Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-14
News in Brief

Martin ID. wood, VINO lOI 'll ~ -"N'
rcars was local manager Of the West
ern Union Telegraph company at Kan
,as City. Mo, died of pcralysis, aged
80 years.
Another ministerial crisis is imm-
aent in Chile. and the present coall'
ton of parties in the cabinet VIII prop,
ably give way to new party 1oriheo
Of the liberal element.
Reports have been received n, TO-
ito from Ping Yang to the erect thaI
when the Japanese scouts entered
VIII on Sunday last they found the
town deserted by the Russians.
At Schenectady, n. Y, eight hun
ired employees of the General Electric
company struck because the company
refused to discharge a Union man VINO
had been fined for violation of union
rule.
Major John l.. Bittinger, former con
sui general to Montreal, Is seriously
III at a hospital in st. Joseph, Mo. He
underwent a surgical operation few
days ago, which has left him in
greatly exhausted condition.
The secretary of war has directed
that permission be granted to the
army Young Mems Christian associa-
ton TO establish it's work at the vari-
Gus posts of the army in the United
States and in the Philippine islands
Burton II. Mattoon, formerly state
senator and eX.treasurer of the Water
ton Savings bank, pleaded guilty in
the supreme court at Winsted, Conn,
TO four charges of making false en-.
tries in the books of the savings bank
The supreme court of Ohio has af'
firmed the verdicts of the Lucas coun
~ court in the cases of Albert and
Ben Wade brothers, who are under
sentence of death for the murder of
Kate Sullivan at Toledo several years
ago.
Already Alton B. Parker has 232
delegates to the New York state con.
vention to select delegates to the ma
tional democratic convention. This
is a majority of the state convention,
which will be composed of $50 dele
gates.
In the course of the budget discus.
Zion in Calcutta the viceroy, Lord
Curzon of Kedleston, in an effective
speech, reviewed the last five years of
Indian administration and declared it
was his express intention to return to
India.
DR. Dowie's Zion City is profting
by the strike now going on in the big
printing and publishing houses of Chi.
cago. The employers are sending
their bookbinding work to outside
owns and a great quantity is going
to Zion
The result OF the vote in the vari-
GUS Michigan locals of the United
Mine Workers of America show that
The proposition of the operators won
out by large majority The result
Insures harmony in the Michigan dis
trlct for two years.
Senator Simons introduced a bill to
create permanent commission 10 in.
vestigate the several executive depart.
ments of the government. 1t provides
for commission of five persons. not
more than three to be members of the
same political party.
Among the many generous responses
which are coming to the Countess Cas-.
SIM for the fair to be held in Wash.
ington on May 6, for the benefit OF
the Russian Red Cross, were two
checks which came from New York
one for $1,000 and the other for $500
President Roosevelt and Representa-
tive Hull, chairman of the military az
fairs committee of the house, discuss
ed bill which provides higher rank
for army chaplains, in which the pres
ident is interested. 1t is urged thai
sufficient provision is not made in the
present law for rewarding any army
chaplains for meritorious services.
letter was received by Mayor
Wells of st. Louis from Commando
John Hubbard of the gunboat Nash
vile, now at Pensacola, Fla, sayin,
that he had been authorized TO an
nounce to the authorities of st. I.oui
that the navy department had decide,
to send torpedo boat destroyer t,
St Louis under escort of the Nash
vile. The warships will reach 81
Louis about April %
The president has pardoned Ieonar
Alverson, Walter Hoffman and vii
lam Waterman, convicted in New Me>
leo of postoiIice robbery and sentenc
ed to ten years Imprisonment, G
which they have served all but min
months. These pardons are granite
on the earnest recommendation of tn
governor of New Mexico, the warde
of the penitentiary and the district a
torney and trial judge, because of tn
unusually good conduct of the prison
ers.
At San Francisco George Darto
surrendered himself to the police sa
ing that he was wanted in Lucas coul
ty, Ohio, on a charge of embe2zlemel
of s1100 of the county's funds. Il
was formerly county clerk and says /
left Toledo on October 27, coming 4
rect to San Francisco,
John p. White, president of the low