Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-05-03
News in Brief


to April q.
An agent of Standard Oil has been
sent to Jail in Connecticut for selling
poor quality.
The Bangor schooner Sallie B.
foundered and four Of her crew per-
ished off the Maine
McGill university OF Montreal, has
decided to confer the honorary degree
Of LII. D. upon Andrew Carnegie.
J. j. Hill has offered $7S75 in prizes
for the best managed and best TILED
farms in the Dakotas and Minnesota.
1t is expected in st. Petersburg that
the arrangements for the proposed big
national loan will be signed in Paris
on Saturday.
Philander G. Knox, senator from
Pennsylvania is an inveterate read
err, devoting all his time from legisla-
tive or legal duties to reading.
The government Of New Zealand
has started in business as a dealer in
coal, having established agencies for
the retail distribution of state mined
coal.
In six years the Spanish claims
awarded sS6,740 at an expense OF
$537,86 The commission knows
where the money will do the most
good.
Contracts have been awarded by
the Carnegie Steel company for the
construction of two large blast fur
naces at Rankin, Pa, at cost of ST.
100000.
Corporal James Tanner, commander
in-chief Of the Grand Army Of the Re
public, was taken on tour of inspec-
ton of the various battlefelds sur
rounding Atlanta, Ga.
Capital invested in the carpet and
rug industry in the United States in
creased 2S per cent from 1900 to 1904
according to report issued by the
census bureau
Eva Booth, commander of the Saliva
tion Army in the United States, has
announced that the international Sal
walton Army congress will be held in
New York May IL to 16.
The mutinous spirit has spread to
the crew of the Portuguese from clad
Vasco Da Cana, at Lisbon. The au-
thorites have taken precautions to
prevent further outbreak.
Emepor Francis Joseph, through an
aide de camp, has presented Bellamy
Storer with the monarch's picture, set
in frame of diamonds, his usual
present to a retiring ambassador.
Announcement was made that the
Baltimore & Ohio, railroad will issue
$25,700000 of its common stock, the
proceeds of which are to be used for
construction, improvements and equip
ment.
]. H. Van Dyke, ir, president Of the
Milwaukee Trust company. and di-
rector in the First National bank,
died at a hospital after an operation
for gall stones He was about As
years old.
Charles Frohman has commissioned
Seymour Hicks of London to write
the libretto of musical play for pro
duction in England and the United
States. The subject will be a modern
version of "As You Like It."
At Connellsville, Pa, all the police
went on strike and the town is now
without police protection. When the
tramps working on public Improve
ments heard that the force had re
signed they made their escape.
President ]. Hampton Moore, of the
National Republican League, has is
10 nio1
to be held in Philadelphia June IL
1S and 10. The occasion will mari
the golden jubilee of the Republican
party.
George B. Hibbird, we'll known ma
rine lawyer, died at Buffalo, aged s:
years Mr.. Hibbard argued the INLAND
navigation case before the United
States supreme court, the result o
which was the establishing of tn,
great lakes as inland seas.
The steamship Campania, whicl
sailed from Queenstown on the 18th
for New York, has on board what 4
said to be the largest consignment o
specie silver sent across the Atlantic
on one vessel. The total value of TIN
specie is about s6,25O,OO0, and it
weight is close to twelve tons.
Vice Admiral Cervera, who CON
manded the Spanish fleet which wa
destroyed off Santiago de Cuba, Jul
8, 1898, by an American fleet CON
manded by Rear Admiral William 7
Sampson, has been appointed nava
commander at Ferrol, the SPANS
naval station on the Bay of Betanzo'
Customs officials have completed tn
appraisement of all merchandis
brought to Seattle on the battleshi
Oregon, according to a list of tn
goods furnished by Captain ]. p. Me
rill The authorities announce tha
officers held goods valued at 1898, an
the crew merchandise amounting I
$491. making a total of 1884
Bishop John W. Hamilton, of Cal
fornia, who presided at the sevent!
seventh annual conference of the Me-
Hampshire Methodist EplscopS
church, declared that conditions littl
short of anarchy prevailed in Sa