Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-21
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

LAlCoI NCWS IN 6hlEf,
Guayaquil, Ecuador, is experienc-
ing series of earthquake shocks.
A postoffice at Brame, Carter coun-
ty, Mo-, has been established, with
Allen d. Swezea as postmaster.
General A. J. Sumper, United States
minister to Ecuador arrived in New
York on the steamer Alliance from
Colon.
Bubonic plague has appeared in
Rio Janeiro. The municipal and state
authorities have adopted a rigorous
measure to check an epidemic.
The battleship Duplex sailed from
Cherbourg to join the French North
Atlantic squadron. The Duplex ex-
poets to visit American ports in con-
nection with the ST. Louis exposi-
ton.
Two hundred persons in Millingston,
Md, are destitute as the result of
fire that destroyed SO dwellings and
10 places of business The loss is
placed at s15O,OOO, with practically
no insurance.
Chinese arriving from New Chwang
report that the Russians at all points
in the field of hostilities are retiring
from their positions. Large quanti-
ties of shipping is at present in New
Chwang harbor.
1t is suspected here that the jap
anese campaign in Manchuria, and es-
pecially in the direction of Port Ar
thur, is approaching another one of
such climaxes as marked the pas
! sage of the Yalu.
Colonel Audenoud and Captain
Bardet, constituting the Swiss mill
tary mission with General Kuropat-
kin, have been recalled at the re-
quest of the Russian government to
Berne, Switzerland.
The Herreshoffs, of Bristol R. l.,
will get the contract to build for EN-
peror William a duplicate of the
American racing schooner yacht In
gomar. The kaiser already has one
American built yacht
1t is rumored that ]. NJ. Hannaford
second vice president and general
manager of the Northern Pacific, has
been offered the second vice presi-
dency of the Atchison, to succeed
Paul Morton, resigned.
General Oku sent a dispatch giving
| further accounts of Russian brutal
| ity. He says the charges against the
Japanese are totally unfounded. 1t is
the Russians, he declares, who have
cruelty mutilated the Japanese who
fell into their hands wounded.
The divorce obtained by Lillian
Nordica, the singer, from Zoltan
Doeme was upheld by the appellate
division of the supreme court in New
York which decides that the inter
locutory decree was not obtained by
fraud and collision, as was charged.
Japanese vessels have been seen of
Kai Chou. 1t is believed that they are
keeping in touch with the advance of
the land forces and that if the jap
anese take Ia Tche Kiao, which is
thought to be their object, it is be-
lieved that a landing will be made
simultaneously at Yin Kow.
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the packing centers of the country
will go on strike as the result of
the failure to secure a renewal of
the wage agreement which expired
May 2S, last Both sides are making
ready for the contest and one of the
most extensive and perhaps most
| bitterly fought labor struggles in
years will be launched
Postoffices have been discon-
tinued at Velso, Scott county, Mo-,
and mail will go to Graysboro; and
at Combs, Washita county, o. T.,
and mail will so to Sentinel. 20
Dell See, a dock laborer at Su-
perior. Wis. was given a verdict of
| $4,000 against the Brown Hosting
and Conveying Machine company, of
| Cleveland, because of the loss of
both of his legs. which were caught
in clam-shell unloading machine.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick will be
released, as an ordinary prisoner on
ticket leave, between now and August
1. The authorities have no intention
of granting her a free pardon, but
cannot impose any restrictions on
Mrs. Maybrick after her arrival in
America.
AS a result of having been struck
on the head by a baseball, Hiram
Williamson, % years old. of Provi-
dence, Md, died in the hospital,
while his bride of two weeks sat in
anguish beside his cot. The cause of
death was a compression of the
brain.
Galbraith, Pembroke & Co., of Lon
don, owners of the British steamer
Cheltenham, captured by the Vlad-
ivostok squadron, have received a
notification that the Vladivostok
prize court has confscated the ship
and cargo.
BY an order issued at the war de-
partment Brigadier General Freder-
ick Funston has been detached from
the command of the department of
the Columbia and placed in command
of the department of the East, a post
temporarily held by Major General
Cerbin, who is in command of the
Atlantic division, comprising the de-
partments of the East and the Gulf.
The attempt on the part OK the
Waverly Athletic Club of Chicago, to
arrange for putting off the Fitzsim-
mons-O'Bre match at its arena was