Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-12-13
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
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sGISlIy "a oCLAA.
Forty-five bodies of Galveston storm
victims have been found and buried
on the island beyond The city limits
the past week.
The Canadian railway employees have
complained to the government against
the importation Of United States labor
while they are debarred from entering
the United States.
E. johnson and Robert Hatten quar-
relied at Daisy, Ca, and Hatten shot
Johnson through the neck. Johnson
fell, but raised hiy1self long enough
to shoot Hatten through the head.
Both men are dead.
Charles s. Milward, aged 35, lead
ing merchant of lexington, Ky,Was
found dead on his rear porch by a
servant. He had been shot through
the head, but whether by himself or
another is not known.
The department of agriculture has
advertised for bids for furnishing seeds
to the department for the usual dis
tribution. Bids will be opened in this
city on December II, about three
months earlier than the opening last
year.
After serving as postmaster and as
sistant postmaster continuously for
thirty-eight years, John Pynn, OF st.
George, u, has resigned. He is 80
years old and only few postmasters
have outranked him in point OF ser
vice.
The name of ex-President Grover
Cleveland has been mentioned by New
Jersey democratic assemblymen in
connection with the Honorary nomina-
ton of United States senator against
Senator w. J. Sewall, who will be re-
elected.
Mrs. Charles H. Blow, wife OF for
mer Illinois state game warden, mas
sworn out warrants charging her hus-
band with attempting to chloroform
her and her three children and theD
turning on the gas so that sufocatson
would finish the work.
The first large shipment of potatoes
that has gone forward from Washing
ton state to China will be sent in a
few DAYS from North Yakima, and will
consist of 500 tons, destined for Shang-
hal In the past the greater amount
of foodstuffs that has been called for
from that section has been flour, but
now the Chinese have acquired tatse
for potatoes.
Mrs. Mckinley has sent to New York
a befJ tiful doll which will adorn the
Ohio booth of the woman's bazar Tor
the benefit of the Woman's Suffrage
Association early in December. While
the presidents wife is nowise wo-
man suffragist, she makes this dona-
ton at the request of Ohio friends. The
doll was dressed Ny Mrs. Mckinley who
fashioned each dainty garment.
Miss Mary E. Chaplin, 81 years old,
veteran woman's seminary founder and
teacher, is dead, at the home of her
nephew, DR.. S. N. Chaplin, in Chicago.
Miss Chaplin began to teach at the SEM
mary in New Haven, and in 1860 helped
found a woman's seminary at Milwau-
kee. She went to Lawrence, Kan, and
there founded seminary, which pre-
ceded the University of Lawrence.
The design for the monument Of the
late Vice President 6. A. Hobart has
been decided upon &C Paterson, N. ].
The successful competitor is Philip
Martin. 1t shows Mr.. Hobart, stand
ing with a gavel in his hand and lean
ing slightly forward, as if listening to
a speaker. 1t will be Of bronze and be
about nine feet in height. 1t will
stand upon pedestal in front OF the
city hall in Paterson.
Consul Shumann, at MainZ, says in
a report to the state department that
if American shoe manufacturers stud
led closely the requirements Of the
trade in Egypt they ought to be able
to conquer that market with ease. He
says that they certainly could be able
to offer a better and cheaper shoe than
the Swiss manufacturers, who now
practically control the shoe trade of
Egypt, having driven French goods out
of the market.
The health of King Oscar of Swe-
den continues to improve.
Miss Eugenia Washington, great
grand niece of George Washington, one
of the founders of the nociety of
Daughters of the American Revolution
and president of the Society Of Found
ers and Patriots, died at Washington.
A dispatch to the China News from
Hong Kong reports typhoon at Tou-
rain in October, lasting forty-eight
hours, destroying the villages, rice
fields and buildings and laying the har-
Dor bare. 1t is estimated that 1,500 to
1900 persons perished and the remain
ing population of 1850 are without pro-
visions.
The official figures on the presiden-
tial election of California give McKin-
ley 164,755, Bryan 124,9S5, Woolley 54,-
O24.
The wheat crop of the Darling Downs
district in Australia is expected to beat
all records. In some instances it will
yield fifty-two bushels to the acre.
The Armstrong farm, near Granite,
Oklahoma, which contains the remark
able spring from which natural gas
continually escapes, has been leased
by E. r. Suppe, of Parsons, Kan, who
will at once put down several test
wells for gas and oil. Other gas men
are there and will thoroughly test the
field.
The division of customs and insutar
affairs of the war department has is
sued a statement showing the total re-
ceipts from customs sources in Cuba
for the ten months ending October 81
were, ,S13,215, 500, against $12,120,991 the