Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-10-05
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Sunday Observer says that the
British government has decided to
establish naval base at Singapore as
part of vast new scheme of imperial
defense.
The latest kilograms received at
Havana indicate that the presidential
election has resulted in a complete
government victory throughout the
entire island
A big army scandal. which may as
sumo the proportions of the Taggart
affair, is being thrashed out behind
closed doors at the Vancouver bar
racks at Portland. Ore.
The bull fight. which was to have
been conspicuous feature of the fes-
tivitics in honor of the coming visit
of President Loubet to the Spanish
capital, has been suppressed.
An agreement was signed by the
Norwegian and Swedish delegates at
Kar,stad at 6:10 o'clock on Septem-
Der %. The protocols will be pub
lished next week at Christiania and
Stockholm simultaneously.
Two deaths from cholera have &C.
Cured at Blockawek, near st. Peters
burg, on the Vistula river. The vic
tins were members of the same
family in which death from cholera
was reported last Wednesday.
The railroad damage suit industry
in Texas has taken new turn. Tired
of being made to pay out millions of
dollars TO employees on claims. many
of which they believed to be fictitious.
some of the railroads have adopted
the policy Of suing their employees
when accidents occur through negli-
gence.
Devlil's creditors will not meet I'M
til October 49, The change of date
for the meeting has been authorized
by the referee in bankruptcy. By
that time Judge HORNE, of Chicago,
and other parties interested in I'M
derwriting the Devlin interests will
be able to report just what they can
do.
President L. Clark Selee announc-
ed that he had received an offer from
Fred Bennett, wealthy resident of
Joliet, ILL.,, to remove Smith college
from Northampton, Mass, to Joliet.
H.. but that he would take no action
on the proposition, at least for some
time. Similar offers, he added, had
been received. Mr.. Bennett agreed
to secure 81 100000 for an endowment
and furnish eighty acres of land for
a site.
One death from cholera has just
been announced at Steetin. The
death occurred on barge which ar
rived here from Nakel, Prussia, and
the victim was a 4-year-old infant. A
meteorological examination showed
that death was from cholera. All Of
the members of the crew of the barge
have been isolated.
At Seoul. Korea, NJ. Hayashi, the
Japanese minister, gave luncheon
to Miss Alice Roosevelt and her party.
Schumann-Heink arrived in New
York from Syracuse. Doctor ]. Mount
Bleyer, her physician, said that the
singer was suffering from a severe
strain to her vocal cords, which would
necessitate treatment and a complete
rest for two or three weeks.
Genral Kaulbars, formerly in COM
mand of the Russian second army,
left Manchuria on a special train for
st. Petersburg. From st. Petersburg
General Kaulbars will proceed to
Odessa to assume his duties as gov
ernor general. General Zerpitsky, the
hero of Mukden, left here for Russia.
He is seriously ill and was carried
to the train on a stretcher.
September 23rd ended the tenth
week of the fight against yellow fever
in New Orleans with record of cases
the highest of the week, yet the au-
thorities believe that the fever will
practically have wasted away by the
middle of next month.
Prince vi, the emperor's cousin.
acted as host at an open air garden
party given at the old East palace in
honor of Miss Alice Roosevelt. All
of the officials of note of Korea were
present. The wooded paths and col.
ored pavilions were decorated with
American and Korean flags.
At Walla, Walla, Washington, fifty
nine cases of typhoid fever exist
among the convicts in the state peni-
| Tertiary, and new cases are reported
| daily. The prison has 765 conyicts
and the officials fear a much greater
| epidemic.
At Gravel Switch, KY, Jason Chum.
bley returned home to visit his wife
and child. Upon his arrival he grasp
| ed his 6-year-old daughter by the chin
| to kiss her, lifting her head back. The
little one sank to the ground dead. A
| physician found that her neck had
been broken by her father
| The Spanish cruisers Cardinal Cts.
neros, Extremadura and Rio Janeiro
are coaling at Vigo, Spain. with the
expectation of proceeding to the coast
| of Morocco to obtain redress for re-
| cent Moroccan depredations against
| Spanish ships.
AT Indianapolis. Ind. the conciud-
ing session of the convention CT the
| National Rural Letter Carriers Asso-
citation resulted in capitulation Of the
Cunnin CHAM forces and a complete
victory for the ''antis." who elected
a full ticket and brought about tho
designations Of all the former officers.