Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-05-30
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

shot and killed his uncle, PHILIP
Goadson, aged so.
Comptroller of the Currency Dave:
announces his candidacy for senator
from Illinois. He Is about to take q
trip to Lincoln, Neb., with his wife.
"It is probable" says dispatch tc
the Daily Mail from Marseilles, "that
an American coal trust will be formed
here by an important LonIon house.
Edward A Cudahy of Omaha is
quoted as saying that he will, if nee
essary, double his reward Of $4,000
to secure the capture of the kidnaper
of his son.
The president has granted pardon
to Louis Gallot, of New Orleans, who
was convicted in 1896 of misapplica-
ton of the funds of the Union Ma
tional bank Of that city.
Charles Foster was sentenced at
Upper Sa1dusky, O., to serve ten
years in the penitentiary at hard la
Dor and to pay the costs of the trial
for the murder of farmer named
Johnson.
The Prussian railways have been in
formed that there will be large en-
igration this spring of Ruthenian
farmers to the United States and that
5000 will pass to Hamburg, in the
course Of the next few days.
The Mexican government has grant
ed concession for boring for petro-
1eum in various parts of the republic,
exempting the new industry from tax
alton for ten years. Free Importation
Of drills and machinery is granted.
Most of the houses of the village
Of Acerenza, near Potenza, have been
swept away by the fall of an immense
rock. Troops have been dispatched
to the scene of the disaster. Thus
far fifteen bodies have been recovered.
A. B. Newell, for the past eight
years superintendent of the Chicago
division of the Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern, the most important dis
trict of the system, has resigned.
Suicide has been epidemic in New
York for the last three months, no
less than 1S3 persons having taken
their lives in that time, an average
of two each day. Among them are
Torconc rrybo,o ro1ooo Ioro IDoo, ~-o-,,
inent in both social and commercial
worlds.
King Edward has become patron
and the archbishop Oh Canterbury and
Earl Roberts have become vice pat
rons Of the fund being raised to erect
the eastern portion of the new cathe-
dray in Cape Town in memory of
those who have fallen in the war in
South Africa.
The national Belgian hare registry
club met at Kansas City and elected
the following officers: President, w.
B. Howard, Omaha; vice president,
w. E. Stafford, Sioux City; secretary
treasurer, H. B. Eversall, Rosedale,
Kan. The next meeting will be held
at Omaha, September 3, 1901
Judge Trout of San Francisco has
continued until June the contest of
Charles L. Fair to the will of his
father, the late James G. Fair. 1t was
intimated in court that by that time
the remittitur from the supreme court
in this case will be sent down, and if
such be the case the contest may be
dismissed.
Andrew Carnegie has given G100,- |
600 to establish district libraries in
Glasgow. In making the gift to Glas-
cow Mr.. Carnegie wrote letter in
which he recalled the fact that fifty
two years ago he sailed for America
from Glasgow. He had done so much |
for other places that it was pleasure
to do something for her.
Evidence is not lacking, says the
New York Tribune's London CORE
spondent, that there will be South
African mining boom before many
weeks.
The sovereign camp, Woodmen of
the World, decided in the future of
any member engages in the liquor.
business he shall be expelled and that
camps refusing to take action shall
have their charter revoked. The con-
vention voted also to reduce the num-
ber of members of the sovereign board
OF managers from seven to five
Oran OFT, who for more than nine
teen years was general purchasing
agent of the Illinois Central railroad
and who was for nearly forty years
in the continuous service of the COM
pany, died at his home at Chicago of
Inflammation Of the brain.
Rev. ]. D. Gillian, a retired Meth
odist minister, died at his home in
Centralia, ILL.,
The hod carriers of st. Joseph, Me-,
won their strike and gained an ad-
yonoo of OH oanfc on hour All +bo