Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-02-02
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AZ LOhSls Dtl., INC senate tOOh -
ballots for president pro TEN today.
making 157 to date.
Fire destroyed the power plant of
the Terre Haute, Ind, Traction and
Power company. Loss, S150,000.
Four Japanese warships are report.
ed TO be in the vicinity OF the Ian.
kava islands, forty miles north of Pen.
ang.
The Dutch warship iceland has en-
tered the canal on the way to rein.
force the squadron in East Indian wa.
tiers.
Gessler Rousseau. who was arrested
at Philadelphia January Is, and in
whose possession an Internal ma.
chine was found was given a hearing
and committed to await requisition
papers from New York.
John Goodnow. United States con.
sui general at Shanghai. arrived at
San Francisco on the steamer Man
churia. Mr.. Goodnow will now pro.
coed to Washington to answer the
charges brought against him as to
the conduct of his Office in Shanghai.
The large sea going dutch tug Sc
wartsee has been sold by Consul
Diedrichsen to Russia. She has al
ready left here for Libau AMI will
probably accompany the third Rus
sian Pacific squadron to the Far
East.
Advices from Honolulu dated Janu-
airy IL state that following the dismiss
sal few months ago of higher
sheriff Arthur M. Brown of the terri.
tory of Hawaii owing to disclosures
made to Governor Carter by Pinker
ton detective, another blow was de-
livered today by the abrupt dismissal
of Sheriff A. l.. Andrews OF the island
of Hawaii.
L. Z. Pinkham, president of the ter
ritorial board of health has submitted
an exhaustive report, at the instance
of Governor Carter. on labor condi-
reached by Pinkham is that most in
dustries other than sugar raising can
not be successful and the report is
generally regarded as being a bid to
aid in opening the door for cheap
Chinese labor.
DR.. S. P. Breckwith, who was Presi-
dent Garfield's family physician at the
time of his assassination, is dead at
Atlantic City.
Gapon, the strike leader, was ar
rested. One of the most serious de-
velopments of the day was that as the
strikers approached the Nicholas
bridge.
The figures of the total number
killed and wounded here, at the Mos
COW gate, at various bridges and is
lands and at the winter palace vary.
The best estimate is 500, although
there are exaggerated figures placing
the number as high as 5000. Many
men were accompanied by their wives
and children and in the confusion
which left no time for discrimination,
the latter shared the fate of the men.
The troops, with the exception of
single regiment, which is reported to
have thrown down its arms, remain
ed loyal and obeyed orders. But the
blood, which crimsoned the snow, has
fired the brains and passions of the
strikers and turned women as well as
men into wild beasts and the cry of
the Infatuated populace is for ven
geance.
The following notice was posted on
the doors of the City Saving Fund &
Trust company at Lancaster. Pa,
''The directors of this company have
decided to close its business. They
feel confident all debts will be paid in
full. . The company was organized
in 1902 with a capital stock of $780,
900. Rumors of the impending failure
have been rife for months.
PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson OF
Princeton university. in New York,
who was operated on several weeks
ago, has just been discharged from
the hospital as cured.
The steamer Miowera. which ar
rived at Victoria. B. c.. from Australia,
encountered a hurricane when leav-
ing Suva and at Tanning island it was
learned that considerable damage had
been done by the storm at Suva.
While the Miowera was loading there
the storm broke five lighters adrift all
laden with sugar which was being
loaded on the steamer. Two hundred
tons of sugar in all was lost.
Count julius Sapary, former premier
of Hungary and at one time president
of the Hungarian delegation, died at
AbbaZia, Austria.
This has been day of unspeakable
horror in. st. Petersburg. The strik-
ers goaded to desperation by day
of violence, fury and bloodshed, are
in a state of open insurrection against
the government A condition almost
bordering on war exists in the terror
stricken Russian capital.
A member Of the emperor's house
hold is quoted as saying that the pres
ent strike troubles will end the war