Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-05-26
News in Brief


tory agreement. $500 coal miners in
subdistrict No. 6, in Ohio, went out on
a strike.
The Hereros whom the Germans
are now fighting in Southwest Africa,
number 10000 fighting men of class
far superior to most of the African
native races.
Topeka factories according TO tho
assessors returns, employ 1000 more
people this year than they did one
year ago The pay roll is now 3d.
$50 600 annually.
Secretary Shaw has accepted what
is known as the Flint site for the new
postoHice building at Los Angeles. me
site is bounded by Temple Main, New
High and Commercial streets.
The cartment at Havana, employed
in hauling lumber, went on strike
for payment in American instead OF
Spanish money. There is some APP
prehension of sympathetic strikes.
Seats are higher priced at the Paris
opera house than in any other Euro
pean capital, in spite of the fact that
the state gives the building rent free
and the annual subvention of 100000.
The Atlantic Transport lines steam
er Minneapolis, which arrived at New.
York from London, brought forty-iiVe
Norman and Flemish stations for eX-
hibition at the st. Louis exposition.
Twin" Sullivan was given the deci-
10 ~ "a ct tom
round fight at Toledo, o. Sullivan
had the best of the fight throughout
and had Gardner all but out in the
eighth round.
Various temperance organizations
have begun a campaign to make the
Panama canal zone prohibition terri
tory. President Roosevelt is daily re-
ceiving letters to this end and is re.
ferrlng them to the canal commission.
Vancouver harbor is to be fortified
upon the recommendation of Lord
Dundonald, general officer command
Ing the Canadian military, who in
spected the port a few months ago
and was struck with its lack OF pro.
lection in case of war.
An order has been issued remand.
ing to the custody of the New York
officers Captain John j. Healy, for
mer president of the Alaska Explora'
ton company. Healy is charged with
ENLIGHTENMENT of funds belonging TO
the company.
Tom Toben famous scout and In
dian fighter and intimate friend and
companion o. Kit Carson, is dead al
Fort Garland, Colo. Tobin served as
scout to the government troops in eX
Mexican bandits.
After having inspected the indie
pendent telephone systems OF the At
lantic states and middle west the par
~ of independent telephone capitalists
headed by ]. G. Splane of the Allie
gheny & Plttsburg company, have de
cided to perfect within the next three
months an independent long distance
system.
Miss Mary Wilson McGahey of Lin
coin, Neb., was one of the fortunat
aspirants for scholarships at tn
Teachers college of New York, award
of which were made last week. Sh
Is granted a scholarship in manua
training for 1904-1905, and is the onl
woman student to receive such a scho
arship and the only westerner thu
honored.
United States Consul Dudley at Var
cover, B. c., informs the state depart
hot oh lob N
at Vancouver from Kansas City, Mo
having been induced to go there b
fraudulent offers OF high wages o
the Alaska Central railway. Not ha
of them had sufficient money to pa
their fare to Seattle and the rest al
stranded in vancouver.
Governor Herrick has ordered
court-martial in connection with tn
recent riots at Springfield, at whic
time the negro Dickson was lynched.
Private dispatches from the Came
oons say the Cross River rebels hay
been completely crushed after an o.
stinate fight, by a British force,
the territory of southern Nigeria.
Second Vice President and Gener
Manager Pennington of the Minneap
lis, st. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie ra!
way, in an official circular, announc,
that his road, having acquired the 81
marck, Washburn & Great Falls ra
way, extending from Bismarck to U
derwood, N. D., will be operated as
part of the Minneapolis, st, Paul
Sault Ste. Marie railway.
James T. Woodward's removal fro
the democratic ticket in New Yo
will be recommended by the comm
tee of three eminent lawyers select
by Chairman Cord Meyer to pass up'
the eligibility of national bank dire
tors to serve as presidential electol
The Austrian government has
Gently adopted mixture Of powder
aluminium and nitrate of ammonia
a bursting charge for projectiles.
DR.. Cecilia BaeZ, the newly appoi
ed minister from Paraguay to the U
ted States, is the first minister II
country has had here in fifteen yea
Colorado still holds first pla