Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-11-09
Brief kilograms

ultu Ut hOIne NJ lHe age vi % years.
II is said the Canadian side Of Nj
agara Falls has receded 800 feet dur
ing the last 80 years.
With Masonic rites the funeral OF
former Congressman Jerry Simpson
occurred at Wachita. Kas.
The Pennsylvania new car order
brings LAT roads expenditure for
equipment for the year up to S26, 000,-
600.
A girl cashier in New York con-
fessed that she has stolen $4,000 from
her employers to supply money to her
lover.
All Russia is practically strike
bound. st. Petersburg is all but iso-
lated and wide distress Is reported In
other cities.
Secretary Taft decided in favor OF
the contention of representatives of
Texas regarding the improvements of
the Brazos river.
An imperial ukase authorizes pro-
visionally the use OF the Polish and
Lithuanian languages in the private
schools of Poland
The German government will not
propose to the reichstag an increase
In the navy beyond the additions pre-
viously estimated.
The bishop Of London, DR.. Ingram,
has taken up President Roosevelts
cue and has denounced race suicide
as a sin due to the love of ease.
The dome on the great cathedral In
Monterey, Mexico, fell, crushing the
church into heap. The ediflce was
one Of the landmarks of Mexico.
Plates Of unworked silver worth
$4,000 were stole and carried from q
wagon belonging to William r. Elfer
silver manufacturer at New York.
August Hemery, for France, won
the Vanderbilt cup in the 283-mile au-
tomobile race over the Long Island
course which was covered in 276 min
utes.
The state bank at Rockham, 8. D.,
was robbed. The safe was shattered
by nitro-glycerine and $4,000 in cur
rency, besides valuable securities, So
cured.
The secretary of the interior has or
dered the withdrawal from entry of
100000 acres Of land in the Cheyenne
Wyo., land district with view to
creating a forest reserve.
Zebulon B. Brockway, the eminent
prison administrators and reformer, Is
now 70 years old, but he has Just been
nominated by both democrats and re-
publicans for mayor of Blmira, NJ Y.
Major General Leonard Wood has
arrived at Manila and will assume
command OF the military department
o. the Philippines during the absence
of Major General Corbin.
Attorney General Hadley of Nilsson.
ri has instituted custer proceedings
against the Kansas City board OF trade
and its weighmaster and inspectors
for refusing to allow state inspection
Of grain.
Mr.. Mccormick, the American am
bassador to France, and Mrs. McCor-
mick arrived at Milan from the baths
OF Salsomagglore They will remain
In Milan few days before returning
to Paris.
New York investigators decided to
include the state department of insur-
ance In their inquiry, because of q
suspicion that examiners are named
by politicians in the interest of the
big companies.
Rock Island passenger train No. II.
west bound, and Rock Island passenger
train No. IL, eastbound, met in a
head-on collision, one-half mile west Of
Fairfield, la. Four were killed and q
number wounded.
Secretary Russwurm of the Ten
essee Breeders association announced
that the association has decided to test
in the courts the cunstitutionality of
the anti-race track betting law, passed
by the last legislature.
Urgent recommendation is con-
tanned in the annual report OF the pay
master general of the navy for the
warranting of paymasters' clerks in
the navy, and for the creation of re-
tired list for this branch of the ser.
vice.
Former Governor Jose Miguel Gomez
of Santa Glare province, Cuba, who re
Gently resigned the Cuban liberal
party candidacy for president OF Cuba
denied at New York the report circu
lating in Havana that he had come to
New York to buy arms for revolu
tionary movement
John Weir, president of the Wesley
an university at Buckhannon, w. Va.
was burned in efiigy on the campus by
the students as the result OF i'll feel
ing following the presidents decision
practically abollshing football from
the college.
Henry s. Storrs, general superin
tendent OF the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railway, died at Cleveland
o.
The Duchess of Marlborough, for
merly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt sailet
from New York for England on tn,
steamer Kron Prinz Wilhelm.
The National Grand lodge OF Coco