Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-03-28
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.

customs.
r. w. Funk, president OF the Jack
sonville, ILL.,, Creamery company, COM
mitted suicide.
Samuel I. Irvine, of Iowa, $1,000
clerk in the pension Office, has been
promoted to $1,000.
Congressman Marriott Brosius,
chairman Of the committee on banking
and currency, died at Lancaster, Pa.
Oliver Dewey, aged SO years, died at
the home of his son, County Surveyor
r. K. Dewey, at Greenvif1e, III. He
was distant relative of Admiral Dew
ey.
Secretary Root has appointed Mrs.
Dita Hopkins Kinney of New York
City superintendent of the female
nurse corps under the army reorgan-
iZation act.
Lamar c. Quintero, well known
young lawyer Of New Orleans, has
been appointed a member of the SUI
preme bench in the Philippines at
salary of $1,000.
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.
M. Bologiepoff, minister of public in
struction, who, while holding a recep-
ton February 27, was shot by Peter
Karpovich, formerly a student at the
University of Moscow, died of his
wound.
Burglars entered the Valentine post
Office by cutting the wire screen and
breaking out light of glass. They got
only about SO in change from the cash
drawer They did not disturb any of
the mall
Montpelier, O., the other morning
saw mirage of cluster Of buildings,
trees and streets, etc., which as easily
recognized as the village of Edon, eight
miles distant, on the line Of the Wa
bash railroad.
Intimate friends Of Andrew Carnegie
say that it is the intention of the steel
master to give at least $25,000,000 for
the erection of buildings and for the
endowment of the proposed technical
eobooJ - D;4+eb,,ro
The Easton, Pa, board of school con-
trollers refuse to increase the tax rate
one-half of mill for the maintenance
of a public library, thereby practically
refusing the offer of Andrew Carnegie
to give the town $4,000
Miss Edna Horrick. a handsome
young society girl of Canton, Miss,
committed suicide at hotel in Jack
son by swallowing the contents Of two
bottles of laudanum. No motive has
yet been assigned for the act.
The city council of St. Joseph, Mo-.
accepted the offer of Mr. Andrew Car
negie, giving $4,000 to South st. JOS
eph for a library and night school,
providing teachers and librarian and
assistant were supplied by the city.
Mary E. Ford, aged "a, living with
her son, Noah, a well known farmer,
uine miles north of Logansport, Ind, |
was burned to death, her clothing TAX |
ing fire from a lighted lamp which |
she had just prepared for the night.
w. B. Martin, secretary of state, as
tonished the members of the Iowa ex- |
ecutive council and the railroad attor- |
neys at Des Moines working on the an
nual railroad assessment by introduc- |
ing a resolution calling for an increase |
of $2,500,000 in the railroad assess
ments
The New York Herald says that a
letter just received In New York from |
Sir Edwin Arnoli shows that he has
been obliged to relinquish much of his
active literary work owing to blind
ness.
In a message to the legislature Gov
ernor Odell recommends a continuation |
of the work begun several years ago of
the New York state canals
to nine feet and lengthening the locks.
The cost of carrying on this work to
it's completion is estimated at S25 5,000,-
600.
The dry goods firm of Gaziagan, Par
malice & Whitley, at Cleveland, O., was
placed in the hands of a receiver.
The corporate existence of the Me-
chRnics' National Bank of Cedar Rap
Ids has been extended until March i,
1902.
Mr.. Henry Rochefort is organizing
big lottery throughout Europe in aid
Of the Beers.
The new Bulgarian ministry of the
interior has reiterated its order that
he Macedonian rife clubs shall be dis
armed and prohibited from drilling.
The wholesale drug house of Leem-
ng. Miles company burned at Mon
rooJ