Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-04-26
General News


Among the nominations for post
masters sent to the senate by the pres
ident were II. Springer, Cambria,
Wyo,; Ida Hewes, Cooper, Wyo.
The central passenger association
at Chicago. decided to increase the
summer tourist rates which prevail
every season to the Atlantic seacoast
resorts.
The state department at Washing
ton has received through the Red
Cross an additional sum OF $4,000 for
transmission to the japanese famine
sufferers.
Luang Prabang, capital of French
Indo-China, has been almost destroyed
by fire. Five hundred houses and the
French school were burned. No fatal
tiles are recorded.
Otis Lambdin of Danvers, ILL.,, has
been appointed vice-president of the
National Association of Rural Route
Carriers, succeeding e. e. Dyer of
Aurora, Ill., resigned.
Secretary Bonaparte, in an address
to the members Of the naval pay Off
GERS school, warns them of the graft
bacillus, which he declares is as in.
furious as any encountered by medical
men.
William Il. Curtis, writing from the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, tells
of the magnificent railroad now linking
the Atlantic and Pacific. which pro-
poses to compete with the Panama
Canal.
At the Morgan Lumber company's
mill at Forest City, Mich, Joseph
Jeanquart of Depere, was thrown on
revolving saw and instantly killed.
The saw cut him in two near the
shoulders.
Victories Of the constitutional dem
ocrats in the Russian elections are
followed by proposed coalition of the
liberal forces, to prevent the govern
ment from adjourning parliament i'm
mediately.
DR.. G. w. Hoss, president of the
Kansas Peace society, formerly presi-
dent of schools of Indiana, later presi-
dent of the Kansas State Normal
school, died at Washington, yesterday,
aged so years.
President Roosevelt will chastise
the magazine writer's who are attack
ing the lawmakers of the nation in a
speech to be delivered at the mem
orlal day celebration of the Army and
Navy Union at Norfolk. Virginia.
While returning from an entertain
ment at Elizabeth, Pa, John BUGGY,
aged 20 years, and Margaret Ais
house, aged II years, were run down
and almost instantly killed by Penn
sylvania freight train near Clareton,
Pa.
Replying to a Protestant protest
against the marriage of King Alphonso
OF Spain and Princess Ena of Batten-
burg, Home Secretary Herbert Glad
stone points that the assent of King
Edward is not necessary to the mar
riage.
The Ohio Wholesale Grocers' Asso-
citation company permitted judgment
OF custer to be taken against it and
the Franklin county court appointed
j. B. Safer and Gilbert Stewart of Co
lumbus, trustees to wind up the COM
pany.
The thirteenth annual convention
of the International Association of
Chiefs Of Police was called to order
at Hot Springs, Ark, by the presi-
dent Major Richard Sylvester of
Washington, d. G. Chiefs OF police to
the number of 200 representing cities
of the east middle west and south,
were in attendance.
The American Mosquito Extermina-
ton society began it's third annual
convention in New York. President
William ]. Matheson of New York
in his opening address said that a
large percentage of the population Of
this country yearly lose their lives or
are incapacitated by disease from the
insidious work of the mosquito.
Henry II. Rogers has been reap
pointed superintendent of streets of
Fairhaven Mass; Alfred Marshall,
with an income of $4,000 a week, is
running for trustee of Mamaroneck;
Mrs Mackay, worth $4,000, 900 or S4.-
100000, is school director of Roslin,
L. l., and two farmers worth $1,000, 900
apiece are tied for mayor of Ida Grove,
la.
The secretary of the interior is ad-
vertising for bids for the construction
of division ! Garland canal, Shoshone
irrigation project, Wyoming. The
work involves the excavation Of about
100000 cubic yards of each, about
$4,000 cubic yards of rock and shale
and the construction of incidental
structures, about fifteen miles north
east of Cody Wyo.
A dinner was given to Maxim Gorky,
the Russian novelist, at the home of
Mr.. Narony, New York city.
According to advices from the city
OF Mexico, s15,OOO,OOO will be expend.
ed by Los Angeles capitalists in the
institution and operation of a chain of
banks along the west coast of Mexico.
The commerce commission is taking