Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-02-18
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three times as much as Cuba buys
from the United States.
Admiral w S. Schley is confined &c
his home IN Washington by an attack
of grippe, but expects to be out in o
few days.
A steellike grass from the volcanic
slopes of Oran, Algeria, is so elastic
that it can be used instead of springs
in the manufacture of furniture.
AS a consequence of the famine
times Stockholm legislators proposed
tax upon All persons weighing more
than one hundred and twenty-five
pounds.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
has issued an order directing the
Dawes commission to issue no more
alotments of land of Indians who
have been accepted by various tribes
Inmates of St Asaph workhouse, in
Wales. possess pony and phaeton,
piano and library of more than 600
volumes. All are provided by gener.
ously disposed persons in the dis
trct
Prof Benjamin f. Clarke of Brown
university was given a loving cup re-
Gently by his colleagues in the faculty
in recognition of the completion of
forty years of service by him in the
university.
Russell Leonard, a youth of 16, re.
siding south of Warsaw, Ind has com.
pleted his second year of sleeping in
the open air in all kinds of weather
He is battling for his life against tn.
Derculosis.
General Ben ]. Vilioen, general Of
the Boer forces in the war in the
Transvaal, was a guest of the presi-
dent at luncheon. He will have charge
of the Boer exhibit at the st. Louis
exposition.
The Austrian Peace society has sent
a cablegram to President Roosevelt re.
questing him to intervene in the Rus.
sian-Japanese conflict under the provi
sions of the international arbitration
tribunal at The Hague.
Minister Finch has cabled the state
department that there has been a
change in the sentiment in Montevideo
and that there is now no fear of an
attack on the city, which is being
guarded by 1000 well armed and Off.
cered men.
Thomas l.. James, former postmas.
ter general of the United States, was
married in Shakespeares church, at
Stratford-on-Avon, to Edith, daughter
of Alderman Colbourne, of Stratford-
on-Avon. Numerous relatives and
friends were present.
1t is said at the war department
that Cameron Forbes Of Boston, who
has been rendered the position of
Philippine commission, was selected
principally because of his executive
abilities and technical knowledge of
engineering matters.
The relief fund for the sufferers of
the Cheswick mine disaster now
amounts to $33,759 Revised statistics
of the disaster to date show total loss
of life. 1856; bodies accounted for 14l.
Among late subscriptions was $4,000
from Mayor Hays of Pittsburg, who is
himself precariously i'll.
Jacob Allen, a wealthy farmer of
Wellington, kas., was swindled in
Wichita by gold brick men, who sold
him worthless combination of tin
and copper for $4,000. 1t had been
recommended by a supposed govern.
ment assayer who gave the name of
j. e. Stone of Philadelphia.
BY bill which passed the Ken.
lucky legislature co-education in Ken
lucky must cease. 1t remains only
for the governor to sign the meas.
ure to make it law, and then Berea
college, one of the most famous edu.
catlonal institutions in that part OF
the country, must pass out of exist
ence.
Rev. A. Grant Evans, president 81
Henry Kendall college, Muskogee, is
in Washington to urge the remova
of restrictions in the sale of land II
the Creek nation, also in the interes
of provisional school system on the
lines of the bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Stewart of Nevada las
week
DR.. NJ, M. Johnson of Hartford
Conn, has brought suit against Mrs
d. OSueH ATIilOuT VI CnlCdSO LOT 20
900. Mrs. Armour is the mother o
the little girl who was operated o.
by DR.. Lorenz, and for which he wa
said to have received a fee of $40 ,00(
The suit is brought for medical serN
ices for Mrs. Armours sister.
Second Lieutenant Frank Pratt. o
duty at Fort Wayne, Mich. has bee
detained in this country after havin
been ordered to the Philippines b.
cause of more serious charges tina
those preferred against him in Manila
which he was returning to face. II
is charged with gambling in ManiI
and with being short in his funds I
the amount of $500
Captain George A. Armes, Unite
States army, retired, has addressed
letter to the president charging unju'
treatment at the hands of the mil
tary authorities. He asserts that in
portant documents bearing on his re
ord have mysteriously disappeare
from the Office of the adjutant genera