Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-11-23
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

line steamer La Lorraine
At Pittsburg, Pa, Edward G. Gun
life, the Adams Express robber, was
sentenced to serve six years in the
penitentiary.
Rudolph Lucainni, the well known
archaelogist. is seriously ill of influen-
"a. This is the first case that has ap-
peared in Rome this season.
The first number of the newspaper
promoted by Maxim Gorky, the author,
which was issued Nov. -, has been
seized by the police because of the
strong anti-semtic articles it contain
ed and the statement is made that all
of the members of the editorial staff
will be prosecuted.
Governor Pennypacker has sent let.
tiers to governors of every state in the
United States urging them to appoint
delegates to the congress to be held
at Washington, D. c., February 16,
1906, to consider the passage of uni.
form laws upon the matter of divorce
throughout the nation.
The prisoners in the Jail at Kishin-
eff, Bessarabia, revolted in body
and demanded their freedom. On the
request being refused, the prisoners
set fire to the Jail. Troops were hur-
ried to the scene and fired volley
into the mutineers, of whom twenty
two were killed and many wounded.
A coal bucket containing over 1000
pounds of coal, fell on four wotkmen
in canal boat at the coal yards locat,
ed at Morgan and Johnson avenues
Brooklyn. The edge of the bucket cut
one of the men in half like the blade
of knife would have performed the
operation and seriously Injured the
other men.
Midshipman Miner Meriweather,
who is to be tried by court martial by
order of the secretary of the navy for
engaging in a fist fight with Midship-
man James R. Branch, Jr., which
caused the death of Branch, was dis
charged from the naval hospital hav-
ing recovered from the blows deliv.
cred by the dead youth.
Mr.. Sutherland, speaker of the house
of commons, in addressing the public
school teachers of Walkervi1le and
Windsor said the teachers should dis.
courage the extensive reading by
Canada children of United States
magazines and periodicals, in nearly
all of which the dominant note is
how great and wonderful we are.''
Alleging that freight rates to DEN
yer from east and west on all classes
of freight are from 8 to cents higher
than to competitive points on the basis
of per ton per mile rate, George j.
Kindle of that city is in Washington
to file a general complaint to that eff.
feet with the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
A duel is expected to take place be-
tween General Burgers, commander
in-chief of the army, and General Per-
Gin, chief of the military staff under
General Andre, the former war min.
lister, as the result of an exciting incl.
dent in the Bots de Boulougne, in
which General Brugere declined to re.
turn the salute of General Percin.
At Paris Prof. Behring was recent.
ly asked by NJ Bernheim for some of
his bacillus preparation mentioned at
the recent tuberculosis congress for
human experimenting, but the profess
sor declined to supply it. Prof. Behr-
ing says the preparation cannot travel
without losing it's efficiency. Further.
the professor deprecated its employ
ment in human experiments before
the lapse of a year.
Sensational revelations in regard to
the French Cable Company are believ-
ed to have caused France to accept
the final proposition of President Gas.
tro. France has accepted mutual
withdrawal of the notes exchanged
with NJ. Taigny, French charge daft
flares, it is said.
Former Congressman W. D. Owen,
who was indicted at Boston as a re.
suit of an investigation of the affairs
of the Ubero Plantation Company,
when last heard of was sojourning at
Bad Nausheim, Germany
The biggest shipment of potatoes
that ever went East from California
left over the Santa Fe route. 1t con-
sisted of solid train of thirty-five
cars. containing $3.50 sacks of pota-
toes, the aggregate weight being
1,134,000 pounds. Their destination is
Texas, Arkansas and Missouri river
points.
The Hamburg-American passenger
liner Graf Waldersee, while leaving
New York harbor for Hamburg, ran
aground on the flats OFF Red Hook,
near Erie basin on the Brooklyn side
of the channel.
At Wilmington, N. c., Henry Scott.
the third of the mutineers from the
schooner Harry A Berwind, was con-
victed in the federal court and sem
fenced to be hanged with his ship
mates, Adams and Sawyer, on IJanu-
airy 20. in this city.
Tie Pacific Mail steamer Siberia,
while leaving the harbor in Honolulu
for the Orient. got her propeller en-
tangled in the chains attached to the
channel buoy and was towed to- an
anchorage outside. Diver1 are ht
work now on the propeller