Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-26
News in Brief


The steamship Deutschland, which
arrived at New York brought $3.50.
600 in gold consigned to the National
City bank.
Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell, uni
versal suffragist and philanthropist, Is
dead at her home in New York after a
brief Illness.
The pest commission reports that
there were twelve cases of cholera
and ten deaths from the disease in
Poland from October to October 8.
From figures compiled from reports
from the counties in the White Burley
tobacco district the tobacco crop OF
1906 is the largest in the history of
Kentucky.
Arrangements have been made for
sending 500 marines to the Philippines
at the rate of about 100 month.
These men are being recruited in the
middle west.
Alderman Walter Vaughan Morgan
was elected lord mayor of London for
the ensuing year. Mr.. Morgan is
septuagenarian, a banker, bachelor
and a prominent free mason.
At Sacramento, Cal, the jury in the
case of Former Senator II. ]. Emmons
charged with accepting bride during
the last session of the state leglsla-
ture returned a verdict of guilty this
evening.
At Glenbrook Crossing, Ore, Tues
day night eighty Greek laborers fought
with their foreman, named Petersteim,
and In shooting that followed Mrs.
Petersteim was killed and one of the
laborers was wounded.
1t Is announced that the South
Sharon, Pa, tin mill will be started up
about November !, affording employ
ment TO 1900 men. The sheet mill for
merly running only part of the time is
now being operated steadily.
At Niagara Falls, N. Y, John Holli-
day and his wife are dead and their
grandson Harry Holiday is expected
to die from arsenic poisoning Mrs.
Holiday used arsenic in biscuits, mis-
LdhlHS IL lOT DdhlhB pOWueT.
The president has directed the ap.
pointment of Colonel Henry w. Sharpe
to be chief of the commssary of sub
sistence with the rank of brigadier
general, to succeed Colonel John Wes-
ton, promoted to major general.
o. J. Bailey, chairman of the finance
committee Of the Peoria school board,
was charged with manifeassance in Of
flee by the grand jury and by vote
OF 16 to 1t was decided to return an
indictment against the school officer.
George T. Nicholson, who has been
appointed third vice president of the
Santa Fe road, a position formerly
held by Paul Morton, is 40 years old,
was born In North Carolina and was
educated at Kansas City university.
w. Il. Brwn, former president of the
defunct First National bank of Storm
Lake, Ia, was sentenced to serve five
years In the state penitentiary at An
amosa. No appeal will be taken.
Brown was convicted of fraudulent
banking.
Mrs. Roosevelt will accompany the
president on his southern trip as far
as Roswell, Ga, Roswell will be the
third stop on the trip, being reached
on Friday, the goth. From this station
Mrs. Roosevelt will return to Washing
ton by train.
Secretary Of the Navy Charles J..
Boneparte in an interview criticized
Senator Arthur Germans statement
in the Democratic convention that ne
gro Acknowledgement is the only issue
and that the senator will retire If
the Democrats win.
General Bates, acting chief of staff,
has detailed Major General John f.
Weston, formerly commissary general
of subsistence, to the command of the
northern military division, with head.
quarters at st. Louis, to succeed Maj
or George M. Randall.
To save many Michigan beet sugar
factories from being shut down, a
protest against the present sugar beet
tariff was made before the United
States general appraisers at New York
1t was filed by the Marine Sugar com
pany of Marine City, Mich.
The statement was made at the de
partment that the armored cruiser
Colorado, at her first target practice
recently, made record with her six
inch guns which has never before been
equaled, and was accomplished with
out deargements of her sights.
Andrew Roosevelt of st, Louis, cous
in of President Roosevelt, was married
to Miss Adelaide Lange, at Chicago
Miss Lange, who is graduate in archl
lecture of the Zurich polytechnique, as
sisted in drawing the plans for the
mines building at the st. Louis exposi
ton and it was while engage in this
work that she met Mr.. Roosevelt.
The Martinette and Menominee pa
per mill at Martinette, Mis-, was near
ly destroyed by fire,
The Chinese government will intro
duce a bill In the legislative council
providing for a so 600. 900 loan for the