Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-07-04
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

The cruiser Philadelphia has lef
San Francisco for Samoa with a crew
of enlisted men to reli We the crew
of the station ship Abarenda at Tu.
tuila.
Anton Sherlock, one of the Skerbecl
brothers, proprietors of circus, drop.
ped dead while acting in the ring
during a performance at Staples
MINI.
By a vote of II to 81 the Kansas
City Live Stock exchange has refused
to join the National Live Stock ex-
change, which has headquarters in
Chicago.
1t is not probable that Sir Thomas
Upton will accept the offer made by
an American magazine for a $4,000
cup race over the same course after
the Americas cup race.
The 1901 wheat crop is being har-
vested in southern Illinois, and is the
largest in many years. 1t is esti-
mated that the large crop of 1882 will
be equaled if not surpassed.
Practical farmers are wanted at
twenty-five of the Indian schools that
are scattered about the country. The
government wants farmers who can
teach the young Indians to till the soil
and grow crops.
The Nashville railway has been
placed in the hands Of receiver.
The application was made by the
Baltimore Trust and Guarantee com
pany, the holder of $2,OGN,OOO of the
company's bonds.
Attorney Charles Ogden, former
judge of the district court at Omaha,
Neb., was fined $25 and costs and
sent to Jail for contempt of court by
Judge Keysor in the criminal branch
Of the district court.
President Fish of the illinois Cen
tral railway made a positive denial
to the New York Post of the current
reports that the Illinois Central will
take over the Minneapolis & st. Louis
and Iowa Central railroads.
Prof. Robert Koch publishes in the
German Medical Weekly a declara-
ton that DR.. Goetsch, of :he Slawent-
zitz hospital, has used for the past
year tuberculion against pure tubercu-
losis with unvarying success.
A census of the consumptives in
New York is to be begun in about a
week by DR.. Daniel Lewis, commits
sioner of the state Board of Health.
1t will be the first census of the kind
ever undertaken by that state.
A meeting Of broom makers has
nnbeen called to be held in Cleveland,
Ohio, for the purpose of forming a
general company with a capital of
$6,000,000, to include the factories in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan
Rev. Joseph Cook, the distinguish
ed lecturer and author, is dead, at his
summer home in Ticonderoga. He
has been in i'll health for several
years. Mr.. Cook is best remembered
by his efforts to show, in his lectures,
the harmony Of the bible with sci
ence.
The wedding Of Miss Ellen Lee,
daughter of Brigadier General Lee, to |
First Lieutenant James Cooper Rhea, |
Of the Seventh cavalry, U. S. A, took
place in the Church of the Transfgur- |
alton in New York. A few days will |
be spent by the young couple in travel !
before the start for Cuba, where The
bridegroom is now stationed.
The Orange Judd Farmer says:
Spring wheat conditions practically
perfect. General wheat prospects war
rant estimate of 750,0O0.000 bushels
yield as minimum. Corn improving,
but will require perfect weather for
average result; condition not over 85.
Rate Of oats yield decidedly below
average.
The steamship Dolphin. from the
Klondike, brought $1,350,C00 in gold
dust.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a dividend of two per cent in
favor of the creditors of the insolvent
Capital National bank of Lincoln,
The force maintained by Austria
Hungary in China has been reduced
to two vessels and 100 men.
Thirty acres of coal land in the vi
cinity of Pittsburg, Pa, sank several
feet and the surface is still going
down.
Admiral Sir Anthony Hiley Hoskins
is dead in London. He was born in
1928.
The circulation per capita in the
United States is now the largest in
the country's history, amounting to
s28.13. One year ago it was $2671.
1t has been decided that neither the
American colonies of Berlin, Leipsic
nor Dresden will hold general or Off
cial Fourth of July celebrations. An