Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-03-08
News in Brief


is believed to be held practically in
hand.
James William Lowther was unani.
mously reelected speaker Of the house
of commons.
William II. Truesdale was reelected
president of the Delaware Lackawan.
ma & Western railroad.
A dispatch from Tinis reports that
soldiers have arrested and searched
the Turkish consul there.
The house committee on labor has
practically agreed to report bill for
an investigation of child labor
The alumni association of the Cath
Ollie University OF America, located at
Washington, d. c., elected officers.
John g. Wilson, for many years in
charge OF the real estate department
OF the Pennsylvania railroad, died sud
denly from stroke OF apoplexy.
A lockslide on the Great Northern
railway near Katka, Idaho, in Koo-
tenai canyon, has buried nearly 300
feet of track to depth of thirty feet.
The Columbian Golf club of Wash
ington, d. G.. has set April 10 and II
as the dates for the opening tourna-
ment which is to be held on its links
this spring.
William Buchanan will head the
American delegation to the third in
ternational congress of American re-
publcs which will meet at Petropolis,
Brazil, next July.
The famine in the Meridional pro-
vinces Of Spain Is very grave. The re-
cent intense cold has killed the sugar
crop in the provinces OF Seville, Cadiz,
Malaga and Granada.
A modified form of quarantine which
in this instance means detention and
inspection. goes into effect against Ha-
vana and all Cuban and other rropl.
cal ports on March /.
Some Japanese newspapers are ad-
vocating the purchase of the Philip
pines from the United States, accord
ing to advices received by the steamer
Athenian at Victoria. B. G.
AS at present arranged, Messrs
interstate commerce commission will
conduct the oil hearing, which has
been set for March IL, at Kansas City.
A membership on the st. Louis stock
exchange was sold to William M. Lou
derman for $500, making the record
price FOR seat on the exchange. The
price Is an advance of $1,000 over the
preceding sale.
Francis kossuth, in an article con-
tributed to the London Chronicle on
the Hungarian crisis, emphasizes the
danger to the peace and balance of
power OF Europe involved in these
complications.
An unconflrmed dispatch has
reached the British government re-
porting that FIVE British officers and a
company of native troops have been
killed by fanatics near Sokoto, in
northern Nigeria.
On the morning of February 10 an
attempt was made to assassinate the
president of the republic of Colombia.
Eight shots were fired at him, five of
which struck his carriage, but he es.
capped uninjured.
Two or three women members OF
the National Equal Suffrage associa
ton made their annual plea to the sen.
ate committee on woman suffrage for
the right to exercise the franchise
Senator Bacon presided.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee, commanding
the second squadron or the American
Atlantic fleet, has given permission tc
more than 10 sailors from his ships
to go to Rome on Thursday where they
will be received by the pope.
President A. J. Davidson OF the Iris
co system announces that John Sebas
tan, passenger manager OF the Rocl
Island, has been appointed to the same
position on the Frisco, the extension
of his authority becoming effective al
once.
Miss Edna Dickerson, who inherited
an estate valued at S2,000,000 from hel
cousin, Alfred Johnson of Minneapo
lis, was married Monday to Simon
Kruse, lawyer Of Chicago. Miss
Dickerson was formerly a stenograph
,er in Chicago.
Companies G and d Of the Eight
infantry, consisting Of las men ant
five officers, in command Of Captain
Taggart of Woostre. o. divorce fame
left for San Francisco and win embarl
Ion the transport Logan March 70
the Philippines.
The result of the exchange of view
on the question of the policing OF Nc
rocco, according to the opinion eS
pressed by Count Won Tattenbach, tn
second German delegate to the Nc
roccan conference, shows that CON
promise is by no means impossible
The capital stock of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron IL Railroad company ha
been increased from 1913 ,240, 900 to $50
100000
The American steamer David ha
been wrecked on San Andrews island