Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-07
Brief Telegrarns


Des Moines will be obliged to wait q
year.
Forest fires are raging in the Ken.
lucky mountains to the east of owen.
Vile. The fire covers several noun.
tains.
Governor Cummins, of Iowa who
has been suffering from threatened
attack of pneumonia, is now pro
nounced out of danger
The machine shops OF the Pittsbure
Valve Foundry and Construction com
pany were destroyed by fire, the loss
probably reaching 100000,
The appointment of President A. l.
Mohler of the Oregon Railway & Nav.
igation company, as general manager
of the Union Pacific railroad Is an
nounced
Herr Dufay, the German vice con.
sui at Sata has been murdered by
an Italian teggar, who was arrested
The motive of the murder is said to
have been revenge.
The will of the late Jesse Spalding,
a wealthy capitalist Of Chicago, was
filed for probate. The witness leaves
an estate Of $4,5G0.000 entirely to
members of the family
'Dowie, now In Australia, has issued
an appeal by cable asking all the
faithful to pray for him. He says
mobs are chasing him into the brush
and threatening his life.
In London the record price under
the hammer for an orchid was paid
when e. A. Ashworth, noted orchid
grower of Cheshire sold an adontog
lossum at auction for $1,700
Forty.five ministers, nearly all OF
whom are pastors of st. Louis church
es have issued signed appeal TO the
citizens of Missouri in behalf of law
and order during elections.
1t is officially announced that Baron
Curzon, of Keddleston, viceroy of In.
dia, has been appointed lord warden
of the Cirque ports. in succession to
the late Marquis of Salisbury.
The London correspondent at Mon
tevideo, Uruguay, says the peace ne.
gotiations have been abandoned and
the government is raising fresh forces
in preparation for a winter campaign.
Engineer Edward Harmon was
killed and Fireman Thompson and
Brakeman White were fatally injured
in the wrecking of fast freight train
on the Milwaukee road by unknown
persons.
The United States army freight
transport Dix sailed from San Fran.
cisco for Manila with 200 men, a few
horses and 5000 tons of hay and fod.
der. She also carried about twenty
passengers.
kilograms from Santiago de Cuba
report that all the members of the
provincial electoral board of scrutiny
have been arrested on the charge of
falsifyins the results of the elections
for congressman.
IL the plans of the Mckinley Ma,
ton Memorial Association trustees
do not miscarry actual work on the
site and monument OF Mckinley on
Monument hill will be commenced
late in the summer OF 1904.
Secretary Hartsell, of the National
Mckinley Memorial Association at
Canton, o., has received consign,
ment of 100000 souvenir certificates
for contributors to the fund. The dis.
tribution will begin Immediately.
In consequence of speech insult
ing King Edward the Australian gov.
eminent has refused the use of pub
lie buildings to John Alexander Dowie
The mayor of Adelaide wrote tc
Dowie, telling him he was a disgrace
TO the nationality.
The report published by the Daily
Chronicle of London, and cabled to
the United States, that the Vatican
has for days been guarded by large
force of Italian soldiers and police
owing to the discovery of plot
against the life of the pope, is ridi
culed by the Vatican authorities, whC
say that the number of carbneers ant
policemen on duty at the papel palac,
is no larger than usual.
With record showing his condi
ton from day to day, when he knew
death was near, clutched in his hand
the body of Hans G. Jepson, formerl,
prominent citizen of Escanaba
Mich, was found recently in a loj
shanty forty miles in the woods nortl
of Escanaba. The diary covers a pc
riod of eighteen days and indicate
the progress of fever which culmi
mated in death on March 20, the dat
OF the last scrawl of the diary
Members of the different bands Il
Hamilton and Toronto will ask tn
International Association of Musician
to protest against the regulations il
sued by the st. Louis fair directors
which, it is declared, practically shut
all Canadian bands out of engage
ments at the fair.
Senator Cocllrell has introduced tn
Rody bill to amend an act, entitled