Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-04-13
Brief kilograms


Jobs.
A prairie fire has done much dam
age on the recently opened Rosebud
reservation
Russia is reported to have outlined
n basis upon which she is willing to
negotiate for peace.
Rev Mr. Stanley Mckay has resign
ed az president of Shurtleff college,
Baptist institution at Alton, III.
A cablegram to the state department
from Secretary Hay. dated Gibraltar,
Gays that he is improving daily.
Thousands of Russian workmen
voted to send petition to the throne
outlining requests for betterment of
their lot.
The plans of Senator Elkins for In
vestigation into freight rates are not
viewed with favor by friends OF rate
legislation.
An order has been issued by the
postofiice department establishing a
division of the rural free delivery SER
vice at Omaha.
The new senator from Massachu.
sets. Winthrop Murray Crane, re-
ceives more begging letters than any
of his colleagues.
A new constitution for the Trans
vaal has just been signed in London
and will shortly be presented to parlia.
ment for its deliberation.
The revolt In Santo Domingo does
not worry the authorities on account
of the promise OF the United States
to take charge OF the revenues of the
country.
Blinded and suffering from broken
nose, M. J. Dwyer at Atlanta, Ca,
gave up his wrestling match with
Frank Gotch after three minutes OF
the second round
Official announcement was made OF
the appointment of Colonel e. Stone
as general passenger agent of the
Great Northern railroad system to sue
coed f. |. Whitney.
After making $1,500,000 in the last
fourteen years out of the soil, I. d.
Smith of Madison, S. d., the richest
exclusive farmer in the United States,
has retired from active life.
Washington GLADDEN. writes an clio.
quent protest against acceptance Of
100000 gift from John D. Rockefeller
by the American Board of Commits.
sioners of Foreign Missions.
Governor I4anham of Texas has re-.
ceived from the war department at
Washington four battle-scarred confed
crate flags. which were captured by
union soldiers during the war.
A young negro, giving his name as
Frank Manuel, was arrested in the
mountains in Bradford county, Penn
sylvania, as the person who felonious
ly assaulted Mrs. Barbara Rose.
Five hundred peasants of the dis
trict of Vard2ia, in the Caucasus, have
surrounded the Greek monastry at
Vardzia and demand that it be hand
cd over to them, with the title deeds.
Judge Lochren of the United States
district court, In ST.. Paul, holds that
land in an Indian reservation is still
subject to government control even
though the title has passed from the
government.
After lengthy and acrimonious
controversy between counsel, the
Greene-Gaynor case at Montreal was
postponed until April 10 to give coun.
sci an opportunity to further study the
exhibits fled
Massachusetts has been piling up a
state debt for years at a rate that has
caused its public men great uneasi
ness, The present debt, according to
the figures quoted by the governor, is
nearly $10000000O.
Rear Admiral ]. a. b. Smith, head
OF the steam engineering department
of the Brooklyn navy yard, has been
relieved of duty and will become gen
eral inspector of all machinery now
under government contract.
Secretary Hitchcock has designated
William II. Code of Los Angeles, Cal.
as chief engineer of Indian irrigation
He will have supervision of irrigation
construction work on Indian reserva
lions throughout the west.
The equestrian statue of Lafayette
the work of Paul Bartlett, will no
be ready for the fete on July 4, whicI
was planned by the Lafayette memol
ial commission, and the event ha
been postponed until 1906.
On information filed by the stat
factory inspector, Assistant Prosccu
ing Attorney Dalton, of st. Louis, ha
issued six warrants, three agains
the fathers of the children, allegin
violations of the child labor law.
William Warner, the new senate
from Missouri, when years old bega
to earn his own living as ore boy /
a Wisconsin mine.
Colonel A. G. Stewart OF Waukol
recently appointed attorney general {
Porto Rico. created surprise by sen,
ing in his resignation.