Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-08-18
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

At Paris, France, the international
Miners congress at its session passed
a resolution in favor of legislation
limiting work to eight hours per day
The main concentration of the Rus
slams is now about Lao Yang. The
Japanese form a semi-circle of about
fifty miles around the Russian posi-
tions.
Chairman Thomas Taggart, of the
democratic national committee, says
he will remain in New York until
after Parker is elected president of
the United States.
+ The news received at the war Of
fee indicates the concentration of the
Japanese armies east of Simoucheng
The Japanese advance on Mukden
does not seem to have developed into
a serious character.
Tie National Order of Railway
Cler.s has declined a proposition tC
affiliate with the International Asso
citation of Railway Clerks, as it would
mean utilization with the American
Federation of Labor.
A contract has been awarded to
Robert Cauer, New York sculptor,
for a life size bronze equestrian sta
tue of General Franz Sigel, to be
erected in st. Louis by the Siegel
Monument Association.
The five hundred Japanese laborers
sent to Santa Rosalia, Lower Califor-
MIA, to work in the Rothchild's mine,
have struck because they consider the
timbering unsafe. They will stay out
until more timbering is put in.
General Davis, governor of the Pan
ANA canal zone, who had been sum-
moned home because of the illness of
his wife, learned upon his arrival
that Mrs. Davis was dead. Mrs. Davis
had been passing the summer in the
Adirondacks region.
At Sioux City, Iowa, Judge Reed, in
the federal court granted an injunc-
ton restraining the strikers at the
Cudahy plant from interfering in any
way with the operation of the plant.
About 1000 strikers are restrained
individually.
Emperor Nicholas has received dis
patches from General Kuropatkin
dated August and 8, mentioning a
few minor "Reminiscences, but say
ing that there has been no particular
changes in the positions on either
the east or the south fronts.
At Vladivostok Vice Admiral Skry-
dloff inspected the Russian cruisers
which recently returned from the raid
in the Pacific, thanking the officers
and men and especially warmly prais-
ing the engineers, going down into
the stoke holes to distribute rewards.
The engines worked perfectly during
the cruise There was not single
accident to the men on any of the
cruisers. Vice Admiral Skrydloff pre-
sented twenty-five cases of beer to
the crews.
Z Mexico and China are establishing
their first diplomatic relations. The
minister who will represent China
has arrived in Mexico and established
a legation and Maurice Wollheim, who
will be Mexican minister to China,
has passed through Ell Paso. enroute
to Pekin Mr.. Wollheim has served
the government of Mexico in diplo-
matte positions in Japan and Wash
ington.
The news that General Rafael
Reyes has assumed the presidency of
Colombia was received with satisfac-
ton. 1t is believed that diplomatic
relations between Panama and Co
lombia will be established.
At Tien Tsin there are persistent
rumors from Japanese sources that
the fall of Port Arthur will occur
within a week, but military experts
are of the opinion that month will
their final assault. 1t is estimated
that there are 100000 Japanese troops
before Port Arthur.
Two Russian cruisers have left the
Baltic sea and are chasing a steamer
which left England July 80 for Cana
da, carrying ammunition for Yokoha-
ma by way of the Canadian Pacific
railway.
The fifth and deciding race of the
Seawanhka series between the Amer
lean challenger White Bear and the
defending yacht Noorna of the Royal
st. Lawrence Yacht Club, was won by
the Norma The course was two
miles to windward and return, three
times over, with time limit of 315
hours.
Trains filed with wounded men are
arriving at Irkutsk, Siberia, many of
them proceeding to European, Russia.
Two Red Cross hospitals have been
established. The prices of food have
doubled recently.
United States Senator Nathan B.
Scott of West Virginia, was taken sud-
denly ill at his desk in the national
republican headquarters. He was ia k
| en- to the Fifth Avenue hotel, where
a trained nurse and physicians were
in attendance.
The Russians have been obliged to
retire from EIa:chcng as the japanese
were working around them from the
east, threatening to cut them off from
Lao Yang. The fresh Japanese troops
disembarking at the port of New
chwang are also advancing on the
other bank