Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-05-16
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.


900 marks.
The gross earnings of the Chicago
Great Western railway for the fourth
week of April. show an increase of
$41, ,42042 over the corresponding week
Of last year.
The Hawaiian house of representa-
tives has passed the income tax bill,
which assesses 2 per cent on all over
$1,000 of the income Of every person
or corporation.
Rev. A. r. Bartholomew, of Rich
land, S. D., fired into charivari party.
Arthur Shufielt was hit in the jaw by
a bullet, but will recover. Parties are
all prominent.
The report of the boiler makers and
ship builders society at London shows
a decrease Of 100000 tons in the YES
sells launched during the past year, as
compared with 1899.
The county board Of control at St.
Paul has decided to seek requisition
papers in order to secure the return
to that state of thirty husbands who
have deserted their wives
Arbitration of all disputes and oppo-
sition to sympathetic strikes are the
foundation principles of the new CEN
tral body to be known as the Chicago
Building Trades League.
G@J -
KY, for the murder of Emma Cara
Rice, his sweetheart, with whom he
had quarreied. On the scaffold Cole
expressed sorrow for the crime.
David Henderson, a distiller, was
instantly killed at Henderson. Ky, by
the explosion of a keg of yeast which
was submerged in a tub of mash he
was emptying with a syphon.
Admiral Remey, on board his flag
ship Brooklyn, has arrived at Mel
bourne. He will represent the United
States government at the opening of
the first session of the Australian par
lament
the city Of London and twenty-eight
metropolitan boroughs, the whole
forming what is termed the admins
trative county of London, is now A.
536,O34.
Secretary Gage has recommended to
the war department the appointment
of Jared d. Terrell, of Michigan, as
auditor for Cuba at $4,000 year The
salary is paid out of the Cuban rev.
enues. Mr.. Terrell is chief law clerk
in the Office of the comptroller of the
treasury.
Consul General Barlow, at the City
of Mexico, has telegraphed the state
department, expressing the opinion
that there is no reason for quaran-
timing against that city on account of
typhus fever. He reports that for the
week ending May 1 there was fifty
three deaths there from that disease
and the same number for each of the
two weeks preceding.
A general order has been issued to
railway mail clerks calling attention
to complaint Of the director general
Of posts Of the Philippines that mail
for the province Of Quebec, abbreviat-
ed as P. O., often Is missent to the
Philippines, whose abbreviation is P.
l., and that mail for Manville, R. l.,
is missent to Manila Instructions for
greater vigilance are given.
The saloons in Kansas City were
closed tight Sunday for the first time
in six years.
A syndicate is making an effort to
absorb the American Waltham Watch
company's plant, and also the factory
of the Elgin company at Elgin, Ill.
The Swedish riksdag committee
which has been considering the min
isterial army proposals has reported
in favor of increasing the expenditures
by 22,500,000 kroner, making a total
of $4,000, 900 kroner. :.
The New York Mail and Express
says today: There is excellent au-
thority for the statement that Will
liam K. Vanderbilt has carried the
day in the contest for the control of
the Union Pacific railroad and that
he intends to put through his plan for
aInexing it to the Vanderbilt system.
Lulu Mabry, years old, passed
through Chicago on a LOO mile trip
from Bear Lake, Mimi, to a ranch in
Arizona to see her father. The little
traveller was alone and pinned to her
dress was card giving her name and
destination.
Venezuela is placing important or
ders for war material with German
firms
The Illinois senate passed the bill
appropriating $150,OO0 for the partici-
patton of the state in the worlds fair
at st. Louis.
Justine Fernandez has been appoint
ed minister of justice and education
in the cabinet of President Diaz.
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