Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-11-23
News in Brief

ter Bay to cast his vote.
Forty-seven political prisoners were
liberated at Kherson, Russia.
Premier Witte is finding 1t difficult
to form a cabinet in Russia.
Count WHITE has issued strongly
worded appeal for confidence.
Two members of the Akron, o., coun-
Gil have been indicted for bribery.
All the powers have now agreed to
remove their troops from the province
of Chill.
Edgar Gill has been appointed reg
ular and NJ. II. Randall substitute
rural free delivery carrier at Auburn,
Neb.
The apartments of Vice President II.
r. Miller of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois railroad were entered by burg
lars, who secured $4,000 worth of jew
elry.
General Francis Sherman, chief of
staff under General o. o. Howard in
the civil war, died at his residence in
Waukegan, III. He was so years Of
age.
1t looks at present as If the liberals
had made clean sweep in the cleo
lions in Alberta. Eight constituencies
have been heard from and all have
gone liberal.
A cablegram from Panama received
at the war department states that Sec
rotary Taft, who left Colon, will ar
rive at Norfolk November IA, reaching
Washington the 18th.
Information reached Washington
that the dispute about the frontier be-
tween French Guinea and Portuguese
Guinea on the West African coast has
been definitely settled.
A bulletin issued by the census bu-
reau shows that there are AGO manu-
featuring establishments in Indian ter
ritory with products for the past fiscal
year valued at $7,347,306
The rendering works, packing and
shipping buildings, slaughter house
and offices of the Danahy Packing COM
pany at Buffalo, N. Y, were destroyed
by fire. The loss is $4,000.
At Chattanooga, Tenn, the quaran-
tine question was the principal topic
of discussion at the southern confer
ence on quarantine and immigration
through three busy sessions.
A movement Is well under way at
Richmond, Ind, that will bring the
various polo leagues of the United
States under a national agreement
similar to that Of base ball leagues.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Educational association has &C.
cepted the invitation from California
to hold the next annual meeting OF
the association in San Francisco July
8 to 10. 1906.
At the vatican it is now considered
very probable that Rev. Francis
Bourne, archbishop Of Westminster
will be chosen as the fifth cardinal Il
be appointed at the next consistory.
The secretary of the interior hal
withdrawn from entry all the public
lands in ten townships in the Carson
City New land district with the view
of including 1t in a forest reservation
The commission appointed by tn,
president to formulate a measure pro
viding for uniform administrator
Of the naturalization laws reported t
him it's recommendation, togethe
with the draft of bill to be submitte
to congress.
Associate Justice of the Smprem
Court and Mrs. McKenna have ar
nounced the engagement of thei
youngest daughter, Hildegarde,
John Leggett Pultz of New York, so
of John l.. Pultz, and q graduate {
Harvard in 1901.
At a meeting of the board Of tru
tees of the Catholic university {
Washington, d. c., it was decided
apply the remaining $4,000 of tn
gift of SOL 900, the contribution mad
by Mrs. Gardiner of Baltimore, TO th
debt of the university.
AS the result of the death of Jane
Squires of the Alton, H., high schoo
who died from injuries received in
foot ball game, the Alton board Of e.
ucation has adopted a resolution CO
demning that game and placing Il
ban upon foot ball in all Alton school
Helen Hope recently married to Ra
dolph G. Johnson at Perguimas, N.
was found dead in her bridal chamb'
Thursday with a pistol in her haI
and bullet wound through her hea
Johnson was lying across the bed de'
with three bullets in his head al
body.
The house of representatives
Cuba, in secret session, refused Il
request of the local court for perm
sion to prosecute six nationalist co
gressmen who, on April IA last, fol
IDLY seized documents covering sor
fifty allegations of improper acts
members of the municipal council
Havana.
The pope received in private au
ence Archbishop Alexander Christie
Portland, Ore.
G. c. Moller was arrested In Lond
on the charge of embeZZlement in S