Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-10
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


was fined $40 and costs for killing
four squirrels. The fine and costs
amounted to S16O.
United States Senator Lodge was
received by King Edward at Buell.
ingham palace. He was presented by
Ambassador Reid.
The official list of the casualties
during the recent four days rioting at
Novgorod shows sixteen killed and
fifty-three wounded
The quarantine instituted against
New Orleans and other infected dis
tricts in the state of Louisiana was
put in force July 2S
In New York at the Bow street po-
lice court the eXtradition of H. E.
Brooks of Uniontown, Pa, was granted
on the charge of ENLIGHTENMENT.
Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassa.
dor, left Manchester. Mass, for New
York to await the arrival of NJ White,
the other Russian peace plenipotenti-
airy.
H. R. Vanderhost, secretary of the
Blooklyn baseball club died from
heart failure, due to aneurism of the
aorta. He was born 81 years ago in
Baltimore.
An American pilgrimage of about
100 persons arrived at Rome. Bishop
Kelley of Savannah, Ga. is their
spiritual adviser, Bishop Northrup of
Charleston, s. c., also is in the party.
AT the suggestion of President
Roosevelt, the war department order
changing the assignment of Brigadier
Generals Carter, Buchanan Edgerly
and Bliss has been held up tempo
rarily, pending a possible reasign-
ment
Emperor William. who will visit
the king July 81, will stay for three
days at Benrstorff Castle, the sum-
mer residence of the king. In antici-
patton of the visit and apparently in
fear of hostile administrations against
Emperor William. the German lega-
ton issued the announcement that ex-
pulsions from Schleswig, Prussit, will
be stopped.
Advices from Hong Kong by the
steamer Tartar state that mass meet
ings of guilds continue to be held at
Canton and Hong Kong at which ar
rangemcnts are making to further the
boycott against the United States.
dispatch from Vancouver. Wash,
reports the drowning in the Columbia
river, off Government island, of Miss
Edna Fisher, Miss Lillian Zeigler and
Miss May Zeigler. whose ages range
from 16 to % years. They went in
bathing, got into deep water and
drowned in sight of two woman COM
panions. neither of whom could swim
At FL Paso, Texas, thirteen China
men who were smuggled across the
border were discovered in Santa Fee
box car with provisions for journey
to Los Angeles. They were placed
under arrest by immigrant officers and
are being held for trial.
A court-martial for the trial of the
sailors who mutinied on the battle
ships Kniaz Potemkine and Georgi
Pobiedonosetz will be convened at
Sebastopol September 8. The men
are now confined on the transport
Prout at Sebastopol.
The transport Warren arrived at
San Francisco from the Orient with
forty-six passengers and 5000 tons of
coal. During the voyage she sustain
ed some damage to her propeller
which was repaired at Honolulu.
The British admiralty is especially
inviting all the American yachtsmen
who will be present at the regatta
August to attend the big military
ball at Portsmouth, and has also in
vited the members of the American
embassy to the many functions to be
held in connection with the visit to
Spit Head of the French fleet
Reports that combination has
been effected in street car building
companies. including some of the
largest concerns in the United States,
are published in the New York
Times, which states the consolidation
will be capitalized at S54 100000.
The American schooner Honolulu,
now 125 days out from Shanghai for
Puget Sound, has been given up as
lost, and further reinsurance refused.
She is four-masted steel vessel OF
1.O53 tons, built at Glasgow, Besides
the crew, the wife of her captain was
on board when she sailed.
District Attorney George Stidger
nolled the cases against James NJ
Herbert, vice-presideut and general
manager of the Colorado & Southern
railway, and Daniel Sullivan. post
master of Cripple Creek, who were
charged with bribery by Senator Rich
ard Morgan during the governorship
contest last winter.
At Warsaw the bakers strike, in
which seventy-five bakeries are in
Folved, is the cause almost daily of
murders and other excesses- The po-
lice appear to be powerless to ascer
tain the perpetrators of the crimes