Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-02-28
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.


phia.
w. X. Vanderbilt and party have
sailed from Savannah, Ga, for a cruise
of the Mediterranean in his private
yacht Valiant
The senate committee on appropria-
tions completed the fortifications bill.
1t carries an increase over the house
bill of $311 900.
At the Fasig-Tipton horse sale at
New York SO head sold for 1855.
During the week 1863 head were sold
for $125,550, an average of 1854.
Mrs. Annie D. Talent, the first
known white woman to enter the Black
Hills, Is dead and her remains have
been taken to Elgin, Ill.,, for burial.
Charles e. Bent, aged 25 years, shot
and mortally wounded his wife at st.
Louis, Mo-, and then, kneeling before
mirror, put bullet through his own
head, dying instantly.
Five Boer prisoners who escaped
from the Island of Ceylon have arrived
at Crimean port on board Russian
steamer to which they swan while in
the harbor of Colombo.
The William H. Crocker expedition
from the Lick observatory to observe
the total eclipse of the Sun in Sumatra
on May IL, will sail from San Fran
cisco on the Nippon Maru.
Count Cassini, the Russian minister
to this country, has presented to Pres
ident Mckinley a magnificent photo
graphic album containing the scenes Of
the coronation of the czar in 1896.
A contribution of $250,0O0 by John
D. Rockefeller to Brown university
was announced at the annual dinner
OF the Brown University Alumni Soci-
ETY. of New York, held at the University
club.
Col. Peter S. Niche, professor of the
department of natural and experiment.
al philosophy at the United States
Military Academy, died at West Point,
n. Y, after short illness of pneu-
monia.
Hon. Charles A. Leland, ex-state
representative and late associate JUS
tice Of the Supreme Court of New Mex
leo under President Mckinley, died at
his home at Caldwell, O., from con-
sumption.
The story given out that J. P. Nor
gan and ]. D. Rockefeller had pur-
chased all the mines in the Fairmont,
w. ", district is declared to be false
by officials of the company declared to
be in the deal.
DR.. William Pole, the English au-
thority on whist, who died few days
ago, was not physician but a success
full civil engineer, and his doctorate
was a degree for music conferred on
him by Oxford university.
George d. Wick, president of the
Youngstown, O., Iron Sheet and Tube
plant is authority for the statement
that the report from Philadelphia that
Youngstown will be the site for $685.
100000 tube plant has no foundation.
Orders will be issued by Major Gen
eral Otis to all post commanders in the
Department of Lakes, directing the i'm
mediate enlistment of men for the new
Twenty-ninth regular infantry regi-
ment, which will rendezvous at Fort
Sheridan.
Rumor has it in Washington that the
president will appoint P G.. Knox of
Pittsburg to succeed Mr.. Griggs as at
torney general. Mr. Knox is favored
by Senator Quay and on that account
is regarded as having an excellent
chance to enter the next cabinet.
Alexander Millar, secretary of the
Union Pacific company, officially an
nounces that the executive committee
has authorized the issuance of $780,
000,000 ten-year per cent gold bonds,
to be secured by unmortgaged property
of the company, which can be convert
ed into common stock at par value, by
The holder, if desirable, at any time
Fior to May 1, 1906. Right is re-
tRrved to redeem these bonds after
May, 1906.
Andrew Carnegie has offered SIS 1000
for the erection of a library building
at Centralia, Ill.
The first beet sugar factory in Indi-
ana will be built at Shelby. Every de-
tail has been arranged and the plant
is to be in operation this season. The
construction contract has been let.
The appropriation for the st. Louis
exposition has passed the house and
little if any opposition is expected in
the senate.
Sir George Williams, who founded
the Young Mems Christian association
in London in 1874, may attend the
jubile convention of the association
in Boston in June next.
Senator Hanna, from the committee
on commerce, today made a favorabls
report to the senate upon Senator Per-
kins' amendment to the sundry civil |
appropriation bill, authorizing prelim-
mary contracts TO be made for a sub |
marine cable from San Francisco to |
Honolulu
Charles Holland, a prominent stock |
man of Redding county, Ia, committed |
suicide at st. Joseph in hotel by tax
ing morphine.
At Minneapolis Mayor Ames issued |
orders to the captain of police to see |
that no contests with gloves or any |
sparring match shall take place in that |
city in the future.
William P. Hill, for over fifty years |
a prominent New England newspaper |
editor, is dead OF grip at the home of
his son-in-law, n. r. Williams, in Den
yer, Colo. Mr.. Hill was born in 1919 |
in Concord, N. H., and was the son of
Isaac Hill, at one time governor of
New Hampshire.
A dispatch from Vienna says the
Neue Freie fresse and another Vienna