Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-06-13
BRIEF TEIEGRAMS.

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May, 1900.
At Gearing, Ia, Thomas German, a
life insurance agent, was fatally stab
bed by Clay Reed, because German
persisted in talking insurance to his
wife.
The Building Trades council Of Den
yer declared the hodcarriers' strike
irregular End ordered the strikers back
to work. The Hodcarriers' union will
act upon the matter.
John V. Barnes was elected presi-
cent of the New York produce ex-
change. His election was a victory
for the independents, or younger, ele-
ment of the exchange.
Governor Gage has offered a reward
o. $1,000 for the arrest and convic-
ton of the persons implicated in the
lynching of the five men at Lookout,
Modoc county, California.
Samuel Potts, "a years of age, Of
Osceola, Mo-, vino enlisted in the
Thirty-ninth Illinois infantry to serve
II the Philippines and then deserted,
was captured by the police at Marion,
Ind.
At Kansas City former Judge F. M.
Black handed down a decision to the
effect that the police board had no
power to revoke licenses of saloon
keepers who keep their places open on
Sunday.
Henry e. Perrine, a we'll known
business man of Buffalo, N. Y, is dead.
His second wife, who survives him,
was Mrs. Folsom, mother of Mrs. Gro
yer Cleveland. Mr.. Perrine was IA
years of age.
Emperor William has decorated Gen
lal Bonnal, director of the French
war school, with the crown order Of
the first class, and has bestowed on
Colonel Gallet the crown order of the
second class.
The Grant statue or memorial COM
mission has issued a pamphlet inviting
The competition of artists for models
which must be submitted between
March 1 and April 1, 1902. The statue
will cost $4,000.
Richard G.. Mccormick died at ia
maica, L. l., aged 50. He was formerly
territorial governor of Arizona and
was assistant secretary of the United
States treasury in 1877 and elected to
congress in 1895.
The report that Emperor William
and Queen Wilhelmina have agreed
upon convention whereby Germany
assumed the protection of the Dutch
colonies in return for certain COM
mercial advantages is absolutely
without foundation. Queen Wilhel-
mina's visit to the emperor was Who'll
ly devoid of political significance.
Irwin Butterworth rendered his res
ignation as president of the Columbus,
O., board of trade. He also rendered
his resignation as president Of the Co.
lumbus Gas company, and will leave
for Denver, where he will assume the
duties of vice president and general
manager Of the Denver Gas company.
Seven thousand dollars was found
under a sidewalk near the former
boarding place of Stewart Jelleff, held
at Mineral Point, Wis, on charge
O. robbing the First National bank re-
Gently. Two bottles of nitroglycerine
and bunch of skeleton keys were also
found All was discovered by citizens
who we're searching privately.
Kansas reports recent copious rains
in all sections Of the state.
The Confederate Soldiers Home, an
institution for the care Of INDECENT
veterans, was opened at Atlanta, Ca,
cn the anniversary of the birth of
Jefferson Davis.
Rural free delivery service will be
established in Iowa July as follows:
Arlington, Fayette county, three car
riers: length of routes, sixty-seven and
cne-Quarter miles; population served,
2,235; carrier, John Gladwin, ST., S.
M. Wellman and r. N Hibbard.
A special to the Denver Republican
from Lander, Wyo., says: Word was
brought in of the killing of the sheep
herder who killed Frank Armajo, the
Indian, on the reservation Sunday, by
the Indian police, thirty miles from
the Muddy.
The salaries of the following past
masters N Iowa have been changed:
Sioux City, increased from $4,000 to
$S,4OO; Des Moines, s3,7OO to $4,000;
Shenandoah, s2,1OO to $4,000; Wapello,
s., 400 to $1,5O0; Washington, S2,1OO to
$4,000.
Chancellor Francis H Snow, who
has been at the head of the Univer-
sity of Kansas for eleven years, has
rendered his resignation. The resig-
nation will be accepted and Chancellor
Snow will be given the chair of ma