Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-04-27
News in Brief


ment have been sent out at New
York.
Fear of wrecks has caused train SER
vice at night to be suspended in the
Caucasus.
Chicago has decided to build new
court house on the ruins of the pres
ent rookery.
The whisky trust has made 2 cent
cut in the price of whisky. The quo
tation Is now $120.
The emperor of Japan intends to
transform the legation at Washington
into a full-hedged embassy.
After adopting the supplemental
and colonial budgets the Prussian
reichstag adjourned until May 10.
The Nevada & California railway
company filed articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state of Cali
fornia
The Washington Star questions the
interview given out by Governor
Cummns on the subject Of tariff re-
vision. s
Ex.Mayor Carter H. Harrison OF
Chicago was presented with loving
cup by members of the Board of Edu
cation.
Mexican Central officials announce
embellishments at four stations on
that road in the last month to the ex-
tent of $4,000.
Theodore p. Shonts, the new head
of the Panama Canal commission, is
of Dutch descent but has a strain of
French Huguenot in him.
W. W. Rockhill, newly appointed
minister to China, called upon Score
tary Taft and the officials of the state
department to take his leave.
John ID. Rockefeller has given
$4,000 to the Sisters of the Good Shep.
herd in charge of the house of the
Good Shepherd for girls, in Cleveland.
Baron Suyematsu Japanese leader,
in an article in the Outlook declares
the war will continue until Russia Is
crippled and that Japan demands in
demnity
Senator Scott is believed to speak
for railroads in declaring that any
attempt to take rate making power
out of hands of the railroads will be
resisted.
Officials Of New York gas com
panies before the legislative investi'
eating committee admit that the pro
duct which costs the consumer 81 per
1000 feet is made for % cents.
Secretary Shumway of the state
board of health of Michigan has re-
ceived a report of an outbreak OF
Spotted fever" or cerebro meningitis
in Star township, Antrim county.
The remains of thrty-fve unidenti-
fed dead who lost their lives in the
explosion and fire at r. b. Grover
companys shoe factory, March 90, at
Brockton, Mass, were buried in a lot
purchased by the city.
Standing before his young wife,
who held their 4-monthsold baby in
her arms, George Lucke, who came to
Minneapolis from Clinton, Iowa, four
weeks ago, drained the contents Of a
bottle of carbolc acid.
At New York the North American
Trust company, the Trust Company Of
America and the City Trust company
are to be consolidated into one COM
pany having a capital of $4,000, 900
and surplus of 100000
Rev. Dr. ]. j. Murray a member
of the Maryland conference of the
Methodist Protestant church, and for
sixty-fve years a minister of the Cos
pei died at Bellevue suburb OF
Pittsburg Pa He was 50 years old
1t is reported at Springfield, Ark
that Marquis Meadam has made a
deathbed confession to the murder
several years ago of DR.. G. Chantless
at Center Ridge, Ark, for which Alley
Brinkley was hanged at Merriltown
II Is ascertained that the increase
in the common stock of the Erie rail
road company from $113,000,000 tt
$133,000 900, recently announced, wa:
made to prepare for conversion o
its outstanding s10,00O,O00 of convert
ible bonds.
In the South American mail tn,
state department received from Min
lister Bowen copy of President Cas-
tro's reply to the minister's PROPOSE
ton to submit the issues between tn
United States and Venezuela to al
bitration
President w r. Harper Of the I'm
versity of Chicago again took up hi
university work, interrupted by his rt
cent illness and the following pero
OF convalescence at Lakewood N. ,
He was given a hearty greeting b
the students.
General Linevitch has pilloried
numher of officers who dienlovad cou
ardice during the battle of Mukder
publicly disgracing them by postin
their names at all the division heaC
quarters, while some Of them are /!
ANONYMOUSLY drummed out of camp.
The price of beef and pork has bee
advanced from IL to 3 cents pc
pound by st, Louis packers Reta
dealers, with few exceptions, al
maintaining the old prices, althoug