Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-09-08
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meets in Boston in october.
Governor Yates decides to make, his
home in Springfield, where he will
wage his campaign for United States
senator
The burning of the Standard Oil
the price up several cents gallon
in this country.
The weekly trade reviews report a
confident tone in business, with an ac'
tive country demand and satisfactory
distribution of merchandise.
Sharp advance in National Carbon
shares on the Chicago Stock exchange
Is accompanied by rumors that deal,
probably in the nature of consolida-
ton. is on.
An arrangement has been made in
New York by which Italians holding
fraudulent citizenship papers NAV es-
cape prosecution by surrendering them
for cancellation.
Secretary Taft, in an address in
Montpelier, VT, defended the person
atty of President Roosevelt as con-
servative, though energetic; a leader;
but not Q tyrant.
Official reports Of the fire that de-
stroyed the town of Bnanfi in Laguna
province, Philippine islands, do not
confirm previous accounts of the heavy
loss OF life there.
Marshall Field of Chicago is the
-, I,n
Forty million dollars is the assessed
value of his taxable property, real
and personal, in Chicago.
State Treasurer Kempf of Wiscon-
sin appeals to the Milwaukee courts
to prevent his removal from the La
Toilette state ticket, charging that he
resigned under political coercion.
William E. Curtis writes Of the
great gains in education in Japan,
where every person under the age of
80 is able to read and write. and
schools are within the reach of all.
General Kuropatllin reports that the
Japanese have advanced on Liandian-
sian, one of the principal defenses of
Liao-Yang, and Tantziaputzy, which
lies between Liandiansian and Anping
BY direction of President Roosevelt,
julius II. Weiss has been appointed
receiver of the land Office at Del
Norte., Colo, vice Percy Hobart, re-
moved on account of physical disa-
bilities.
The action of Bishop Geay of Laval,
in going to Rome in spite of the
counter orders of Premier Combes,
has resulted in the determination of
the government to suspend the pay
of the bishop.
The steel trust is aided by the rail
roads west from Chicago in a fight
for the western steel market, and the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company, the
concern aimed at, fights back with the
aid of the Gould system.
The largest sugar factory in Ger
many, named Kulmsee, near Thorn,
West Prussia. was burned, involving a
loss of $1,250,000 The fire caused a
rise in the sugar market at Hamburg
of cents hundred weight.
The city of Binang, in Laguna prov.
ince, island of Luzon, has been de.
stroyed by fire. One hundred persons
persisted in the flames and five thous.
and were rendered homeless. The
loss is estimated at 100000
Rolla Wells, mayor of st. Louis, at
the head of a delegation of Worlds
fair officials, called on Mayor Harri
son of Chicago to ask the mayors at
tendance at the exposition October s.
which has been designated Chicago
day"
At the request of the officers of the
National Geographical society, the
secretary of war has detailed Briga
der General A. w. Greedy, chief sigma
officer of the army, as one of the rep
resentatives of the war department al
the eighth international geographical
convention, to be held in Washington
city next month.
President Z. Benjamin Andrews o.
the University of Nebraska met will
an accident in Denver, Colo, which
prevented him from taking the lead
ing part assigned to him at the an
nual institute of the Cook county
teachers, to be held at normal schoo
six days. He slipped on a pavemen
and was sevrely injured
Otto C. Tollefson, secretary of tn,
Northwestern Fire and Marine of Min
neapolis, says that hail already ha
caused $1,1o0,C90 damage to crops il
the two Dakotas and Minnesota. Farm
ers in the northwest are most OF then
in the habit of insuring their crops
and the result is that crop insurance
throughout the northwest will NEE
with heavy loss. The Northwestern
has paid already for hail damage L
crops in North Dakota 100000, |,
South Dakota $4,000 and in Mime
sofa $4,000.
Commander James II. Perry OF tn
bureau Of steam egineering will retir
for age with the rank of captain. II
is now Ill with typhoid fever.