Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-12-24
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An explosion in the Schwab Goa
mine near Cherokee, Kas., killed ont
man and injured six.
A table just compiled places the
University of Missouri nineteenth IL
the list of richest universities.
Tenders are asked for July tc
build sewers, drains and water works
at Santiago at a cost of $5,000,000.
The fever has claimed three more
victims, raising the death total tc
sixty. in the vicinity of Butler, Pa.
The imports of France for the last
eleven months increased $51,3O3, 200
and the exports decreased $6524,20
The collapse of an embankment
near Cordova, Spain, derailed a train.
Fourteen persons were killed and
many injured.
The chief Justice of the supreme
court of The United States has an
nounced a recess of that court for two
weeks from next Monday.
The mill and elevator of the Rus.
sell-Miller Milling company, Valley
City, N. D., burned, entailing a loss
of over $4,000; insurance $4,000
Paul Richter, president of the Rich
ter Iron Works company of Denver,
has been accidentally shot and killed
by a companion on a hunting trip.
Voting on the amended loan law
has been deferred in the Cuban SEN
ate, pending the completion of nego-
tiatDns with New York financial
houses.
To give Topeka a "clean" admins
tration there is a movement on foot
to run women for the council in tho
different wards at the coming munich
pal elections.
A telegram received from Vardoo
Norway, reports that the steamer Or.
ion has be-1n destroyed by fire and
that three of the crew and three pas
sengers persisted
Hi Haskell aged 81, cut his throat
at the home of his brother at Aroma,
Ind. to avoid capture for stealing a
horse and buggy. Five minutes after
his death the officers arrived
In the senate resolution authoriz.
ing the printing of 1000 copies Of the
war department report on expedi-
lures in Cuba during the occupation Of
the United States was agreed to.
The United States supreme court
has extended the time for taking ties.
timony In the case of Missouri VS.. Iii.
nois, involving the Chicago drainage
canal, until the LIST of April next.
Major William H. Garland, aged "a
years, Is dead at the National Soldiers
home at Johnson City, Tenn. He had
shaken hands with every president oil
the Uniteu States except Washington.
The executive council of the ma,
uonal Afro-American Congressional
league of the United States has de.
cided to hold the annual convention
of the league at Chicago, June 2O-21,
1904
The funeral of John r. Proctor, the
late president of the civil service com.
mission, was held at st. Johns church
at Washington and the remains were
subsequently inferred at Rock Creek
cemetery
The postofflce committee of the
house has received from the postmas
ter general the Bristow report and the
Conrad and Bonapart report which
the committee ordered printed anc
made public.
Judge Bellinger of Oregon has de
cided that the killing of man by
reflex and wholly involuntary actor
is not crime, although the accused
may at the time be engaged in an un
lawful pursuit.
A national association has been or
ganized to be known as the Nationa
Paper Traders association, which Il
combination of associations of Bos
ton, Baltimore, Central Ohio, Chicag,
and New York.
Mrs. Roosevelt was one of the spec
tators in the United States suprem,
court while the Northern Securitie.
case was being argued. She was &C
companied by Mrs. Knox, wife of tn,
attorney general.
Postmasters will meet in Washing
ton for the purpose of recommendin,
new classification of the designation
of postoffice employees, regarded as es
sential and desirable for the improve
ment of the service.
Notwithstanding the reputation il
other respects, the Missouri: suprem
court holds that a community ma
suppress the firecracker and othe
deadly weapons which fatten GENE
teries on the Fourth of July.
The police officials of Baltimor
were were notified of the arrest in Jo
let, ILL.,, of Otto Berger, who. It |
charged, absconded in 1891 with $40
900 belonging to the Baltimore M,
steal Union, of which he was treat
urer.
All city hall employees in Chicag
whose work brings them into contaC
with the public will be required I
wear badge. An ordinance maxim
the enforcement of this requiremeI
\ imperative upon the heads Of all d.
Npartments has been adopted by tn
Nouncil