Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-30
Brief kilograms

are owned and run by the common
wealth.
Judge A. M. Woodson OF st. Joseph
was nominated for supreme judge OF
Missouri at the democratic convention
held at st. Joseph.
Lord Grimthorpe, peer, clockmaker,
church restorer. and in one sense
father OF the British bar, has just cell
ebrated his S8th birthday.
Rev. John Gardner Murray has de.
clined to become bishop of Kentucky
and will remain rector of his present
congregation in Baltimore.
The manufacture and sale Of to-
bacco is monoplized by the Austrian
government, and this monopoly brings
into the treasury over s27000,000 a
year.
The Canadian Pacific railway Is
opening a large anthracite coal mine
at Banff, Northwest Territory, and in
vites tenders for driving tunnel 200
feet long.
Edward Aughinbaugh, first prisoner
taken by John Browns men in the
famous raid of 1859, has been in the
drug business in indianapolis nearly
forty years.
English Is in the future to lie an
optional subject in all public schools
in Saxony OH the ground that 1t Is
the most widely used civilized Ian
guage in the world"
The British steamship South Amer
lea, which arrived in New York Fri
Gay from Shields. had a narrow es-
cape in mid-sea from running at full
speed into an iceberg.
NCrth Dakota owns a street rail-
way al Bismarck to carry members
of the legislature to and from the
capitol. But one car is owned and
operated ON the syst am.
The governor of NagasaN has Off
cially thanked the British consul
there for the services rendered by
the British steamer Dunbar in rescu-
ms ohiNlNOiO Vi tuC llitdIhi.
A dispatch from Mukden to the Gen.
trial News says two ambulance trains
have arrived there. having on board
3S officers and 734 men who were
wounded in the fight at Vafangow.
Dominic I. Murphy, who has been
elected SECRETARY of the Panama can
al L., 80 ~
phia, where he was born 81 years ago,
and was educated in the public
schools.
Kent j, LOOMS of Parkersburg, w.
Va, brother of Assistant Secretary
of State Loomis, disappeared from
the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II, on
which he sailed June IA en- route to
Abyssinia.
Party feeling is running high in
Paris over the investigation into al
legged attempts to corrupt members
OF the government in connection with
the question OF the expulsion of the
monks of the Carthusian order.
Emperor William is sending DR..
Grabensee. one of the best known
horse breeding specialists OF Ger
many, to st. Louis to study American
breeders methods for experience.
A unique plan for the heating of
residences Is about to be put in opera
ton at Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
Water from the famous boiling springs
is to be pired into town, and so great
is the supply that houses can be heat.
ed at very triiiing expense.
An amusing invention Is the "chro-
mophone," which was recently ex
hlbited in a London theater to an in
viteG audience. 1t combines the cine
natograph with the gramaphone. The
figures move as in life, and give utter
ance to songs or conversation in har
mony with natural and expressive ges
lures.
Cecilia Logan Connolly, the author
and playwright, is dead at the Ger
man hospital in New York She was
born in 1884. Her father was G. A
Logan, one of the pioneer theatrica
hdhubCio III thC idi WSSI. Onc wen
on the stage early in life, but left 4
on becoming the wife of M. Kllogg
an American painter in Paris.
Commissioner Richards of the gen
eral land Office. who is at Thief Rive
Falls, Mimi, conducting the sale o
lands on the Red Lake Indian reser
walton, telegraphed the department
Have sold the sixty tracts SEIZED
uled for today for s101.234; loves
price per acre, s5.25; highest, 1880
average, $1,000. Very satisfactory.
The minimum price fixed by law wa
S4.25 rar ecre.
At the meeting of the Central AS
sociation of Railroad Oficers at 81
Louis the Omaha association was add
ed to the membership.
A floating theater is being construct
ed by manager in Amsterdam. |
will accommodate 1890 persons an
will have a restaurant and bar.
After quaTeling over money MAJ