Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-24
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Joe Jokerst. the Collinsville, Ill.,,
lad who scored his third shutout in as
many games. may receive a chance
with one of the local clubs in the near
future.
Wink Kellum, who was secured by
Toledo from the ST. Louis National
league team two months ago, has been
sold to the Minneapolis team of the
American association.
A negro was publicly burned in the
court house square at Sulphur
Springs, Hopkins county, Texas, by a
mob. The negro was accused of Grim
NAL assault upon a white woman.
The change in time of issuing crop
reports by the, Department of Agri-
culture at Washington formed an in
teresting topic of discussion among
board of trade operators in Chicago.
Governor Folk handled the throttle
on an engine while returning from the
G. A. r. encampment at Humansville
Colonel Mcdaniel of the governors
staff tried to fire but he only lasted
two miles.
The chief of police of Radoma,
Poland. was injL'ed seriously by a
bomb thrown as he rode through the
town in a carriage. Several houses
in the vicinity were damaged. The
assailant escaped.
Mrs. Mary Cenders, a widow 81
years old. has lost $4,000 from her
safety deposit box in the Illinois
Trust and Savings Bank, and she
swore to a warrant charging Charles
C. Hammit with the theft.
The public examination of Mrs.
James Brown Potter, the actress, in
involuntary bankruptcy proceedings,
was held in court in London. Mrs.
Potter's liabilities amount to about
S125,000, with assets valued at a sum
which will leave her about $4,000
after her debts arc paid.
In spite of the large number OF
fever cases reporting during the last
few days, hope continues to run high
at New Orleans. 1t is due to the fact
that there are practical evidences
that the crusade against the mosquito
now elapsed since the death or curing
of cases at a number of points above
Canal street and there has been nc
temperance of the fever where
those cases existed. nor in the imme
date neighborhood.
A debate over the regulation oil
freight by the government takes place
this week before the Chautauqua as
sembly at Clarinda, Ia, between Gov
ernor Cummings and Daniel Daven
port. Cummings will support the af
firmative, while Davenport will take
the opposition from the standpoint Of
the small investor in railroad stocks
The General Supply and Construc
ton Company of New York gets the
contract for the erection of the new
Capitol building at Frankfort, KY, or
competitive bids at SSS0,000, the work
to be completed within two years.
Parliament was prorogued in Lon
don after one of the most uneventfu
sessions in recent years. The only
bills of Importance which the govern
ment succeeded in getting through
were the aliens bill preventing unde
sirable immigration, a bill for settle
ment of Scotch church disputes a bill
granting state assistance to unem
ployed workmen.
Captain Jerome B. Osier. believed
to be the oldest resident of Illinois, is
dead. aged los. He was born in Erie
Pa.
Admiral Goodrich, commandment
chief of the Pacific station, in a dis
patch to the navy department from
San Diego. officially announced thai
the court of inquiry on the Benning
ton disaster was concluded, the pro
ceedings of which will follow al
once.
The dreaded cattle plague. know
as blackleg, a form of murrain, has
broken out in Brookfield Buackleg is
said to be a disease much more to be
dreaded than the hoof and mouth dis
ease, which created such havoc il
Massachusetts three years ago.
Admiral Kataoka reports that he
| has dispatched one naval squdron tc
Kamchatka and another to Okhotsk
| and that they are now engaged carry
| ing out their instructions in regard tx
| the work to be performed at their re
spective destinations.
There are eight cases of plague II
Taltal. Province of Atacama. cable:
the Herald's correspondent at Val
paraiso. Chile. The epidemic o.
smallpox in Valparaiso is unchanged
Nearly $50 deaths have been recorded
during the last seven days.
Mrs. L. NJ. Caldwell and two sons
Roy and Ray, aged Is and 10 years
of Des Moines. Iowa. went through
the thrilling experience of being
struck by lightning on the side o
Pixies Peak. and lived to complete tn:
trip to the summit and back.
In Chicago October was announc
ed as the trial day for twenty-fou,
| packers ard lawyers and five corpora
tions indicted on charges of combin
ing in restraint of commerce. accept
ing rebates and interfering With gov
| eminent witnesses.