Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-09-22
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

held at Geneva, Switzerland.
Alfred D. Edgar. who has been gen.
eral agent of the Northern Pacific
railway since the road was built into
Helena. died of dropsy.
At New ork, the sub-treasury re-
ceived 100000 by telegraph transfer
from San Francisco, and shipped
100000 to New Orleans.
Charles Cranston, inventor of the
first underwriting paper machine used
in America, is dead. at his home in
Brooklyn at the age of rs years.
John F. Wallace, chief engineer in
charge of the construction of the
Panama canal, left Panama for New
York to give out several important
contracts.
Miss Margaret Wilson left Chicago
for India, where she expects to re-
main seven years as a missionary for
the United Presbyterian church. She
is a niece of the secretary of agricul-
ture.
A special from ST. Helens, county
seat of Columbia county, Ore, says
that the greater portion of the bus
mess section of the town was des-
| troyed by fire. The total loss will
reach $4,000; insurance light.
The notorious Max Regis, former
mayor of Algiers, and well-known an
| ti-semite, slightly wounded M. Fon-
| tame. a prominent sportsman. in a
| sword duel fought in the suburbs of
Paris.
At New York before a combination
| of sensational bullish crop report, fig
| ures from the government and a big
frost scare in the northwest, wheat
| prices shot up four cents a bushel
and closed within Is cent of the sea
sons highest record
The commander of the French mail
| steamer Oceanion, on arriving at Mar
settles from Yokohama, complained
that his vesesl was held up by four
| Japanese warships outside of Yokoha-
ma and that she was detained and
searched for five hours.
1t is understood that Russia is
of the British steamer Calchas cap.
tured by the Vladivostok squadron
while on her way from Puget Sound
to Japan.
Four persons were burned to death
and six were injured in fire which
destroyed the three upper floors of a
five story tenement in New York.
At Washington the Panama canal
commission called for proposals for
eleven steam shovels for canal con-
struction and directed the purchase OF
large quantity of dynamite and pow.
der.
The secretary of the interior has
rejected all bids for the construction
If public building at Moberly, Mo.
the lowest being very much in excess
of the appropriation. Bids will be
advertised for again.
The Sultan of Turkey, is to be sure
little slow in the payment of his
debts, but we should remember that
the poor man has big bunch of wives
and that the fall styles of millinery
are very attractive.
The treasury department began
sending out checks to the officers and
men of Admiral Dewey's fleet in pay
ment for the awards of prize money
made for the victory of the American
fleet at Manila bay. The check tc
Admiral Dewey is $1S,515.
At st. Petersburg the Alexander
Neversky holiday was celebrated by
review by the emperor on the
Champ de Mars, of 1000 guard
troops of the st. Paul regiment. The
Emperor came from Peterhof on the
imperial yacht, crowds cheering hin
as he drove from the pier to the re
view grounds. The Emperor wore
the uniform of colonel of the regi
ment with the high sugar loaf cap.
The United States cruiser Baltimore
sailed for Genoa where she will docl
preparatory to starting for China ant
Japan.
The Allan, Dominion and Canadian
Pacific steamship lines have reduced
their steerage rates from London o.
Liverpool to Quebec from SIS to $40
The new rate, which will become ef
fective in October. is regarded as al
indication of the probable failure o
peace negotiations between the Gu
uard and the Continental lines.
Commissioner of immigration SaI
gent will leave Washington on tn,
18th on a tour of inspection whicl
will include points on the Mexical
border and on the Pacific coast. H
will be gone about four weeks.