Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-04-06
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

General Peter ]. Osterhaus sailed
| on the steamer Faderland from New
York for Europe.
William Marconi and his bride are
| passengers on the steamer Campania,
which sailed from Liverpool port for
| New York.
The German government has indefi-
nitely postponed the International
worlds electrical conference which
was to have been held in Berlin next
month.
The division of the Russian second
Pacific squadron commanded by Ad-
miral Nebogatoff, which arrived at
Port Said. from Suda Bay, Island of
Crete. entered the canal.
At Rockledge. Ca, a rowboat con.
tanning party of five returning from
Oceanus Beach to Georgiana was
overturned by a squall and four of
the occupants were drowned.
In Chicago two persons were badly
hurt and dozen others were slightly
injured when a State street cable car
ran into Thirty-first street electric
car. Both cars were crowded.
| Minister Dawson cabled from Santo
Domingo that the receipt of the news
of the failure to ratify the treaty had
caused a great deal of excitement and
disappointment in Santo Domingo.
Acting premier and Minister of
Foreign Affairs Tittoni announced
to parliament that the whole cabinet
had resigned, leaving the king free
to form a new ministry and that his
majesty had reserved his decision. In
the meanwhile Signor Tittoni and his
! colleagues will remain in Office to the
| transaction of ordinary business.
Colonel NJ. C. Green passed through
Kansas City in his private car over
the Rock Island system on his way
| to Ell Paso and Old Mexico. Colonel
| Green said that his trip was in con-
| nection with the Green Consolidated
| Company. He said that the railroad
| which he is building from Ell Paso to
the Pacific coast would be completed
within five years.
James Monahan, a Searchlight min.
| ing man. who was a passenger on one
| of the storm-bound Santa Fe trains
held at Cajon Pass, Cali, for several
| days, wandered away from the train
| and became lost. For days he has
been trudging aimlessly among the
mountains. His shoes were worn and
his feet torn and bleeding. 1t is be-
| lieved he will recover. =.
The legislative committee appoint.
| ed to investigate the alleged collec.
ton of a $4,000 Doodle fund to infiu.
ence legislation to extend the tenure
of county officials began its sessions
in Omaha. The sessions are secret,
but former Congressman Hitchcock
and E. C. Hunt were permitted to be
present at the hearing.
Premier Rouvier strongly approved
the project to establish a Franco.
American financial institution in Paris
during a recent conversation with
James Speyer of Speyer & Company,
New York. -
Chicago Great Western for a line
from Arispe, Ia, to Carroll, Ia, and
right of way and property for ter
minals have already been bought. The
survey runs through Creston, Green
field and Guthrie Center, all good
towns. 1t is the intention to build the
line on to Sioux City.
The United States transport Sum-
ner, carrying the congressional party
| of fourteen, arrived at Santiago and
sailed for Havana. During the stop
| here the congressman visited the bat
| tlefields in this vicinity.
Allen Ephriam, an Omaha negro,
entered a room occupied by his wife
and negro named James Stevenson,
killed the woman by shooting and
slashing her throat with knife, and
then shot himself, dying instantly.
Stevenson, who took refuge in a clos.
ct, was the only witness to the trag.
edy.
report is in circulation at st.
Petersburg to the effect that ]. P.
Morgan has intimated that he can Sc
cure loan for Russia by the hypo
thecation of valuable forest lands
The report can not be confirmed.
Professor Montgomery of Santa
Clara college in San Francisco, is de-
clared to have invented an aeroplane
which has made several successful
flights. being guided at will by the
aeronaut without the sustaining aid
of balloon.
Sergius Poletik. a Russian officer
who was captured on board the steam
er Nigretia enroute from Shanghai to
Vladivostok and released on parole,
and who, with Captain Zalunsky and
Lieutenants Barabashi and Lepoi of
the Port Arthur garrison, has arrived
at Hardin on his way to Russia.
The seasons tide of emigration
fully set-in when the steamer Celtic
took 1-040 Irish from this port for
America. Reports from the interior
lead to the conclusion that emigration
from Ireland this year will exceed the
record for several years past.
Investigation tends to discredit the
report brought by steamer which ar
rived at Port Louis from Colombo to
the effect that she had met on the
night of March 16. Russian torpedo
boat followed by squadron of war