Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-02-02
Brief kilograms

senate.
Eighteen miles of the Tonic rail
road between Phoenix and Tonic Dam
in Arizona has been washed out by
the floods.
Among the recent Austrians to leave
for America is the elegant young Bar
on Roger Morpurgo, who left debts
amounting to 100000 crowns behind
him.
The czar sometimes wishes privacy.
In his palace at Peterhof there is a
summer dining house so arranged that
there need not be any servants pres
ent during the meal.
The state department is in receipt
of a cablegram of several hundred
words from Ambassador Mccormick
at st. Petersburg, summarizing the
conditions in that city.
Elizabeth Duse. daughter and only
child of Nine. Eleonora Duse, the ltal-
ian tragedenne, has entered an Eng
lish college devoted to the study Of
farming and horticulture. Signorina
Duse Is only II years old.
Alarmed by the suicide OF Charles
II. Houseman, cashier of the East
Side Savings bank at Columbus Ohio,
run was started on the bank. The
street was lined with men, women and
children demanding their money
Charles LuXhorn, a farmer living
fourteen miles southwest of McPher-
son, Kansas, killed his two sons,
young boys aged 6 and 10 years burn
ed his house and barn with all their
contents, and then shot and killed
himself.
A special from FL Paso, Tex, says
that Antonio Astizaran, n member of
prominent Mexican family, with two
servants, has been murdered by the
YaQui Indians in the same vicinity
where five Americans were slain last
Thursday.
Judge Moses Hallett, in the United
States district court, issued a war
rant for the arrest of G.. A. Morning,
United States commissioner Of Routt
county, Colorado, on a charge of ac-
cepting illegal fees in connection with
land filings.
The house committee on military af-
fairs authorized favorable report on
the substitute for the senate bill re-
pealing the law which prohibits the
president from granting brevets except
in time of war.
The two houses of the New Jersey
legislature voted separately for United
States senator John Kean, who was
the choice OF the republican joint eau
Gus to succeed himself received a ma
jority OF the votes.
A package containing $3.50 in cur
-ency. shipped by the Adams Express
company from the United States treas
ury at Washington to the First Ma
tional bank at Newcastle. Pa, was
mysteriously rihed en- route.
Sir Casper Purdon Clarke, FOR many
years art director of the South Ken
slngton museum in London was
unanimously elected by the trustees
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
at New York as director OF the mu
scum.
Mrs. Mary Rogers of Windsor, VT.
condemned to be hanged on Februar!
3, was removed to the death cell. Ar
rangements for the execution hav,
been completed and there is nothin.
to indicate that Governor Bel vii
Interfere.
Theodore Sanford has been a jus
tice of the peace in Bellevue, N. j
for fifty-two years and now at tn
age of sc is still in the harness. Hi
ancestors have been connected wit
the industries and public affairs o
New Jersey since 1868.
Mrs. Iouia Cody's answer to the d
vorce suit of Colonel William F. Cod
Buffalo BID was filed in court a
Cheyenne. She denies that she eve
attempted to poison Colonel Cody o
was guilty of any indignities to hir
and discourtesy to his guests as a
legged i'm his bill, and makes q counter
charge of infidelity.
A sensation has been created by tn
mysterious disappearance OF Car
Phelps, secretary of the federal gran
jury. which is investigating the Ian
fraud cases at Portland Oregon
Phelps asked to be excused from tn
fury room for a few minutes on FIR
day afternoon. lie has not been sec
since by the members of the jury {
by the agents of the government
William j. Bryan was the guest {
honor at a dollar banquet given {
New Haven, Conn, in Warner hal
Mr.. Bryan made il an occasion FOR il
dicating the reason why the DEM
cratic party was so overwhelming
defeated in the last campaign an
also stated what seemed to him sigI
of promise for a democratic victor
in the next presidential campaign.
In recurrence of earthquakes
Thessaly a village was destroyed al
several persons killed or injured.
Representative Burke introduced
bill to authorize the construction
a bridge across the Missouri river b
tween Lyman and Brule countie
South Dakota.
Investigation has thus far failed