Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-08-31
News in Brief

be absent from the department LOT
about six weeks.
Secretary Shaw has ousted Asa
Rogers, collector of internal revenue
for the Eastern district Of Virginia,
on the charge Of inefflciency.
Twenty thousand citizens OF Que.
bee witnessed the unwilling Of a
monument to the Quebec soldiers who
lost their lives in the South African
war.
Secretary Taft, at q banquet ten
dered him by Filipinos, outlined the
administrations policy In the isles,
and aroused enthusiasm among his
hearers.
The contract for the construction
of the new custom house at San
Francisco has been awarded to Thorn
as Butler of that city, at his bid of
S1,194,000
Twelve persons were killed, eight
probably fatally injured, and score
less seriously hurt, in a collision on
the Nickel Plate railroad at Kish-
mans, Ohio.
Joe" Cotton, the veteran Jurfman,
died at Bellevue hospital, New York,
where he was taken on August to
undergo an operation. He was about
70 years of age
Chinese residents of King Kong are
applying to the government for per-
mission to hold public meetings for
the purpose of discussing the boycott
on American goods.
Walter Sanger Pullman, son of the
late George M. Pullman, was thrown
from buggy while driving in San
Mateo, Cal. Sunday and sustained in
juries from which he may die.
Nine Italions we're blown to shreds
and their hut reduced to atoms by
dynamite explosion at the construc-
ton camp Of Dunleavy brothers, about
six miles from Durbin, w. Va.
Buffalo Bill'' Cody is organizing an
excursion on camels through Egypt
and the Holy Land. II Is to be pulled
off early next year and made up OF
tourists mostly from this country.
The New Orleans Medical society
refused to indorse the theory of ar.
senic as a preventive of yellow fever,
and DR.. Leach, the st. Paul specialist,
decides to test the treatment himself.
General Joseph Bristow completed
his work as special Panama railway
commissioner and left Washington
for Kansas to engage in newspaper
work. He owns two newspapers in
that state.
The valuation of the property of
Marshall Field in Chicago was fixed
at $40000,000 by the board of review
OF the sum named $30000,000 is in
real estate and the balance in per-
sonal property.
Acting Mayor Charles v. Fornes of
New York City, in statement re-
garding his wife's suit for divorce,
says the action was brought because
of the failure of certain persons to
blackmail him.
After celebrating about three hours
the jury in the case Of the United
States VS.. r. M. Cobban, charged With
subornation of perjury in the United
States court yesterday at Helena, re
turned a verdict Of not guilty.
There are eight cases of plague liz
Taltal, Province of Atacama, Chile
The epidemic of smallpox in Valpa
raise is unchanged. Nearly $50 deaths
have been recorded during the las
seven days.
The British steamer Athos, which
sailed from Port Antonio, Jamaica, fol
New York, August 2, with cargo o!
fruit, Is about eight days overdue, ant
insurance agents are beginning to in
quire about her.
William Henry Myers, Philade.
phia chauffeur, was convicted of in
voluntary manslaughter and sentenc
ed to eighteen months Imprisonment
for running down and killing 5-year
old Eldon Carver.
The commissioner of the genera
land office has withdrawn from entr
vile, Wash, land Office. The land 1
to be used in connection with tn
reclamation works.
Charles King, an American, will b
hanged at Edmonton, N. W. T., o
August 81. King was convicted {
numbering an English prospecto
named Hayward at Lesser Slav
Lake, N. w. T. King came from on
Of the Dakotas.
The Rev. G. Lidell, pastor of tn
Swedish Lutheran church at Vas,
Mimi, fell dead in drug store at Re
Wing, MINI. He was on his way
Chicago to attend the funeral of h
daughter. who had died in New Mexio
of consumption.
In accordance with the orders of I'll
general executive board of the Int
national Association of Structural Ire
Workers for a national strike again
the American Bridge company, sever
strikes have been called on the col
pany's contracts in New York.
Burglars ransacked the fashionab
residence district of Paris. stealth
daily property worth $4,000.
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