Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-07-18
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Secretary Smiley of the Kansas
Grain Dealers association, after max
ing personal investigation, said thu
oats crop in Kansas will be the wors
failure in ten years.
Samuel Moffat, the oldest brother o.
David Moffat, of Denver, Colo, died IL
Hudson, N. Y. In 1857 he established
the Bank of Nebraska, said to be the
second west of the Missouri river.
]. R. G. Pitkin, ex-postmaster Of
New Orleans and ex-minister to the
Argentine Republic, and president ot
the Transmississippi Commercial con.
gress, died suddenly at New Orleans.
A commission of thirtyt-wo persons
has returned to Lima, Peru, from ar
exploration of the River Santa Chu.
quicara. The members report thai
they found plenty Of gold in the river
The grasshopper situation in some
sections of Minnesota is alarming. The
Red River valley is suffering. In
many places the insects have cleared
up acres of young wheat, fax and
potatoes
Hon. Mortimer Nye, ex-lieutenant
governor of Indiana, and one of the
best known men in public life in La
Porte, was stricken with paralysis at
Union mills just as he closed a Fourth
Of July address
George w. Partridge, for eight years
private secretary to Zach Chandler,
former United States senator from
Michigan and ex-secretary of the in
terror, was found dead in bed at his
home at Detroit
The state department has received
information of the death from sun
stroke on the 9Th instant of Robert
O'Neil Wickersham, vice and deputy
commercial agent of the United States
at Castellemar Di Stabia, Italy. He
had been in the consular service since
1879.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald is authority for
the statement that Frank w. Hackett
will tender his resignation as assistant
secretary of the navy in the fall.
Charles H. Allen the governor of Por-
to Rico, has been suggested as his sue
cessor.
General Daniel E. Sickles is serious
Iy i'll in Pleasantville, N. Y, at the
home of Village President Daniel P.
Hayes. He went there on the Fourth
Of July to make an address to the
residents and has been so ill ever
since that he has had to remain with
bis host.
The endowment rank of the Knights
Of Pythias has a deficit of $225,26
This announcement was made by Su-
preme Commander Ogden H Fethers
to the supreme lodge Of the order,
which has been assembled in Chicago
for the purpose of looking into the
affairs of the rank.
The navy department received a ca
blegram announcing the departure of
Rear Admiral Cromwell aboard his
flagship, the Chicago, from Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, for st. Vincent, Canary
Islands, enroute to the Mediterranean
to assume his new duties as command
er-in-chief of the European station.
An appeal for the relief Of fire suf-
ferers at Versailles, o., has been sent
out by Mayor Golderwoof and Rev. w.
M. Baker, pastor of the Christian
church of that town. They state that
100 people are homeless, many desti-
tute and several injured as the result
of the fire which devastated Versailles
Saturday.
Ernest Reid, colored, was hanged at
Carthage, Mo-, for the murder of his
wife, January 10, 1900.
Mrs. L. P Kennedy of North To-
peka, Kan, has been appointed a
seamstress at the Winnebago Indian
school, Nebraska.
Secretary Hitchcock has decided that
there is no authority Of law permit
ting a delay until October 1 in the
opening of the Wichita Indian reser-
vation in Oklahoma, as desired by GER
tain cattle interests.
Secretary Hitchcock said he antici-
pated no serious trouble with soon
ers" at the opening of the Oklahoma
lands in August He said there might
be several thousand people now on the
lands, but there was no reason to be-
lievc that they would not be gotten on
easily.
Governor Allen, who will hand to
President Mckinley the request of the
Porto Rican assembly that free trade
be established between that country
and tho United States, will leave San
Juan July 13 on the Mayfiower. He
will be accompanied by Mrs. Allen.
James Reyburn of Bloomington, ILL.,,
was killed by tramps and his body
was found in a box car at East Alton
The steamship City of Seattle has
arrived at Seattle, Wash, from Lynn