Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-04-25
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
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receiving large number of requests
for vaccine for use in treating black
leg among cattle.
The Denver, Colo, manager Of the
smelter trust has announced that the
selling price for lead has been re-
duced from 81 to $3.50.
James P. Witherow has sued the
Carnegie Steel company for more than
$40,0O0,000 damages for alleged in
fringement of patents.
The state department has received a
cablegram from Consul Long, at Cairo,
Egypt, announcing that the plague has
broken out at Alexandria.
The government bulletin gives the
number of goats in the United States
as 100000, and the annual production
of mohair over million pounds.
Stricken with remorse after a
nights carousing with convivial COM
panions, Mrs. Eugenia Godfrey, aged
%, committed suicide at Warsaw, Ind,
by taking morphine.
The Burlington & Missouri and the
Santa Fe roads have announced their
intention Of establishing an inter-
changeable mileage bureau for their
own roads June 1.
Samuel M. Nave, one of the best
known wholesale grocers, bankers and
stockmen of the west, died at his home
in st. Joseph, Mo-, of stomach trou-
bic, aged So years.
Rear Admiral Schley embarked on
the British steamship Clyde at Buenos
Ayres for the United States. Mrs.
Lloyd, wife Of the United States min
lister, is also on the ship.
Frank D. Gardner of Illinois, an ex-
pert in the soils division of the de-
partment Of agriculture, has been ap-
pointed to take charge of the expert
ment station work in Porto Rico.
Mrs. s. R. Lyons, wife of the presi-
dent of Monmouth, H., college, COM
mitted suicide by hanging. She had
been ailing for some time, but there
was no suspicious of suicidal tendency.
The London Daily Express this
morning says that it understands that
the government has decided to cease
sending reinforcements to South Af
rica-
William H. Hussman, an Office en-
ploye of the Barrett Manufacturing
company at st. Louis for thirteen
years, confessed that he was an en-
bezzler and forger to the extent of
$4,000.
Mrs. Lenora Wheeler, wife CT a
prominent whisky dealer, committed
suicide at Chattanooga, Tenn, by TAX
ing laudanum Mrs. Wheeler was bit
ten some time ago by dog supposed
to be mad.
Miss Hattie Rose Laube of South
Dakota, whose engagement to Senator
Clark Of Montana is announced, is but
"a years of age. She is we'll educated
and has been admitted to the bar of
South Dakota.
The Frankfurter Zeitung prints a
special dispatch from Constantinop1e
which says the Turkish government
has raised loan of 100000 from the
Ottoman bank to settle the claims Of
the Cramps and the Krupps.
The London Morning Post says it is
rumored that an Alexandria firm of
cotton brokers has failed with Iiabil-
tiles reported to amount to 9250,060,
while it is said that the assets show
on paper margin Of 100000.
F. E. Emery, formerly of the North
Carolina agricultural experiment sta
ton, has been detailed by the secre-
tary of agriculture to visit China,
Japan, the Philippines and other east
ern countries with a view to extend
products.
Apparently crazed from fancied
wrongs, a farmer named Revenger.
living near Steele, N. d.. shot Nels
Olsen in the neck infiicting a serious
wound; then shot Peter Levine in the
wrist, and committed suicide. He left
letter saying the neighbors had neg
lected and slighted him for years.
Contracts have been signed by Cap
tain John Crowley of Boston for the
immediate construction of two seven
mast schooners, to be the first vessels
of this type and the largest sailing
ships in the world.
Yellow fever has made its appear
ance at Port Royal, the entrance to
Kingston, Jamaica, harbor.
Brigadier General John B. Turchin,
who organized the Chicago Board Of
Trade battery, was taken to the insane
asylum at Anna, Ill.
General Macarthur at Manila has
Informed the war department of the
death Of Major William Monaghan,
volunteer paymaster.
Carrie Sect, aged years, is dead
and her sister, Edna, aged years, is
in criticei coadit.pn at Denver, Colo.
as the result Of eating candy Easter
eggs, which had been cclored with