Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-02-09
News in Brief

citation in session at Cincinnati, o., Is
opposed to the parcels post law.
There has been a great blizzard in
the Klondke region, and snow is re-
ported in some places "a feet deep.
Fire Quilted the department store OF
Bannon C Co., at st. Paul, MINI,
causing q loss estimated at $4,000.
The insurance is $4,000.
China is given intimation by the
United States government Of neces'
sity that she should observe perfect
neutrality in the Russo-Japanese war
Preston M. wigglnson, a Denver
election Judge, who pleaded guilty TO
voting in a precinct where he did not
reside, was sentenced to jail for ninety
days.
Governor La Toilette states that he
will not accept tho Office OF United
States senator II measures which no
has been advocating are not enacted
into laws.
L. T. Hubbard, superintendent OF the
Los Angeles division OF the Santa Fe,
has been appointed to succeed S. j.
Shepard, recently resigned, as gener-
al superintendent
The new bill for the government
regulation OF freight rates was intro
duced In the house by Representative
Shakleford OF Missouri, a member OF
the minority party.
Revised returns received from the
Ontario election show that the con-
servatives elected seventy-one mem
bers of the provincial legislature and
the liberals twenty-seven.
Lady Curzon, OF Kedleston, wife OF
the viceroy of India, has completely
recovered from her long illness, and is
preparing shortly to join her husband
in India with their children.
The investigating committee OF the
Missouri legislature will return re-
port generating Niedringhaus from
accepting money given him by brew
ers for the purpose of influencing leg
islation.
Clarence Don Clark was reelected
United States senator by the Wyom-
ing legislature in Joint session, by q
vote of 81 to z. Clark received the
unanimous vote of the republican
members.
It Is believed that the recent freeze
in Florida destroyed all citrous fruits
on trees, excepting In the extreme
southern part Of the state, the total
destruction being placed at 100000
boxes, possibly more.
About 300 pounds OF dynamite
stored in Pittsburg, Pa, exploded,
blowing Vincenzo Pessimato, an Ital-
ian employee, to atoms, inJurlng forty
persons and badly damaging fifteen
houses In the neighborhood.
A number of Texas business men
have formed stock company to drain
Collins lake, down in the Lone Star
state, in hope of finding 100000 In
Mexican coins supposed to have been
dumped there in the early days
Germany sees singular sight in
the powerful center party cooperating
with socialists in supporting a strike.
The higher Catholic clergy are sub
scribing personally to the strike funds
and are announcing subscriptions.
The international commission to in
quire into the North sea incident re-
sumed its sittings at Paris with dimin-
ished attendance and interest, owing
to the many fishermen witnesses re-
peatin gpractically the same story.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for the
erection OF a monument to the mem
ory of Captain G. V. Gridley. who
commanded Admiral Dewey's flagship
Olympia at the battle of Manila bay
has been introduced in the senate
President Roosevelt has departed
from the social usages Of many years
in becoming a dinner guest at the
house OF the vice president-elect. Fol
thirty years It has been the custom
for the president to do no dining out
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was for
mally adjudged a bankrupt in E. the
United States district at Cleveland by
default. AS result of the courts &C
ton the creditors will meet and elect
q trustee to take charge OF her prop
erty until it shall be sold.
William G. Doane, bishop of AL
bany. and committee of the inter
church conference on marriage anC
divorce. called on the president Il
SOhiCI VIII MN as W SOllle Oh INC re
suits of their deliberations. BlshoI
Doane, speaking for the committee
delivered a brief address to Presiden
Roosevelt, to which the president re
piled.
The house committee on rivers AM
harbors agreed on bill providing 70
river and harbor work. The bill car
ries an aggregate appropriation o
$17o91,S75 and authorizes expend
lures for continuing contracts aggre
eating $16,734,657. From the total O
cash appropriated is to be deducte
the sum Of $2,1Ss,e42, the unexpende
balance of the appropriation carrie
in the emergency act OF last year.
The plant OF the Valley oil mill
at Memphis, Tenn, was destroyed b
IRE.