Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-09-07
News in Brief

IRE OF unknown origin. The loss was
$4,000.
The breaker, Office and boiler and
engine houses of the Pine Hill Coal
company at Minersville Pa, we're de-
stroyed by fire. The loss Is $4,000,
partly insured.
A permanent committee of three has
been appointed by the merchants of
Panama to seek a modification of the
arrangement establishing commits.
sariats In the canal zone.
W. G. Hardison OF Wadesboro, N.
c., prominently identified with various
manufacturing enterprises in the
state, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head.
William II. Perry, the mayor of
Chester, Pa, was nominated for state
treasurer by the prohibition state con,
vention. He Is also the democratic
candidate for state treasurer.
President Palma of Cuba has signed
the bill passed by the house July 81,
and by the senate August IL, for the
liquidation of the remaining half of
the revolutionary soldiers pay.
Clyde Burn Webb, said to have been
the last survivor of the Seminoles war,
during the whole of which he served
under General Taylor, IS dead at his
home in Buckner, Mo-. aged 80 years.
Governor Joseph w. Folk of Mis-
souri, spoke at the Chautauqua as
sembly at Chautauqua, N. Y, on the
reign of law. Everywhere there Is an
era for purer government dawning, he
said.
The state department has received q
cable dispatch saying that 200 Ameri-
cans belonging to the Maccaddon cir
Gus are stranded at Grenoble, France.
They have no means and cannot get
home.
The central committee of the Inter
national Sunday School association at
its meeting at Clifton, Mass, author.
lied the addition of negro workers in
the southern field up to the number of
forty.
Captain Jones of Company Il, Sew
enty-first regiment, Virginia volun-
teers, killed Maud Robinson at her
home In Norfolk, Va, almost severing
her head from her shoulders with
razor.
Secretary Bonaparte and Admiral
Sards, superintendent of the naval
academy, at conference, determined
upon April "a, 1906, as the date for the
celebration in honor of Admiral John
Paul Jones.
The postmaster general has accept
ed proposal of James G. Mason and
j. M. Watson to lease room for the
postofice at Frankfort, Kas., In the
Mason C Watson building, for term
of FIVE years.
A. Jackson, fireman, and Alex
Ander Smith, third engineer, were
killed on the steamer Lakona of the
Donaldson line at Montreal by an ex.
plosion in the engine rom just as
.he boat was leaving port
The United States government build
Ing at the Louisiana Purchase exposi-
ton, erected at a cost of 100000, has
been sold to q wrecking company for
S10,500 The steel trussRs In the
structure alone cost 100000.
The glass bottle factory at Alton,
Ind, the largest in the country, has
followed the lead of two OF the Terre
Haute factories and agreed to start the
factory at the usual time. September
|, at the old scale Of wages.
After twelve years officials of the
Worlds Columbian exposition have
succeeded in closing up the affairs Of
the great worlds fair Twenty thous
and dollars are on hand belonging tC
stockholders who cannot he found.
A deal has been concluded whereby
the Kansas Natural Gas company, con
trolled by Pttsburgers, with T. N
Barnsdall as president, has purchased
the Peoples Natural Gas company O.
Coffeyville, Kas. The price paid was
100000.
The Japs are diligently raising
sunken Russian ships near home ant
Russian money in America.
The business section of Stevenville
Mont, was swept by fire. With tn
exception Of two buildingn one entir
block was burned. LOSS, 100000
The heaviest loser is Buck & Co., $50
0oO
Prof. Elwell of Stanford university
who has been studying conditions @
the crater of the volcano Popocat,
petl, says that the removal of sulphu
accumulated there will. after tw
years, probably bring on IN eruption
Hundreds of Nebraskans, includin
Governor Mickey, were present
celebrate Nebraska day al the Levi
and Clark exposition. A feature {
the exercises was the singing by III
Nebraska Society quartette of the nj
tional hymn in which the audienC
tooF part standing
F. A. Peckham, indicted at sar
toga, N. Y, in the department of agi
culture cotton reports scandals, W,
arrested and arraigned before Unit,
States Commissioners Chafles NJ. Da
tidson, who ordered an adjournment