Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-03-24
Brief kilograms

were killed III n COLLISION between
Canadian Pacific and Boston a. Maine
freight trains near Lennoxville.
Illinois rural carriers send many
letters to Senator Cullom seeking in
creases in pay and protesting against
their agency rights being taken away
Assaults of citizens and intimida'
ton of voters at the democratic pri!
maries at ST. Louis are being made
subjects OF an investigation by the
grand jury.
Bulgaria and Turkey have entered
into an agreement by the which the
porte promises an extension of re
forms. which virtually means peace
for the Balkan states.
The new grand jury which has
been holding sessions at Milwaukee
for six weeks past investigating city
and county alleged irregularities. re
turned a number of indictments.
The transport Sheridan sailed from
Manila for San Francisco with 500
enlisted men of the Eleventh cavalry
and a battalion of Philippine scouts,
bound for the st. Louis exposition.
The report from New Chwang that
four Russian steamers have been
sunk at the entrance to Port Arthur
after the removal of the battleship
Retvzan, is authorltatively denied.
Rear Admiral Walker told the
house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce that he expects
work will be commenced on the Pan.
anna canal within two or three
months.
+. B. Critchlow. formerly assistant
United States attorney for Utah, ties.
titled that the Mormon church uses
ostracism TO enforce absolute ODE
dience in all things, business and po-
litical.
An autograph letter from Thomas
Jefferson, written 100 years ago to the
Indians of the Louisiana Purchase
has recently been unearthed from the
archives of the Sac and Fox Indians
in Oklahoma.
Prof. Frank Thilly, PHI. D., OF the
University of Missouri, has been
elected Stuart professor of psychol.
ogy at the meeting of the trustees of
Princeton university, in place of Prof.
J. Mark Baldwin.
A London paper says that in the
matter of clothes the House Of Com.
mons is the most correct assembly
OF legislators In the world. and the
American House of Representatives
the most astonishing.
Captain Robert Smith, widely
known as commander of the whale.
back passenger steamer Christopher
Columbus, is dead as the Chicago hos.
pital as the result of an operation
for the removal of an exophthalmic
goitre.
The executive committee of the
woman's republican state central
committee has called a state conven-
ton of republican women to be held
at Springfield, H., May IL. the day
preceding the republican state con.
vention.
First Lieutenant Arthur G. Harpley
of the Twelfth cavalry, having been
tried by general court-martial at
Manila and found guilty of serious
charges affecting his moral character
has been sentenced to dismissal from
the army,
The German branch of the Evan
gelistical alliance protests against the
readmission of the Jesuits to Ger
many. The alliance points out thai
Protestant bodies all over German.
have passed sctrong resolution!
against the step.
Prof Oscar Lowell Triggs, whose
radical ideas are said to have cos
him his position at the university o
Chicago, took a parting shot in tn,
March number of the Philistine. Thu
tendency of the modern college /
criticized severely.
Herman Remert, farmer, living nea
Heller. Kas., while temporarily iI
sane, killed his wife and then hin
self. While Mrs. Remert was pr,
pairing a meal Remert stepped up
her without warning and fired "a bu
let into her temple.
Invitations have been sent to riff
men in the United States and variou
foreign countries requesting the a
pointment of teams TO participate
which represents the military tea
championship of the world.
The Maryland house of delegate
by party vote OF GA to 2, has passC
the bill proposing constitution
amendment limiting the franchise
Maryland the purpose of which is
eliminate the negro vote, The me
sure has passed the senate and nc
goes to Governor Warfield for b
action.
The University of Vienna has be,
closed in consequence of threats
disturbances among the students. II
German students were much incens
at the demonstration of the Gee
against their German comrades
Prague, Bohemia, and threatened
taliation.
Lucien w. Perkins, machin
who escaped from the insane asylr
at Elgin, H., and who followed Mi
Auten, daughter of a Chicago capt.