Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-11
Brief kilograms

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ivostok squadron has returned to
Vladivostok.
The drouth has almost destroyed
the maize crop in Roumania and the
government has prohibited the expor-
tation of maize.
The British museum contains over
two million volumes of printed books
and manuscripts, which are stored
upon forty miles of shelving.
Christening of a Filipino boy, born
on July G, at which President Francis
acted as godfather, took place at the
Philippine reservation, Worlds fair
Judge Parker's invitation to Rich
ard Olney of Massachusetts to visit
Rosemount has been accepted and
Mr.. Olney is expected within fort
night
Boston forestry experts will make
an attempt to solve the forest prob
lem of the country and seek to pro-
mote the growth Of timber in the
middle west
President Roosevelt refuses to con-
slider any overtures for the national
settlement of the strike, on the
ground that the trouble does not af-
feet the nation.
The father of Eugene Schumann,
the assassin of General Bobrikoff,
governor general of Finland, has been
sent to st. Petersburg under an es-
cort of gendarmes.
DR.. c. H. Tittman, chief of the coast
and geodetic survey, is about to start
for Alaska to inspect the work of the
surveyors of the boundary in behalf
of the United States.
In the last few weeks since the
planting of trees on the government
forest reserve in the Diamond River
valley in Nebraska began 100000
trees have been planted.
At East Hampton, Mass, Rev. ]. d.
Stops resigned the passionate of the
First Congregational church, he hav-
ing accepted a call to the chair of
philosophy in Grinnell college, Iowa
Corwin Spencer, one of the largest
operators In the ST. Louis grain mar
ket, says he will no longer trade in
st. Louis, following the fight over
the settlement OF the July wheat cor
ner.
Jackson II. Ralston of Washington
has signed his final award as umpire
Of the Italian Venezuelan commits
sion and this completes the labors OF
all the recent Venezuelan mixed com
missions.
Aftav n nf mo- oil utIfcl,
during which he continually wept and
prayed, Frank Benedetto, who muir
dered his wife during a fit of jeal-
ousy, committed suicide in his cell in
the county jail at Chicago by hanging
himself
The big battleship Ohio one of the
latest and most powerful models of
fighting craft built for the United
States government, had her official
trial trip in Santa Barbara channel
She fell short of the government re
quirement.
Burlington crop reports for the
week show plenty of rain over most
of Nebraska, but dry between Frank
lin and Bloomington, Indianola and
McCook, Atlanta and Oxford, and or
the Imperial line.
G. X. Thompson has been appoint
ed general western passenger agen
of the West Shore railroad, will
headquarters at Chicago. For fifteer
years Mr.. Thompson has been Chi
cago passenger agent of the Wiscon
sin Central.
The democratic state convention o
Washington nominated ex-Senato
George Turner for governor amids
wild enthusiasm.
Robert Garrett of Baltimore count
was nominated for congress by tn
republicans of the Second Marylan,
congressional district.
Twelve hundred workmen at tn
Pullman car works have been laid OF
since June 1 because of lack of bus
ness.
DIR. Dowie gives a new solution TO
the cause of warm weather He say
the humid and oppressive heat is du
to the presence in the air of million
of little devils, sent here by the evi
one to annoy sinners.
President Oscar Murray of the Ba
timore & Ohio railroad sailed for Ell
rope, after conference with the vic
presidents and the heads of depart
ments regarding the present cond
tions and future plans of the road.
Information have been received a
the Worlds fair state building tina
Judge and Mrs. Alton B. Parker hav
accepted the invitation of Nationa
Committeeman Norman e. Mack t
be his guests on New York day, OctC
Der 4.
Seven persons were injured in
wreck on the Louisville & Nashvill
railroad near Slaughterville.
The home rule territorial CONVEX
ton of Hawaii nominated Charlie
Motley, a half white, for delegate I
congress. The platform adopted d.
mands statehood for Hawaii.