Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-16
News in Brief

tally hurt and eight Otner SERIOUSLY
injured in an explosion Of natural gas
which wrecked large boarding house
there.
A granite stone was erected over
the grave OF John Quincy MARI on
June a few feet from the spot where
he fell in the battle of Fairfax Court
house.
The coinage facilities at the mint In
Mexico City are to be largely increas
cd The foreign demand for Mexican
cclns increases, and Japan has bought
heavily of late.
Ilicarte, the former Filipino leader,
has been captured by the cOnstabulary
and sent to Guam in exile. He was
the lnstigator of an uprising at Vigan
In February last.
Sergt John Martin, the only sur.
vivor of General Clusters regiment, en-.
gagged in the battle of the Big Horn in
1877, has been placed on the retired
list Of the army.
Prof Charles Richard Van Hise was
inaugurated president Of the Universe
tty Of Wisconsin. He is the first alum
nus of the university to be at the head
Of the institution.
John Robinson, fisherman of Maui
nee, ILL.,, shot and killed his wife, his
brother.in-law, Shelby Atterbury, and
yhen himself. Jealousy Is supposed to
have prompted the deed.
Thinoon FROM, Dolpy that tho
Russians had twenty-six naval guns at
Nan Shan, and also that many guns
from the Port Arthur fleet had been
placed in the land batteries.
Colonel William Herring, a leading
lawyer of Tucson Ariz., has for part
ner his daughter Miss Sarah, who
studied in her fathers Office when he
was assistant district attorney in New
York city.
Secretary Wilson will leave Wash.
ington for tour of about ten days in
the western states to inspect the agri
cultural colleges and experiment sta
tons. He will visit Wisconsin, Min
nesota and Iowa
The Reformed church in America
has twenty-three stations in foreign
fields, 251 minor or "out stations" 259
missionaries, 80 native missionaries,
542 native helpers and SO churches,
with 1888 communicates.
The secretary of the interior ap-
proved contracts for the construction
Of waterworks at the towns of Lawton
al TIfho mt In thA ,,r 10
homa. The Lawton works are to cost
$4,000 and the Hobart works $4,000.
The London Standards Che Foo cor
respondent says that Russian gun
boat, believed to be the Robr, which
was in action at Talienwan, has ar.
rived from Port Arthur. She was
chased by the Japanese, but was able
to take some refuge and escaped into
Danny. She was not followed into that
port on account of mines.
The department Of agriculture has
been advised that DR.. Cook, who mas
discovered in Guatemala an ant that
is a fierce enemy of the boil weevil
has started by the overland route
from Gutemala for the cotton fields
carrying colonies of ants with which
experiments will be made in the wee
vii ravaged sections.
1t seems now certain that the none
tary measure now before the Panama
assembly will be adopted as 1t is ,
compromise between the opposint
views. The principal points of tn,
plan are that the basis shall be tn,
American gold dollar and the unit o.
circulation the silver dollar as useC
in the Philippines.
Although not officially announced. |
is understood that the order of merl
of the battleships in the recent recort
target practice, so far as completed
is as follows: Oregon first and prob
ably winner of the pennant; Wiscon
sin second and Iowa third. The bat
tleship Illinois is now engaged in tar
get practice in Martha's Vineyard
For extraordinary heroism in tn
recent explosion on the Missouri, tn
following named enlisted men hav
been made warrant officers: Michae
Higgins, chief boatswain's mate, az
pOlnleu all dCtlnB DOdlSWdln, Nj on
Monssen, chief gunners mate appoin
ed acting gunner; George CroftiI
chief machinist, appointed acting wa
rant machinist.
There is a great fight on for the v;
cancy in the United States senat
caused by the death of Senator Ma
Quay. Ex-Attorney General John ]
Elkin, who was recently nominated fc
justice of the supreme court for
term OF twenty-one years, at a salar
of $4,000 per annum is a candldat
General T. oliver, a millionaire, an
William A. Flynn, a leader in varior
political movements at Pittsburg, al
also candidates.
The war Office says that many
the guns lost at Kin Chou were CT
nese guns captured during the Box
uprising.
The revolutionary Dominican forc,