Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-21
Brief kilograms

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fe"' week.
Fire grtted three business blocks
on Merrimac street at Lowell, Mass
entailing a loss estimated at 100000
Five flremen were injured.
Figures are being compiled at the
Offices of the Union Pacific in Omaha
for the remodeling of the Office build
ing and making it more fireproof
Senator Quay has introduced bill
authorizing the president to appoint
Major General John p. Brooke,
lieutenant general on the retired list
After suspension of several weeks
for repairs it is announced that the
Edgar Thompson steel works at Pitts
burg, Pa, will resume operations in
full
The big smelter of the North Amer
lean Copper company which closed
down at Grand Encampment, Wyo,
for extensive repairs last month, will
resume operations in April.
The glove contest between Young
Corbett and Jimmy Britt will be fought
under the auspices of the Colma Ath-
letic club of Sap Francisco if present
arrangements are carried out.
Senator McCreary of Kentucky was
not reported correctly concerning his
vote on the motion which confirmed
the nomination of Buchanan as min
lister to Panama He did not vote.
Holbrook Eppill, a self-confessed
forger and bank swindler, who is
wanted in various parts Of the United
States on about one hundred different
charges, was arrested in San Fran
cisco.
Indian Commission Jones has made
a report, in most part favorable to
the bill of Representative Burke of
South Dakota, opening the 100000
acres of the Rosebud reservation to
settlement.
Thomas II. Wickes. vice president
of the Pullman company, is defendant
in divorce suit filed in the superior
court at Chicago by Mrs. Edna p
Wickers, in which she charges her
husband with cruelty.
The city council of Cleveland o.,
passed an ordinance fixing the street
car fare within the city limits at 3
cents. Outside of the limits, the fare
will be cents. The Scent fare will
I'M eff
j. c, Wilcox, former storekeeper
of the Southern railway at Birming-
ham, Ala, was arrested on an indict-
ment charging larceny of brass and
other material belonging to the South
ern to the value Of $4,000
James Little Plume, who pleaded
guilty to the charge of numbering
seven members of the Indian tribe of
Blackfoot, one of whom was his wife,
was sentenced at Helena, Mont, to
forty years in the penitentiary.
The organization of transfers of
the civil war will send a petition to
congress asking for the passage of a
law allowing all transfers on the pay
roll during the war to receive a pen,
sion of not less than $40 monthly.
The board of health at Lockport, n
Y, has ordered all local theaters
amusement halls and other public
meeting places closed and the public
library to cease issuing books, in or
der to guard against and epidemic &,
smallpox.
After charges and counter charge!
have been made against the consulate
of Shanghai, Canton and Annoy, for {
year, the president has ordered the
state department to make a thorough
investigation of them. The investiga
ton will probably form the basis 70
a complete change of the consulate
in the orient.
The national geographical associa
ton has requested the navy depart
ment to have a warship meet tn
steamer Princess Irene on her arriva
at New York. The Princess Iren
brings the remains of James Smith
son, founder of the Smithsonian Ii
stitution, from Genoa, to be finall
inferred at Washington.
The Oklahoma supreme court ha
affirmed the decision in the case {
Asa c. Sharp, former Indian agent {
the Ponca Indian reservation convic
ed of accepting bribes in regard t
the leasing of certain lands in tn
Ponca reservation and who was SCI
fenced to term of four years in I'll
federal penitentiary at Fort Leave
worth, Kan.
Lost Bird, the Indian baby girl, WI
was picked upon the battlefield
Wounded Knee and adopted by Ge
eral Colby, entered All Saints scho
at Sioux Falls, S, ID. Lost Bird
now 10 years old and is exceeding
bright,
The machinists blacksmiths ar
pattern makers in the three plan