Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-04-20
Brief kilograms

n DlOUutu NtUluChy HOIbt llOu
West Tennessee arrived at Frederick,
o. r., for the use of the president
during his hunt
The Erie Railway company filed
with the secretary Of New York q
certificate of increase of capital stock
from $177,0OOOO0 to $1970OO,OO0.
George e. Roberts states that the
question of rate legislation has alb.
sorbed tariff revision, after return
from investigation of sentiment in
New York.
The new cruiser Rusbeck the first
turbine propelled vessel of the Ger
man navy, ran her trial trip from Kiel
TO Swinemunde, 1870 sea miles, at 20
knots an hour.
A man apparently about 20 years
OF age, supposed to be Charles II.
Simpson of Lincoln, H., committed
suicide at St. Louis by jumping into
the river.
At ST. Joseph, Mo, Cassius Brown,
colored, was convicted of the MUIR
der of Mrs. Nancy Gay, November 20,
last Brown bound and gagged Mrs. Gay
and cut her throat.
Preparations are being made for the
meeting Of the Southern Industrial
parliament, which will assemble in
Washington, d. c., on May 20, and
continue until the Goth
Emil Klaessig, the American editor
Of the Governmental Teegraphen
campaigne, otherwise known as the
Wolff bureau, died of pneumonia at
his homo in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The disbursements for pensions by
the United States treasury for the fis-
cal year ended June 80 1904, were
$4,000, S1S75, making a grand total
since 1860 of $3,122, 033 ,S1S.75
Spotted fever has been raging for
several month sin epidemic form In
Sicily. Much alarm exists among the
people, especially the laboring popula-
ton, and many have fed from the dis
trict.
Nine Servians, who were captured
after fight with Turkish troops in
Uskub province were taken to Kun
unove sixteen miles from The town of
Uskub, where the inhabitants lynched
them.
An effort Is being made by Attorney
General Ware Ellis of Ohio in the
common pleas court to force the Mu-
tual Home Fire Insurance company of
Cleveland into. the hands of a re,
ceiver
1t is announced, according to St
Petersburg dispatch to n news agency
that the committee of ministers has
been notified of an imperial decree
granting an extensive amnesty to re
ligious offenders.
At boarding house in Oklahoma
City, o. T., NJ. l.. Shepley, Holdenville
]. T., shot and killed his wife anC
then then committed suicide. Domes
tic difficulties is assigned as the
cause of the tragedy.
Secretary Hitchcock designated viii
liam H. Code of Los Angeles, Cal, al
chief of Indian irrigation. He will
have supervision of irrigation con
structiop work on Indian reservation.
throughout the west
Engineer Warde of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad has broken
that road by driving his engine from
Clinton to Boone, a distance of 90
miles In 1S9 minutes.
Harvard university has invited Prof
Wilhelm OSWALD of the University O
Leipzig to serve as lecturer in tn
first half Of the coming academi
year, under the arrangement for a
exchange of professors.
The secretary of the interior ha
ordered the withdrawal from entry {
100000 acres of land in the San Frai
cisco and Susanville, Cal, land di
tricts on account of the Sacrament
valley irrigation project.
A series of remarkable experiment
have been concluded by an eminel
English physicist, who has demo
strated by an ingenious method of h
own that he is able to dispel smok
fumes and fog by electricity.
THE tapeworm is the natural e
envy of the germ of consumption al
the latter cannot exist when the 9th
Is present" says Consul Canada.
Vera Cruz, Mex, in a report just I
ceived at the state department.
At Honolulu the legislature h
passed a bill establishing county &C
eminent for the Hawaiian island
The bill divides the islands into fl
counties, the leper settlement of M
okai being made one of them.
In New York it developed that t
grand jury has been investigating
accusation made against promine
politician and attorney, David Rot
child, the former president of the f,
eral bank, who is serving a term
nine years in Sing Sing.
The United States supreme co,
handed down its opinion in the Nor
ern Securities case in which decisi
was made some weeks ago, refusi
the protest of the Hartman intere
against proposed pro rata distribut
of stock
A report from Superintendent c
rol of the government boarding sch