Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-05-23
BRIEF TELEGRAIMS.
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struck.
Count Won Buelow, the chancellor
has sent letter to the reichstag ask
ing that body to adjourn until No
lvember e.
Mrs. Gage, wife of Secretary of the
Treasury Gage, who has been Ill fol
some time, is reported to be in seri-
QUE condition.
Tucket Woodson Taylor, aged 46
was found dead in his rooms al
Greencastle, Wyo. 1t is believed to be
q case of suicide.
A young woman at Wallingford
Conn, has been awarded damages OF
$500 against man who nearly scared
her to death for a joke.
According to the return of this
years census the total population OF
England and Wales is 32,525,716, an
increase Of 1923, 191 over 1891.
Vice President Roosevelt has accept
ed an invitation to make an address
at Minneapolis during the state fair.
The address will be made September
Goth.
The supreme court Of Massachusetts
has rendered a decision upholding
the constitutionality of the law which
prescribes execution by electricity in
capital cases.
Mrs. Matte Berger, the school teach
er who disappeared from Peublo, Col,
on April 25, and who, it was feared,
had been murdered, has been located
at San Jose, Cal.
A general strike involving directly
10000 machinists and indirectly 50O,-
0GG men in the metal working trades, is
expected to take place May 20, unless
some arrangement is effected in the
meantime.
The secretary of the treasury has
purchased $4,000 short As bonds at
$113.6392. The secretary of the treas
ury has also purchased $412,O5O short
As at $113.64.
Mrs. Mary Leonard, better known as
French Mary" a vivandiere of the
civil war and one of the most pictur-
esque figures produced during the re-
bellion, committed suicide at Pittsburg
Pa, by taking poison.
Chaplain Daley, late of the First regi-
ment, South Dakota volunteers, who
accompanied the regiment on it's Phil
ippine campaign, has consented to de-
liver the Memorial day address at
Carthage, South Dakota.
Already enough men have been en-
listed at Ft. Meade, S. D., for one
troop of the Thirteenth United States
cavalry and consequently troop A is
being organized. Captain R. G. Will
liams, recently promoted from first
lieutenant of the First cavalry, is in
command.
Chief Justice Fuller, Of the United
States supreme court, announced the
affirmative of the decision of the
United States circuit court for the dis
trict of Washington in the case of
Nordstrom, under sentence of death for
murder, refusing to grant writ of
habeas corpus.
Quartermaster General Luddington
has arranged for the removal of the
remains of the confederate dead in the
Soldiers Home cemetery and in the
Arlington cemetery to another section
OF the last named cemetery, which has
been set aside by the secretary of war
for their reinterment.
Reports reaching the interior de-
partment show that smallpox is wide
spread among the Indians of the west
ern reservations. A report from the
Cheyenne reservation and the Sioux |
agency in South Dakota says small
pex is prevalent throughout, and that |
many deaths have occurred.
The war secretary, Mr.. Broderick, in
the house Of commons, moved his army |
scheme, providing for six corps, with
$4,000 militia as reserve, and in
creasing the yeomanry from $4,000 to
$4,000 men.
A civil service examination will be
held on June 18th, at Des Moines, for
position of meat inspector in the bu-
reau Of animal industry; salary from
$1,000 to $1,400 per annum. On June
Sd an examination will be held for the
position of editorial clerk in the same
department, paying salary of $1,4OO.
Howard L. Burket, one of the vet
eran business men of Omaha, dropped
dead in the yard Of his residence.
All the wholesale liquor men in
Omaha have organized under the name
of the Wholesale Liquor Dealers as
sociation.
Alexander Martz, an old Iowa edu-
Gator, died a few days ago.
At Zaneta, Iowa, May IA, Postmaster
]. Marsh was run down by a passen-
ger train on the Iowa, Minnesota &
railroad and fatally in