Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-11-09
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Rapids, Ia, has been appointed judge
advocate general of the G. "A. R.
William ]. Bryan will visit Kago-
shima, the birthplace of Vice Admiral
Togo and of Field Marshal Oyama, be-
fore he leaves Japan
A dispatch to a news agency from
Corunna, Spain, says that the Span.
ish armored cruiser Cardinal Cisner-
os foundered off Villanova after strik-
ing rock. All on board were saved.
The Cuban government accepted the
invitation of Emperor Nicholas, scon-
veyed through Baron Rosen, the Rus
sian ambassador at Washington, to
send delegates to the second peace
conference at The Hague
kilograms from the Chicago police
led to the arraignment of Henry T.
Bangs, a mining expert. in New York,
on charge of embezz,ing $4,000. He
was remanded to prison to await the
arrival of Chicago detectives.
| The Duchess of ARGOS. formerly
Virginia Lowery, of Washington, wife
of the new Spanish minister to Italy,
| arrived in Rome from st. Petersburg,
the former post of her husband. On
opening her trunk it was discovered
that it had been robbed in transit of
jewels valued at about $4,000
Official announcement of the recog-
milton by King Oscar of the separa-
ton of Sweden and Norway has come
to the state department, a circular
| note being addressed to the powers
conveying this information in a formal
manner
Governor Pennypacker committed to
| life imprisonme- the death sentence
| of Mrs. Catherine DAM, the Philadei-
| phia woman who is alleged to have
| poisoned her husband with powders
procured from George P. Hossey, a
"voodoo" doctor. Hossey is under
sentence of death for a similar Of
Tense.
A dispatch from the governor of
Portuguese, West Africa. tells of a
sanguinary encounter between troops
AID natives on October %. Three
thousand natives ambushed a column
of Portuguese troops who fortified
themselves in two Kraals. The ma
tives surrounded the Kraals with
earthworks but after eight hours fight
the Portuguese captured the earth
works, killing 200 natives The Portu.
guese lost fifteen men.
Seventeen girls, whose ages ran
from to 6 years, at the ST. Joseph
Orphans asylum in Burlington, VT,
were taken suddenly ill., Three of
them died within three hours and at
an autopsy held under the auspices of
the state board of health it was de-
termined that death was due to pois-
oning. The cause has not appeared.
The Isthmian canal commission has
issued an official stateme-t of the ex-
penditures for canal construction To
this appropriation is added S92 $50
coming from former appropriations.
The statement is a summary of ex-
penses from June %, 1902, to June 20,
1905. 1t shows balance on that date
of S6,0S3, 416, making a total expen-
diture of S4,0O9,573.
At Connersvills, Ind, fire destroyed
the Central Manufacturing company's
plant with loss of $4,000. Two hun
dred men are thrown out Nof work.
The crew of Japanese torpedo boat
attempted to kill tie ia )anese peace
commissioners as they were landing
at Yokohama, according to letter re-
ceived at Seattle.
President Loubet arrived from
Spain and met with an enthusiastic
reception at Libson, Portugal. King
Charles and the Prince net the presi-
dent at the railway station and an i'm.
posing military cortege traversed the
city escorting NJ. Loubet to the Ajuda
palace.
The negotiations for the new Rus
sian loan advanced. The amount is
practically fixed at s250,0OO,O00. The
internatic bankers are apparently re-
lieved by the knowledge that Count
White will be the head of the govern
ment.
1t is announced that the powers
have decided to make a demonstra
ton against Turkeys Asiatic, but not
her European ports, in order to avoid
the appearance Of giving encourage
ment to the Macedonian insurgents,
md that simultaneously collective
note will be presented to Turkey.
A dispatch to news agency from
st. Petersburg says that General
Dragomirof, member of the council
II state. and a hero of the Turkish
var, died on his estate near Moaotop.
lie formerly was governor genera! Of
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At Vancouver, B. c., David Brown.
oIored, has been arrested on a charge
attempted murder in Topeka. Kan.
year ago. The prisoner denies that
is the man wanted and will be TAX
2 back to Kansas as soon as the me-
ssary papers arrive
John F'indley Wallace. formerly
lief engineer of the Panama canal
Ill shortly appear before the board
I consulting engineers by invitation
, give his views regarding the canal
construction. the best type and the
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