Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-01-19
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF,

VIM. Claflin, Ex-Governor of Massa-
chusetts, and ex-Congressman. died
at his home in Newtonville, aged 81
years
Count De La Rocca sailed for New
York on the La Gassorge from Havre
to represent France in the Venezuela
arbitration before Judge Plumley Of
Northard, N II.
Foreign Minister Titonitti. while
attending a shooting party with Am.
bassador Meyer at Migone, was
stricken with appolexy His condi-
ton is reported grave
During the last year 572,79S steer
age passengers arrived at New York
During the si''"e time there were
GS,1O4 cabin passengers, while 93,6S5
came in the second cabin.
A lioness and a male baboon, which
formed part of King Menelik's recent
gift to President Roosevelt, have
died at the National geological park.
rhe baboon died of tuberculosis and
INC hOhSoS VI CHIOHlC hluHey anu Nv
er ailments.
Admiral Baron Won Spaun, fifth
member of the international commits
sion of inquiry into the North Sea in
cident, started for Paris, accompanied
by Captain Winterholder and Lieu
tenant Baron Hauser, both expert
enced naval officers.
Mrs. w. L. Cunningham, q young
woman claiming Chicago as her
home, has reported to the New York
police that baggage stolen from her
contained $4,000 worth of negotiable
bonds, in addition to clothing and
jewelry valued at s1,4Oo.
Captain B. F. Tilley has been de-
tached as captain of the navy yard at
Mare Island, and ordered TO Wash
ington and thence to sea duty His
successor as captain of the navy yard
will be Captain Franklin Drake, form
erly chief ordnance officer. Captain
Tilley will leave today for Washing
ton.
At Garayaquil, Ecuodar, the presl-
Dental election begins January s.
The Liberals will vote for Lizardo
| Garcia and the Radicals for Manuel
| Antonio Francesca. The Conserva-
| tives will abstain from voting. Senior
Garcias election is almost assured,
his candidacy having the sympathy
| of the government
While on the way to a Pasteur in
stitute in Brooklyn, accompanied by
a physician, Henry Lenahan of Viii
kesbarre. Pa. said 10 be the son of a
well known attorney. died in great
agony from hydrophobia. He was
bitten ,wo months ago by a pet
| dog.
| The British steamer Emma. Cap
| tain Martin, from Galveston via Nor
| folk and Rotterdam, before reported
| ashore at Nicuweweterweg is full of
water. Neither the lifeboat nor tugs
can communicate with her, owing to
the heavy sea.
| Many troop trains are passing
| through Irkutsk on the way to rein
force the Russian army in Man
| churia The news of the fall of Port
Arthur was received by the new sol
diers with sadness, but they express
an undiminished determination to re-
take it. The chief regret expressed
| by soldiers and officers is that they
| did not arrive in time to relieve the
heroic garrison.
General Stoessel and the other
| Russian officers who will leave Port
Arthur on parole, will return to their
homes via Nagasaki
France and Morocco have settled
their recent misunderstanding and
the French minister at Tangler is
proceeding to the court of the sultan
| the state department in a cablegram
! from Mr. Philip, the American vice
consul at Tangler, who also says that
no foreigner will leave the capital in
view of the outlook for peace
The Hamburg-American line ship
Prinz Adelbert from Genoa, Palermo
and Naples with passengers and a
general cargo ran aground in the low.
er bay in New York.
A cargo which has been washed
ashore at Southwest cape has been
recognized as belonging to the Brit
ish bark Bier Holme, Captain Rich,
which sailed from London, July 81,
for Hobart, and it is believed that the
vessel and her crew have been lost
Losing his hold on flying ring
while he was performing acrobatic
feats before several hundred pupils
in a Harlem public school in New
York. Henry Talbot, 1G years old. fell
headlong to the floor. His reck was
broken and he died in few min
utes
Pope Plus has almost completed an
important encyclical to Central and
South American Catholics. 1t will ad-
wise the people to abandon their fire.
quent revolutions, to work in concord
and to avoid such evils as ultimately
require foreign Intervention.
Dispatches to the Novoe vreyma
from Elaterinoslav say that a noble
man named Iyanitzky fired at the
chief of police at Ekaterinoslav but
missed him. Ivanit2ky was arrested
but refused TO state his motive for al.
tempting TO shoot the official.