Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-03

From child the Queen of the Meth
erlands has been accustomed to rise
at o'clock.
Divers report that the leak in the
Russian steamship Esperansa at Barry
was due to neglect to close a seacock
below the engine room.
The directors of the United States
Steel corporation declared the regu-
lar quarterly dividend of one and
three-quarters per cent on the COM
pany's preferred stock.
Charles Parsons, who had been al
the head of many railroads and one of
the most prominent financiers in the
country, is dead at his home in New
York from heart disease.
President Roosevelt appointed Ira
Harris as supervising inspector of the
steamboat inspection service of the
Second district of New York, in place
of Robert S. Oder, removed
Prince Charles Anton Won Hohen-
zollern, the representative of Emperor
" Win IhO OopoAOoC al Lyy al
rived at Port Dalny October 18th, and
was received with great ceremony.
F. s. Cotton & Co., brokers of Bos-
ton, members of the New York Consol-
idated Stock exchange. announced
their suspension. The firm has Offices
in several New England cities and il
New York
Special from Dawson says steam
navigation the full length of the Yu-
kon is practically closed. The river
is full of ice. The output for the Klon-
dixie this season is nine and one-half
millions.
Though the ocean covers about
three-fourths of the surface of the
earth it does not, in the same proper
ton, provide for the wants of men.
1t is estimated that only about 3 per
cent of the people of the world OBJ
tain their living directly from the
sea.
The Vatican is sounding the differ
ent powers on the subject of the ad-
ihiSolOh VI ITO lCPOlI at Tic pIOpOoCu
second The Hague conference on the
same ground as the suggested admis-
sion of the South American republics,
which were not represented at the
first conference. The Vatican empha-
sizes the fact that it was excluded
from the first conference chiefly be-
cause of the opposition of the Italian
government supported by Great Brit
ain, which asked in exchange Italy's.
support for the exclusion of repre-.
sentatives of the Boer republic
The officers and other members OF
the crew of the Russian protected cruz
ser Novik, driven ashore by the Jap
anese August 20, in the harbor of Kor-
sakovsk, island of Sakhalin, arrived
at Vladivostok after hard SO days
journey from Korsakovsk. They trav-
eled to the northern part of the island
through a hundred miles of swamp,
crossing the mainland at Nicolaievsk
and stormy. A fierce gale is now rag
ing.
The population of the world is now
estimated at 100000.
October 81 was the anniversary OF
President Roosevelt's birth. He is
now 46 years old. Throughout the day
he was in receipt of messages of con.
graduation from. friends in all parts
of the country. He also received many
personal callers who congratulated
him upon the anniversary.
John Livingston Dinwiddle Borth-
wick, chief engineer in the United
States navy, retired, with the rank of
lieutenant commander, died at Flor.
ence, Italy from nervous prostration
Engineer Borthwick was Ga years of
age. He will be buried at Sorrentino
The Spanish royal mail steamer Beu.
nos Ayres, which left New York Oc
tober Is, and which was more than
three days overdue, arrived safely at
Havana. Her captain reports that he
went out to sea in order to avoid the
Florida straits during the recent
storm. The steamer suffered no mis-
hap.
Allen Parker, cashier of the First |
National bank of Tullahoma, Tenn, is
missing and is alleged to be short |
about $35, 900 in his accounts. Bank |
Examiner Carrot has taken charge OF
the books of the bank.
Durham White Stevens, counsellor
of the Japanese legation at Washing
ton, who will be diplomatic adviser to
the Korean government, has been
granted by the emperor of Japan the |
decoration of the Grand Cross of the
Sacred Treasure. Mr.. Stevens will
proceed to Korea in November next
to assume his duties.
The Associated Press is authorized
to deny the report printed by the Soir !
of Paris to the effect that there was an
on the life of Emperor Nicho- |
las in which there were eleven vic.
tins.
The state supreme court affirmed
the judgment of the district court !!
Judge J. NJ. Clements of Helena, in |
holding that the city of Helena had no |
legal right to expend money for the
purchase of water mains when the city
nad already exceeded its legal limit of |
At the annual meeting Of the Chi |
cago & Northwestern President Mar
vim Hugitt announced that the COM
pany has no extensions under consid-
GRAFTON and that the railroad condi-
tons are better at this moment than
sst fall