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

cost France alone no less than twenty
millions dollars.
In 1881 the London birth rate av-
eraged 1922 per 1000. 1t steadily de-
clned to 2S5 in 1902.
Korean commerce amounts to about
fifteen million per annum, the imports
being double the exports.
Typhoid fever has broken out
among all the detachments of marines
in German Southwest Africa.
Expectation of S6,6OOOOO gold from
New York last week broke the record
FOR outgo in one day since 1901.
John D. DAILY an old-time newspa-
per man, well known in Chicago and
other cities, died at Elkhart Ind.
The Chicago Great Western Railroad
company filed with the secretary of
state a certificate increasing its CAPT
tai stock from S3OOOOO0 to $4,000
00O
Tommy Love of Philadelphia was
given the decision over Tommy Feltz
of Brooklyn in their tifteen-round
bout before the Eutaw Athletic club
of Baltimore, Md.
The Wabash railroad shops at De-
catur. Ill. were ordered closed by
President Ramsay The order is sup
posed to be on account Of the strike
order by the Garments brotherhood
At Syracuse. N. Y, the Lyceum
theater. vaudeville house, was de-
stroyed by fire. 1t had closed during
the season until last week, when a
New York company played six nights.
While no official announcement of
Wabash loan was made, it was
learned from a trustworthy source
that loan for $6,O0O,00O, bearing
per cent interest, has been negotiated.
Senator Hale and others counsel de-
lay in building more battleships until
the Russo-Japanese conflict shall have
demonstrated the comparative utility
of the big fighters and the torpedo
boats.
Frank Mcnamara, employed for fif-
teen years in Chicago, plead guilty of
numbering Captain jennings in Brook
Ign in the hope of covering up his
theft of $4,000 from his western en-
ployer
Colonel Loutwein, governor of Ger
man Southwest Africa, cables that
typhus has broken out in Major Won
Glasenapp's column. Seven deaths
from the disease were recorded up to
April 20.
w. A. p. Davis of Philadelphia, Sec
rotary of the Gregory Buell. Mining
company. was seriously injured in the
tunnel of the mine near Central City,
Colo, by the unexpected explosion of
dynamite.
The president sent the following
nominations of postmasters to the
senate: Nebraska-Thomas A. Boyd
Beaver City. Iowa-William G. Ross
Fairfield; e. M. Smith, Winterset;
Samuel H. Hall, Lime Springs.
At Deadwood, S. D., fire destroyed
the large pressed brick plant owned
by Thomas Whitaker of that city and
Sioux Falls capitalists. Loss, $4,000
partly covered by insurance. The
plaI, will be rebuilt.
In a lecture in New Orleans DR.. lisa.
dore Dyer, physician at the lepers
home in Louisiana, after saying there
were 100000 lepers in existence, an
nounced that in the last two years tn,
problem of curing the disease has beer
solved.
Brigadier General Joseph Dickinson
last of the adjutants general of tn,
Army of the Potomac and chief o
stats under Generals Hooker ant
Meade, during the civil war, died il
Washington after an illness of tire
months. He was 72 years old.
The Supreme Court of Colorado re
fused to admit to bail Charles II
Meyer, president of the striking min
ers of Colorado, pending the hearin
of his habeas corpus case May 5, an
the prisoner will remain in the hand
of the military in the bull pen.
That the prayer meeting, with it
cut and dried programme" has out
lived its usefulness, that the Christia
Endeavor Society is exercising to
much influence on the church, an
that radical changes are needed wer
the declarations of Rev. George Tay
Tor at the meeting of Congregations
ministers in Boston.
After receiving one current of 40
600 volts and another of $4,000 an
falling forty feet to the ground Henri
Elsey of Galesburg, Mich, an electri
lineman, is alive, with the loss of tw
toes the only permanent injury. T.
sey has returned from Kalamazoo
where he has been six weeks in a ho'
ptal recovering. His recovery is COZ
sidered one of the most remarkab
on record.
The Swiss Alpine club has With
the last four years spent $21 900
building refuge huts on various mouI
tains.
Charles f. McKenna of Pennsylval
ia has been nominated by the pres
dent United States district judge Il
Porto Rico.
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