Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-07-27
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


Policeman Rabasa died as a result
of a wound received in the conflict be-
tween Cuban artillerymen and civil
ians in tenderloin district of Havana.
At LODI three persons were killed
and six wounded by volley fire by
Cossacks during anti-government
demonstrations in Kanien Emma
street.
Arbogast and Bastian company,
whose executive provision house was
destroyed by fire in Allentown, Pa,
estimate their loss at 100000; insur-
ance. 100000.
Thomas Dillon. 102 years old, has
been sworn in as a special policeman
at the free swimming pool opened in
Akron, o. Akron claims he is the
oldest police officer in the world
The race riots in New York in
which more than score we're injur-
ed broke out again in the district
known as San Juan Hill. despite the
efforts of the police, who thronged
district. More serious trouble is an
ticipated.
The Gar has changed his plans
about going to Moscow and he will
not visit that city. The recent assas-
sination of Project of Police Count
Chuvaloff has alarmed the Emperor
and his advisers have warned him not
to go there.
Vice Admiral Jorge Montt has ar
rived at San Francisco from Chile on
a tour of the world. The admiral's
mission abroad is to look into modern
naval problems, with the idea of lend
ing assistance in the reconstruction of
the Chilean navy.
Incorporation papers have been re.
ceived by the organizers of the Il
linois and Missouri Tunnel Company,
formed for the purpose of eXcavating
a tunnel under the Mississippi river
between ST. Louis and East ST. Louis,
H., for the handling of traffic.
An official copy of the decision of
the Supreme Court of the state of
Nebraska in the case of the Rev. Will
liam Murphy against Bishop Bona
cum of Lincoln, Neb, upholding the
right of Father. Murphy to retain pos
session of the church property at
Seward. Neb., was delivered to the
pope. who promised to examine the
question in the hope of finding some
way of ending the litigation between
the bishop and Father Murphy.
Admiral Wirenius, chief of the gen.
eral staff of the navy, says that the
sinking of the battleship Catherine
II. circulated in Vienna and printed
in the United States, is without foun-
dation.
The Macedonian committee has
sent letters to Hilmi Pasha, the Tur-
civil agents warning them that they
will be assassinated if captured. Sew
eral members of the Bulgarian revo-
lutionary bands have been hanged
Typhoid fever is epidemic at Col.
linsburg. small town % miles south.
west of Pittsburg, Pa. There are
about so houses in the village and in
every house there is from one to five
cases of the disease. Five children of
a family named Little have died.
John D. Rockefeller fears that some
c.ank may attempt his life. He has
given the attendants at his Forest Hill
mansion at Cleveland, O., the strict
est orders to admit no one to tbs
premises. He has increased his per
sonal body guard and will not admit
any one to see even his private secre-
tary.
At South Bend, Ind. thousands of
army worms have swept clean 500
acres of timothy as well as much
oats and barley near the southwest
corner of this county and are still adj
vancng Farmers are attempting to
stay their ravages by blowing deep
burrows.
Private advices from Washington
received in Honolulu say that Gov
ernor Carter will reconsider his re-
signaton. 1t is stated that while in
San Francisco, Secretary Taft, at tho
request of President Roosevelt, asked
Carter to withdraw his resignation.
Commander Robert f. Peary of the
United States navy. in the steamer
Roosevelt sailed July Is for the Arc
tic regions in search of the north pole.
Peary will be engaged ashore until
just before sailing. There will be no
ceremony at leaving. Peary says the
time for celebration will be when he
returns if he is successful.
Fire destroyed the handsome sum-
mer residence at Lenox. Mass, known
as tie Appleton house, owned by An
son Phelps Stokes of New York and
occupied by Eric B. Dahlgren of New
York. Loss 100000.
The Arkansas antitrust law was de-
clared valid by the Supreme Court
of the state, two justices dissenting
from the opinion. 1t is agreed that
the effect of the decision will be to
shut out from the state all old line
insurance companies that maintain
rating agreement and any trust pro-
ducts sold in the state will be in vio-
lation of its terms.
Two freight trains on the Louisville
& Nashville railroad collided head-on
near Epwortn. Ind Lorin Coker.
engineer. and fireman were kill
ed.