Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-03-31
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Leonard Wood is confirmed as C
major general in the Senate by vote
of 45 to 1G.
w. II. Thompson has declined to be
candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation for governor of Nebraska
Senator Gibson introduced bill to
repeal the desert land act and the
communication of the homestead act,
The majority of the House subcom-
mittee recommends the impeachment
of Judge Charles Swayno of Florida.
House committee on judiciary au-
thOrized a report on the limitations
statute leaving out the Retroactive
feature
The British submarine boat was run
down by an ocean liner off Ports.
mouth and its crew of eleven men
drowned.
The lion cub and two elephant tusks,
gifts of King Menelilt to President
Roosevelt, arrived in New York and
animal keepers have been sent to get
them.
Secretary Taft informs the House
commerce that he favors the Lowering
bill for governing the Panama Canal
zone.
]. ~ Ford says mystery still sur
rounds the situation in the far East,
but it Is believed a general Japanese
advance has been commenced in
Korea.
Andrew Carnegie's gift of $4,000 to
Kenyon college at Gambler, Ohio, Is
said to be in recognition of Edwin M.
Stanton's kindness to Mr.. Carnegie
years ago.
Reports that the Russians have
crossed the Value river on n raid of
Manchuria are confiremd. The Japan
csc await n battle on the south side
of the river.
The bill making appropriations for
the Indian department shows a gross
increase of $2,179,213 over the bill as
passed by the house. 1t now carries
a total appropriation of 1881, 4O5.
The Bavarian Courier of Munich
printed dispatch from Rome saying
it Is asserted in vatican circles that an
agreement has been reached for the
establishment of papal nunciature
in Berlin.
William Il. Curtis writes Of the
thousands that annually are slain in
India by snakes and wild beasts and
tells of the crusade begun by the
government against the denizens of
the jungles.
The commissioner of the general
land Office has temporarily withdrawn
from entry under the reclamation act
two townships in The Dalles, Ore,
land district and three townships in
the La Grande, Ore, district.
Allen p. Lovejoy of GAINESVILLE, Wis,
has just died. He leaves an estate
valued at about $10,000,000 and was
the richest man in Wisconsin outside
of Milwaukee, His fortune was chief
ly accumulated in numbering opera.
tions.
Acting Postmaster General Wynne
has received report from Assistant
superintendent Gould and Sawyer OF
the salaries and allowance division.
recommending the consolidation of the
East st. Louis stock yards station with
the East st. Louis office.
The House committee on elections
reports that A. ID. Dantzler, a negro OF
South Carolina, was not elected to
Congress, but ignores his plea that the
southern election laws are unconsti-
tutional, on the ground that ruling
would cause wide complication.
1t is said at the State department
that instructions were sent Saturday
TO Ambassador Motention at st.
Petersburg to call the attention of the
Russian government to the condition
of the Japanese in Siberia in the hope
that the government will do all in its
Japan.
The house committee on Industrial
arts and eXpositions adopted com
plete substitute for the senate bill
making an appropriation for the Lewis
and Clark exposition to be held al
Portland, Ore, beginning May /, 1905
The bill as reported by the house com
mittee reduces the appropriation L
$475,O00.
ne ItSlBndllOH vi MdIOI Sttiy, NOl
servative member of parliament fo
the Isle Of Wight, division of Hamp
shire, which he announced in tn,
hocse of commons during the debate
on the liberal motion to cesure thu
government for it's policy regarding
the importation of coolie labor int,
South Africa, is final.
Governor Carter of Honolulu ha
called an extra session of the legisla
ture to meet on April 4 to conside
the finances of the treasury which i
unable to meet the warrants draw
upon 1t. For the present fiscal yea
the appropriations exceed the incom
by $1.500,000, The reorganization o
the territorial government on les
expensive basis is now proposed
A Manila dispatch says that the dat
to, Hansen, who wounded Major ii, /
Scott during an engagement in Jol
in November last, has been killed b
pursuing troops, Everything is peace
full now, with no opposition of an
kind to the American rule in the islam