Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-12-20
BRIfF TELEGRAMS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The total vote for president at the
Bryan, 6,415.3S7.
Lord Roberts will take chief COM
mand of the British army January 1.
He is an Irishman.
An effort is being made in this coun-
try to raise funds to erect college
for women in Madrid, Spain.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the Merchants National bank
of Omaha as a reserve agent for the
First National bank at Rawlins, Wyo.
The Irish Times says that huge
newspaper trust is forming in London
which will control several large week
lies, as well as morning and evening
dailies, in the metropolis.
The fugitive ex-governor of Ken
lucky, Mr.. Taylor, has settled in Indi-
annapolis and opened law Office with
two more Kentucky refugees who were
members of his administration.
Half million in gold was shipped
to London December 8 for the pay
ment of silver purchased for the coin
age of rupees. The total purchased
for this account since February is.
$4,700,0O0.
1t is intended by the people back
of the international live stock exposi-
tion to make it not only an annual
affair, but to make it the court of last
resort, so to speak, upon judgment Of
live stock.
Panama canal lobbyists have circu-
lated a report that Nicaragua will de-
mand S20,000,000 from this government
in payment for canal concessions nee
essary to establish a right Of way
across the isthmus.
r. G. Dun's estate is valued at 50,
-"' 900, most of which was left to his
wife and relatives. He gave $4,000
eEch to four New York hospitals and
twenty-five paintings to the Metropol-
itan Museum Of Art.
Martin Stickel, who was arrested
and brought to Tacoma, has made a
confession to the effect that he and
e. G. Pierce murdered Cornelius Knapp
2nd his wife near Castle Rock, Wash,
last week; also that they murdered
a rancher named Shanklin year ago.
Representatives of nearly every
church denomination in Chicago have
resolved to unite in a crusade against
civic immorolity and take an active
part in the suppression of vice and
the maintenance of lew and order in
Chicago.
The English capitalists who are try
iRg to buy Colorado gold mines are
believed to have obtained an option
on the Gold Coin at Cripple Creek,
Colo. It is said that the price men
toned is $20,0OO,OOO.
General Joseph Wheeler's successor
in the house of representatives is Will
liam Richardson, who was once sent
enced to be hanged as a confederate
spy by General Crittenden, but who
was recaptured before the sentence
could be executed.
The statistician of the agricultural
department reports 100000 bales as
the probable cotton production of the
United States for 1900-1901. In the
making of this estimate the same
methods and agencies have been used
that were employed last year.
The American Steel & Wire company
has declared a dividend on the pre-
ferred stock of IL per cent, payable
January 2, 1901, and directed the pay
ment of the quarterly dividend Of IA
per cent on the common stock, as de-
clared at the beginning of the year.
Rev. J. H. Bitter, the Methodist
evangelist who was recently given ST.
100000 worth of Cripple Creek mining
of q Uvn
taken up his abode in Chicago. He
will make his home in Englewood, and
expects to start on his work at once.
The servant girls of Minneapolis are
being organized into a union by the
Trades and Labor council.
A New York real estate firm an
nounces that colony of Beers farm
ers is to be established on Long Is
land, between Hicksville and Syosset,
in Nassau county.
A postofice has been established at
Byron, Big Horn county, Wyo., withl
Joseph H. Neville as postmaster.
H. Melville Hanna, brother of Sena-'
tor Hanna, has given to Lakeside hos,
pital in Cleveland, o., thousand
shares of Northern Pacific preferred.
stock, the aggregate par value of which
is SfD0,0 1000.
The official vote of Washington state.
is: Mckinley, 57,456; Bryan, 44,S33;
Frink, republican, for governor, 51,-i
944; Rogers, democrat, 53,574.
The will of the late Robert G. Grig'
ham leaves S2,259, 700, most of which,
is left for the founding in Boston of
a hospital.
After having received subscriptions
for the famine stricken in India to the
extent of $252, 1888 the New York Com
mittee of One Hundred ended its work.
Representative Kitchen of North |
Carolina has introduced in the house
a resolution for constitutional |
amendment to repeal the fifteenth |
amendment to the constitution.
Robert w. Willox, Hawaii's delegate |
elect to congress, arrived at San Fran |
cisco on the steamer Rio de Janeiro, |
ell route to Washington.
Miss Amanda Kidder, an elocutionist |
well known throughout Wisconsin, |
has accepted the chair Of elocution in |
Lombard college, Dixoc, Illinois.
Joseph F. Wright, aged 20, secretary |