Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1900-12-06
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Inc pOpuIaLlOu OF MlSSloslppA 10 Ia
651, ,270, an increase of 20.2 per cent.
A company for manufacturing QUITO
mobiles has been organized in Mos
COW.
The population of Missouri is 3,106,-
655, against 2,575,1S4 in 1890, an in
crease of 159 per cent.
Emperor William has appointed
Prince Won Lynar to represent ntm
at the funeral of Sir Arthur Su'u-
van.
The charge is made that the money
sharks of Chicago pay $4,000 annu-
ally to the police officials for protec-
tion.
The Illinois Central has decided to
spend $6,00O,000 to substitute electric
fly for steam in its Chicago suburban
service.
Emperor william, in the name of the
German empire, will present to Paris
Germany's imperial building at the ex-
position.
Melville e. Stone, manager of the
Associated Press, having lived in Chi
cago thirty years, moves to New York
December 1.
DR.. ]. w. Brock, noted army sur
geon, has died at his home at Leaven-
worth, Kan. He served through the
civil war in the Sixty-sixth Ohio vol
unteers. - ssa
Mrs. Clay Powell, widow Of the late
Captain Lee Linn of the Wabash, Ind,
Courier, for many years noted as
democratic journalist in northern Indt-
ana, died.
A law has just gone into operation
IN Norway permitting the conditional
discharge of a convict for good be-
havior after he had served two-thtrds
of his sentence.
The British cabinet decided to rec
ommend to Queen Victoria that Lord
Kitchener be made lieutenant gen
eral, so as to enable him to take over
the supreme command in South Africa
when Lord Roberts leaves the coun-
try.
District Attorney McAllister of Colo
rado Springs has ordered Sheriff Free
man of Lincoln county to proceed
against the members Of the mob who
burned Preston Porter, jr., at the stake
last week. Governor Thomas insists
on prosecution.
Joseph Lesher's plan to coin souve-
mir dollars out Of silver has appar-
emily been abandoned, at Victor, Colo.
It is claimed he has been informed
by government officials that the coin
age plan is contrary to law and his
dies will be seized.
Cattle feeding has been cut short by
the high price of corn in Kansas. The
scarcity of the product has made the
grain worth about 40 cents bushel
in the local market. It has affected
the price of stock cattle and they bring
less than in the eastern counties,
where there is better crop for feed
ing. Many feed yards are empty for
the first time in several years.
Colonel Edward McMurdo, the
Scotchman who built the railroad from
Lourenzo Marquee to Pretoria, capital
of the late South African republic,
failed to get his money for the work
before he died. His heirs, among
whom is his brother Robert, an attor-
ney at Chicago, Ill.,were awarded
E1, 100000 by the Geneva arbitrators,
which the Portuguese government
must pay. n
Prof. N. S. Shafer of Harvard uni
versity, southern man who has made
n special scientific study of the con-
dition of the negroes of the south,
gives no favor to the pessimistic opin-
ions that come from that section. He
thinks that the moral and intellec-
tual condition of the negroes is i'm
proving, and, so far as social morals
are concerned, he regards the negro
as, on the whole, less dangerous than
whites of a like social grade.
Baron Farnham died at London. He
was born March Z, 1849.
Lieutenant Faramond, the French
naval attache at Washington, has been
advised that the training ship Duguay-
guay-Traouin, with large number of
French cadets on board, will visit
American waters next spring.
John Hubbard was shot and killed
by police officers at Middlesboro, KY,
while resisting arrest.
General Buffers home newspaper,
the North Devon Herald, says it is
understood the general will be made
peer when the new years honor list
is issued, and that he will assume the
title of Lord Butler of Ladysmith.
The population of Virginia is 1854
184, against 1,655,9S0 In 1890, an in
crease of 198,204, or 11.9 per cent.
The population Of Kansas is 1,470,-
495, against 1870 in 1890, an in
crease of 3 per cent; Nevada, 42,335,
against 1851 in 1890, a decrease OF
IA per cent.
The bill submitted to the reichstag
shows the imperial budget for 1901
balances at 2,240,947 ,301 marks. an in
crease of 174,303,2S9 over 1900.
No Name, valuable trotting horse
owned by Louis Helm of Baraboo,
Wis, was killed in a railroad wreck
at Jackson, Mich. He had a record of
2:131s, and was valued at $4,000.
Bohn Lawson Johnston, the noted
dietetic expert, died at Can
nes, France.
Trinity college, the newly founded
Catholic institution for the higher ed
lcation of women, was dedicated at
D. c., with imposing Ger
emonies.
Ten plants to manufacture commcl
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