Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-03-21
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

destroyed by nre. Inc plant recently
was leased from the National Glass
company and was to be started up
soon.
Robert c. Ogden, philanthropist, will
start from New York City on or about
April Is with forty invited guests on
a visit to the educational institutions
of the south. The party will be COM
posed of persons interested IN educa-
ton.
The postofice department has re-
jected all bids for furnishing street
letter boxes for the postal service and
new advertisements will be Issued
calling for steel boxes only. The sam
pie boxes submitted were not salts
factory.
The bodies of all the miners who
perished in the fire at the Diamond
vile, Wyoming, mine have been re-
covered, the twenty-eighth and last be-
ing taken out The fire is out and
mining operations will be resumed in
a few days.
Four suits aggregating in all $780,
600 were entered at Pittsburg in the
United States court against the Erie
railroad to recover for the loss Of oil
wells located along the defendant
companys roads in Mexican county,
Pennsylvania.
The tonnage carried through the
Sault canals at the outlet Of Lake
Superior last season involved freight
charges of $25,000,OO0, though the
price per ton for each mile carried
was the almost infinitesimal figure OF
1.1S mills.
Experiments just completed have
demonstrated the practicability OF
lighting up Niagara Falls by electric
fly to be generated by the falls. New
and powerful apparatus operating
searchlights will hereafter enable Wis
itors to see the falls at night.
AS a further illustration OF the
milder attitude recently assumed by
the imperial government to ward Al
sace-Lorraine, the Berliner Tageblatt
mentions a report that Emperor Will
liam is planning to give it repre-
sentative in the bundesrath.
After figuring with every large food
manufacturer in the country, Lieut..
Evelyn B. Baldwin closed contract
with the Chicago Packing company
for the entire supply of food for the
Baldwin-Zeigler polar expedition,
which will sail in the spring.
Fifteen Angora goats, offered by
Kansas and Missouri breeders, were
sold Monday at the Kansas City stock
yards sale pavilion. The registered
animals were sold singly at prices
ranging from Sc to $3.50. The grade
animals were sold in car lots.
The official statement of gross postal
receipts for February, 1901, compared
with February, 1900, at the fifty larg-
est postoffices show for New YORK an
increase of 1872 per cent and Chicago
20 per cent increase. The biggest IN
crease. 3S.7 per cent, is at Dayton, o.,
and the only decrease at the fifty larg-
est Offices is AT per cent, at Syracuse,
N. Y.
At Bowling Green, O., Ody McCar-
thy, who almost thrashed to death }.
D. Insley. a school teacher of North
Baltimore. and escaped to a house
near that place, where he dehed ar
rest. was finally taken into custody by
Deputy Sheriff Farmer and a posse.
Mccarthy held the officers off all day,
but. seeing that his capture was 1nev-
liable, finally gave himself up and was
placed in Jail at Bowling Green.
Secretary Wilson has authorized
Prof. Moore. chief of the weather bu-
reau, to create three new forecastlng
division under the general authority
of the last appropriation act. Those
division have been selected as follows:
Kew England, headquarters at Bos-
ton: Western Gulf states, headquar-
ters at Galveston, and Central Rocky
Mountain Plateau, headquarters at
Denver. This will make total OF
seven forecasting divisions in the
weather service.
The loss in the burning Of the Iowa
university buildings is $25O,OOO.
During the absence Of the parents
the residence of Guy Williams, seven
miles north of Washington, Pa, was
destroyed by fire, and their three chill
dren, aged 1, and 5 years, were
burned to death.
Prince Albert Zolmel Braunsfels has
committed suicide at Wiesbaden, hav-
ing learned that the disease from
which he was suffering was incurable.
The senate bill taxing insurance
companies passed the New York assem-
bly,. AS the bill was suggested by
Governor Odell it is sure OF executive
signature.
The Archer Starch company's fac
tory, just north of Kankakee, Ill,
burned, involving loss of $325,00O.
Gaylord, Blessing & Co., one of the
Oldest brokerage firms in st. Louis,
Mo-, have filed deed of assignment.
Liabilities are admitted to exceed the
assets by $4,000.
Daniel Jones, farmer, was frozen to
death near Preston, Kan. He was a
veteran of the civil war
Prof. Henry Thatcher Fowler, of
Knox college, Illinois, has been elected
to the chair of Biblical literature and
history in Brown university, Provi-
dence, R. l., to succeed Prof. Charles
Foster Kent.
1t is reported that Russia is seek
ing the support of the powers in a
scheme to prevent sudden outbreak
in the Balkans.
CAPTAIN John Palmer is the latest
candidate for commissioner Of pensions
TO succeed H Clay Evans of Tennessee,
when his resignation is handed in.
Lady Curzon, wife of Lord Curzon of
viceroy of India, will sail
e.. EooJond Marph %