Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-06-15
News in Brief

The Wisconsin assembly passed
bill taxing telegraph and telephone
companies on an ad valorem basis.
The mayor of Omaha, after five
months in Arizona for the benefit OF
his health, meantime being married,
has returned to his post Of duty.
Justice Maddox in Brooklyn, in tho
suit of Franklin b. Lord Issued an
order enjoining the naturalization OF
the Equitable Life Assurance Com
pany.
The Presbyterian general assembly
after lively debate referred the re-
port on the forms Of worship back to
a special committee to report next
year.
Richard Higgins OF Peoria was found
not guilty of the murder of Mrs.
Thomasson, who was brutally beaten
by him because Of relations with his
father
Secretary Morton has received in
formation that the original commits
sion of John Paul Jones as a captain
in the navy has been located in Phil
adelphia.
Three prominent New York lawyers
were indicted on the charge OF con-
spring with David Rothschild OF the
defunct Federal Bank to steal S72,-
600 estate.
A great storm which has swept over
Pinetown. the center of the tea and
sugar plantations of Natal, caused the
reservoir to overflow resulting in the
drowning of fifty Hindoo laborers.
Eight former employees of the Pana
ma Canal commission returned to
New York. declaring that they resign
ed because of the high cost Of living
and the unhealthy conditions on tho
isthmus.
The United States Supreme Court
upholds validity of the New York
state franchise tax law. under which
s24.000.000 is due Greater New York
from public service corporations for
back taxes.
The Arctic steamer Terra Nova, ar
rived at Tromsoe, Norway, from Lon
don, and will proceed next week to
the relief of the Fiala-zeigler expedi-
ton which is supposed to be at Franz
Josef Land.
Chemist Of Rhinelander, Wis,
claims to have discovered a method OF
producing a concentrated liquid, one
drop Of which in water will make a
glass of beer.
Grant Gilet, the Kansas City plung-
err, who went to Mexico several years
ago to evade his creditors, has clean
ed up n comfortable fortune in mines
in that country.
A private cablegram to member OF
Norway students chorus says Norway
already has separated from Sweden
and that the ministry headed by
Nicholson has become the provisional
government
Two Americans, Nelson and Dung
ley, while driving a motor car over
the international coup course at Cler
mont, France, colided with a wagon
containing five persons, injuring all OF
them. one seriously.
II Is announced at the War depart
ment that Lieutenant General Chaffee
chief of staff, and Brigadier Generals
William Crozier and J. Franklin Bel
will represent the United States a
the maneuvers of French troops.
Major John M. Carson, who hal
been selected to succeed Mr., ]. Hamp
ton Moore as chief of the bureau o
manufactures of the Department o
Commerce and Labor, Is the dean o
the Washington corps of correspond
ents.
The board of railroad commission
ers of Kansas issued an order requi
Ing the Union Pacific to reduce 1t
rate on grain from Chapman, Kan, t
Kansas City. The order declares tn
Union Pacific has been guilty Of di'
elimination in grain rates.
Minister Griscom cabled the stat
department from Toxic that the shi
supposed to be American, which wa
sunk off the coast of Formosa, Ma
90, by the Russian fleet, was a Bri
sh vessel, according to n report mad
to him by the Japanese government
1t Is announced on high authorlt
that Secretary Taft is favored b
President Roosevelt as his successo
Biornstierne Bjornson, the Norw
gian noet is making strong emo
to unite Norway, Sweden and De
mark. Norway" he says must b
come free as are the other nations
In the trial at Red Oak, Iowa, To
Dennison took the stand and told T.
story of his life.
The French cruiser Troude, after
search reports that the missil
French fishing vessel, Cousins Rem
and 100 men have probably gone
the bottom.
Eat. 'Em-Up-Jack" McManus, n n
torious "bouncer," was killed in
war between rival Bowery gangs
New YORK
Baron Alphone de Rothschild he;
of the Paris branch CT the great ban
ing house and the leading spirit
the family, is dead
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