Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-04-12
General News

touring in the south.
st. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic
church Mt Philadelphia was burned
Loss, $4,000.
The conferees of the senate and
house have agreed on the bill to re
organize the consular service.
Justice Harlan denied that he is
about to retire from the United States
supreme bench, as reported in some
quarters.
Senator Lodge has offered an amend
ment to the railroad bill making 1t ap.
ply to pipe lines for the Transports
ton OF oil
Announcement is made that the
Friends International Christian En-
deavor union will be held in Whining
ton. o., July % to August l.
Georgia Wells, an actress who had
been playing the leading femme role
of 1.-THE Clansman," died at New York
after surgical operation for appen-
dicitis
A box containing $50 in cash and
$4,000 in gold notes was wrested from
Mrs. G. Schmidt in her bakery in
Jockland, o., at daybreak. The thief
escaped.
cable dispatch from Toxic, says
that Jacob II. Schiff, the banker, was
decorated with the order of the Rising
Sun while in audience with the EN-
peror of Japan.
A fishing boat struck floating
mine March 26, Off the coast OF the
province of Echisen, Japan, and was
blown up. Seven of her crew Of ten
men are missing.
A birdseye view Of cities shows no
buildings being constructed in Chi
cago. Less development in this line
there than in any other city. It Is
referred to as n completed city"
Riley Cotton and Park Wright, the
two self-confessed dynamiters Of the
bull1-head of the Grand reservoir, at
Wapakereka. o.. were sentenced to
sixteen months each in the peniten-
tiary.
G. H. Horne, former teller of the
wrecked state bank OF Canton, o.,
charged with making false entries in
the banks books, was discharged from
custody, because the indictment was
found faulty. ~
General Luke Il. Wright, the newly
appointed ambassador to Japan, will
sail from Seattle for his new post
on April 20. He will be accompanied
by Mrs. Wright, and Is due at Yoko-
hma on May Is.
At meeting of the western trunk
line committee 1t was decided that
the Great Western groin tariff OF 23
cents from Missouri river to the At
lantic seaboard should remain in eff
feet until April ID.
The Iowa house, by n vote of 3S to
81, killed the bill to provide state
board of control for Iowa colleges.
The measure was the most bitterly
fought Of any this session, the col
leges lobbying desperately against It,
According to a statement recently
Issued by the Mexican government
255 miles of railroad was built in that
country in 1905, making total mile
age of 10,4SS miles. The plans for new
roads projected aggregate more than
1000 miles.
The United States government has
accepted the offer of the Washington
Irrigation Company to sell the Sunny.
side Canal and Lateral works, the
largest private irrigation system in
the Northwest, located in yakima and
Fn,.
In submitting to congress the re.
port of the International waterway
commission regarding the preserva-
ton of Niagara Falls, Presiden,
Roosevelt sent a recommendation that
law be enacted along the lines of the
recommendation of the report
That the senate and house will reach
a compromise agreement on the state.
hood bill which will permit Arizona
and New Mexico each to decide for
themselves the question of their ad
mission as one state seems correct
conclusion from present indications
Secretary Of War Taft, Representa-.
tive d. A. De Almond (Mo) and Miss
Mabel T. Boardman of Washington
addressed a Red Cross meeting at the
Belasco theater, Washington, d. c..
for the purpose of acquainting the
public more fully with the purposes
and work of the reorganized Ameri
can National Red Cross.
The house committee on public
buildings and grounds reported favor
ably bill carrying appropriations OF
s20,000,000. The details of the bill are
not fully completed and the commit
tee voted to refrain from disclosing
the projects to be included in the
measure until the report is finally
completed, which will be in about ten
days.
The house committee on Indian af
fairs authorized favorable report or
the Burke bill directing the court OF
claims to adjudicate for payment the
annuities which would have been due
the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians
but for their participation in the Sioux
outbreak of 1862.