Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-11-30
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Minister Squiers, at Havana, cabled
the state department under recent
date, that there had been two deaths
there from yellow fever.
At Amsterdam the strike of grain
measures and weighers, which WIS
begun November 4, has ended, and
the men will return to their old posi-
tions
Lord Mount Stephen has contribut
ed $4,000 to Queen Alexandras fund
for the unemployed. This is the lar.
gest individual subscription thus far
received.
The president has announced that
General William Crozier has been de-
tailed as chief of ordnance for the
nest four years. General Crozier is
now serving in that capacity.
American Minister Griscom will
leave on the steamer Manchuria for
the United States. He was given a
reception by the American Asiatic
Association, at the consulate, which
was illuminated
Thomas w. Lawson was held for
the December session of the superior
court on charge of criminal libel,
preferred by Clarence w. Barron, OF
Boston. Bail of $4,000 was furnish.
ed.
NJ. William Busnach, a well known
Paris author. 7S years of age, has just
married a young actress, Mile. Yrben,
aged %, of the Folies Dramatiques
theater, and he has advised his friends
of the marriage.
There have been sent to represen-
tative farmers throughout the entire
country schedules asking for informa.
ton relative to the acreage and pro-
duction of corn, wheat, oats, fax seed,
hay and potatoes. The data thus OBJ
tanned will be used by the Department
of Agriculture in determining the area
harvested and the total production OF
these crops.
Hereafter when pale faces go to
Rosebud reservation, in South Da.
kota, to see how the wild Sioux In.
dams live they will be greeted at the
Bone Steel station with a band of
braves. The redskins will not come
out to gather scalps nor to brighten
away the visitors; instead, each buck
will beseech the travellers to ride in
his automobile.
One thousand and fifty-six British
sailors were missing from the squad
ron of Prince Louis of Battenberg
which has been anchored in New
York harbor for a little more than a
week. The sailors are recorded as de-
serters on the books of the six ships
composing the fleet, but their officers
hope that most of them have merely
overstayed their shore leave.
Torpedo boat S 126 collided near
Buelk with the small cruiser Undine.
The torpedo boat sank and one Off
Ger and 80 men are missing.
All of the Jews of Rome have organ
lied great meeting of protest against
the massacre of Russian Jews and in
sympathy with the Russian revolu-
ton.
The French minister of war has or
dered that the fifteen days arrest of
General Brugere, the commander OF
the French army, for making public
details of a conference with the min.
lister of war shall begin November "a,
thus permitting the general to at.
tend the marriage of his daughter this
week, which will be the social event
of the season in Paris.
An official dispatch received at The
Hague says that the Dutch troops
which are endeayoring to put down a
rebellion in the island of Celebes, one
of the Sunday islands in the East In
dies, have captured positions of the
rebels. At Toppink Al rebels were
killed and four wounded. The Dutch
troops lost one killed and six wound.
ed.
The Russian cruiser Lena has ar
rived here in want Of 5000 tons of
coal She has been near the Aleutian
islands since leaving San Francisco
on November 1.
Secretary William Taft was the
guest of honor at the monthly ban
quet of the ST. Louis Commercial Club
and spoke on 1.-The Panama Canal
He arrived early in the evening from
Washington and was met at the union
station by delegation from the Com.
mercial Club.
Cablegrams from the Philippine
commission have informed the war
department that the silver peso was
menaced by the rise in the price of
bullion silver as there was a DISPOSE
ton to send the coins to Hong Kong
to be melted into bullion.
Upon credible authority it is stat
ed that the New York Central, Della
ware & Hudson interests are about to
purchase the United Traction Com
pany of Albany, n. Y, controlling the
street car lines in Albany, Troy. Rem
nalaer and Cohoes at a price of $780,
600.
The jury at Bacelona. Spain, acquit-
ted the anarchists. Picoret, Miranda,
5erra. Torras. Bernadas and Coro-
minas. who were on tria, here on the
charge of manufacturing bombs for
the assassination of rulers. The trial
aroused great interest.