Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-07-13
News In Brief

Chicago employers are said to be
preparing to refuse to take back any
Of striking teamsters.
John. A. Kasson, the venerable
Iowan, is at work on another book
which may be finished this winter.
Business men OF Portland, Ore, APP
peal to the president to avert the
threatened boycott by Chinese on Pa.
cifc coast.
The Ohio railroad commissioner re-
ports that the wreck Of rake Shore
Twentieth Century Limited would
have been worse had 1t been a slower
train.
Governor Deneen OF Hin OILS granted
Johann Hoch a reprieve until July %
in order that the case may be taken to
q supreme court justice for a writ of
supersedeas
At the interuniversity swimming
meet at the Bath club in London B. b.
Herman, IS years old, lowered the
worlds record, covering 600 yards
easily in TIA IL.
The president has pardoned Philip
Scott, full-blood Cherokee Indian,
convicted in the Indian Territory Of
criminal assault and sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life.
Westbound passenger train No. 3,
of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
was wrecked at Pinto, small station
sixty miles west OF Grand Junction,
Col. No fatalities resulted.
Former President Alexander of the
Equitable has made restitution OF $685.
053.22, representing certain amounts
received by him in syndicate opera
lions referred to in Hendricks report.
The state department today an
nounced the following appointments:
Winfield 8. Boynton, Colorado, con-
sui at Georgetown Guiana, and Her
bert r. Wright, Iowa, consul at Utilla,
Honduras.
The correspondent of the London
Morning Post at Shanghai says: "Mr.
Otaghiri, the Japanese consul there,
has been recalled. He leaves in order
to proceed to Washington as one of
the peace plenipotentiaries"
The preliminary report on the sea-
sons planting on the Dismal river for
est reserve has been received and
shows notable progress in the work
of reforesting the sand hills country
of western and central Nebraska.
The president has expressed wish
to the Japanese and Russian govern
ments that the plenipotentiaries meet
In the United States on the first, day
Of August, and If not on that date,
then at the earliest date thereafter.
Count Cassini, the Russian ambas-
sador, has engaged passage for July
IL from New York. The ambassador
will probably remain in Washington
to await the arrival OF his successor,
Baron Rosen, who lands in New York
July G.
With party of government astrono-
mers aboard. the cruiser Dixie left
League Island navy yard destined for
Algeria. The cruiser will go direct
TO Gibraltar, thence to Algiers and
finally to Bona, where the party will
disembarl.
Arsenic is said to have been dis
covered In the stomach of Mrs w. H.
Durfee, whose death at Elgin, ILL.,, has
caused suspicion to rest upon her hus-
band. The internal organs are under
chemical and microscopic examina.
ton in Chicago.
The triennial convention of the
Evangelical German Lutheran synod
of Missouri, Ohio and other states in
session at Detroit voted the appropria.
ton of the sum Of $4,000 for a new
hall and class rooms for the seminary
ut Seward, Neb,, and the course at
Seward was increased to five years.
Fear of arrest on a sensational
charge Is said to have caused Alder
man e. l.. Gillette Of Niles, we'll
known business man of Southern
Michigan, to commit suicide by shoot
Ing himself with a revolver borrowed
from clerk in his store. His body
was not discovered for several hours.
The Japanese correspondent Of the
Daily Telegraph at Moj, Japan, repre-
sents the Russians as making strenuous
efforts to improve the defenses of
VladivostolS, and says that the whole
of tn Ussuri district has been de-
nuded to the point of famine in order
TO provide the fortress with adequate
food supplies.
Brigadler General Theodore J.
Whit who temporarily succeeded
Major General John G. Bates in COM
mand of the northern division of the
United States army until a permanent
successor is named, arrived in St,
Louis and took command at division
headquarters. General Whit was in
command of the Sixth cavalry in
China at the time Of the Boxer re-
bellion.
Mrs. Aggie Myers, found guilty OF
murder in the first degree at Liberty
vile, Mo-, smiled as she heard the SEN
tence of hanging pronounced,
The Iowa and tNebraska coal deal.
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