The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1904-07-21
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

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A postofflce at Brame, Carter coun.
ty, NO., has been established, with
Allen D. swezea as postmaster.
General A. ]. Sumper, United States
minister to Ecuador arrived in New
York on the steamer Alliance from
Colon.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, the strike Of the
packing house employees advanced the
price of meat 3 cents a pound in q
day.
The Japanese have taken the
steamer Hsiping, recently captured,
to Sasebo, to await the action of the
naval prize court.
As a result of the butchers strike
there has been an advance of from /
to 2 cents a pound in the wholesale
price Of meats in Philadelphia.
Bubonic plague has appeared in
Rio Janeiro. The municipal and state
authorities have adopted rigorous
measure to check an epidemic.
Meats at Syracuse, N. Y, were ad-
vanced cent a pound Not more
than three days supply of dressed
meat Is in stock at the local branches.2
The prices of meats in Milwaukee
were advanced from | to 2 cents per
pound wholesale. None of the Mil.
waukee packing houses were affect
ed.
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.
The vice governor of Elizabethpol
has been assassinated. The assassin.
alton occurred at Adgshakent, a
small place in the southeast corner Of
Elizabethpol, close to the Persian
frontier.
Two hundred persons in Millingston,
Nd, are destitute as the result Of a
fire that destroyed 80 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 clmaxes as marked the pas
sage of the Yalu.
1t Is rumored that J. M. 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.
The British steamer Persia was
forcibly detained for an hour in the
Red Sea by the Russian volunteer
fleet steamer Smolensl, which trans
ferred to the Persia a portion of the
Japanese mail seized on the Northern |
German Lloyd steamer Prinz Helm
rich. ..
Larkin s. Campbell, Alfred L. Bailey |
and Fred c. Cater of Kansas City; N. |
Clyde Mitchell, Of Hayti, Mo-. Fred E.
Johnson of Malvern, and Lee G. Song. |
er, of Wichita, Kansas, have been ap-
pointed assistant meat inspectors in |
connection with the bureau Of animal
industry.
The steamer Flu Ping, from New
Chwang, reports that on July l6 the
Japanese army was within fifteen
miles of that city. The officers of the
Russian gunboat Sivoutch have sad.
died horses alongside ready to make
their escape upon the approach Of
the Japanese.
The authorities are viewing with
equanimity the operations Of the Rus.
sian privateers in the Red Sea. 1t
Is said that there Is little chance Of
America becoming involved, because
the American vessels passing through
the Red Sea and the Suez canal, ex-
Guiding warships and Manila trans.
ports, have scarcely averaged one a
year for several years past.
General public satisfaction Is man
Tested over the decision of the ad.
mkality to patrol the Red Sea for
the purpose Of interceptlng contra.
band Of war destined for .Tanan, !