Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-09-14
News in Brief

fAlo, N. Y, merchant, was due 10 cnol-
era morbus and heart disease, and not
to carbolic acid administered by his
wife.
President Roosevelt unexpectedly
visited the submarine torpedo boat
Plunger and spent fifty minutes be-
meath tee waves, dashed to fury by a
storm.
Two men are are dead and three
more in dying condition as a result
OF the bursting of a sixteen-inch steam
pipe in the Danville, ILL.,, electric light
plant vester.
The breaker, Office, boiler house and
engine house of the Pine Hill Coal
company at Minersville, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire today. Loss, $150,000,
partly insured.
The annual report Of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad company for the year
ending June 30, 1905, shows a net in
come Of 1892, 1888, an increase Of ST.
$4,000 over last year.
A train on the Long Beach division
Of the Long Island railway was wreck
cd by a spreading rail near Jekyill ISL
and. Many passengers were injured,
but no one was fatally hurt.
The Atlanta city council proposes to
begin impeachment proceedings
against Mayor Woodward for his at
tack on Mayor Dunno at the League
of American Municipalities convention
In Toledo.
Thomas D. Waggaman, under indict-
ment for embezzlement, appeared in
the office of the clerk Of the criminal
court at Washington and gave bond
in the sum Of $4,000 for his appear
ance in court.
The monthly statement of the col
lections of internal revenue show that
for the month Of July, 1905, the col
lections amounted to $20,790,479,
which is an increase as compared with
July, 1904, Of $3s5,461.
President Roosevelt, In accepting
the position of honorary vice president
Of the Public Schools Athletic League
of New York, says crowded tenement
districts are responsible for the devel-
opment of vicious and unhealthy chill
dren.
DR.. NJ. U. O'Sullivan, senior surgeon
in st. Vincent's and the Woman's col
1ege and fellow of the Royal College
OF Surgeons, Ireland, is making tour
Of this country studying hospitals, and
from here will go to Melbourne, Aus
tralia
Two deaths from cholera have oc-
Cured at Lemberg Austria, and sew
eral suspected cases are under observ-
alton. The deaths occurred in the
family of river boatman who has
been working in the Vistula district
of Prussia.
The Japanese have landed 5000 in
habitants Of the island of Sakhalin at
Decastries, West Siberia, many Of
whom were women and children, and
some sick persons, who were forced
to march to the coast, causing them
terrible suffering.
While engaged in breaking up scrap
iron with a sledgehammer at the Re-
public Iron and Steel plant of St.
Louis, George Jones was probably
blin4ed for life by the explosion of
an old cannon which his sledge struck
The cannon was loaded.
The delegates to the national Krieg-
erbund at Joliet, ILL.,, had a stormy
debate over a resolution increasing as
sessments in the insurance branch.
The resolution finally prevailed. Rates
will be increased on January 1 next
from $1,50 quarter to $1.75.
Former State Representative James
i. Carey Of Haverhill, Mass, was
nominated for governor at the social
list state convention. Patrick F. Ma
honey of Boston was placed in nomi-
nation for lieutenant governor and G.
O. Hitchcock of Ware for secretary Of
state.
The annual report of Brigadier Gen.
eral Theodore ]. Whit, commanding
the department of the Missouri, rec
ommends that army chaplains shall
not be allowed to perform marriages
Vi uhlCob plCNlOuo
shall have been given by the com
manding officer. the enlistment OF mar.
ried soldiers being discouraged by the
war department
Mrs. Naomi Aldrich of Frederick
Mich, after preliminary examina
ton, was bound over for trial before
the circuit court charged with hav
ing poisoned her two little sons, aged
and years, with arsenic. Early in
July, Mrs. Aldrich insured the lives
OF her sons for $50 each The boys
died during the week of August 6, un
der suspicious circumstances.
A dispatch from Baden-Baden says
that w. X. Vanderbilt is confined tC
his room at hotel in that city.
Duns review of Chicago trade says
oil lines of industry are well sustain
ed. Railroad traffic is unusually high
while lake carrying makes a new rec
ord.
William lobe, an alleged Ohio muir
darer is held at Kansas Citv