Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04
LATEST NEWS N BRIEF.

In all recent attacks on the police
and administrative officers in Poland
their assailants have used poisoned
bullets and daggers.
At Paris the Chamber of Deputies
has adjourned for the Easter recess
until May Is. The debate on the Sc
paration bill was not concluded.
The Chamber of Deputies voted
$4,000 for the relief of the families of
those who were killed or injured dur
ing the recent rioting of strikers at
Limoges.
Narata Gotor, the Japanese consul
at Manila, has received a telegram
announcing that Admiral Togo's main
squadron will assemble south of For
| mosa.
At Rome the pope received ]. Pier
| pont Morgan in private audience Mr.
Morgan afterward visited the papal
secretary of state, Cardinal Merry
| Del Val.
In the Chamber of Deputies Premier
| Delyannis made statement that the
government emphatically refused to
support the Cretan agitation for union
with Greece
In Chicago bomb, supposed to con.
tain dynamite, was found in the rear
of Montgomery, Ward & Companys
warehouse. 1t is thought an attempt
was made to blow up the building.
| John Foster of Evansville was nomi.
mated by reclamation for congress by
the Republicans of the First Indiana
| district. He succeeds James A. Hem
enway, now United States senator.
| Admiral Dewey, on the subject OF
burial place for John Paul Jones, has
expressed himself as being in favor
of depositing the remains at Airing.
ton cemetery instead of Annapolis.
In the Philippine Islands the walled
city of Jolo was attacked by Moros.
They fired into the officers club and
| dispersed those present at ball
which was in progress. On April 10
the secretary of Governor Scott was
ambushed and killed within range of
| the sentries.
Announcement was made that W.
| S. Kinnear, chief engineer of the
Michigan Central railway. has been
| appointed assistant general manager
| of the road, his new duties to begin
| April %. Mr.. Kinnear will be in gen.
eral charge of the construction of the
Michigan Central tunnel under the
Detroit river work, which will be be-
gun this year. Mr.. Kinnear is agradu-
ate of the University of Kansas.
Chief of Police Carroll received
letter from Edith Gould of Pennacook,
N. H., asking for full particulars of
the recent arrest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Drew in San Jose, Cal, on
charges of insanity. Miss Gould is
sister of Mrs. Drew. The couple are
improving. No trace of Clairvoyant
Weber, whom they allege got $4,000
from them, has been found
The Chicago & Alton is about to is
sue instruction that a maximum
monthly wage must prevail for engi-
neers and fremen. The maximum
for engineers will be $14O and for fire.
men $50. The object is to give more
work to the extra engineers and fire.
men during dull seasons.
At Milwaukee, Wis, all of the vast
estate of Mrs. Lizette NJ Schandein,
widow of Emil Schandein, daughter of
Philip Best and sister of Mrs. Fred
erick Pabst, is left to immediate
members of her family by provisions
o. the will filed. There are no be-
quests to charity or to any public in
stitution. By persons familiar with
the extent of Mrs. Schandein's hold
ings, it is variously estimated that the
estate amounts to from 100000 to
100000
At Limoges, France, the strike at
the porcelain works practically ended
today by the signing of an agreement
between the proprietors and the work
men adjusting their differences. A
feature of the agreement is the re-
moval of the foreman of the Haviland
factory whose conduct was the main
cause of the trouble.
Captain R. G. S. Hinkel, for 80
years secretary of the Pilots associa-
ton and well known river man, is
dead at Bellone, Ky. He was promi-
/nent in Kentucky politics as a Demo-
crat.
The Panama commission had gen.
eral conference at which many minor
topics were discussed, but no con-
illusions of Importance reached Judge
Magoon will sail for Panama May IS,
and on arriving will at once take the
oath of Office and assume the duties
as governor of the canal zone, reliev-
ing General Davis.
The japanese consul, Narata Cotor,
has, it is reported. received cable
gram addressed to Vice Admiral
Kamimura 1t is inferred from this
that Vice Admiral Kamimura is about
to make call at Manila
A special from Hong Kong says
shore leave of the crews of the Brit
ish warships have been stopped and
the dock yards employees on thei-
Easter leave of absence have been re-
called so that the ships can be ready
for sea at the earliest possible mo-
ment
1t is officially announced that a
new railroad will be built from Salt
Lake to San Francisco. 1t will be the
Western Pacific and will be part of
| the Gould system. Fifty million dol