Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-31
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Northern Pacific was officially called
off.
The report that Prince Henry is to
visit America again this fall is I'M
confirmed.
The British steamer Vido, from
Buenos Ayres, is ashore on the Brit
ish Banks, near Montivideo. Assist
ance has been sent.
The Navy departemnt has ordered
the tug Uncas, at New York, and the
collier Brutus at Hampton roads to
proceed to sea at once in search of the
steamer Athos.
No news has yet been received from
the British steamer now long over
due at New York. Southern waters
and much uneasiness is felt for the
safety of her crew.
Milton Brown of Buffalo, N. Y,
chief special agent for the United
States Treasury exhibit at the Lewic
and Clark exposition, is dead in Port
land, Oregon, of typhoid fever.
Fred Woolle who became famous
| as the conductor of the Bach festivals
| at Bethlehem, Pa, has accepted call
to the chair of music, at the Univer-
sity of California, at salary of $4,000
a year.
The police arrested twenty-six
Jews at Malta while they were hold
ing a meeting, the purpose of which.
it is claimed, was to discuss plans
for blowing up the winter residence
of the Car at that place.
Chairman Shonts, of the isthmian
canal commission, has gone to New
York to arrange for the equipment of
some of the steamers and railroad
cars belonging to the commission
with refrigerator apparatus.
Reports received by Chief Wilkie
of the secret service that about
twenty arrests have recently been
made on the Pacific coast of alien
officers of American ships, charged
with having obtained their license as
such officers on naturalization papers
obtained through fraud.
Emperor William announces,
through the North German Gazette,
that he and the empress will not re-
ceive presents on the twenty-fifth
anniversary of their wedding, but
that contributions of money from
members of society or corporations
for charitable purposes will be well
come.
The International Typographical
Union convention closed at Toronto,
| Ont. with a determination for an
eight-hour day. The executive COM
mittee was authorized to arrange for
conference with the American
Newspaper Publishers Association.
| 1t was decided that Canadian mem
bers should pay an extra tax of L IL
cents a month to the Canadian Trades
and Labor Congress.
| The Navy department issued an
order to take effect September de-
taching Rear Admiral C. ]. Barclay
| from command of the navy yard at
Puget sound and ordering him to his
home. Captain W. T. Burwell is de-
tached from command of the U. S. S.
independence and ordered to duty in
command of the navy yard and sta
ton at Puget Sound to succeed Bar
clay.
DIR. Boyer, a professor of the School
of Tropical Medicine at Liverpool uni
versity, who is on his way to New
Orleans to study yellow fever, arriv-
ed in New York on the steamer Cam
pania. He will leave for the south at
once.
There was no change in the posi-.
ton of the British cable ship Colonia.
which grounded on the rocks near Fox
Island, off this port. The steamer
Mackay-Bennett is taking off the
cable and apparatus to tighten the
Colonia.
Earl Kiser, the automobile racer.
who lies in a hospital at Cleveland
O., recovering from an injury that
cost him his left leg, stated that he
will give up racing. The accident to
Webb Jay at Buffalo made profound
impression upon Kiser and led him to
make this decision.
The arrest of an Algerian mer.
chant by the Moroccan authorities &C.
casions sharp newspaper comment, &c
companied by reports that. France is
about to organize naval demonstra-
| ton at Tangier. The foreign Office
totally denies any such determine.
ton.
The PRONUNCIATION of the plan for
| a national assembly, which overlook
ed the rights of Poles, caused bad
impression at Warsaw and general
strike that is to begin August -21, it
is feared, will be made the occasion
for violent excuses.
Lieut.. General Chaffee, Brig. Gen.
Bell and VIM Crozier, who have been
delegated to represent the general
| staff of the United States army at
| the French army maneuvers, sailed
| for Europe on. the Red Star liner
Kroonland from New York
At Chicago Commissioner OF Public
Works Patterson was informed that
the Illinois Tunnel Company win com
| ply with the city's demand for proper
safeguarding of the construction work
of the subway and that no work viii
| be done without air pressure: