps shall hereafter be referred to the court of claims of the United States for exam ination and adjudication The bill gives full authority and jur isdiction to the court of claims to bear and determine these claims and to en ter final judgments upon all of the questions of law and fact involved erem HERRICK TAKES UP SCEPTER Governor Is Hannas Successor as Leader in Ohio COLUMBUS O Now that it is claimed by the Hanna republicans of Ohio that Governor Herrick has suc ceeded Senator Hanna as the domi nant power in Ohio republican politics the following statement made by the governor with reference to the selec tion of delegates to the national re publican convention is important I can only quote from the last let ter that Senator Hanna wrote the last with the exception of a pencil note to the president on January 30 the day of the Gridiron banquet We must organize our full strength and choose the Roosevelt delegates from among our friends Continuing the governor said The opportunity now arises for all good re publicans to unite in the conduct of NEBRASKA COURT SUSTAINED The Tax Lien Foreclosure Case Comes Uo for Discussion WASHINGTON Justice Day hand ed down the opinion of the supreme court of the United States affirming the judgment of the supreme court of Nebraska in the case of Alvin P Leigh against Henry S Green involv ing tax sales of property Tho court held that the owner of a tax lien may foreclose the lien upon notice by pub lication which shall bring in anybody the exericse of the taxing power the states may delegate that right and authority as was done in tnis case to that such procedure is not violative of the rights guaranteed by the four teenth amendment of the constitution SEVEN LOCOMOTIVES A DAY nect Fusan on the southern coast of Korea with Seoul the capital Russia to Present Her Protest WASHINGTON At an important conference scheduled for Wednesday at the State department between Sec retary Hay and Count Cassini the Russian ambassador Russias protest to the powers against Japans alleged violation of international will be communicated to the Washington gov ernment Shipping to the Philippines WASHINGTON The house com mittee on merchant marine and fish eries listened to the arguments of many representatives of the ocean shipping industries of the country in favor of the Frye Littlefield bill pro viding that the commerce between the United States and the Philippine is lands shall be carried in American ships but exempting the inter island trade in the Philippines from the op eration of the navigation laws of the United States which are under exist ing laws made applicable after July 1 KOREA k HELPER TROOPS ORDERED TO FIGHT WITH THOSE OF MIKADO THIS IS ACAINSTTKE RUSSIANS The Port of Wiju Opened to Foreign Trade Kamimura Says That the Recent Naval Battle Was a Japan ese Victory SEOUL The Korean government has decided to order the Korean troops to join the Japanese in the field The port of Wiju was opened to for eign trade Friday night The limita tions to be placed on trade and othei incidental matters will be passed upon later This action necessitates a har bor so Yongampo has been decided upon The standing army now consists of about 17000 men witn European meth ods In 189G it was taken in hand by a Russian colonel with three commis sioned and ten non commissioned of fleers who retired in 1898 The royal bodyguard of 1000 men has been well drilled and periodically a draft oJ well trained men is transferred from it to the other regiments of the stand ing army WASHINGTON Vicc Admiral Kam imura of the Japanese navy in a dis patch to the Japanese legation here under date of Friday says According to the report from the torpedo flotilla which was sent for tho purpose of rescuing the crews of the steamers sent to block up the har bor at Port Arthur the steamer Hoko knh on the left side of the entrance of the harbor near the lighthouse and the steamer Bushiu outside the en trance were sunk purposely by the Japanese by explosion The steamers Tenshine Buyo and Jinsen sunk them selves on the east of the Lao Leshan All tho crews of these steamers were picked up safely Our destroyers and torpedo flotilla are unharmed On the night of February 24 our destroyers again went on a scouting cruise near Port Arthur Dalny and Pigeon Bay On February 25 our main squadron approached Port Arthur and bombard ed the enemys men-of-war and forts from a distance We saw the Novik the Askold and the Bayan fleeing into the harbor it thus being apparent that the blockading operation had not much effect Our squadron then fired into the habror and saw flames and considerable smoke We withdrew after fifteen minutes shelling While our cruisers were thus engaged in fir ing we saw one of the enemys tor pedo boats destroyed Our squadron received no damage Vice Admiral Togo is still on the scene NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL It Is Passed by the Lower House ot Congress WASHINGTON The house passed the naval appropriation bill Friday alter having had it under consider- ntrTl frit O i ti Tr o nnttfti vv ain ic no u i iui LJ otr 11 1n i cnoh n n a mimbei0 Proposals friendly spirit as to eliminate all dif- j contff ferences nif lihj vij cojjcuiaiy uii tin uilUi L u different minority members to secure an amendment to fix the price of ar mor plate at the figures made by the Midvale Steel company Several amendments were ruled out on point of order and the republican leaders by parliamentary tactics left the ques tion of armor plate in the discretion of the secretary of the navy An in effectual attempt was made to have the eight hour law apjilied to all ship construction i he contest over sub marine boats was exciting and an amendment was adopted which leaver the question of the type of boat oper and everybody intended and that in but increases the amount of tho propriation for such boats The mi nority failed to secure a record vote on the proposal to recommit with in- the purchasers of the tax sale and structions the proposed instructions being declared out of order JAPS LAND MORE TROOPS Forty Thousand Disembarked at i mulpo and Other Points Built in Philadelphia on a Rush Order j LONDON Cabling from Che Foo from Japan I Februarv 23 a correspondent of the PHILADELPHIA Pa In jIorning Post says 40000 more Jap quences of a rush order from the anese troops haye amled at ChemilIno anese government for locomotives a and tnat he has reCeived confirmation here has established locomotive plant of the report that some JapaneSe have a new record by the construction oJ anded at Pigeon ba others at Ta seven locomotives in a day j Lien Wan and tnat an ongagement me eugirna imieiuu ui uaiiau I occurred the night of February 12 for the military railroad that will con The correspondent at Seoul of the Daily Mail reports a panic at Ping Yang Korea which is regarded as The order which called for twenty j heralding tho approach of the oppos locomotives to ue compieieu wunin thirty days Avas received late in Jan uary Eight of them have been shipped to Fusan The remaining twelve will be shipped this week ing armies According to the Standards corre spondent at Seoul the Japanese bom barded Port Arthur at intervals be tween February S and 14 causing however only slight damage Sign Arbitration Treaty PARIS The foreign office announc ed that a treaty of arbitration be tween France and Spain had been signed The terms are identical with the recent arbitration treaties con cluded between France and Great Britain and Italy and Great Britain Press Feeders Again Fined CHICAGO For the second time Judge Jesse Holdom fined the Frank lin union of press feeders 1000 for violation of an injunction which was obtained by the Chicago Typothetae charging the Franklin union with in terference with non union employes Besides fining the union Judge Hol dom fined President Wedues 250 in addition to a jail sentence of six months Jerome Collins and Harry Brown two other members of the Franklin union were given short jail sentences T OK RKNT OH FATE On Crop Payment 8EVEEAL CH0I03 TATLVLB Bead tor list J AXUIJIALl Sioux City Iown Do what is worthy or reward arid desire none Claudius Patience and earnestness are words to success pass KITC permanently cured Nf fltsornorvcasncrainftc B T 1 1 d first days uso or Ur Klines treat Nerve I tester or Send for RUE 12 8300 trial bottle and trrutljo Da H II Kuxs Ltd 031 Arch Street Philadelphia Pa Not She Whats that you are putting on the chandelier asked her old bachelor uncle Mistletoe she answered Oh I see But arent you afraid of microbes What exclaimed the pretty girl in artless surprise In the mistle toe Chicago Tribune TUo Oat Wonder The Editor must tell its readers of this marvel It originated with the largest farm seed growers in the world John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wis It has stiff straw stands up like a stone wall is white heavy and has long ears filled to the tip with fat plump kernels It is a great stooler SO stocks from one kernel IF YOU WIII SEND THIS NOTICE AND 10c IX STAMPS to above address you will get a sam ple of this Oat Wonder which yielded in 1003 in 40 States from 250 to 310 bu per acre together with other farm seed samples and their big catalog TV N U Opportunity is the cream of time It isnt necessary to erect a monu ment when you bury animosity ARE YOUK CLOTHES FADED Uso Red Cross Ball Blue and nuke thom white again Large 2 oz poekagj 5 ceuta A citidal that one should never waste is the stronghold of a good con science Some men are too busy to take a rest until the undertaker gets them PUTNAM FADELESS DYES pro duce the brightest and fastest colors Self conquest is the greatest of vic tories Cheap Excursions to the South On February 1G March 1 and 15 the Kansas City Southern railway will offer to the public the extremely low rate of 1000 for tho round trip to all points on the Port Arthur Route in cluding Beaumont Port Arthur Lake Charles Shreveport Texarkana Fort Smith Mena De Queen and all inter mediate points The return limit on these tickets will be twenty one days from date of sale with stopover privi leges at all points south of Kansas City on the going trip Any informa tion desired by the public relative to these cheap excursions will be cheer fully furnished upon application to S G Warner G P and T A Kansas vCity Mo The more you say the less people remember The Odd Korean Flag The Koreans who have lately re called their minister in Washington attract attention for one reason if for no other Their peculiar flag adorns their legation building The body of the flag is white and in the center is a design about the size of a foot ball in reu and blue looking very much like huge entwined comma marks On the top bottom and tides are short lines of dots and dashes reminding one of the Morse code alphabet May Subpoena Roosevelt If the suit instituted by W A Wales an attorney of Bmghampton against John Mitchell president of the United Mine Workers for 200000 damages comes up for trial at Eing hampton the defense may summon President Roosevelt and Senators Piatt Quay and Penrose Wales as serts that in October he proposed the plan which resulted in the settlement of the strike and that for his services he has never been paid Louis N Hammeriing confidential agent to Mr Mitchell says- that President Roose velt and Senators Quay Piatt and Penrose will be called to testify that the plan was formed before Wales went to Wilksbarre and made his suggestion DOCTORS COFFEE And His Daughter Matched Him Coffee drinking troubled the family of a physician of Grafton W Ya who describes the situation briefly Having suffered quite a while from vertigo palpitation of the heart and many other derangements of the ner vous system and finding no relief from usual methods of treatment I thought to see how much there was in the Postum argument ag inst cof fee So I resorted to Postum cutting off the coffee -and to my surprise and satisfaction have found entire relief from all my sufferings proving con clusively the baneful effect of coffee and the way to be rid of it I have found Postum completely takes the place of coffee both in flavor and in taste It is becoming more popular every day with many of our people and is having great demand here My daughter Mrs Long has been a sufferer for a long time from at tacks of acute indigestion By the dismissal of coffee and using Postum in its place she has obtained com plete relief I have also heard from many oth ers who have used your Postum very favorable accounts of its good effects I prescribe Postum in place of rheni Postal Service Tho cheapest postal service In tho world is that of Japan where letters are conveyed all over the empire for two sen about seven tenths of a pen ny This is the more wonderful con sidering tho difficulties of transport over tho mountainous and irregular country while wagons can pass over only a few of the chief roads and the steamers connect but a small number of coast stations Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury ns mercury will eurely detroy tho senso of gmcH and completely derange tho wliolo njtcm when entering It through the imicouh Fiirtaeeii bucn nrtlcloi should never lio ased except on prescrip tions from reputable phystelunsaft thodamaco they will do In ten fold to the good you can pomlhly de rive from them Halls Catarrh Cure manufactured by KJ Cheney Co Toledo O contain no mer cury and t taken Internally acting directly upon the blood and inucoua surfaces of tho syhtcm In buying Halls Catnrrh Cure be sure you get tho genuine It Is taken Internally and made in Toledo Ohio by V 1 Cheney Co Testimonials free Sold bv DrugKlf tn Price 5c per bottle Take flails Family 11110 for constipation There are a few self made men and a lot of self made bkmde women in the world Any girl who things as much of a man as she does of herself will do to tio to Stops tho CotirIi and Wo ts OfTthn Colli 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