Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-07-25
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.


OF Freeburg, ILL.,, has brought suit for
divorce against his wife, also an octo-
genarian.
The United States army transport
Sumner, with convalescent soldiers
on board, has sailed from Manila for
San Francisco.
j. Pierpont Morgan has just bought
the Chilean section of the trans-An-
dean railway for ninety thousand
pounds sterling.
Christopher Anderson, the aged man
who shot himself on the grave of his
wife in the cemetery heal Nebraska
City, Neh., died.
1t now seems that there is small
probability of an agreement being
reached between France and Great
Britain over the Newfoundland ques-
ton.
The Massachusetts Republican state
convention has been called to meet
in Boston October a. Governor Allen
of Porto Rico will be invited to pre-
side.
August Newman was blown to
pieces and Henry Ernest badly hurt
by the premature explosion Of a blast
of dynamite at the city quarter at
Quincy, Ill.
The Retail Clerks International
Protective association of Buffalo pre-
scented tt the International Association
of Machinists the sum of s 1900 to aid
in its strike.
The Wabash Cooperage company's
plant was destroyed by fire at Terre
Haute, Ind, causing a loss Of 100000,
with $4,000 insurance; $4,000 on build
ings and $1,000 on stock.
The budget committee after a pro-
longed and critical discussion at Mad
rid, has decided to shelve for the pres
emit the proposals of the minister of
finance suspending the coinage OF sill
yer.
John H. Bacon, a Milwaukee news
paper man, has accepted ar appoint
ment as vice consul and clerk to Con-
sui General Rublee at Hong Kong, and
will leave for China in about three
weeks.
Richard S. Berlin, a well known real
estate dealer and manager Of the Ber-
lin Investment company at Omaha,
Neb., has filed a petition in voluntary
bankruptcy. Liabilities, $51, 900. so; as
sets, $50.
Safe Expert Charles Walze has dis
covered that the cashiers time lock
Of the vault in the mint, at San Fran
cisco, from which 100000 was stolen,
does not operate and has been out of
order for some time.
At a meeting of the Leadville, Col,
City Library association a letter was
read from the private secretary of
Andrew Carnegie, dated from Skibo
castle, Scotland, stating that he would
give $1,000 0 for a public library for
that city, provided the city would fur
nish 1000 a year to maintain it.
SdlCS vi COuCS On luS 4NcW III
coffee exchange for the year ending
June 80, ag%gregating 1883 900 bags,
against 5,S79, 500 bags in 1900. The
sales for 1899 were 1850, 500 bags. The
transactions the past year exceeded
those of 1900 by 1903, 500 bags, the
gain being partly due, it is said, to
the large crops abroad.
The dead bodies Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Prange, of Omaha, were found
beside a public highway, half a mile
south Of Lake station, st. Joseph, Mo-,
each with a bullet hole in the head.
Clasped in FRANCES right hand was a
revolver. 1t is supposed the man kill
ed the woman and then took his own
life.
The will Of Hugh Tevis, the young
San Francisco millionaire, who died in
Yokohama recently, of appendicitis,
while on his wedding journey, has
been filed at Monterey. 1t divides his
estate, estimated at 81, ZOO, 900, almost
equally between his widow, Cornelia
Baxter Tevis, and his 9-year-old
daughter, Alice Boalt Tevis.
Capt. Putnam B. Strong, quarter
master department, United States
army, San Francisco, announces that
he has resigned from the army for
personal and financial reasons.
The managers Of the Newport, KY,
racing track decided to declare off
all further races until October L.
George C. Tilden, a well known min
e%rologist, while in Salvador went in
sane and was committed to the Cali
fornia state hospital for the insane.
John Costain was killed heal New
Albany, Ind, by John Turner while
trying to kidnap Mrs. Turner.
Minister Rockville has been instruc-
ted to support Japanese application
for an enlargement of their indem-
nifty from So, ZOO, 900 to 10000, 900 yen.
Edward H. Martin, formerly a lieu
tenant in the United States army, who