Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-14
Brief kilograms

John j. Kelly, chief of markets at
Cleveland, was arrested on the charge
of embezzling $1,000 of the city's
money.
At the session of the national en-
campment of the Union Veterans
union 1t was decided to meet at st.
Paul next year.
New York board of estimate receives
report of expert fixing $I750,OOO as
the value OF telephone franchise for
twenty-five years.
Marshall Field and his bride land in
New York, and the Chicago merchant
says municipal ownership is failure,
according to his observations abroad.
Frederick A. Peckham and Moses
Haas, the alleged conspirators who
profted by the leak in the government
cotton crop reports were arraigned in
New York.
The Pullman company directors de-
clared the regular quarterly dividend
of 81 per share. The financial state
ment shows an increase in net earn
ings Of s392952.
President King of Oberlin College, in
an interview given in Milwaukee, says
tainted money" may be received pro-
vided the mouth of the recipient is not
closed to criticism.
Commissioners Host of Wisconsin 10
sending out to all state insurance de-
partments copy of the Wisconsin
gain and loss exhibit blank for life
company reports and urging its use.
The Belgian government is maturing
a plan for the reorganization of the
army which 1t will soon present to
parliament. This establishes personal
military service similar to the Swiss
system.
Peoria's grand jury adjourned after
indicting two bank presidents, causing
the collapse of one bank and shaking
the confidence of the citizens in the
men who stood highest in business
circles.
William e. Curtis, writing from
Montreal, says men born in the United
States are taking a leading part in
Canadian affairs, and describes Lord
Mimic, successor to Lord Curzon, vice.
roy of India,
The Great Britain sought and prom.
Used a military defensive allience with
France against Germany at the time
the Moroccan affair assumed a threat
ening aspect, is the burden of story
printed in Paris.
The Nashville chamber of commerce
unanimously adopted resolution re-
questing Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw to admit free OF duty the articles
brought into this country by Miss
Alice Roosevelt.
Mayor Mcclellan, speaking at a
Tammany ratification meeting, attack
ed the theories of municipal ownership
extremists and says the debt limita-
tions of New York City compel the
granting of franchises.
Boxing matches in Chicago have
been placed under the ban by Chief
of Police Collins. He announced that
professional prizeflg and boxers
would not hereafter be allowed to take
part in contests in Chicago.
Professor H. B. Meyer of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, in an address
before the gas mems convention In
Milwaukee, declared that long-term
franchises are productive of extortioI
and thinks that public ownership IL
better.
The convention of the General Bap
tist association of Illinois, in session
at Joliet, voted to join the crusade o.
the Anti-Saloon league and work fol
the election of men to the state leg
islature who are favorable to local op
ton.
President Roosevelt issues an orde
that civil service employees may b.
summarily discharged without tria
whenever a superior decides the EN-
ploye has been inefficient or guilty o
misconduct in the presence of such 81
perior.
According to advices from Manchur
ia, General ,Linevitch. on receipt of tn
notification of the ratifications Of tn
peace treaty, ordered the destruction
VI thC boi llNuuNSb oh'
other impediments of communicated
with the neutral zone.
Passage of President Roosevelt
train through North Carolina wa
marked by continuous ovation II
which Mrs. Roosevelt shared. In
speech at Raleigh the president urge'
that the government be given the pow
er to control railroad rates.
The Russian battleship XMAS Pc
temkine, the crew of which mutinie
in the harbor of Odessa last June. has
by imperial order, been re-christene
the Pandleimon, after the famous mai
tyr of the Russian church, who die
in the third century and who is locke
upon by the doctors as their patro
saint.
Weekly trade reviews report grea
activity in all lines, the movement c
commodities taxing railroad lake trans
portation facilities.
The bureau of equipment of the nav