at i t t Be VALENTINE in n niim The Valentine Democrat I M RICE Publisher NEBRASKA I BRIEf TELEGRAMS Miss C Stewart an American has taken the doctors degree at the Uni versity of Berlin Forty five bodies of Galveston storm victims have been found and buried on the Island beyond me city limits the past week The Canadian railway employes have complained to the government against theJmportation of United States labor while they are debarred from entering the United States E Johnson and Robert Hatten quar reled at Daisy Ga and Hatten shot Johnson through the neck Johnson fell but raised hinself long enough to shoot Hatten through the head Both men are dead Charles S Milward aged 35 a lead ing merchant of Lexington Kywas found dead on his rear porch -by a servant He had -been shot through the head but whether -by himself or another is not known The department of agriculture has advertised for bids for furnishing seeds to the department for the usual dis tribution Bids will be opened in this city on December 12 about three months earlier than the opening last year After serving as postmaster and as sistant postmaster continuously for thirty eight years John Pynn of St George U has resigned He is 85 years old and only a few postmasters have outranked him in point of ser vice The name of ex President Grover Cleveland has been mentioned by New Jersey democratic assemblymen in connection with the Ebnorary nomina tion of United States senator against Senator W J Sewall who will be re elected Mrs Charles Blow wife of a for mer Illinois state game warden has her hus sworn out warrants charging band with attempting to chloroform her and her three children and then turning on the gas so that suffocation would finish the work The first large shipment of potatoes that has gone forward from Washing ton state to China will be sent in a few days from North Yakima and will consist of 500 tons destined for Shang hai In the past the greater amount of foodstuffs that has been called for from that section has been flour but now the Chinese have acquired a tatse for potatoes Mrs McKinley has sent to New Sork a ber tiful doll which will adorn the Ohio booth of the womans bazar for the benefit of the Womans Suffrage Asosciation early in December While the presidents wife is nowise a wo man suffragist she makes this dona tion at the request of Ohio friends The doll was dressed y dixs McKinley who fashioned each dainty garinent Miss Mary E Chapin 87 years old a veteran womans seminary founder and teacher is dead at the home of her nephew Dr S N Chapin in Chicago Miss Chapin began to teach at the sem inary in New Haven and in 1860 helped found a womans seminary at Milwau kee She went to Lawrence Kan and there founded a semniary which pre ceded the University of Lawrence The design for the monument of the late Vice President G A Hobart has been decided upon ac Paterson N J The successful competitor is Philip Martin It shows Mr Hobart stand ing with a gavel in his hand and lean ing slightly forward as if listening to a speaker It will be of bronze and be about nine feet in height It will stand upon a pedestal in front of the city hall in Paterson Consul Shumann at Mainz says in a report to the state department that if American shoe manufacturers stud ied closely the requirements of the trade in Egypt they -ought to be able tc conquer that market with ease He says that they certainly could be able to offer a better and cheaper shoe than the Swiss manufacturers who now practically control the shoe trade of Egypt having driven French goods out of the market The health of King Oscar of Swe den continues to improve Miss Eugenia Washington great grand niece of George Washington one of the founders of the society of Daughters of the American Revolution and president of the Society of Found ers and Patriots died at Washington A dispatch to tne Unina News from Hong Kong reports a typhoon at Tou rain in October lasting forty eight hours destroying the villages rice fields and buildings and laying the har bor bare It is estimated that 1500 to 1600 persons perished and the remain ing population of 4650 are without pro visions The official figures on the presiden tial election of California give McKin ley 164755 Bryan 124985 Woolley 54 024 The wheat crop of the Darling Downs district in Australia is expected to beat all records In some instances it will yield fifty two bushels to the acre The Armstrong farm near Granite Oklahoma which contains the remark able spring from which natural gas continually escapes has been leased by E R Suppe of Parsons Kan who will at once put down several test wells for gas and oil Other gas men are there and will thoroughly test the field The division of customs and insular affairs of the war department has is sued a statement showing the total re ceipts from customs sources in Cuba for the ten months ending October 31 were 13215500 against 12120991 the same time in 1899 an increase of 1 049507 The Illinois state board of health -will make in its forthcoming biennial report some important recommenda tions Among them will be that a state sanitarium for consumptives be established The state board of char ities will be joined in its recommenda tion for provision f or the care of epi leptics t f f i fr iilI B mni i n ir r iin - rv ir li c i fwpn i n i mhh TO NEGOTIATE A PEACE Nearly All Envoys at Pekin Have Ee ceivecl Instructions THE WORK MAY BEGIN TUESDAY Diplomats Will Immediately Commence Conference With China Plenipotenti aries and Emperor Will Beturn to Pe kin to Execute the Treaties PEKIN Dec 10 All the foreign envoys except Sir Ernest Mason Sa tow the British minister have re ceived instructions from their govern ments agreeing to the joint note pro posed at the last meeting Another meeting will probably be called for Tuesday next Should the British minister have received his in structions to sign the joint note by that time communications will be im mediately opened with Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang who are in daily touch with the court by the Chinese telegraph Prince Ching says Emperor Kwang Su is ready to return as soon as as sured that the negotiations will allow him to come under conditions conso nant with his dignity and safety The removal of General Tung Hslang from the command of the Chi nese forces surrounding the court is considered by the foreign envoys to be a very important step as indicat ing the real desire of the government to come to terms Fu Hsiangs ban- ishment indicates that the court rec ognizes the expediency of obeying the demands of the powers The International club was opened today its object being to bring to gether in a spirit special harmony the officers and diplomats of the various nations There was a large company present and music was discoursed by military bands It is expected that the club will continue a great success The building was formerly an imperial temple The envoys are considering the question of legation buildings in the future At present none of the gov ernments own its buildings all the houses being rented Tne only ones not damaged considerably are the American British and Russian It is proposed that all the legation buildings should be concentrated within a souare mile WASHINGTON Dec 10 The next important step in the Chinese situt tion will be the formal presentation to the Chinese plenipotentiaries of the agreement arrived at between the rep resentatives of the powers at Pekin for reparation for the Boxer outrages In just what manner this will be done Mr Conger has not informed the state department although the probability is that the document will be handed to the Chinese by the dean of the diplomatic corps As has been stated already the agreement is simply a statement of the terms upon which the powers will negotiate with China for a final set tlement and is laid before the Chi nese officials as a matter of form The negotiations for final settlement will come later after the Chinese have been given a reasonable oppor tunity for the consideration of the conditions laid down by the powers The complete agreement deciphered from the code is now in the hands of the president Officials decline to make its text public in advance of the receipt of information that it has been formally accepted by the powers although the advices which have here tofore come from Mr Conger leaves no doubt that this will be the case The essential features of the agree ment already have been outlined in the press dispatches Undo nams Boat Building WASHINGTON Dec 10 The ves sels built in the United States and officially numbered from June 30 1900 to November 30 1900 were 495 of 149963 gross tons The principal items of the total are seven steel steamship on the great lages 34933 gross tons and four smaller steel steamships 8456 tons which could pass through this new Weiland canal and one steel schooner bargee 2790 tons Mrs Mary McLean Dead WASHINGTON Dec 10 Mrs Mary L McLean the mother of John R McLean of the Cincinnati Enquirer died here at her residence at 130 oclock this morning of acute heart affection She had been ill since Fri day At the bedside of Mrs McLean when the end came were her daughters Mrs Dewey and Mrs Ludlow wife of Rear Admiral Ludlow her son John R McLean and Admiral Dewey Chief Rebel Caught SHANGHAI Dec 10 Pao Ho Nien tao tai of Chu Fu in the province of Che Kian who was responsible for the July massacre and who absconded has been captured near Su Chau and sent to Hang Chau Fu Mr John Goodnough United States consul general in Shanghai is about starting for the United States on leave of absence Persian tlinister Arrives WASHINGTON Dec 10 General Isaac Kahn the new Persian minis ter to the United States arrived here today from New York He probably will bo presented to the president dur ing the coming week An Oklahoma Affray MOUNTAIN VIEW0 T Dec 10 Five men were wounded in a fight between members of the Hughes gang and City Marshal Jesse Morris and Deputy Marshal Ayres in the Cattle Exchange saloon last night Marshal Morris was shot through the intes tines Deputy Ayres in the knee Jesse Williams was shot four tmes Frank Hughes was shot through the chest over the heart A Cherokee half breed named Palmsley was shot four times in the head Morris Hughes and Palmsley will die THE SENATE AND HOUSE - - Tf What They Propose Doing In tho Near Coming Days WASHINGTON Dec 10 The sen ate will continue to givs Its attention to the Hay Pauncefote treaty and the ship subsidy bill during the present week taking up first one and then th other as may suit the convenience of those who may wish to speak on the two meausres During the last ses sion of congress the Nicaragua canal bill was made the special order of business for Monday next but the establishment of the ship bill as the regular order will have the effect of displacing the canal bill precedence being given under the senate rules to a regular order over a special order It is understood that Senator Morgan who lias charge of the can al bill will not press that measure until the treaty for the abrogation of the Clayton Bulwer treaty is dis posed of On this account the friends of the ship bill do not apprehend that he will make any opposition to the continuance of the consideration of that measure He has indeed caid said that we would be content to al low his bill to follow close in the wake of the ship bill Three or four set speeches are prom ised in opposition to the subsidy bill and it is expected that most if net all of those already in sight will be made during this week Among those who probably will speak on are Senators Clay Vest and Ber ry all of whom oppose the bill Sen ator Vest is an especial advocate of free ships There are differences of opinion as to what effect the taking of a vote on the fortifications amendment to the treaty will have upon the time of disposing of that instrument but a majority of the senators express the opinion that the vote upon the treaty will follow Tery tfoon after the vote uiyn the amendment The program in the house for the coming week contemplates the con sideration and passage of the legis lative executive and judicial appro priation bill and the bill for the re duction of the war revenue taxes Wednesday will be a dies non so far as legislation is concerned as on that day the exercises in connection with the centennial celebration of the re moval of the seat of government to Washington will be held in the house The legislative appropriation bill is not expected to consume more than two days at most probably only one and the leaders expect that the re mainder of the weeek will suffice to pass the war revenue reduction act It is probable that special interests which do not receive the consideration in the bill which they think they are entitled to will attempt to amend it This is specially true of the brew ing Interests which hope to secure a further reduction of the tax on beer from 150 a barrel as fixed by the committee to 135 a barrel CAPTURED WITHOUT CONTEST Soldiers Meet With Littlo Resistance From Insurgents MANILA Dec 10 While the cap tures of supplies and the occupation of new points are quite numerous those involving actual fighting - are comparatively feW Apparently the insurgents are falling back at all con contested points sacrificing their pos sessions in most case and satisfied to save themselves A detachment of the Forty seventh United States volunteer infantry from the Island of Catandunes off the southeast coast of Luzon relinquished an attempt to land near Pandan On anchoring the American were fired upon by sixty riflemen and after a short engagement they cut the anchor chain and sailed for Catanduanes with two killed and two wounded The names have not yet been received here Captain Richard T Ellis of the Thirty third volunteer infantry cap tured in the mountains near Barbara a large quantity of Krag Mauser and Remington ammunition together wifi a signal outfit a printing press and other equipment All of this was de stroyed Thirty rifles and several hun dred cartridges were secured at Vic toria Grout Bill Goes Through WASHINGTON Dec 8 The house today passed the Grout oleomargarine bill by a vote of 196 to 92 The sub stitute offered by the minority of the committee on agriculture which im posed additional restrictions on the sale of oleomargarine to prevent the fraudulent sale of butter and increas ed the penalties for violation was defeated by a vote of 113 to 178 The bill s passed makes articles known as oleomargarine butterine imitation butter or imitation cheese transported into any state or territory for con sumption or sale subject tc the police power of such state or territory To Marry Duke of Westminster LONDON Dec 10 It is authorita tively asserted that the duke of West minster is engaged to Miss Shelagff West daughter of Colonel Cornwallis West By he marriage the duke will become the brother-in-law of Mrs George Cornwallis West Lady Ran dolph Churchill liOrd Roberta Reception LONDON Dec 10 Lord Roberts is expected to arrive in London January 5 He will be met by the prince- and princess of Wales and will precede immediately in triumphal progress to St Pauls cathedral where he will at tend a special service of thanksgiving Goes Down With All on Board ERIE Pa Dec 10 In the midst of one of the most bitter gales that ever swept Lake Erie the iron ore barge S H Foster in town of the Iron Duke went to the bottom at 4 oclock this morning ten miles of Erie ariu eight persons were drowned as fol lows Captain John Bridge Cleve land first mate name unknown sec ond mate name unknown Seaman Robert Wood Seaman William Kelly of Port Auston Mich Cook Mrs May of Detroit two unknown deck hands WRITES TO MB CONGER Oantonsse Reformer Pormer Adviser to Ewang Sn Wants Emperor Restored VICEROYS ARENOT TO BE TRUSTED Foreigners Hold Tiiat Empress Should Not So Allowed to Interfere and That Reactionary Officials Should Be Tery i Closely Watched PEKIN Dec 8 Mr Conger the United States minister and other for eign envoys received today a letter signed by Kang Yu Wei the well known Cantonese reformer who was formerly an adviser of Emperor Kwang Su and who has always been favorable to foreigners Kang Yu Wei says that great calamities have befallen China through the empress dowager and also in consequence of her advisers Prince Tuan Prince Ching Yung Lu Yang Yi Chao Shu Chian Muang Ru Moyn Kuen and Hiang He says he is thank ful that the foreigners held out in the legation buildings in Pekin and that all the Chinese who understand the law of nations regret the murder of Baron von Ketteler He then says he desires to makeisuggestions which will insure the just punishment of the real culprits satisfaction to the different countries and a permanent settlement of the international relations of China He urges First That the empress and her ad visers should not be allowed to vio late the peace Second That the emperor who is a friend of foreigners should be re stored Third That all reactionary officials should be arrested and that a careful watch should be kept over the so called friendly viceroy in the south Unless Yung Lu Prince Tuan and the others are severely dealt with Kang Yu Wei contends that they will continue to say that the foreigners are powerless The foreigners should not rely upon the viceroys continues the Cantonese reformer They send men money and armament to the empress and are her sary be restored the empiro would rejoice The emperors party -consists of the most enlightened men who are friendly to foreigners and desire to incorporate western civilization and culture in an ancient country Kang Yu Wei points out that he was appointed for the task by a secret edict of the emperor in 1898 when he made his appeal on behalf of the emperor to tne foreign powers An appeal which had they listened to would probably have prevented what has happened PUSHING REBELS N LUZON Troops Keep the Little llrotvn Men on Keen Jump MANILA Dec 8 More activity is shown in the operations in northern and southern Luzon The reports from the former district come in more quickly and telegraphic instruc tions are fewer General Funston with Troop A of the Fourth cavalry and a score of scouts last Thursday encountered a hundred insurgents posted on the op posite bank of the Mehieo river The Americans charged across the stream and the enemy retreated firing from cover They left four dead on the field A native who was captured re ported that Fagin a deserter from the Twenty fourth infantry who has been active with the Filipinos with a party of two cavalrymen had been wounded Lieutenant Morrow with fifty men from the Forty seventh regiment at tacked and occupied Bulucan While returning these troops encountered Colonel Victoris occupying an en trenched position -with thirty rifles and 300 bolomen Lieutenant Mor rows force charged raid drove the enemy from their position it is be lieved with heavy loss Preceding the fight the expedition had captured Major Flores and several of his fol lowers An engagement is reported to have occurred near San Roque in which according to natives fifty rebels were killed Several minor encounters and cap tures are also reported The Amer ican casualties have been very slight Ask Secretary Gage to Remain WASHINGTON Dec 8 President Homer of the Baltimore clearing house and thirty of the prominent business men representing the clearing house the savings bank and the Merchants and Manufacturers association of Bal timore called in a body today at the Treasury department and urged Sec retary Gage to accept the invitation of tho president to remain at the head of the Treasury department for another four years Presidents Nominations WASHINGTON Dec 8 The presi dent today sent the following nomina tions to the senate John F Weston Resistant commissary general of sub sistence to be commissary general of subsistence with rank of brigadier general Captain Frank B McKenna Forty seventh infantry U S V first lieutenant Fifteenth infantry U S A to be inspector general of vol unteers with rank of major Murriajre nd Dirorcc Xars WASHINGTON Dec 8 Repre sentative Taylor of Ohio who was prominently identified with the move ment to exclude Brigham Roberts of Utah from a seat in congress today introduced a measure intended to bring about federal prohibition of polygamy It proposes a constitution al amendment for uniform laws on marriage and divorce Mr Taylor says however that his aim goes con siderably beyond a mere uniformity of such laws and is expressly de signed to reach polygamy and put i on end to it mrm PROSPERITY SN OKLAHOMA Governor Report Argues Cond ltloni Warrant Admission WASHINGTON Dec 7 The annu al report of the governor of Oklahoma says that the year has been marked by general prosperity agricultural grazing manufacturing and commerce nourishing in an unprecedented manner The total assessed valuation of property is 549338661 an increase of 6247 over 1899 The report states that in addition to its excellent pub lic school system Oklahmoa has five higher institutions of learning which are not excelled by the similar institutions of any state in the union There are still 5733385 acres of va cant government land in the territory subject to homestead entry While most of the land is unfit for farming there are still many sections upon which the homeseeker from the north or east can find a comfortable home and atttain a competence in time As each justice of the supreme court of the territory sits as a trial judge with original jurisdiction of all eases of civil and criminal litigation arising in the district to which he is assigned the report recommends that a separate court of appeals be provided In order to avert sentencing of youthful criminals to the penitentiary the es tablishment of a reformatory institu tion within the territory is recom mended The report says that the prosperous condition prevailing in OKlahoma its population area and wealth when compared with a like condition prevailing in a large num ber of states at the time of their ad mission in the union amply justifies its claim to statehood The report recommends that Fort Supply which was abandoned several years ago e presented to the territory for Use as a public institution CONNECTING LAKE AND RIVER War Department Furnishes Estimate for Proposed Canal WASHINGTON Dec 7 The War department today sent to congress re ports on the number of important river and harbor projects including that for connecting the Mississippi river with Lake Michigan by the means of the Illinois river and the Chicago sanitary canal and also or extensive improvement of the Sault Ste Marie canal The total cost of the project for connecting Lake Mich igan and the Mississippi river is placed at 7731517 for a five foot depth The project involves tne con struction of twelve locks and two dams with movable weirs The esti mates are based on the assumption that all necessary franchises in con nection with the construction will be ceded free of cost to the United States Tne estimate for improving the channel between Lakes Superior and Huron through St Marys river in cluding Hay channel is 59Ov000 The distance is sixty four miles part of which is improved The estimate for deepening the Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan ship canal to twenty one feet is 218000 Abble Sage Richardson Dead NEW YORK Dec 6 A special ca ble dispatch to the Brooklyn Eagle from Rome says Mrs Abby Sage Richardson drama tist poet literary critic and translator died in this city today She was the widow of the late Albert Deane Rich ardson newspaper man and author long time correspondent of the New STork Tribune in the civil war and afterward an editor on that paper Mrs Richardson arrived here with her son William Sage the novelist early in November and her death was wholly unexpected by her friends in Rome Honso Bills Introduced WASHINGTON D C Dec 7 The senate today transacted no business of importance in open session Throughout almsot the entire after noon it was in executive session The ship subsidy bill therefore received no consideration Mr Hoar presented a resolution of the Massachusetts legislature in favor of the purchase by the United States government of Temple Farm Moor house at Yorktown Va General Fa can Is Retired WASHINGTON Dec 7 Brigadier Generar Charles R Eagan commis sary general of subsistence who has been under suspension since Febru ary 9 1S99 by sentence of court martial for alleged intemperate and aDUse language concerning Lieuten ant General Miles in connection with the army beef investigation was re stored to duty today and he was afterwards placed on the record list of tne army To Arranjje Inaagnral WASHINGTON Dec 7 John Joy Edson was today named as chairman of the committee having charge of the inaugural ceremonies He was ac cepted Senator Hanna chairman of the republican national committee previously tendered the office to Mr Theodore W Noyes who was com pelled to decline the honor as his duties would not permit him to devote sufficient time to the position Hold Up wn Iowa Stockman CHICAGO Dec 6 Fred T Gilrnore of Baxter la was knocked senseless late last night near Michigan avenue and Harmon Court and robbed of 11 229 in negotiable paper 23 in money and a -watch The robbere William Cummings and George Hayes after a desperate battle with detectives were captured and all the booty save tae watch and money was recovered Czar Getrinjr Hack to Health LIVADIA European Russia Dec 7 The following bulletin was issued this morning by the czars physi cians The czar slept well all night long His general condition and spirits are very good His temperature and pulse are normal The czar now leaves his bed each day and spends an hour or two In an armchair In sleep and appetite he is steadily improving though he is still limited toa light diet It Is probable that the bulletins will be discontinued next Sunday - 3wr t r From Nothing to 830000000 The late banker Abraham Wolff of New York whose estate has just been figured up left about 20000000 And yet he was never reckoned among the his career heavy millionaires He began without a penny reer as an office boy worked his way up He never talked about ihs wealth or splurged with it but when he made his will he didnt forget to jemember generously every employe in his banking house from the highest to the lowest OLDEST MM ffl MERIG Tells How He Escaped tlie Terrors of Many Winters by Using Mr Isaac Brock the Oldest Man In the United States Mr Isaac Brock of McLennan coun ty Tex has attained the great age of 111 years having been born in 1788 He is an ardent friend to Pe runa and speaks of it in the following terms During my long life I have known a great many remedies for coughs colds catarrh and diarrhoea had always supposed these affections to be different diseases but I have learned from Dr Hartmans books that these affections are the same and are properly called catarrh As for Dr Hartmans remedy Pe runa I have found it to be the best if not the only reliable remedy for these affections Peruna has been my stand by for many years and I attribute my good health and my extreme age to this remedy It exactly meets all my requirements I have come to rely upon It almost entirely for the many little things for which I need medicine I believe it to be especially valuable to old people Isaac Brock Catarrh is the greatest enemy of old age A person entirely free from ca tarrh is sure to live to a hale and hearty old age A free book on ca tarrh sent by The Perana Medicine Co Columbus O Genius recognizes nothing but gen ius Rheumatic and Gouty Affections disap pear after cleansing- the system with Gar field Tea a blood purifier made of herbs and recommended by physicians Cunning is about the poorest coun terfeit of wisdom - I do not believe Pisos Care for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds JOHJf P Boyek Trlnitv SDrimrs Ind Feb i5 1900 When you tell a secret it is no longer a secret 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