Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-06-08
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


bill appropriating $4,000 for state
tuberculosis sanitarium.
]. Schanrock, a prominent planter
near Meridian, Miss, was attacked by
a maddened bull in his pasture and
| gored to death.
At Sterling City, Texas, the 7-year
old son Of Mr.. Edwards was bitten
twice by rattlesnake, dying in aw
| full agony in short time.
At LODI procession of Jews carry
ing red flags came into conflict with
Cossacks, who fired, killing three per-
sons and wounding several others.
At st. Petersburg the council of the
empire has approved the recommen-
dations of the passport commission
which include universal recognition
of foreign passports.
In New York Gessler Rosseau, who
was convicted of sending an internal
machine to the pier of the steamship
| Umbria, was sent to state prison for
not less than three nor more than five
years.
At Vienna the government has
| overruled a recent decision of the mu-
nicipalty prohibiting the slaughter of
cattle according to Jewish rites.
which alleged that the method en-
| ployed entailed undue suffering.
King Oscar, at a sitting of the coun.
Gil of ministers declined to sign the
law requiring a separate consular
| system for Norway. The ministers
Immediately rendered their resigna-
tons but the king refused to accept
| them
In London five American women
golfers participated in the opening
meeting. Emily Lockwood of LeXing.
ton, Mass, won the second handicap
| prize with "a minus 2. Miss II. R.
Oliver, British. took the first prize
with 81 minus 4.
John A. Benson of San Francisco ap-
| peared in the criminal court at Wash
| ington and gave bonds in the sum OF
| $4,000 to answer to the indictments
of bribery and conspiracy in connec'
| ton with the charge of appropriatine
public lands to his own use.
At Kansas City, Mo-, Miss Frances
B. Johnson, cashier in the employ OF
D. D. Drake, a money lender, was
| fined 800 and sentenced to serve SO
days in the county jail on the charge
| of exacting usurious interest. This
is the second conviction in the cru
SADIE against money lenders who
charge 10 per cent a month interest.
At San Francisco the merchants
exchange has received advices from
London to the effect that the Austral
ian steamer Pingsuey, which sailed
from Puget Sound April 25 last, have
been in collision at Woosung, China.
Both vessels have been damaged. The
former has been beached. The dam
age sustained by the Pingsuey is in
sifinificant.
The Russian government for the
third time has warned China that
unless she can bring Japan to make
an agreement defining the line of the
neutral zone north of Tie Pass Rus
STA will consider herself forced to
use Monaghan territory for military
operations. NJ. Pokoiloff. the new
Russian minister to China, left st.
Petersburg for Pekin.
At Des. Moines, Ia, Secretary of the
Treasury Leslie NJ Shaw, who was
the guest of the Bankers club at
luncheon, repeated his assurances
that government finances were in no
danger. mo one is authorized to say
that l will be candidate for the presi-
dency," said the secretary in answer
to a question 1T is a subject which
| even l do not discuss"
At Warsaw the Socialists have is.
| sued a manifesto stigmatizing as
traitors the national democrats who
urged the workmen to resume work,
declaring the Socialists intention to
continue fighting the government re-
CARELESS of the consequences.
The formation of corporation, to
include all the hop growers of Wash
ington, Oregon, California, New York
and even England. is proposed. The
| plan includes a linking of all the hop
growers in the territory named and
placing the hops upon the market al
the discretion of a sales committee.
The attorney general has petition.
ed for the appointment of a receiv.
er for the American bank at Manila
which was recently closed on the or.
der of Governor General Wright fo1
the protection of the depositors The
bank is capitalized at 100000.
At an anti-military meeting in Paris
| at which a number of anarchists were
present, resolution was passed call
| ing on the populace to shoot King
Alfonso during his visit to Paris. Dis
turbances occurred when the gath
erlng was dispersed and several ar
rests were made.
Train No. 2 (north coast limted) or
the Northern Pacific was held up at
Bear Mouth, Montana The express
car was cut out and run three mics
beyond the station, where the safe
was blown up and looted. A sheriff's
posse is forming here to so to the
scene.
In Manila the convention of the
Federal party is discussing the cues
ton of changing the plank of 1902,
j which favored annexation to America.
TO plank endorsing the policy Of
Secretary of War Taft in favor of the
ultimate fndeDendence of the islands