Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-04-05
News in Brief

shipping was reported from Singapore
Horace Tenney, the best known Of
the pioneer lawyers and editors o.
Wisconsin, has just died at Madison.
On March 81 the banking firm Of
Barring, Magoun & Co. of No. 10 Wal
street, New York, will be dissolved
Thomas Barring will, on that date, re
tire from active business.
Achille j. Oishei, a New York law
yer who was born in italy and was
formerly the Marquis de Sauvia, says
he would rather be an American citi'
zen than any sort of marquis"
The foreign office at Vienna was in
formed of the appointment OF Charles
r. Francis to be the American am.
bassador at Vienna. It is understood
that Mr. Francis is acceptable to Aus
tria.
Charles Ross, a retired hardware
dealer of Milwaukee, was arrested
charged with stealing $4,000 worth of
gas in the past seven years by tap
ping the Milwaukee Gas Light com
pany's mains.
The newest story is that Theodore
p. Shonts, president OF the Glover
Leaf railway and chairman of the 18TH
milan canal commission, is to be secre-
tary of war when Taft is transferred
to the supreme bench.
Professor James Mills PIERCE, the
Oldest member of the Harvard faculty
in point of service and one of the best
known mathematicians in the United
States, died of pneumonia at his home
in Cambridge, Mass.
President Lillian Wyckoff Johnson,
Of the Ohio Western College for
Women announced that Andrew Car
negie had offered $4,000 to complete
the $250,000 endowment fund now be-
ing raised by the college.
Lieutenant Dennis p. Quinlan, Fifth
cavalry, has been relieved from duty
at the Oregon agricultural college "on
account of the failure of the collegiate
authorities to support him In his eff
forts to maintain discipline"
The court of appeal at st. Peters
burg has sentenced M. Notovitch, for.
merly editor of the Jewish paper No
vosti, to Imprisonment for one year in
a fortress for the publication of ar.
ticles against the emperor and party.
A section of the press of st. Peters.
burg Is continuing attacks upon the
proposition of Baron Leicq de Lobel,
representing the American Translates
kan-Siberian company for the con-
struction of a tunnel under Boring
strait.
Another contribution of $40, 900 came
to the state department through the
Red Cross society. from the Christian
Herald OF New York, on account of
the Japanese famine fund. This makes
the total collections from all sources
$4,000.
Colonel William Elliot Of Beaufort,
8. c., formerly representative in con-
gress from that state, has been ap-
pointed by Secretary Taft to be com
missioner to mark the graves of the
confederate soldiers who died in north.
ern prisons.
The president has invited Rear Ad
miral William II. Brownson, command
ing the Fourth division of the Atlantic
fleet, to succeed Rear Admiral G. A
Converse as chief of the bureau OF
navigation when the latter retlres fol
age on May 13.
A bulletin issued by the census blu
reau shows the complete crop of cot
ton for 1905, including linters ant
counting round bales as half bales, t.
be 10,697,013 bales, compared with 10,
697,310 bales for 1904, and 10,015,72
bales for 1903
President Roosevelt has been ap
pealed to to withhold the deportation
of Michael Norwala Mikolarsky ant
Felix Kosevitch, deserters from tn,
Russian navy, who arrived in Sal
Francisco on January ID on the French
steamer Admiral Dupree.
1t is stated that Waldorf Astor will
mary Mrs. Mamie Langhorne Shaw
at the end OF April in Virginia, ant
that they will reside at Cliveden, thu
Thames residence of William Waldor
Astor. which will be the wedding gif
from Mr.. Aston, who VIII also bestov
upon his son an income of 100000
yearly.
According to Superintendent Samue
Andrews, of the Pittsburg schools
there are 200 pupils in those school
who stutter. The board of education
has just employed Chicago specials
in suffering, who agrees to cure then
of the affliction. He wall start in OF
his duties Monday. In addition to tn
200 Sufferers in the schools Superir
tendent Andrews says that there ar
fully 100 others who are kept out b.
their parents because of their afiiiC
ton.
Lord Curzon of Kedleston will b
the guest of honor of the Pilgrims a
banquet at the Savoy hotel on Apri
9th.
Great battleships like the $4,000 tol
English battleship Dreadnaught ar
the crying needs of the American navy
according to Admiral Dewey.
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