Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-21
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the scene of the earthquake.
At Havana, President Palma was
unanimously renominateG by the Mod
crate party convention as candidate
for the presidency of Cuba.
Despite the fact that dispatches
from st. Petersburg have announced
that treaty of peace has been sign.
ed, both armies stand ready for
fight
President Roosevelt has taken sum.
mary action in the case of Frank w.
Palmer, public printer and head of
the government printing Office at
Washington by removing him from
Office
Word has reached Boston of the
purchase by former President Cleve-
land of two farms, comprising some
500 acres at Tamworth. N. H. 1t is
understood Mr.. Cleveland contem-
plates making Tamworth his perman-
ent summer home.
In Rome meeting of the cabinet
ministers probably will be held to
consider measures for the relief of
sufferers from earthquake in Gala
bria. King Victor Emmanuel has Civ
en- $4,000 for the relief of the fami-
lies of the victims
Under guard of policemen and &C.
casionally showered with sticks and
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cry wagons. whose operation in New
York's busiest centers is threatened
by 800 striking drivers, are now carry
ing the mails without delay.
Because the price of cattle on the
hoof is Is S-4 cents per pound and live
hogs ii cents per pound, the butchers
in Germany have petitioned the gov
eminent to admit live stock free of
duty. Fifty municipal governments
have joined in the request.
Lieutenant General Won Poguslaw-
ski, we'll reputed as a military writer
since his retirement in 1890 and an
officer whose opinions were often
quoted by the Associated Press dur
ing the Russian-Japanese war, died
suddenly, aged II years in Berlin.
The Chinese magistrate of Quinsan
near Shanghai, has been arrested and
imprisoned. He is reported to have
tortured a British subject of Chinese
descent, employed on the Shanghai
Nankin railway, though informed that
the man was a British subject.
There has been severe hand-to-
hand fight in the outskirts of Tan.
gier. 1t is thought the casualties are
heavy. Raisu1i, recently appointed
governor of several important tribes
between Fee and Tangier, reinforced
by 500 cavalry, is endeavoring to SUBJ
due the outlaws, who have burned a
number of villages in the vicinity of
Tangier. Thousands of the inhabit-
ants of these places fed to Tangier.
While employed as a scrub woman,
Mary brennan, an aged widow, is &C
cured of having acquired in the last
month jewelry valued at $4,000, from
a large pawn shop in Brooklyn. Her
nephew, 20 years old, is alleged to
have been used in disposing Of the
plumber. About a third of the prop
erty has been recovered. The pawn
broker, through whom the nephew
disposed of the jewelry, is under ar
rest.
Newspapers in New York announce,
says a Herald dispatch from Valpa-
raise. Chile, that an American syndi-
cate with a capital of 100000, 900, has
been organized for investment in
Chilli
Zinat, the place where Raisula, the
bandit leader has established his resi-
dence, is in flames, according to
dispatch from Tangier. The town,
which is a days march from Tangier,
is reported to be closely invested by
men of the Anghera tribe, and it is
expected that Rasuli will either sur
render or be captured.
The American Zinc and Chemical
company's plant, comprising three
large buildings, located at Utah juno
ton. north of Denver, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimat-
ed at $4,000.
Captain w. P. Baker, medical Off
Ger of the constabulary serving in the
province of Cavite, while testifying
in a libel suit against the Renachie-
miento, a native newspaper, declared
that Aguinaldo was in league with the
native outlaws. He said that evidence
to this effect was obtained from cap
tured chiefs.
John Hancock, the murderer of DR..
Epgelbrit and a man named Edmond
sen, on the Nevada desert, was hang
ed at the State penitentiary in Car
son, New.
proposes to perpetuate the memory of
President Roosevelt's success in re-
storing peace by remaining a street
Theodore Roosevelt Strasse and cab
ling the thanks of the city of Vienna
The proposal has been formally intro
duced and is set down for early con-
sideration.
Joy because of the return Of her son
after a years absence caused the
death of Mrs Sophie Erlinger. aged
GO years, at ST. Louis. She was over
joyed on seeing him and suffered par
slysis, from which she died,