Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-05-12
News in Brief


The supreme court of Indiana de-
cides that under the Nicholson law
saloons must front on a street. not an
alley.
Reed smoot, the Mormon senator
whose seat has been protested, ex-
presses his confidence that he will not
be ousted
Senators Cullom and Hopkins and
Speaker Cannon agreed to recommend
Judge Goodwin or Aurora for appoint
ment as assistant attorney general.
The former confidential employee of
Miss Barton is said to have testified
to diversion or Red Cross funds
from the purpose for which they were
contributed.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion ordered the investigation of the
anthracite coal inquiry reopened and
will hear additional testimony at New
York May "a.
Secretary Moody, Congressman Foss
and probably Speaker Cannon will
sail on the Dolphin about May to
inspect the naval station at Guam.
tanamo, Cuba.
Lyman j. Gage, in an address before
John d. Rockefeller, jr.'s, bible class,
declared that acquisition of wealth is
not inconsistent with the material wei.
fare of society.
Thirty-three cattle are dead at Ter
ra Gotta ranch, west OF Salina, Kas.,
as the result Of carelessness on the
part of wolf hunters, who sprinkled
Paris green about traps.
Juan Rodriguez, citizen of Porto
Rico, petitioned for a mandamus to
compel the navy yard labor board to
grant him the rights of citizen Of
the United States to employment
Police Commissioner McAdoo joins
the crusaders in New York who are
endeavoring to fix upon the Western
Union Telegraph company the respon.
sibility of the existence of pool rooms.
Members of the house committee
of rivers and harbors will make per
sonal investigation of the Chicago
river to learn what will be needed to
improve navigation after the tunnels
are removed.
Incomplete returns from the repub
lican caucauses in Milwaukee show
Governor La Toilette secured possibly
forty-siX of the LAG delegates to the
state convention, against fifty-twC
two years ago.
Allen Mooney, the condemned muir
derer who shot and killed two women
at Saranac Lake, N. ", on November
4, 1902, was put to death in the cleo
trio chair at Clinton prison, Dame
morally, N. Y.
S. Mahuela, clerk of the Hawaiian
house of representatives, has been
found guilty by jury of the federal
court of destroying certain vouchers
for expenses of the house incurred
during the last regular session.
The portrait of the dowager empress
of China, painted by the American,
Miss Kate Carl which left Picking
April Fl, was dispatched by the Pacific
mail steamer Siberia. The portrait
on arrival at San Francisco will be
sent to the st. Louis exposition.
A. G. Twinger, former president,
and d. c. Cornell, former treasurer
of the defunct Monmouth Trust com.
pany Of Asbury Park, N Y, were sen.
fenced respectively to six and four
years in state prison. The men were
convicted of presenting false minutes
of the trust company to the state
banking department.
While it is difficult to ascertain the
exact state of the health of Mr. Kru.
ger, formerly president of the Trans.
vaal. it is said on good authority
that symptoms of a cerebral affection
are apparent and that consultation
of physicians has been held. Mr.
Kruger is now extremely weak and
constant care is necessary.
Charging that they are practically
in combination or conspiracy tC
defraud railroad companies" counse
for the Michigan Central Railroad
company filed a bill in the United
States circuit court for an injunction
to restrain twenty-eight ticket broi
ers or "scalpers" from continuing in
their present business.
The United States board of the
Lewis and Clark exposition to be held
in Portland, Ore, May, 1905, organized
with Colonel j. H. Brigham as chair
man. w. c. Fox, representative OF
the bureau of American republics, was
elected temporary secretary. The
board was organized that a committee
might be appointed to select the site
for the government building at Port
land.
DR., w. Z. Woodend of w. e. Wood
end & Co., the suspended stock broll
erage firm, was arrested at his home
in New York.
Defective forgings in the guns
which are said to have been twice re
jected, are alleged to have been re
sponsible for the accident on the bat
tleship Iowa.
While resisting an attempt of two