Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-02-06
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

;cording to the latest municipal fig
ures.
No person will be permitted to make
"a pilgrimage to Mecca this season
from any of the infected portions OF
India
A Chicago pastor inserted want
advertisement in a newspaper asking
for 500 girls TO attend service at his
church.
The venerable John Stephens, who
was in his Tooth year, died at New AL
bany, Ind, of grip, after three days
illness.
The senate, by a vote of 81 to 2,
passed a bill making electrocution the
mode Of inficting the death penalty
nj Indiana.
Bids for three million feet Of lumber
to be shipped soon to Manila were
opened at the quartermaster's Office at
Seattle, Wash.
At Montgomery, Ala, the Josiah
Norris Bank, one of the oldest private
banking institutions in the state,
closed its doors. The assets and la
bflities are not known.
The estate Of the late Philip D. Ar
mour, according to a petition for let
ters testamentary filed in probate
court, is valued at $15,000,0O0. OF this,
$14,000,000 is realty.
By a vote of thirty-three to twenty
five the city council of Chicago de-
feated Mayor Harrison's plan of re-
pealing the midnight saloon closing
law.
Secretary Gage has sent to the house
a full statement of the Indebtedness
incurred by the annexation of Hawaii
with a request for appropriations to
cancel the Indebtedness aggregating
$3,447435.
Nine. Pauline Cassin Caro-, we'll
known woman of letters, and widow
Of M. Elme Caro-, the celebrated sa-
want and member of the French acad-
emy, died at Paris, France. She was
born in 1884.
JEFF Bybee, widely known in turf
circles on the Pacific coast, died at
Portland. Ore, aged SO. He located in
Oregon in 1S47 and for many years
was engaged in raising and training
thoroughbred horses.
The cable power house of the Metro
pOlitan Street Railway company, at
Ninth and Washington streets in Kan
sas City, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000. Sixty cars and 1900 gallons OF
coal oil were destroyed.
At Kalama, Wash, Martin Sickle
was hanged for the murder of w. B.
Shankin near Kelso in 1899. He had
confessed this crime and also that he
killed MIR and Mrs Cornelius Knapp,
November %. 1900. His motive was
robbery.
F. A. Olden, a prominent business
man of st. Joseph, Mo-, in a pistol duel
with a burglar at his home fatally
wounded the robber and himself re-
ceived a broken leg. The burglar
turned out to be 'Curley" Pryor, well
known as crook.
Among the visitors at the White
House were the presidential electors
from the state Of Nebraska, who called
to pay their respects to the chief ex-
ecutive. They were accompanied by
Senator Thurston, who introduced
them to the president.
Suit has been commenced against
Senator w. A. Clark and his son to
recover $3.50 for services in gather
ing evidence for Clarks side of the in
vestigation by the United States SEN
ate committee. Harry Ringwald, OF
Great Falls, Mont. is the plaintiff.
The farmers of Kansas have united
to fight the grain dealers by forming a
stock company to purchase an eleva-
tor. Ninety per cent of the farmers
around Solomon have taken stock in
the company. It is claimed that the
elevators of Solomon, all controlled
by the grain dealers combination, fix
the price of grain there far under the
market price.
The recent Paterson trial cost the
state of New Jersey only $4,000, and
the greater part of that was for expert
testimony.
European astronomers are now busy
photographing the sky. There will be
about $4,000 plates, giving the location
of 10000, coo stars.
To prevent the spread of contagious
diseases by destroying all bacilli on
the pages of books 1t is probable that
some system Of ster Liking every vol
ume In the Chicago public library each
time it is returned to the shelves from
the home Of a subscriber will be
adopted.
Tim Callahan was given the deci-
sion over Eddie Gardner Of Wheeling
in a twenty-four round bout at
Youngstown, o.
The Rev. DR.. Philetus B. Spear,
treasurer of Colgate University from
1864 to 1889. died at Hamilton, N. Y,
aged 80 years. A daughter, Mrs. H. H. |
Keith, resides at Sioux Falls, S. D.
Benjamin D. Siliman, the Oldest |
graduate of Yale college and member |
of the BroOklny, N. Y, bar, died in |
his 96th year of bronchial pneumonia. |
Germany's pig iron output for 1900 |
was 9,422,S tons, an increase Of $685. |
537 tons for the preceding year. The !
December output was 720,790 tons.
German exports in 1900 were 1885,
291, 900 marks, an increase of over
1S6. .000, 900.
Former President George A. Gates,
D. D., of Iowa college, has accepted a
call to the pastorate of the First Con-
gregatioral church of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
and has arrived in that city to begin
his labors.
Sir William Van Horn, president Of
he Cuba Railway company, has left
Montreal for New York en- route to