Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-05-11
News in Brief

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York.
The Burlington, it is reported, will
add to its force in the Plattsmouth
shops.
Maryland fruit growers believe the
April frost has done much damage to
their crop
Average cost of meals for inmates
of Iowa state institutions during last
quarter was less than &C.
St Louis brewers agree to Sunday
closing but demand that the law be
enforced against all business.
The president, now on a hunting
tour, will make no stops in Nebraska
on his return to Washington.
Burglars entered the station Of the
Cincinnati, Dayton e Toledo railroad
and stole between $500 and $1,000.
The program has been issued for the
annual convention Of Iowa Retail
Grocers' association at Council Bluffs,
At Cleveland, Ohio, thieves stole
diamonds worth $4,000 from the
Deutsch Jewelry company and es-
capped
Rumors are circulated that the
United States is intermediary in peace
negotiations between Russia and
Japan.
William e. Curtis writes of old docu
ments unearthed by the state histor-
ian of Mississippi, which throw new
light on the story of Aaron Burr.
Commander John B. Briggs, United
States navy, has been acquitted of the
charges preferred against him by the
naval court martial, which tried him
in Manila.
Tho aged and infirm letter carriers
of the National association are to be
provided for by an annuity fund If the
recommendations of the advisory
board stand.
Foreign Minister Delcasse of France
offers his resignation largely as a re.
suit of Moroccan troubles, but efforts
are being made to induce him to re-
main in the cabinet.
It is reported that with the presi-
dents party at Deep Red creek is a
photographer who is taking pictures
ITO illustrate an article which the
president will write concerning the
hunt"
The special commission appointed
by the New York City health board
decides that cerebro- spinal meningitis
Is contagious, and will quarantine
cases, as is the custom in other in
fictitious diseases.
President O'Neill of the Western
league announced the appointment of
the following umpires for the coming
season: Robert Caruthers of Chicago.
James Burns of Paterson, N. j., and
Harry Mace of Washington.
In an opinion by Justice Peckham
the supreme court Of the United
States held to be unconstitutional the
New York state law making ten hours
days work and sixty hours weeks
work in bakeries in that state.
Frank Futile has been appointed at
torney general of Porto Rico, vice
Stewart, resigned. He is from Texas,
and has been in Porto Rico since the
American occupation and was at one
time assistant attorney general there.
The electric locomotive recently
built for the New York Central ter.
minal service between Croton and
New York, broke all its previous rec.
ords by attaining speed of eighty
three miles an hour, pulling heavy
train.
At Berlin, Princess Alexandra Won
Isembourg- Buendingen Waeschters-
bacht, whose large credit operations
have been the subject of judicial in
quiries in the German courts, has been
sentenced to three weeks imprison-
ment
Federal officers at Chicago arrested
Joseph BenZoin, at his office in a
down town business block, on a
charge Of operating a lottery system.
1t is charged that Benzoin was one
of the factors in promoting lotteries
in Mexico.
The appeal in the case of the Brit
ish steamer Nigretia, seized by the
japanese cruiser Tsushima December
30 off the coast of Korea and con-
demned as a prize January 5, has
been rejected. The vessel and it's car.
go have been confiscated.
Commissioner Garfield is said to
have pushed this question up to the
Standard Oil people in Kansas: "If
you have spent $10000O0O in Kansas,
why is your tax schedule less than
S250,000?" 1t is believed the question
will hold them for a while.
Lieutenant General Chaffee, chief
of staff. left WASHINGTON to inspect
military posts in the South and West.
He was accompanied by Quartermas,
ter General Humphrey and Captain
Hutcheson, of the general staff, and
will be gone about month.
An explosion at the Edgar Thomp-
son blast furnaces at Braddock, Pa,
resulted in the death of four men.
Three others were fatally hurt.
Governor Pennypacker has signed
the Greater Pittsburg bill, which pro.
vidaG for the consolidation oP tho