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

NOte OF o0 10 30.
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 Pan.
ANA to work on the canal.
Secretary Metcalf has appointed
Richard r. Campbell, law officer of
the bureau of immigration.
Sir Henry Irving has signed con.
'rac. 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 threeinch
shrapnel shells.
According to a semionicial 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
cost of $17,500. The house is a hand
some new brick structure, with
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 $685.
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.
sion last October, coming from Aber
deem, S. ID.
A City of Mexico dispatch says the
volcano of Coima Is emitting great
clouds of thick smoke, which rise
high above the crater. Many people
living in the neighboring 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, for
mer minister. will head the section of
the state council sitting at Stockholm
The Missouri senate passed hill
making all pipe lines, constructed or
70 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 $75O,OOO In favor
of Mansfield, McMurray & Cornish,
lawyers, residing in Indian Territory,
as fees for services rendered by them
to the Choctaw and Chlckasaw In
dams.
In the present of famous educators
representing the leading educational
institutions of the country, Samuel
Black Mccormick, d. D., Ill D., was
formally made chancellor of the West
ern University of PENNSYLVANIA at
Pittsburg.
New York Rapid Transit rolling
stock is to be augmented by two cars,
each 5000 feet long, containing 2,700
seats, and a seating capacity of 5000
passengers. The motive power will be
electricity and the speed from nine to
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 to
succeed Mr.. Conger, as minister to
China, will probably leave for his
new post some time in April.
Rev. Dr. William II, Roberts, stated
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 100000
members of almost all of the Protest
ant denominations in the country
copies Of an appeal urging the adop
ton by the various state legislatures
of more stringest divorce and re-mar
riage laws.
At Jackson, Miss, Governor Varda
man issued an address to the peace
officers Of the state, declaring that the
situation is growing extremely critica
that crime is rampant in all Quarters
OF the commonwealth and urging Off
GERS at once to begin a crusade ant
clean out the dives and haunts o.
criminals.
II is intmated that President Roose
welt has rendered the Office of United
States district attorney for the north