Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-15
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

In st. Petersburg orders have been
issued for the mob iization of the Sec
ond Volga regiment and the Terek
cossacks.
A boat from the Turkish corvette
Mansura, manned by forty seamen has
sunk in the road-stead. Nineteen of
the crew were drowned.
At Dayton, Ohio Charles Fraver, 81
years of age, shot and killed his wife
and then himself. The cause of the
double tragedy is mystery.
The first armistic between the COM
batants at Port Arthur was declared
December 2 for the purpose of bury
ing the dead. 1t lasted for a period of
six hours.
The Japanese troops occupied a
Kasaka hill, fronting on Port Arthur
December 6. The Russian armored
cruiser Bayan is reported to be
aground.
The navy department is informed
that the cruiser Columbia and the dis
patch boat Dolphin, with Secretary
Taft and his party as passengers, left
Colon for Pensacola.
The superior Armenian clergy have
petitioned the government to restore
church property seized under the Won
Plehve regime. 1t is believed the pc
tition will be granted.
At Lincoln, Neb., the supreme court
ruled that Thomas Dennison of Omaha
is subject to extradition to Iowa to
stand trial on the charge of completely
with Frank Shercliffe in the Pollock
diamond robbery.
An international conference con.
corning the status of hospital ships in
war time will be held at The Hague
December 10. A majority of the pow
ers will be represented by their re-
spective ministers.
The appointment of Rear Admiral
Davis to represent the United States
on the. international commission on
the North Sea incident is favorably
commented upon by government Off
Gals and naval officers at Paris.
The postmaster general has api
pointed former Congressman James
Rankin Young of Philadelphia, super
intendent of the dead letter Office to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of D. P. Leibhart last September.
Lieutenant General Grippenberg
commander of the second Manchurian
army, has arrived at Hardin.
In Rome the condition of General
Ricciotti Garibaldi is improved, and
his physicians now have hopes of his
recovery.
At Lima, Ohio, R. E. Woods. secre
tary of the Home and Savings bank
who was found guilty of embezzling
over 5000, and who forbade his at
torneys for asking for a new trial
was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary.
According to the secretary of the
bureau, who managed all conventions
and congresses at the Worlds Fair
22O,O 900 persons attended the 245 ma
tional and international gatherings
held in st. Louis, as a result of the
exposition.
Warrants charging grand larceny
second degree, have been granted
against former President Emory
Cashier Paul Wiener and Assistant
Cashier William P. Leudeke of the
German bank, which was closed by
the state banking department several
days ago at Buffalo, N. Y.
A dispatch to the Lokal Anzeige1
from Kieff, Russia, announces that 20
persons have lost their lives there
through drinking poisoned brandy.
The Mexican astronomical society
has awarded its chief prize, a gold
medal, to Professor Pickering of Har-
ward University, who discovered the
ninth satellite of Saturn.
Sasoneff, the assassin of Minister
of the Interior Won Plehve, has recov
cred from the wounds he received
from the explosion of the bomb that
killed the minister.
Mira Ria Khan and the deputa
ton from the Shah of Persia arrived
at Moscow on their way to st. Peters
burg. In addition to an autograph let
ter to the emperor, Mira Ria Khan
is bringing the Shah's portrait in a
| frame set with diamonds.
A special panel of 200 talesmel
from among whom a jury will be
chosen for the second trial of Mar
Patterson, charged with the murder
of Caesar Young, has been summoned
to appear in the supreme court il
New York.
President Roosevelt has it is stated
consented to act as chairman of the
advisory committee of the Harvard
commission, a society organized to in
crease interest in foreign missions al
Harvard and to place score of mis-
sionaries in the foreign field.
The rail and steel mills of the IL
linois Steel company, a branch of the
United States Steel corporation, were
ordered closed today for an indefinite
period owing to lack of business
throwing 5000 men out of employ
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