Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-08-10
Brief kilograms

DioOhOSuiCo III thC iOhb hbhb pbhihob
graft in Milwaukee show that for four
years or more ofilcialdom OF the city
has been honey-combed with rotten.
ness.
Bigler Johnson was hanged at To-
wanda, N. Y, at 1910 and Johnson
was pronounced dead eight minutes
later. He murdered his wife and
niece.
The State department has In prepa-
ration the arrangements for the recep-
ton of Prince Louis OF Battenburg,
who will come to this country In Oc-
tober.
Paul Heyse is accredited with being
one OF the most famous living Ger
man novelists, who is almost as well
known in America as in the father
land.
Fire destroyed the state peniten-
uary at Huntsville, Tex. The con-
victs were removed and locked up
when the fire was discovered. Loss,
$4,000.
The shah OF Persia, while shopping
In Paris, suffered brief fainting
spell from the effect OF the heat. The
attack passed off without serious In
convenience.
Daniel T. Jewett of st. Louis, who
will be 98 years old In September, and
who recently retired from practice, is
probably the Oldest attorney in the
United States.
Mrs. Hugh Fraser, sister OF Marion
Crawford and niece Of Julia Ward
Howe, has sailed for Japan In order
that she may assist the work of the
Red Cross at Toxic.
Franklin Perkins, a negro, of Hall
fax county, son of Levi Perkins,
former slave Is building an airship,
which he will exhibit at the James
town exposition, near Norfolk, In 1907.
A final decree In the court of chan
Gerry in foreclosure proceedings in
reefs the receivers of the Standard
Rope and Irvine company to sell the
company's property at Elizabeth, N. j..
Robert Crawford, the noted civic
leader of Glasgow, Scotland, expects
shortly to make tour of America,
lecturing on Municipal Socialism and
Its Practical Workings in Glasgow"
With one blast of forty-five tons of
dynamite, the largest on record In this
country, three acres of solid rock
were blown from the bed of the Pts
cataqua river, to deepen the water
way.
Two thousand five hundred head OF
uhaar hnlny, rt,,u t1 nhr -
Havre, Mont, have been seized by
the Canadian mountain police and are
held for double duty, amounting to
$1,000.
Miss Nellie v. Walker of Chicago
has been commissioned to execute a
$4,000 monument to the memory Of
the late w. S. Stratton of Colorado
Springs, owner of the fmous indie
pendence mine.
Walter Wellman declares the tariff
reform question will not down and
that II the people demand revision
congress will be forced to act soon.
President Roosevelt awaits an oppor-
tunity to bring the subject up.
Before United States Judge s. H.
Bethea, Attorney Hiram T. Gilbert,
counsel for Mrs. Margaret G. Swift,
dismissed a bill containing charges
of fraud and bribery against the In
ternatlonal Harry ter company.
The secretary II the treasury has
received through the Navy depart.
ment a letter from the governor of the
Island Of Guam recommending that
: Philippine coins be substituted for the
Mexican coins now current on the
island.
The Treasury department has is.
sued circular letters of instruction to
the United States customs officers on
the Canadian frontier, directing them
to assess additional duties upon all
wool pulp imported from the province
OF Quebec.
The commission appointed to re
port on the pneumatic tube service
will hold meeting at Washington tc
formulate its report, provided Mr.
Masten, member of the commission
who is suffering from erysipelas, is II
condition to attend the session.
The Russian minister of finance 1.
celebrating scheme for the imposi
ton of additional taxes to the amour
OF $50,000,000 annually; this will con
Btitute new departure in Russian
taxation, the new taxes being impose,
principally on the weIl-to-do classes
Report reached Baker City, Ore
that 1000 head of sheep, property O
LUX & Miller of San Francisco, wer
shot in the Granite mining district O
Eastern Grant county. Sheep owner
had been warned to keep off certain
mining property because Of damag
To the water supply and to the forag
the miners wanted for their horses.
Three editors aspire to the demo
cratic nomination for governor @
Georgia.
Pobiedonostseff, head OF the Ru,
sian church, declares the nation is nc
ready for parliamentary institution
and clings to czardom and orthodox
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