Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-02-21
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
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Black Eagle, the highest German dec
oration.
Charles z. Emerson, president of tn
Emerson Lumber company, of Dixon
ILL.,, died, aged 73 years. He leaves
large estate
In the state of Guerrero, Mex,
sharp shock of earthquake causes
much alarm. A light shock was fel
in Mexico City.
Countess Castellane has sold to he
brother, Edwin Gould, her interest il
the New York realty left by theil
father, for $43,500.
The officials Of the British home Of
fee say there is no foundation what
ever for the report that Mrs Florence
Maybrick has been pardoned.
A bill was introduced in the Illinois
house providing that all persons here
after sentenced to death shall be ex-
ecuted by means of electricity.
Mrs. John Beatty, wealthy widow
twelve miles north of Beardstown, ILL.,.
committed suicide by drowning in
well. where the body was found by her
son.
The Bulletin of the summer. session
at the University of Nebraska has been
issued and is now ready for distribu-
tion, and will be sent free to all who
desire it.
Mrs. John Beatty, a wealthy widow
residing in the country in Schuyler
county, ILL.,, twelve miles north Of
Beardstown, committed suicide at her
home by drowning herself in well.
Former Lieutenant Governor Henry
G. Bates of st. Johnsbury, VT, was Of
fered the position of Judge in the Phil
ippines and he will accept the appoint
ment The salary will be $500 per
year.
c B. Murphy, aged 20, who was at
tending Braden's preparatory school at
Highland Falls, N. Y, for admission
to West Point, dropped dead while he
was engaged in snowballing with other
students.
The first coal mine to be developed
in Nebraska has been opened near
Jackson, Neb., and starts with a force
of fifty men 1t is the property Of Ri
ley & Mcbride. The coal is bituminous
and of good quality.
Cattle rustlers were given an un-
usually severe sentence at Helena,
Mont. A. ]. Kelly and George Hand
schut were convicted of stealing three
calves and were sentenced to fourteen
years each in the penitentiary.
The state senate of Colorado passeu
on third reading the bill for submis-
sion of a constitutional amendment to
use the enactment Of a law limiting a
days work in mines, smelters and
mills for the treatment of ores to eight
consecutive hours.
At Santa Barbara, Cal, Mrs. Freder-
ick Hansch shot and killed herself
while temporarily insane. Mrs. Hansch,
who was very wealthy, was the daugh-
ter Of Baron Myer, wealthy banker
OF Dresden, Germany, and her mother
was an English lady of noble birth.
The following message of congratula
ton was sent to Queen Wilhelmina by
the president on the occasion of her
marriage: Her Majesty, Wilhelmina,
Queen Of the Netherlands, Sgraven- |
hage: 1 pray your majesty to accept |
the sincere congratulations l offer for |
myself and my countrymen upon the |
auspicous occasion o" your majesty's |
marriage
William Root, bette. known among |
old-time westerners as plain BILL" a
man who has spent his life in the
mountains, plains and jungles Of near
1y every country under the sun, and |
who was at one time partner OF Bill
Nye and Pete Liddell, who had a hand
in the Indian congress at the Trans
Mississippi exposition, will collect for
ty Indians to be taken to Glen island
in the Hudson river as a show for
New Workers.
bic Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company in Brooklyn, n Y, causing
a loss of 100000.
The statement of the British board
OF trade for the month of January
shows increases of G1, 900 in i'm
ports, and G1, ,169, 800 in exports.
Miss Edith M. Smith of Sanborn, n
Y, has been appointed assistant ma
tron at the Rosebud Indian school, S.
D.
Miss Lillian Malaby of Brooking, S.
D., has been reinstated assistant ma
Iron of the Grand River Indian school
ar Standing Rock, S. D.
Capt Joseph T. Johnson, a we'll
known Ohio river captain, is dead at
Pittsburg, Pa, aged 81 years.
The president today sent to the SEN
ate the nominations of James H. Will
son of Delaware, and Fitzhugh Lee, of
Virginia, now brigadier generals of
volunteers, to be brigadier generals in
he regular army.
Fire in the wholesale candy plant OF
Valentine Schroeder, at Detroit, Mich,
,aused an estimated loss of 100000.
Upon the application of lne state in
urance department the Manufacturers
Merchants Mutual Insurance COM
'any, of Rockford, ILL.,, passed into the
lands of receiver The total Iiabil-
ties are $4,000, assets $4,000. 7.
John s. Hart, prominent Racine,
Vis., manufacturer and philanthropist,
led suddenly in Los angeles, CAL
John w. Power, ex-state senator,
rother of ex-United States Senator T. I
!. Power, died at Fort Fenton, Mont f
Ie was a leading business man of '
Iontana for thirty-three years. f
During the coming year 200,000,000 s
hite fish from the state hatcheries of n
-ichigan will be planted in Lake Mich S
an and the other great lakes, and in y