Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-01-24
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

QleQ at L1Ltle ROCK, Ark, OF pneu-
monia
General Beekman de Barry, U. S. A.,
retired, died at his residence in Wash
ington.
Indications point to the election Of
William A. Clark as senator from
Montana.
Frederick Wickham of the Norwalk,
O., Reflector, the oldest editor in Ohio,
died, aged SO.
Charles w. Byron, wealthy busi-
ness man of st. Joseph, Mo-, died sud-
denly Of heart disease.
The Canadian Pacific Railway COM
pany has acquired the Canadian Pa
ciic Navigation company.
Grip is epidemic in New York. 1t
is not so violent as in past years,
but there is a good deal more of it.
The exports from the South German
consular districts in 1900 amounted
to $40, III, 1888, an increase Of $1,476,-
S23.
Hugo Bettauer, naturalized Amer
ican who is connected with the Ber-
liner Tageblatt, has been expelled
from Prussia as an obnoxious for
eigner.
Samuel Lewis, the notorious money
lender and usurer, who has been call
ed the greatest and meannest of mod
ern Shylocks,' is dead at London,
England.
Grief, caused by the death of his
young wife soon after marriage, i'm
PEELED Robert E. Lee Pryor, of East
brook, w. Va, to send a bullet through
his brain.
The annual cost of destructive in
sects to the United States is said to
be $500, 1000, 900, and even this doesn't
cover the wear and tear to our ner-
Vous systems.
The first act of Mayor Ames of Min
neapolis on assuming the reins of Of
flee was to dismiss 105 policemen who
were opposed to his election during
the recent campaign.
1t is officially reported that 400 Jap
anese fishermen are missing from Yo-
kohama, and that they are supposed
60 have perished in storm January
10, off the west coast.
Miff1in Marsh, who sixty years ago
il a modest little shop in Wheeling,
w. Va, originated the Wheeling sto-
gle" and who was known as the "sto-
gle king" died, aged SO years.
A. F. Dreutzer of Chicago and Olaf
Bergstrom Of Nebraska have made ar
rangements for cofonizing about 100,-
600 acres of land in Fentress and
Morgan counties, Tennessee, with
Films
A South McAlester, I. T., dispatch
says the Indian wife of N B. Sloan,
a white man, better known as Bony
Sloan, would like to know what has
become of him and is searching to that
end.
James B. Ireland died at his home
at Skillman, KY, aged 104 years. He
was possessed OF all his faculties to
the last, his mind, bright and clear,
carrying him beck to events of the
early years of the last century.
Frederick Harrison, the noted Eng
lish philosopher and critic, has ac-
cepted an invitation from President
Gilman of Johns Hopkins university
to deliver a lecture at that place dur
ing his coming visit to this country.
After three days as a refugee from
justice, ]. E. Wood, the Shreveport,
La, absconding messenger of the
Wells-Fargo Express company, COM
mitted suicide at Orange, Tex, just as
the authorities were about to arrest
him for his crime.
w. J. Bryan announced that the first
issue Of his paper, the Commoner, will
appear Wednesday, January %. The
printing will be done by contract, but
the mailing and all other business de-
tails will be under Mr.. Bryans su-
pervision.
One may learn from the following
press clipping what constitutes an
agreeable surprise" in the opinion Of
Iowa Modern Woodmen. The Lansing
Oowa) Journal says: "The Rossville
Woodmen sprung an agreeable sur
prise on Owen Kavanaugh last We'd
nesday by force of men turning out
and husking thirty loads of corn for
him"
Joseph Yates Paige, for the last six
years chief clerk of the comptroller
The house of the Texas legislature
ordered the appointment of a com
mittee of seven to investigate charges
preferred against Congressman J. W.
Bailey.
Fire at Gering, Neb., destroyed half
a block.
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, author of
I'm His Steps," resumed his church
work in Topeka, Kan, after an alb
sence in Europe and the east Mr..
Sheldon is preparing to make Wig
orous entry into the law enforcement
campaign Of the state.
Mail advices from Madagascar, dat
ted December 16, report the drowning
Of fifty natives from the capsizing of
a barge.
Artist Zorn has compelled H. Clay
Pierce of st. Louis to pay $4,000 for
three portraits, $1,000 interest anG the
court costs.
King Oscar of Sweden has recovered
his health and will resume the reins
of government January 21.
Dispatches announce that Admiral
Cervera, who commanded the Span
ish feet that was smashed by the
Americans outside Santiago harbor,
July 8, 1898, is lying at the point of
death near Cadiz.
John Stevenson of Cherokee, Ia, is
growing a new set of teeth in this,
his 18th year. He is an inveterate to-
bacco chewer.
The attorney general of Ohio has
brought a suit in the supreme court
TO test the validity of perpetual fran
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