Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1901-01-03
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.


the result OF misunderstanding aris-
ing from improvements on place
Bryant claimed To have leased.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 was Sc
cured by a gang who dynamited the
vault of the Dalton City Gll) bank.
Although a posse was quickly formed,
no trace of the robbers has yet been
found.
Four masked men entered the farm
residence of John Thompson, near Leb-
anon, O., bound, gagged and tortured
Thompson and his wife until they sur
rendered $500 in money, their jewelry
and silverwGre.
Thomas A. McNeal, who a month
ago announced his candidacy for the
United States senatorship Of Kansas,
withdraws and leaves the field, so FAR
as he is concerned, to Senator Baker
and ]. r. Burton.
The farmers in the Lower Fort Gar
Ty district, northwest of Winnipeg, re-
port serious losses by the mysterious
disappearance of cattle. One farmer
has lost eight animals. An organized
gang of cattle lifters is at work.
By the explosion of large boiler
at Blankenbeckler's saw mill, near
Sneedville, Tenn, William Edwards,
engineer, and Pleasant Trent, fireman,
were instantly killed. Jesse Mahan
and Lee Gordon were fatally injured.
One of the main buildings of the
Stormont Hospital in Topeka, Kan,
VS. destroyed by fire. The fire was
discovered in time to permit the re-
sn0val of the inmates in safety. Loss
on building, 100000; insurance, So
600.
William Haywood, former consul
general of the United States to Ha-
waii, and afterwards collector of In
ternal revenue, arrived in San Fran
cisco en- route to Washington, where
he is to represent the Hawaiian Plant
ers' association.
At Rockford, ILL.,, cablegram was
received announcing the sudden death
of William A. Talcott at Jerusalem.
Mr.. Talcott was president of the
board of trustees of Rockford college
and prominently identified with busi-
ness interests.
William Pratt CT Anita, Ia, was at
Chicago with two cars of yearling
steers of his own feeding. Mr.. Pratt
is an extensive feeder and now has
eights cas- of steers on feed. He re-
ports less cattle on feed in his part
of Iowa than usual.
4 tablet to General John M. Corse,
the union commander of the remark
able battle of Allatoona Pass, in Geor-
gia, where the phrase originated,
Hold the fort, for l am coming" has
been placed on the walls of the fed
eral building in Boston.
The four Cudahy brothers-Michael,
John, Patrick and Edward-represent
S15,000,000 business capital, all Of it
kept at work at a tremendous rate
by the men who has amassed it, says
the Chicago Times-Herald. They en-
ploy 5000 men, and have plants at
Omaha, Milwaukee, Sioux City, Louis
vile. Nashville, Wichita and Los An
geIes.
A man answering the description of
Pat Grove. who is suspected of being
the leader OF the Omaha gang of kid
napers, was seen TO jump from the
Union Pacific train from the east at
Denver when it slowed up IN the rail-
road yards Later in the day g sa-
loon keeper who knows Grove well,
informed the police department that he
had seen him on the street.
Nearly half a million from other
parts of the world have come into
the United States during the year
1900. seeking permanent homes. The
details of immigration during the ten
months ending with October, gathered
by the immigration bureau and pub
lished by the bureau Of statistics, In
dicate that the immigration for the
calendar year will reach about 460, 900.
Ex-State Senator Vernon H. Burke.
who was disbarred from placticing law
two years ago as a result of the SEN
sational u-ke-Dellenbaugh trial, was
reinstated by the circuit court at
Cleveland. Burke can resume the
practice of his profession on January
l next, according to the decision
Rear Admiral w. S. Schley will be
detached from duty as commander-in-
chief of the South Atlantic squadron
during the coming spring, in antici-
patton of his retirement next October,
when he will be 62 years old.
Emperor Williams decree lengthen-
ing medical study, as a remedy for
the overproduction of physicians.
meets with the APPROVAL of the profes-
sion. Official statistics show that over
crowding of the medical profession in
the large cities is plain. Berlin has
one physician to every 1913 of the pop
ulation, Breslau one to every us, Hall
one to every 735 and Koenigsberg one
to every 681.
Oscar Aaronson, the bicycle rider,
died in New York hospital Saturday
afternoon from injuries received in
his fall in Madison Square Garden.
DR.. ]. R. Sutherland was killed in
a runaway accident at Albuquerque,
N. M. DR.. Sutherland was born in
Canada, but served as United States
army surgeon in the civil war.
Count Won Blumenthal, the oldest
field marshal in the German army, is
dead.
The government of Chill, which re-
Gently invited tenders for 400 freight
cars, has accepted 300 from Doeche &
Co. and 100 from w. r. Grace & Co.,
all of American manufacture.
Count Zeppelin, the aeronaut, will
soon address the German Colonial So