Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-01-26
Brief kilograms

able advance.
The Old State House. n landmark
OF Boston, is now used as a station
in the tunnel system.
The United States and France each
is building eleven powerful battle
ships and England only ten.
Eugene Hale has been reelected to
the United State senate for a fifth
term by the Maine legislature.
Secretary Shaw's plan to allow the
grinding of grain In bond by United
States mills stirs Canadian grain men.
A bill was introduced in the Texas
legislature prohibiting the employ
ment of negroes by foreign corpora
lions.
Henry J. Scheltgen, So years old, a
sculptor and designer of architectural
decorations, committed suicide at
New York.
The worlds wheat shipments last
week were 5,S40,O00 bushels, as
against 4,324,000 the week before and
2,308,000 a year ago.
The directors Of the Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway
company declared a semi-annual di-
vidend of 3h per cent
A Rome correspondent learns from
Toxic that 100000 achievements are
to be sent to Marshal Oyama. Fifty
thousand have started.
james A. Hemenway, the new sena-
torelect from Indiana, Is a product
of the common schools. He began the
practice of law in 1885.
A slight blaze in the girls dormi-
tory, at the Nebraska university, dur
ing the noon hour, severely frighten-
ed the seventy-five girls present.
J. p. Morgan is the purchaser of
the large interests of King Leopold
in the Canton-H ankow railroad in
China. according to Paris advices.
Congressman Hepburn has an
nounced that he has framed a bill
which is designed to make desired
changes in regulation of freight rates
A bill exempting from taxation up
to June /, 1906. cotton held by Arkan-
sas farmers for better prices was in
troduced in the Arkansas house yes
terday.
Russian allegations that China has
violated neutrality meet with vigor-
Gus denials from Chinese officials and
scant credence in European embassies
generally.
The house committee on merchant
marine and fisheries authorized ia
vorable report on the shipping bill
reported to congress by the merchant
marine commission.
Opposition to an extra session OF
congress in the spring, said to have
crystallized through the efforts of
Speaker Cannon and Senator Aldrich,
1t is thought. will prevail.
President Little of the Pillsbury-
Washburn Milling company of Mime
apolis says 100000 barrels OF flour
equivalent to 100000 bushels of
wheat, have been sold ahead.
Counsel for victims of the copper
stock operations of Munroe C Mum
roe. the bankrupt Wall street firm,
plan a 100000 suit against the Ma
tional City Bank of New York.
The Cooper-Quarles bill, to give in
terstate commerce commission more
power, was heard by the senate COM
mittee. Chairman Elkins says that dis
elimination and rebates must stop.
Grain 1nn1pr1 nf hn
ell Bluffs are facing serious car
famine, in spite of the strenuous eff
forts of all the south-bound grain
carrying roads to relieve the situa-
ton.
A Japanese torpedo boat destroyer
captured the Dutch steamer Wilhel-
nina, which was carrying Cardiff coal
TO Vladivostok in the Tsushima
straits, Monday and brought her to
Sasebo.
Gessler Rosseau, arrested in Phila-
delphia for carrying an Internal ma
chine. was identified as the man who
tried to destroy the statue of Freder-
lex the Great recently and the steam
err Umbria.
Witnesses before the Smoot investi.
eating committee of the senate re.
fused to give details of the Mormon
oath. but declared that there Is moth
ing of disloyalty to the nation in the
obligation.
st. Petersburg hears disturbing re
ports as to the health of the car, who
is said to be in state of terror.
A circular issued by British
liquor firm declares noblemen are in
terested in the company and push its
sales.
The state department has received
the following cablegram from Consul
General Harris, at Nagasaki: "Gener
al Stoessel, staff and about 500 off
GERS and men, with their families
have embarked on the steamer Autral
asian for Odessa"
Judge s. b. Davis of Terre Haute
at the request of the Indiana board
of charities, is preparing bill fol-
presentation in the Indiana legisla
turn making wife desprtion n fellow,