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

Oliver Dewey, aged SO years, died at
the home of his son, County Surveyor
r. K. Dewey, at Greenville, Ill. He
was a distant relative of Admiral
Dewey.
Secretary Root has appointed Mrs.
Dita Hopkins Kinney, of New York
city, superintendent of the female
nurse corps under the army reorgani-
zation act.
Eugene Zimmerman, of Cincinnati,
the father of the Duchess of Manches-
ter, and Miss B. Evans, aunt of the
duchess, sailed for Liverpool on the
steamship Umbria.
No official information has been re-
ceived in Washington as to the report
ed adverse action of a committee Of
the constitutional convention of Cuba
upon the Platte amendment.
Judge George E. Baldwin, of Canton,
o., a life long friend of the president,
has received word from Washington
that the president intends to appoint
him as consul at Nuremberg, Bavaria
Kapovich, the assassin of M. Bogo-
1iepoff, Russian minister OF public in
struction, has been sentenced to hard
labor for life. He will be imprisoned
in the Schluesselburg fortress on an
island in the Neva.
The British civil service supplement
tary estimates show that the expenses
in connection with Queen Victoria's
funeral amounted to 235,0O0, of which
R11,000 was expended for the housing
and entertainment of foreign guests.
Minnesota senate bill prohibiting yell
low color oleomargarIne and providing
regulations and restrictions for it's
manufacture and sale, was favorabiy
reported to the house by the commit
eet on dairy and food products and
passed under suspension of rules.
Judge Joseph M. Bartholomew, for
mer justice of the North Dakota SUI
preme court, dropped dead while clear
ing snow from a sidewalk. The judge
formerly resided in Iowa and was rec
ogniZed as an able lawyer and jurist
and was one of the best public speakers
in the state.
Mrs. Brunschneider, residing near
Toledo, O., occupies a ward in the hos
pital in serious condition as the re-
suit of horrible injuries self-infiicted.
Armed with an ordinary pair of scis-
sors, she cut off all the toes on her
left foot, both ears close to the head
and about an inch of her nose.
Governor Otero, of New Mexico, has
signed a resolution adopted by the ter
ritorial legislature authorizing the ap-
pointment of a non-partisan commits
sion of fourteen, with the governor as
an eX-Off1cio member, to go to Wash
ington and work for statehood and
against the international dam pro-
jected, and appropriating $4,000 for the
purpose.
In the presence Of President Burt
and other prominent officials of the
Union Pacif, the last rail on the Sher-
man hill cut off in Wyoming was laid
The cutoff is thirteen miles long and
includes an eighteen hundred foot tun-
mel and a rock causeway over Dale
creek. 1t is estimated that the pro-
jeet cost the company more than S2;-
100000.
Earl Cadogan, lord lieutenant Of Ire
land, authorizes the statement that he
will retain Office for another year.
The London Pail Mall Gazette says
that Paderewski, the pianist, who is
making tour Of Spain, received news
of the death of his only son.
From a New York woman, who is
an intimate friend Of Mrs Benjamin
Harrison, widow of the ex-presiGent, 1t
is learned that there will be no posthr-
nous child. General Harrison's will
left $4,000 for a posthumous child,
should one be born.
The Jack Bonner-Kid Carter ten
round contest at Louisville, KY, ended
in a draw.
NJ. w. Kingley. a leading man of the
Jules Grau Opera company, died at
Denver of pneumonia. He was 27
years old.
Mrs. Narcissa South Fitzpatrick,
wife of ex-Congressman T. Y F'itzpaJ-
rick, died of pneumonia at Frankfort,
KY. She was a daughter of the late
Col. Jore South, and an aunt OF Con-
gressman South Trimble
Frank B. Wright, publisher of Chic,
and connected with Cincinnati papers
for twenty years, died Suddenly of
pneumonia, aged 42. His wife died of
pneumonia the same morning. Wright
was not considered seriously afflicted
until after his wifes death.
Carnegie refused to give Denver n
library, on the ground that there we're
too many millionaires in the city.
I,orrin Blodgett, the eminent statis-