Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-04-18
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Inc NOrLnWeStern iowa OQQ Eel
lows have announced their convention
for Dubuque, Ia, April 20. 1t will
the eighty-second anniversary Of tn
founding Of the order.
The election of democrats as alder
men in the Third, Fourth and Fift
wards of Denver is contested by tn
republican candidates on the groun,
Of corruption and fraud.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to Civ
100000 to Portland, Ore, for a fre
public library, provided the city viii
guarantee site and sufficient annua
income for its maintenance.
The Amalgamated Association ot
Sheet Metal Workers will take the in.
ttiatiVe in having designers and archi-
tects sign contracts with builders tc
employ only union men on their con-
tracts.
A great many carloads Of young
stock are being received at Webster
S. D., for the settlers who have To-
Gated on the land formerly embraced
within the Sisseton and Wahpeton In
dian reservation.
Mathilda Henderson, cclored, died
at Quincy, ILL.,, aged los years. She
was recognized as the oldest person
of her race in that vicinity, and her
relatives have records showing that
her age, los, was authentic.
The navy department has awarded
the contract for the building of the
twenty-three knot protected cruiser
Milwaukee to the Union Iron Works
of San Francisco. The contract price
is $2,S25,OOO.
Secretary Of the Treasury Gage re-
ceived an offer for a million dollars
short term bonds from New York.
The price was higher than he was
willing to pay and he, therefore, re-
jected the offer.
About 400 union carpenters did not
report for work at Indianapolis, Ind,
owing to the failure of the contrac-
tors to sign the scale. Some of the
members of the union are at work for
contractors who have signed. The
old scale of 80 cents expired Mon
day.
The Minnesota house passed Sena-
tor Chilton's bill prohibiting the mar
riage Of imbeciles, feeble-minded epi-
leptics or insane persons, with an
amendment striking out the require
ment for a physicians certificate be-
fore any license to marry shall be is
sued.
Victor R. Schultz, the mail car
rier who shot and killed his wife and
sent two bullets through the breast
Of w. II. Eikenberry, at Marion, Ind,
and then cut his own throat, is liv-
ing. His windpipe, which was sew
cred, was sewed together by the ply
sicians at the hospital
The board of trustees of the West
ern Illinois Normal school at Macomb
awarded the contract for building the
school to the Tri-City contracting
company of Davenport, Ia, Moline
and Rock Island. The building is to
be Of Berea stone and will cost in the
neighborhood Of $175,000.
A crowd of about fifty Ponca, Neb.,
men seized A1va Smith while he was
on his way from the theater, and tar
red and feathered him. He was CIV
en- twenty-four hours to leave town. |
Smith is accused Of running Minnie |
Ellum, a girl of Is, who died in an |
Omaha hospital two weeks ago.
The Teheran correspondent of the |
Cologne Gazette, under date of Mon
day, April 8, telegraphs that the Per-
sian government has ordered the i'm
position of duty of per cent on all
Russian goods imported instead Of 8
to per cent, as hitherto enforced.
The Minnesota house reconsidered
the vote which killed the bill to per-
NIT the parole of the notorious Youn-
ger brothers, now serving life SEN
IcuCcS III Tue SIdlc pEISOus duO sent |
the bill to the governor for approval
or rejection.
The famous Okefsnokee swamps in
South Georgia have been sold to
Charles Hebard & Sons of Michigan.
The consideration, 1t is understood, is
$175,o00. The swamp contains 1884,
600 acres and its circumference is 137
miles.
Samuel N. Ferris shot and killed
himself at Baker City, Ore. He was
about 33 years of age, was secretary
Of prominent mining company, and
is said to have been worth more than
100000 in mining property. The
cause Of the suicide is unknown.
The latest statement of exports pub
ished by the bureau of statistics
shows that during the eight months
ending with February the total
amounted to $95,OOO,OOO more than
he exports for the corresponding Pc
'iod ending in February, 1900. {
D. B. Robinson, formerly first vice {
,roeidanf of the Santa Fe is reDorted |