Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-01-26
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

King Victor Emmanuel gave a
shooting party at Castle Porxiano in
honor of William Marconi.
Applications for the Russian loan
were so large that the subscription
list was closed Immediately after it
opened.
At Paris in the chamber of depu.
ties resolution approving of the de-
claration of the government received
majority of six votes.
In every seventy years the average
man grows a beard twenty-five feet
long, hair almost fifty feet long and
nails twenty-three feet long.
The grievances of the st. Peters
burg workmen have not yet been set
tied. 1t develops that a priest named
Agatson is really at the head of the
movement.
A duel with pistols between AureI
Batonyi, who is well known in Ameri-
ca as whip, and count SZechenyi
was fought. The former was wound
ed in the left arm.
The German cruiser Hansa reports
that while crossing the Fairway
thirty miles south of the Liaotse pen
insula, she discovered a floating mine
and exploded it with machine guns
Permission has been granted to the
American embassy to send repre-.
sentative to Medvid, Province OF
Novgorod, to visit the Japanese pris-
oners. as requested by the Japanese
minister in Berlin.
The officials at Paris say that the
japanese criticism of France relative
to the stay of the Russian second Pa
cific squadron at Madagascar has no
Importance as the squadron is no
longer in French waters
At Paris consideration is being
given in the highest quarters to the
eventuality of the retirement of the
cabinet as. the result of the election
of NJ Doumer. president of the
Chamber of Deputies. 1t is expected
that Mr.. Miller and Rouver will form
a cabinet in the event of the retire
ment of the present ministry. M.
Doumer assumed the presidency of
the chamber this afternoon amid dis
order which threatened TO precipi-
tate crisis.
The government of The Neither
lands has finally selected the mill
tary parade grounds near the Bosch
as the site for Andrew Carnegie's
Palace of Peace. The selection must
be approved by the states general.
The Japanese transport Kamakura,
from Port Dany. January II. with
General Stoessel and others on board,
arrived Nagasaki.
The elections which have been
marked by riotous proceedings end
ed. Lizardo Garcia was elected presi-
dent of Ecuador and will assume the
presidency August 10.
An trade which doubtless will be
helpful in tranquilizing Macedonia,
authorizes the return of. 5000 Bull
garian refugees to their homes in the
village of Adrianople and also orders
Inspector General Hilmi Pusha to see
that the amnesty granted to Mace
donian Bulgarians is respected and
that acts of injustice are stopped.
The Intervention of the American
legation has been successful and the
Bibles seized at Mersina and Ire
bizond have been returned to the
American Bible society's agent at
Constantinople.
Lieutenant General Won Trotha,
commander-in-chief of the German
forces in German Southwest Africa,
cables that Major Meisler had stub
born fights January 2, 3, and with
a thousand Witbois and occupied
Crossnabas after fifty hours fighting.
The losses have not yet been ascer-
tanned.
Alexander Won Fielitz. whose com.
positions are known in the United
States, and who lately was director
of the West End theater orchestra
at Berlin has been engaged by the
Chicago Musical College.
The naval and military attaches.
members of parliament and others
who left Yokohama December 20 on
board the Japanese transport Man
chu to witness the fall of Port Ar
thur, have returned to Toxic. They
visited General Nogi and Field Mar
shall Oyama while on their Journey
Bacash, the chief of the Ben M'Sur
tribesmen, has been killed while raid
ing a village near Tangier. Bacash
led the last attack on the residence
of Walter B. Harris, the Tangier
correspondent of the London Times,
on December =
The French cabinet situation is re-
garded at the Vatican with satisfac.
ton and the early resignation of the
ministry is considered to be newt
able. 1t is hoped by the clericals
here that if the next French cabinet
is composed of radicals. it will be
more like the Waldeck-Rosseau min
istry than that of Premier Combes.
The Aztec Indians OF Mexico are
noted for their strength. An Aztec
porter had been seen TO take cask
of claret weighing 400 pounds on his