Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-06
Brief kilograms


George AIDE, who is said to be max
ing $4,000 a week from his plays, will
remain all winter in New York.
The Illinois Central reports a total
net income for the year ended June
80 of $S,S65,927, or 9.3 per cent on
the stock.
Mrs. May L Taylor Of Decatur, H..
has brought suit against Reason Da-
Wis, retired manufacturer, for $4,000
damages, alleging breach of promise,
Official reports are received at To.
kio of fighting at Telling and San
iungku, the location being given as
sixty miles northeast of LiaO-Yang.
The total registration at the Uni
versity of Minnesota is: Academic,
1875; engineering, sos; law, 425;
medical, 400 Total last year, 3,S46.
Chief Engineer John +. Wallace OF
the Isthmian Canal commission has
returned to Chicago for a two weeks
rest and discusses the work on the
big ditch.
While fighting fire in the shaft OF
the East Vulcan mine near Norway,
Mich, eleven men were seriously
burned and it is thought that at least
one will die.
In his speech at Norfolk, Neb,
Speaker Cannon accused Judge Park.
er of garbling and disappearing
former President McKinley's position
on reciprocity.
6slo Cohn, known throughout
Austria for his beneficence in feeding
the homeless poor through the me-
dunn of the Peoples Kitchens, is Wis
Ting this country.
Suits have been filed to test the
validity of statute preventing any
person to sue to recover three times
the amount Of the losses of a stock
margin Spectator.
In a collision at Bloxom Va, be.
tween New York, Philadelphia G.
Norfolk passenger train and a freight,
Engineer S. ]. Brown and Fireman
Francis Donoway were killed.
Engineer John Shane was killed and
three other persons injured by the
derailing of the Missouri, Kansas G.
Texas flyer" at Lewis Station, Mo,
caused by misplaced switch
At Keokuk, Ia, during terrific
electrical storm a bolt of lightning
struck the CollinsHealslip Wholesale
carpet building. The structure was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $25O0OO.
Absence of detailed reports from
the Russian commander leads to a
fear in st. Petersburg that Kuropat-
kin may not seriously contest the ia
panese advance, but retreat north.
The sultan of Turkey invited the
American minister, Mr. Leishman, to
dine at the palace and this is taken
as an augury of the solution of the
pending Turkish-American questions.
President Roosevelt received the
members Of the interparliamentary
union and promised soon to comply
with their request that he shall call
another peace conference at The
Hague
The government Of Panama is send
ing several young men and women to
study in the United States and Eu-
rope The first company of six stu
dents has started for Belgium and
France
At the reunion of Wilder's Brigade
at Lafayette, Ind, General John 4.
Wilder was given a rousing welcome
and at his suggestion it was decided
to hold the next annual meeting at
Chickamauga Park
The Union Pacific leads speculative
interest in Wall street. The stock,
after advancing steadily on small
transactions, suddenly jumped to
101A on an abrupt increase in the
volume of trading.
DR.. Isaac X. Funk, a New York
spiritualist, publishes the results of
an Investigation into the business OF
a chicago dealer who furnishes out
fits to so-called mediums for bogus
spirit materializations.
Fire destroyed practically all the
stock in the Christian PEPPER Tobacco
company's factory at st. Louis, dam
aged the building and endangered the
lives of the 500 employees. The loss
is estimated at 100000.
Reforms In Russia for the Jews are
promised by Prince Sviatopolk.M
sky, the new minister of the interior,
who denies that there will b a new
constitution for the country, but fore.
sees a liberal administration.
Walter Wellman says democratic
leaders predict that Parker will carry
New York by 1000 plurality. The
party is well organized, and, while he
casts doubt on the prophecy, he says
the republicans face grave danger.
The Oregon Short Line is to begin
the construction of a branch from
MinidaIa, Idaho, to Twin Falls City
on the Snake river, where an irriga.
ton system has been completed. re-
claiming 275.00O acres of valley land
The grand lodge of the Illinois
Knights of Honor elected H II. Gil
more of Delavan grand dictator L. H..
Freiberger, Chicago, grand vice die