Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-03-23
Brief kilograms

900.
The anti.prize fight bill was defeat
ed in the California assembly by a
vote of SO to 80.
The Central Passenger association
has granted reduced rates for eighty
annual conventions.
The New York Evening Post is go.
ing to put up a modern office build.
ing occupying three lots.
Three hundred and eight West In
dian contract laborers arrived at Pen.
anna to work on the canal.
Secretary Metcalf has appointed
Richard X. Campbell, law officer of
the bureau of immigration.
Sir Henry Irving has signed con.
tract for an American tour under the
management OF Charles Frohman and
beginning in October
w. A, Tuley, general passenger
agent of the Frisco lines in Texas,
has rendered his resignation to take
effect April /. Ill health causes this
step.
Emperor William. addressing the
naval recruits at Wilhelmshaven held
up the Japanese soldiers as a lumin'
Gus example of patriotism and sol
diery fidelity.
The London Times Paris cores
pondent telegraphs that the Russian
government has placed an order with
a French firm for 10000 three-inch
shrapnel shells.
According to a semi-ohical state
ment given out at Schwerin, the mar
riage of Crown Prince Frederick vii.
liam and Duchess Cecilia will take
place in Berlin on June G.
Senator Burkett of Nebraska has
purchased a Washington home at a
cost of s17,500, The house is a hand
some new brick structure with n
notified front, and contains twelve
rooms.
The Frawley boxing bill in New
York, permitting limited round con-
tests between amateurs under the
sanction of the Amateur Athletic as
ISOLATION, has passed the senate. The
bill now goes to the assembly.
Count Benkendorff, the Russian am
bassador to Great Britain paid $325,-
600 to Foreign Secretary Lansdowne
in settlement for the North sea
claims, and the incident was thus
closed.
E.. d. Tucker, division superinend-
ent of the Milwaukee railroad died at
his home in Des Moines Of pneumonia
Mr.. Tucker took charge of this divi-
sion last October, coming from Aber-
deem, S. d.
A City of Mexico dispatch says the
volcano of Colima Is emitting great
clouds of thick smoke, which rise
high above the crater Many people
living in the neighborlng towns are
preparing for flight.
The cabinet cVsis in Norway has
been settled by the formation of a
coalition ministry, Of which M. Mich
olsen is the premier. Lovland a for
mer minister, will head the section of
the state council sitting at Stockholm.
The Missouri senate passed a bill
making all pipe lines. constructed or
TO be constructed in the state for the
purpose of carrying OIL common car
riers and placing them under the d.
rection Of the railroad commissioners.
The secretary of the treasury has
issued warrant for $500 In favor
of Mansfield, McMurray & Cornish,
lawyers. residing in Indian Territory,
as fees for services rendered by them
to the Choctaw and Chickasaw In
dams.
In the present of famous educators
representing the leading educational
institutions of the country, Samuel
Black Mccormick, d. D., LII. D., was
formally made chancellor of the West
ern University of Pennsylvania al
Pittsburg.
New York Rapid Transit rolling
stock is to be augmented by two cars
each 5000 feet long. containing 2,70C
seats, and seating capacity of 5000
passengers. The motive power will bt
electricity and the speed from nine tC
twelve miles an hour.
The resignation of w. w. Rockhill
as director of the bureau of American
republics, has been accepted and Mr.
Rockhill, who has been nominated t.
succeed Mr. COnger, as minister I,
China, will probably leave for hi
new post some time In April.
Rev. DR.. William II, Roberts, state,
clerk of the Presbyterian general as
sembly and secretary of the Inter
church conference on marriage and d
vorce will send to 10000 ministers
representing more than $4,000 90
members of almost all of the Protest
ant denominations in the country
copies of an appeal urging the adoT
ton by the various state legislature
of more stringest divorce and re-mal
riage laws.
At Jackson, Miss, Governor Vardt
man issued an address to the peac
officers of the state, declaring that tn
situation is growing extremely critica
that crime is rampant in all Quarter
of the commonwealth and urging of
GERS at once to begin a crusade an
clean out the dives and hauuts G