Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-07
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from Siedlice, Russian Poland
1t is officially stated that the reports
that the German Emperor objects to
mediation by President Roosevelt are
absurd.
An additional rural free delivery
route has been established, beginning
November 1, at Dawn, Livingston
county, Mo.
United States Ambassador Meyer
and Foreign Minister Lamsdorff con-
ferred concerning the Portsmouth
peace terms.
T. F. Burgess started in his fifth at
tempt to swim the English channel
Burgess. was compelled to give up af-
ter covering sixteen miles.
Mr.. Rockefeller declined to make
any statement concerning the cable
gram from the Paris Matin, which
was received early in the evening at
Forest Hill, his summer residence.
Thomas Walshaw of Chicago is in
hospital with fractured skull from
a blow by a highwayman while he
reached for his watch. He was also
robbed of small amount of money.
The American schooner yacht FL
nina II, won the international race
for the Prince of Wales cup, leading
the second boat, the American schoon-
er Corona, over the finish line by
about 80 minutes.
Congressman Bartholdt of st. Louis
en- route to the thirteenth session of
the Inter-Parliamentary union, which
will begin in Brussels, was rendered
a reception in Schleise, Germany,
which was his former home.
After twelve years of tedious and
painstaking work, the officials of the
Worlds Columbian exposition have
succeeded in closing up the affairs Of
the great worlds fair. President Har-
low N. Higginbotham and Secretary
e. O. Edmonds must still remain Off
GERS of the company, however, as
100000 is on hand belonging to stock
holders who cannot be found
New passenger equipment costing
in the aggregate nearly $5,O0O,000 has
been ordered for the lines in the New
York Central systm. The new cars
and coaches for the eighteen-hour
trains just received from the Pullman
company cost 100000. To main
tain this eighteen-hour service, four
complete trains, exactly alike, are re-
quired.
J. S. Peterson, of Dallas county,
member of the Arkansas legislature,
has committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with pis-
toll. Dependency over protracted i'll
health is the supposed cause of the
act.
The annual report of Brigadier Cen
eral Theodore ]. Whit, commanding
the department of the Missouri, re-
commends that army chaplains shall
not be allowed to perform marriages
of soldiers unless previous permission
shall have been, given by the COM
handing officer, the enlistment of
married soldiers being discouraged by
the war department.
Consul General Miller at Yokoho-
ma in his report to the state de-
partment on the seizure of the Ameri-
can boat near Siberia says: 1.-The
Australia was seized by the Japanese
off Petropavlosk and it is now at
Yokohoma The crew were turned
over to the American consul general
and the boat sent to the prize court.
The legal proceedings will take some
time. The captain and crew are with
out funds"
A Serious situation prevails at War
saw. Business is almost suspended.
Police patrols are stopping all per-
sons in the streets, including the &C.
cupants of carriages, demanding from
them proofs of their identify. There
have been many arrests, and many
persons have been injured in the dis
turbances The prisons are overflow
ing.
The British steamer Baralong and
the Japanese transport Kinjo collided
in the inland sea. The transport was
sunk and 127 invalided Japanese SOL
diers were drowned.
Consul General Rogers at Shanghai
cables: while the boycott still con-
tinues, there are no disturbances.
Chinese officials are endeavoring to
suppress the movement Conditions
appear hopeful"
Advices received by large milling
company of Seattle, Wash, from its
agent in Hong Kong state that the
Chinese boycott of American goods
has completely paralyzed the flour
trade between Pacific coast ports and
China. No sales have been made since
July Is, and all orders for September
shipment have been cancelled.
1t is now being given out that Col
onel Mosby prematurely gave out the
part of his report on Indian Territory
devoted to Senator Burton's Chicka-
saw warrants He is to be severely
censured or something terrible is to
happen to him because of it ALL
Six representatives of the imperial
railway system of Japan arrived in
Chicago and left for New York via
the Great Lakes. They are in this
country to study the American loco
motive and to purchase railway sup
plies.