Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-02-14
BRIEF TElEGRAMS.

The Princeton Qnd) Elevator COM
pany's elevator was totally destroyed
by fire.
Tom O'Brien, the Pittsburg clubs
first baseman, died of consumption at
Phoenix, ArL.
The cut nail pool announced an in
crease in prices Of SC keg, to go into
effect at once.
The Belgium King is said to be in
danger, a man having been arrested
who had designs on his life.
A dispatch from Cincinnati says
that hope Of making the Jeffries-Ruh-
lin fight have been nearly abandoned.
Prof. Salisbury, for quarter Of
century an authority on Sanscript in
Yale college, is dead in his S7th year.
The blast furnaces of the Lorain,
O., Steel company have resumed oper
ations after an idleness of over six
months.
Edward Hopkins, who was organist
of the Temple church, London, from
1845 to 1898, is dead. He was born
in 1918.
Mrs. Jacob Yocum, aged so, and her
found dead in their bed rooms by the
police at Fostoria, o.
Thomas P. Fenlon, one of the most
prominent lawyers and politicians in
Kansas, died at LeavenWorth of heart
disease, aged siXty-fve.
Adjutant General Partridge of the
Illinois Grand Army of the Republic,
says the death rate among old soldiers
is at the rate of per cent.
Lord Vantage is quoted as saying
that the queens last words were:
"Oh, that peace may come" Those
few words were characteristic of her
life.
Edward D. Cornell, a retired hat
manufacturer and for many years
president of the Hatters' union, COM
mitted suicide by hanging at Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Assemblyman Lotter and his son
have been arrested and Jailed at Uit-
enhage, charged with aiding the
Beers. It is alleged dynamite was
found in Mr.. Lotter's house.
Colonel E. P. Clandom, aged rs
years, was found dead in his bed at
Galveston, Tex. Claudom was French
known throughout the south.
Eugene l. Gowell visited detective
headquarters in Chicago and an
nounced that he was the long-saught--
for Charlie Ross, who was kidnapped
from Germantown, Pa, in 1874.
Chamberlin & Co. of Chicago offer
to raise the wreck of the battIeship
Maine for nothing and give the gov
ernment 8 per cent Of the sales of
the material in the form OF souve-
Mrs.
Under special orders from the navy
department the cruiser Lancaster left
st. Vincent, West Indies, for La
Guira. The gunboat Scorpion arriv-
ed at Curacao yesterday from La
Guira.
The body Of Judge N. Pearl of Port
Gibson, La, was found in the Missis-
s1ppi river near that place with heavy
weights tied around the hands and
ankles. He had been missing about
two weeks.
The steamship Duke of Fife brings
news that owners of Japanese oil wells
are organizing strong company to
compete with the company formed by
the Standard Oil company to develop
the Echigo oil fields.
Senator AlonZo Smith of Indiana,
former lieutenant governor Of that
state and leader of the democratic
party there, sa.s Indiana democrats
want David B. Hill Of New York state
to head the ticket in 1904.
James J. Corbett and his wife had
war of words in their apartments at
the Hotel Navarro, Thirty-eighth
street and Seventh avenue The end
was that the pugilist walked out VOW
ing he would never return.
Jefferson Long, a negro, who thirty
years ago represented the Macon dis
trict in congress, died at Macon, Ga.
The wSr department is informed
that Capt. Raymond Sulzer, of the
volunteer Quartermaster's depart
ment, died on the transport Pagling,
which arrived at San Francisco.
Speaker Henderson is opposed to
the movement for an extra session of
congress.
A sensational suicide shocked Pat
erson, N. j., when John Deritter, a
wealthy contractor and mason, ended
his life by drinking carbolic acid after
having violently jealous quarrel
with his wife.
1t is reported from Kiel that Sieg-
fried Hess, local banker, has fed to
the United States after embezzling
100000 marks.
Addison Commack, aged "A years,
at one time one of the most promi-
nent spectators in Wall street, died
at his home in New York city.
Twenty fresh cases of small pox
and nine deaths from that disease
were reported at Glasgow. There are
now 433 cases in the hospital
A car of the Adams Express com
pany attached to the train which left
Philadelphia at midnight Saturday for
New York, was rified by robbers en-
route.
The big battleship Wisconsin, built
at San Francisco, has been placed in
commission.
In view of the possibility of a Boer
raid all the ammunition surrendered
by burghers at Komatipoort has been
loaded on lighters and moored in the
bay.
The annual meeting of the Iowa
Association of County Treasurers will
be held in Des Moines at the Kirk