Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-06-16
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.
June 20 is the date set by TIE Japan
csc for the capture of Port Arthur.
The Russian cruiser, Gilliak, was
torpedoed and destroyed at Port Arthur
June 5.
An investigation has shown that
none of the theaters in Kansas City is
fire-proof.
One sealed bag containing specie was
taken from the express safe on D. &
R. G. train west bound from Denver.
Advices from Constantinople to the
Turkish embassy at st. Petersburg say
that the troubles in Armenia have
ceased.
The assistant attorney general of
Texas is being guarded to prevent sui
eide. He was Tilted upon the day set
for his wedding.
1t is said that 81 900, 900 in American
eagles may show as great loss as 500
from abrasion in being carried from
New York to Paris.
The coal yards of the Crescent Coal
& Mining Co., and the Peterson Hayes
Grain company elevators at Chicago
are burned. Loss, 100000.
A vast cave has been discovered in
Nevada which is believed to be the
largest in the world. 1t has been ex-
plored for two thousand feet.
Captain Frederick S. Wild, commits
sary of the infantry, was shot in his
room at Fort Mcdowell, San Francis
co, and died almost Immediately.
Some of the girls at Wellesley college
in Massachusetts, carry pistols. Num-
bers of tough looking men visit the
college grounds after nightfall.
The president has appointed Post
Quartermaster Sergeant Ernest Flack-
err, stationed at Fort Sill, L T., a Sec
ond lieutenant in the Philippines
The traction lines of New York city
carried, last year, ,o3e, ss4, 773 passen-
gers, while all the steam railways in
the United States carried in the same
period SOS, 100000.
In 1894 the Japanese captured Port
Arthur from the Chinese just three
weeks after landing an army on the
peninsula. June 10 of this year is
three weeks from their landing this
time.
A quarter Of an ounce of nitro-gly-
cerine exploded in the baggage room
of the Kansas City union depot and
three baggage handlers were badly
injured.
Ambassador Mccormick says that the
treatment he receives from the Rus
sian government is courteous and kind
which does not give shadow of proof
of the truth of stories that he is
snubbed.
The Russian successes in Korea are
said to be causing disquietude among
the Japanese.
The treaty of 1854 between the Uni
ted States ond Russia is being repub-
lished in Japan to stimulate trade.
That treaty settled neutrality of goods
in transit.
The purchase by the United States
of military site near Honolulu has
been completed. The tract of 1,5Oo
acres is secured for $4,000. Forts,
barracks and camps will be located on
it.
Brazil and Peru have agreed to es.
tablish joint administration in the
disputed Acre territory.
Governor Brady, of Alaska, does not
know how he got his name. He was
picked up in New York city by the
Children's Aid society and sent west,
one of carload of waits, sometime in
the SOS and was raised by citizen of
Upton, Indiana.
The Pearce wooden mills at Green
vile, Pa, were damaged $500, 900 by
fire on June s.
The sudden interruption of the cable
between Korea and Japan is consid-
cred significant of the important OPP
erations at Port Arthur.
Fort Ethan Allen, in Vermont, is &C.
cnpied by the 18th cavalry, whose
members filled out their terms Of en-
listment soon after arriving there, their
PLACES being filed by new recruits.
These are making oil kinds OF trouble
for the officers.
Salaries of the rural delivery carriers
are to be adjusted on the basis Of the
number of miles travelled.
Merchants complain that the Japan.
csc are not paying for supplies, and
they are insulted when they ask for
their money.
Supreme Master Workman n. Miller,
of the A. o. U. W., died June in q
sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan,
from kidney trouble.
Pedro Alvarado, Mexican miner,
who less than ten years ago was work
ing for thirty cents a day, is now
building house to cost $500, 900, and
he recently purchased dinner set for
Sa5. 900.
Ten men were burned to death from
an explosion in a distillery warehouse
at Peoria, Ills. There were &c, 1000 bar
rels OF WHISKY burned.