Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-05-19
News in Brief

we're destroyed. Loss, 100000.
Brigadier General Peter r. Swaine
q. S. A.. retired, is dead at his home
at Los Nietos, Cal, ager "a years.
The body of man said to be Jerc
miah Harrington of quincy, H., was
found in the East river at New York.
Patrick ]. Donnelly, the new man
ager, will take charge Of the Wash
ington American league base ball club
Emperor William is to have erected
to him n commemorative monument on
the spot where he shot his thousandtt
stag.
The Servian government has decid
ed to demolsh the old palace which
was tho scene of tho murder of kin5
Alexander and Queen Draga.
In the circuit court at Evansville
Ind, Fred Beahme pleaded guilty &c
taking part in the race riots there
last July and was fined $50
Barton e. Dickson, who was until
last February superintendent of the
Kansas City Southern railway, died at
Kansas City of paresis, aged As.
The Grandon Electric Power com
panys 100000 dam on the Saskatche-
wan river, at Winnipeg, has been
washed away. The power house is in
danger
The most extended tour that Nj.
Paderewski has yet ventured upon has
Just been arranged, and he will sail
from Naples on May 20 for Melbourne,
Australia.
Rev. Emanuel Vogel Gerhart d. D.,
LII. d., professor of theology and
president of the theological seminary
of the Reformer Church of the United
States, died at Lancaster, Pa, aged 81
years.
George w. Parker of San Francisco,
president of the Pacific Coast Gypsum
company, was run down by an automo-
bile and pprobably fatally injured at
Kalamazoo. His shoulder and three
ribs were broken.
Secretary Edward Jarnigan of the
Potter Paper company and his wife
were found dead in their home at Chi
cago Appearances indicated that
both had swallowed poison and then
turned on the gas.
The supreme court of Alabama de-
cided that pools should not be sold
on horse races in Birmingham. 1t
held that city ordinance enacted for
the purpose of preventing the sale of
pools was binding and effective.
In the ladies' golf championship
contest at Troon. Scotland, Miss Hig-
gins of the Midlothian club, Chicago,
who drew against the international
championship, Miss Rhona Adair, was
defeated by three up and two to play.
An attempt to wreck Pennsylvania
train No. 80 was discovered near Rich
mand, Ind, when the engineer stopped
the train within few feet of pile of
bricks and stone which had been
placed on the track. Two boys have
been arrested.
The census has prepared bulletin
on irrigation in Oklahoma, showing
that in 1902 there were 1882 acres un
der irrigation. The water is supplied
from 113 systems, the cost of construc
ton of which averaged about $11 pei
acre.
DR.. Robert Bartholomew, the eminen
physician and emeritus professor o
materia medica, general therapeutic
and hygiene of Jefferson Medica col
lege, Philadelphia, died after niger
ing illness. DIR. Bartholomew was The
author of many medical works.
The national treasury department
drew warrant for $50,S74 in favo
of the state of Texas, that being tn
amount appropriated at the last ses
sion of congress for the state for e>
penses incurred in maintaining civi
government in Greer county. Tha
county is now a part of Oklahoma.
DR.. Clinton Cashing, one of the ole
est and best known physicians q
Washington, d. c., died.
After nearly forty years the Paine
house for long time the best know
hotel in Chicago, has passed from tn
hands of the Palmer family into tn
control of the Chicago Hotel Compan!
recently incorporated. Mrs. Potte
Palmer and the other heirs to the e
tate will not have any interest in tn
corporation.
Their love for each other and tn
fear that they might be separated b
death is believed to have led Conra
Hauenstein, SO years old, and his sol
Conrad, jr., aged 3S years to TAX
their own lives. The bodies of tn
two men were found in room in EaS
Twenty-fifth street New York, wheI
they had lived together for sewers
years.
The Louisville KY Post says
Preliminary steps toward the consol
dation oil all the Independent tel
phone lines in the United States wi
probably be taken at a conference
be held in this city between Presidel
]. G. Splaine of the Pittsburg & al
gheny Telephone company and the c
Gals of me Louisville Home Tel
phone company