Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-01-12
Chicago Futnres.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Shanghai customs revenue for
the fiscal year. amounts to over one
and one-half million pounds sterling.
Mrs. John Alexander Dowie and
Mrs. Gladstone Dowie have arrived
at Havana. They decline to state the
purpose of their visit to Cuba.
The Sigma M fraternity, after a
most successful meeting, closed it's
three days session in New Orleans
A charter was granted to the univer-
sity of Montana.
The president and Mrs. Roosevelt
rounded New Years eve by entertain
ing at childens party, the east room
being used. Later in the evening a
collation. was served.
The Netherlands battleship De
Ruyter has been ordered to be placed
in readiness to sail for the Dutch
East Indian ports during the war be-
tween Russia and Japan.
The Danish steamer Alabama, from
the Tyne, December 5, for Baltimore,
which stranded at Storneway, Outer
Hebrides, is lying on her side. full of
water, and is apparently unsalvable.
Elias Hatfield, noted for his con-
nection with one of the bitterest
mountain feuds was accidentally kill
ed at Biuefields, Va He was walk
ing through a tunnel when overtaken
by train.
Thomas W. Hart, one of the best
known criminal lawyers in Missouri,
died in Los Angeles of diabetes, aged
SO years. He had gone to California
with the expectation that his health
would improve.
The Mackey companies of New
York declared regular quarterly
dividend of one per cent on preferred
stock and the first. dividend of one
per cent on common stock for
period not stated.
Chas E. Russell, of Chicago, who
pleaded guilty to having used the
mails to promote wild cat insur-
ance companies was sentenced to one
year in the house of correction and
to pay a fine of $500
The foreign office has been Off
cially advised that Admiral Baron Won
Spaun, of the Austro-Hungarian navy
has been accepted as the fifth mem
Der of the International commission
which is to investigate the North Sea
Incident, thus completing the organi-
cation of the commission.
The naval observatory at Washing
ton was notified by cable from Kiel,
Germany, of the discovery of a comet
by Borrelly of Marseilles, eight as
cension one hour, IA minutes, south
declination, 10 hours no minutes. This
comet was Immediately looked up
and observed by Messrs. Hammond
and Wright of the naval observatory
staff
J. Forbes Robertson and his theat-
rical company and W. Safonoff, direc-
tor of the conservatory of Moscow,
Russia. arrived in New York from
Europe
ern train carrying snow pillow at
Arizona, Manitoba, B. Linklater was
killed and dozen persons were in
jured The caboose overturned and
burned. Twenty persons were i'm
prisoned in the caboose and they
were rescued with difficulty.
1t is intimated that the British Cad
mus and Torch which recently sail
ed for the Tonga islands, will also
visit the Marshall islands in connec-
ton with the possible coaling there of
vessels belonging to the second Pa
cific squadron.
The stranded steamer Northeast
ern, bound from Port Arthur to New
York. which went ashore on Diamond
Shoals and from which the crew were
rescued with great difficulty, broke
in two and the full cargo of Texas oil
ran into the ocean.
At Washington the state depart
ment has been advised by Minister
Russell at Bogota that martial law
has been declared in the departments
of Cundinamaria and Santander. The
dispatch states that this action was
rendered necessary by the activity of
the revolutionists to Venezuela.
At Rising Sun, Ind, James Giles
pie, the defendant, took the stand in
trial of the charges against him of
numbering his twin sister, Elizabeth
Gillespie He denied that he had fired
the shot that killed her or that he
had otherwise used violence toward
her or that he was in front of the
house that night
w. ]. Bryan has accepted an invi-
tation from the Grant Birthday asso-
citation to make the annual address at
the observance of General Grants
birthday at Galena, ILL.,, on April 81
next
Cardinal Richard, archbishop of
Paris. has given out a letter from
Pope Plus in which the pontiff says:
Neither will the bitterness of the of
Tense be able to turn us from love of
your nation, nor will the progress of
events despair of return to better
conditions
At st. Petersburg it is reported
rom Moscow that some ladies in the
highest society are proposing to form
Russo-Japanese league with the CO.
operation of ladies at Toxic to agi
tate for Termination, Of tbs WEI.