Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-01
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


Arnold Beauthein, former cashier of
the West Liberty bank at Davenport,
Ia, was arrested, charged with the
embezzlement of 100000.
The new cruiser Pennsylvania,
which has been lying at dock at the
New York navy yard, started for Bos-
ton to make preparations for her speed
trial.
Eight of the principal business
houses of Dewitt, Mo-, were burned
with the contents, causing a loss ag-
gregating $4,000. The insurance
partially covers the loss.
Mrs. Levi Il. Letter, of Chicago,
who was called to London two months
ago by the serious illness of her
daughter, Lady Curzon, returned
home on the steamer Majestic.
Secretary Hay and Mr.. Probst OF
the Swiss charge d'affaires, signed an
arbitration treaty on behalf of the
United States and Switzerland. The
treaty follows the lines of the Amerj
can and French arbitration treaty
Luther Conant, Jr., of New York
has been appointed a special exam
liner in the bureau of corporations,
department of Commerce and Labor.
Mr.. Conant has been for some years
financial editor of the Journal of
Commerce and Commercial Bulletin
of New York.
At Cincinnati, o., revised estimates
of Saturdays fire places the aggregate
loss between 100000 and 100000, dis
tributed among thirty-four individuals
and firms The bulk of the loss,
$685. 900, falls on the Randolph Wuer-
liter company, dealers in musical in
struments.
With the exception of the govern
ment building, which has hardly more
than begun, and the forestry building,
which will be under roof within a
week, the principal buildings of the
Lewis and Clark fair at Portland, Ore,
are, to all intents and purposes, CON-
pleted.
The acting secretary of war has
named March l, 1905, as the date of
commencement of the examination
of candidates for civil life already de-
signated for appointment as second
lieutenants in the army. There are at
present eighteen vacancies. nine in the
artillery and nine in the infantry.
Heinrich Knote, the German Wag-
merriam tenor of Munich, has departed
for the United States, where he is I'M
der a four months professional con-
tract.
Roy L. Scott, the young Salt Lake
student who attempted to cut the
throat of Elsie Gallagher, has been
adjudged insane and committed to an
asylum.
Orders are being prepared opening
to commercial business the naval
coast wireless telegrapby system at
Yerba Buena, Cal, and Mare Island
navy yard, Washington, D. c.
Japan is buying Welsh coal at Car
diff One purchase of ten thousand
tons is recorded, and other orders are
reported to have been placed. The
steamer King Robert, $500 tons, has
been chartered at Cardiff for Japan ac-
count.
Another report is current, says a
Herald dispatch from st. Petersburg,
that four Argentine warships have
been bought through a French agent
and will join Vice Admiral Rojest-
vensky's fleet, thus giving him a
strong preponderance over the jap
anese fleet.
No alarm is felt at the Offices of
the Panama canal commission on ac-
count fthe recent disturbances on
the isthmus, followed by the landing
of marines. The members of the
commission have been advised fully
concerning the trouble and received
a cablegram from General Davis,
commander of the canal zone. say
ing that everything is now quiet.
The French Transatlantic Steam
ship company is advised its force at
Havre continues to be unaffected by
the strike of dock laborers at that
port.
There are GIG women attending the
Burlin university, being the record
number The increase occurs notwith-
standing the fact that the number of
Russian women has been reduced
through the more stringent entrance
requirements. The United States is
well represented, including several
With doctors degrees.
A dispatch says Turkey is ordering
I hundred new batteries of artillery
rom Germany, French and English
factories at the cost of s10,000.000.
he Krupp company gets the largest
.cntracts.
A forest fire raging in the Illinois
bottoms seven miles north has de-
vastated seven square miles of terri
tory. The country side is filed with
small game, driven from their lair
by the flames. Hundreds of farmers
are fighting the flames. Several farm
buildings have been destroyed.
A Russian squadron consisting OF
wo cruisers, three auxiliary cruisers
nd five torpedo boats, was sighted
.orthward of Bornholm. The vessels
probably are those which left Libau
to join the Russian Second Pacific
corfadron