Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-01-17
BRIEF TElEGRAMS.

where he will spend the winter.
Congressman Neville of the Sixth
Nebraska is dying of lung trouble.
The corn doctors league desires to
be added to the army roll on full ra-
tions.
At Goldboro, n. c., former Governor
Curtis H. Brogden is dead at the age
of IS.
Andrew Carnegie has promised
100000 for new library building at
Seattle, Wash.
The supreme court of South Dakota
has held the law making vaccination
compulsory valid.
Carter H. Harrison likes the Job Of
mayor Of Chicago. He announces his
desire for third term.
The senate confirmed the nomination
OF Frederick Ritman of Ohio to be au-
ditor Of the war department.
Henry c. Payne gives it out that
ne will not enter the cabinet, as only
the attorney general will resign.
The receipts from customs duties in
Sweden during the year 1900 were
$16,OOO,OO0, a decrease of 100000.
Miss Helen Gould is said to have
gone into the mining business in part
nership with M. Mankuss, of Colorado.
Andrew D. White, the United States
ambassador to Germany has been
elected a member of the Berlin Acad-
emy OF Science.
At Cody, Wyo., John ~Drinkcorn,
wealthy ranchman, was killed, and his
companion, named Toby Corss, fatally
injured in a runaway.
Nord & Swanson, Kiron, Ia, have
purchased large ranch in Oklahoma
and will engage heavily in the stock
business in that country.
]. T. Avery of Forrest, ILL.,, for fif-
teen years conductor on the Wabash
railroad, fell over in his chair at Chi
cago, and after few gasps died.
John H. Cassens, a prominent farm
er, feeder and shipper at Battle Creek,
Ia, reports fewer cattle on feed for
the midwinter and spring months than
usual.
Captain Edmund Shaw died at his
home near Ely, Mo-, and the same aft
ernoon his wife died. Captain Shaw
was "a and his wife 81 years of age.
Their death was due to old age.
Andrew Kiozolsky, the Oldest citi-
zen Of Washington county, and the
only one having the distinction of hay
ing lived in three centuries. died at
his home near Dubois, Pa, aged 1O3.
President Feltner of the New York
tax department has announced that
the tax rate for 1901 will, be higher by
20 points than it was last year. For
the present year the budget will be
$7,OO0,000 greater than it was for
1900.
The London Times, through it's ST.
Petersburg correspondent, confirms the
reports regarding trouble among the
students of the University of st. Pc
tersburg of Kieff At Kieff $50 were
expelled. They will be sent into the
army as private soldiers.
A large colony has been formed at
st. Joseph, Mo-, to locate in the new
country in the Indian Territory soon
to be thrown open to settlement. The |
leader Of the colony is John Bender,
a well known resident The colony |
will remain as close together in the |
Kiowa country as possible, and much |
OF the work will be done on the CO.
operative plan.
Hen. Stephen NJ Holes, a retired |
banker and once one of the wealthiest |
men in Bond county, came to a dra-
matte end in the old HOLES home in
Greenville, Ill At the beginning of |
the new century he shot himself with |
a revolver, it is said, in the reception |
hall in sight Of his daughter, Adele
whom he had just escorted home from
a New Years gathering He had been
drinking heavily for several years
and had recently taken the cure and |
severed his conenction with the state /
bank of Holes & Son, of which he was
vice president.
The number of smallpox cases in
Kansas City, Mo-, exceeds 100, ma
iority Of the sufferers being white.
The builders trial trip of the battle
ship Illinois will take place February
Is, off Cape Henry. All of the armor
plate except that for the turrets is on
the ship.
On account of the prevalence Of
smallpox the st. Joseph, Mo-, Board of
Health has ordered a general vaccina-
ion.
w. B. Gilreath of Grand River, a.,
-eports: Fat cattle are very plentiful
md hogs will be light for the next
sixty days.
The South Dakota supreme court de-
;tded that Board OF Education has
bower to exclude from school pupil
Who has not been vaccinatad.
Present hog prices are the highest
'fnce the middle of last October, with
he top 60 cents higher than a year
go, and $1.40 higher than two years
Lgo.
Lawrence Y. Sherman will be
peaker of the Illinois legislature
Without prejudice to any senatorial
andidate.
John c. Sims, secretary Of the Penn
ylvania Railroad company, died In
He had been i'll for sew
raj months.
John T. Williams, of Philadelphia,
ditor of the Keystone, a iewelry
rade paper, committed suicide in New
'ork
The new editor of the London Daily
Jews is Rudolph G. Lehman. the fa-
nous university rowing coach, who
anne to America a few years ago es-
ecially to coach the Harvard crew.
Harlan Turner who recently moved
rom Mt. Sterling, KY. and purchased
farm near Butler. Mo-, for $4,000, !
as found dead in bed.