Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-04-28
News in Brief

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The chief source Of wealth Of Japar
is her coal, of which 100000 tons
were mined in 1901
The Brooklyn Yacht club has &C
cepted a cup from Sir Thomas Upton
for a race OF small racers.
Another foreign wrestler has arrived
I'm America ready for business. He is
a Spaniard and is known as Napoleon
Pascal.
Colonel Thomas Marshall Green, one
of the most widely known historians
in the south, has just died at his home
in Danyile, Ky.
Senator J. w. Bailey of Texas has
resigned as director of the Kentucky
Trottng Horse Breeders association.
He gave no reason for his action.
Hadii Mohammed Bui Abdullah, the
Mad Mullah, against whom the British
have been conducting campaign in
Somaliand has escaped into Italian
territory.
A great-great grandson of Thomas
Jefferson is a candidate for mayor OF
Richmond, Va. He is Colonel George
Wayne Anderson, n member of the
state senate.
Harry Y. Hill, veteran theatrical
manager, is dead at his home in Sara.
toga, N. Y, as a result of a stroke OF
paralysis He was GS years old and
a native of Troy.
Henry Mari of Columbus, Ind, q
farmer lives in a house exactly in
the middle of this great country A
stone in his barn lot marks the spot
by census officials.
Rev. Samuel A. Taggart, for many
years state secretary of the Young
Mems Christian associations of Penn
sylvania and widely known through
out the country, is dead.
Charles A. Robinson, who in part
nership with Mr. Peyton of Califor-
mia, made a national reputation as an
owner of coursing greyhounds, is dead
at his home in St Louis. Mo.
There are more than a dozen bust
ness women in Chicago enjoying in
comes of from $4,000 to $1,000 year
resulting from their own enterprise,
prompted and managed by themselves.
1t is believed that the Rothschild
family, as a whole, is worth about
$1,500,000,000, the French section be-
ing represented by about $350,000,00
and the English branch by considera-
bly, more.
Charged with msappropriating
100000 of the funds of the suspended
Federal bank at New York City, David
Rothschild, former president of the
institution, yesterday was held in $685.
600 bail for examination April 20.
The st. Petersburg correspondent
of the Paris Journal says that Grand
Duke Cyril was on the bridge of the
Petrapavlovsk when the explosion oc-
CURED, and was thrown into the sea
which led to the saving of his life.
In a volume just published in Ger,
many by Prof. Viereck, he credits
Benjamin Smith Barton, OF Philadel
phia, with being the first American
student to visit a German university
Barton studied at Gottingen in 1889.
There was general suspension o.
business in Danbury, Conn, during
the body of Lieutenant Ernest A
Weichert, who was one of the victims
of the explosion on the battleshil
Missouri
In the hope that one of the eighteen
George Millers named in the Chicag
city directory may turn out to be tn
missing son of the late Charles Mile
Of W. of N
100000, Chief O'Neill of the Chicag
police detailed men to investigate,
Former Chief Jail Guard w. F. Huf
man is charged in an indictment +,
turned by the grand jury at st. Loui
with conspiracy 1t is alleged -tht
Hoffman was implicated in the effol
to get saws into the city Jail to al
George Collins, who was execute
March 2G-for the murder of Detectiy
Schumacher, to escape.
Nearly every day for the past tw
years the secretary of war has +,
ceiVed letter from man in Mass
chusetts who simply gives his address
and says nothing else. The letter
are supposed to be reminders that tn
NiiNSl 10 awaiting reply W SUN
communication to the department O
matter of interest to him.
Postmaster General Harris, chief {
the naval bureau of supplies and a
counts, already has received abo,
$4,000 in subscriptions to the fund Il
the benefit of the dependent relative
of the men who lost their lives on II
battleship Missouri. This does NJ
include the proceeds from the ente
tainment given Monday at the Lafa
cite theater, which is estimated to |
about $1,000,
There is a movement on foot
apply the curfew law to the nations
capital. About 1000 cities and toEI
in the United States. mostly in Il
west. now have curfew laws to keC
children who are unattended off II
streets after stated hour in the eve
ing.