Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-15
General News

form, was reported from INC COullulG
tee on foreign relations.
The attorney general OF Missouri
began suit against the Western Union
Telegraph company for the collection
of back taxes amounting to $3S, S31.33
recently.
The secretary OF the interior has or.
dered the leasing of 81 900 acres OF
the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache
lands in Oklahoma for agricultural
purposes.
The Cuban house of representatives
adopted unanimously and without dis
cussion the senate bill appropriating
$4,000 for a wedding present to Miss
Alice Roosevelt
The entire plant of the Robes Man
ufacturing company, Chicago, makers
of picture frames and curtain poles,
was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss
of $15O,OOO.
Father John of Kronstadt, the world
famous religious leader, denies that he
has made extravagant claims to di-
vinity, but makes no attempt to reply
to the SANDERS printed about him.
Representative Burke of South Da-
kota introduced a bill authorizing the
secretary of the interior to lease 5000
acres of the public domain to be used
exclusively as pasture for native buff
falo.
Plans for buildings and improve
ments at the naval training station, to
cost $2000000 are outlined in the re-
-
an immediate appropriation of $780,
600.
When the employees of the First Ma
tional bank of Talihana, l. T., entered
the building the other morning they
found that the safe, which contained
$4,000, had been dynamited and its
contents stolen.
Anthony Matre of st. Louis, national
secretary of the American Federation
Of Catholic societies, announced that
the national convention of the fedora
ton will be held at Buffalo, N. Y, July
20 to 81 of this year.
President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale
college was the guest of honor at the
annual dinner of the Yale Alumni as
ISOLATION of Cleveland Ohio. He re-
sponded to the toast For God, for
Country and for Yale"
A wage increase of approximately Z
per cent, in which 1000 employees par
ticipate, went into effect on the Bos-
ton e. Maine railroad system. The
change affects the freight conductors
and freight brakemen.
Announcement was made of the sale
of $20,000,000 of 4 per cent bonds by
the Pennsylvania company to bankers
of New York. The funds from t1e
sale of the bonds are to be used for
construction and other purposes not
stated.
The supreme court of the United
States refused to grant leave to Leon
ard lmboden and j. A. Hill to file Pc
titions for writs of habeas corpus.
They are under sentence to imprison-
ment for ten years in the Colorado
penitentiary.
l. l.. Bruer, pioneer merchant of
Bancroft, Ia, is believed 70 have been
lost In the wreck of the Vale cia on
Vancouver coast. Mr.. Bruer had writ
ten his family that he intended to sail
on the Inflated steamer, and nothing
has since been heard from him.
Steps were taken by James Osborne,
counsel for Norman Hapgood, editor
OF Golfers Weekly, in his recent trial
on charge of criminal libel, to follow
up the disclosures made by witnesses
in the hearing of that case and coop
crate with District Attorney Jerome
The Atlanta, Birmingham e. Atlantic
railroad filed mortgage with the pro,
bate judge of Jefferson county, Ala
bama, for s30,0O0000 to the Old Col
ony Trust company of New York for
the purpose of completing the pro
posed line between Birmingham, Ala
to Brunswick, Ca, with lines to Mon
tezuma.
The coroner's jury which has been
investigating the wreck of Santa Fe
passenger train near Chillicothe, H.,
which resulted in four deaths, found
John S. Smith of the block signal sta
ton near Chillcothe guilty of gross
carelessness and INCOMPETENCE Con
ductor G. +. Weatherwat of the pas
senger train is also censured.
Lieut. Gen. Chaffee will be placed
on the retired list of the army at hi
own request, after about forty-iv,
years service. General and Mrs
Chaffee and Miss Chaffee will leav,
Washington for Mexico City, wher
they will remain until May l next
Later in the summer they will take u
their permanent residence at Los An
geles, Cal.
President Roosevelt received abou
sixty memoirs of Camp A, Wheeler
Confederate cavalry, of Atlanta, Ca
A convention, attended by coo dele
gates from various parts of the state
met at Topeka to consider plans 70
holding semi-centennial exposition
In 1911.
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