Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-03-22
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

ing emblems were displayed through
out the city.
The condition of Francis Kossuth,
leader of the united opposition in the
Hungarian diet, is causing anxiety to
his friends. He is suffering from an
attack of govt.
The business meeting of the Ameri-
can Association of General Baggage
Agents at Los Angeles discussed the
question of excess baggage. Papers
were read and speeches made.
Secretary Taft returned to Wash.
ington from New York, where he con-
suited with his brothers regarding
the question of acceptance of a plaAa
on the bench of the United States SUI
preme court.
Senator La Toilette introduced a bill
making it the duty of the interstate
commerce commission to prescribe the
maximum number of hours above
which a common carrier shall not. re-
quire or permit employees to remain
on duty.
The Daily Telegraph correspondent
at Toxic says that as result of party
meetings the passage of the railway
naturalization bill by the diet is now
assured. The same correspondent
says that the dowager empress of. Chi.
ma has subscribed $4,000 to the ia
mine fund.
In London the committee having in
charge the celebration, on April %, of
the fftieth anniversary of Ellen
Terry's connection with the stage, in
cludes all of the leading actor-manag-
ers, Charles Frohman, Cleppcn Cole
ridge, the author and artist, and many
other influential men.
In the Department of Justice and
the Bureau of Corporations there is
unmixed satisfaction over the Su-
preme court decision, not only be-
cause of the immediate effect of the
decision, but because of the way in
which they smooth the path of the
government in cases not yet begun.
Lionel Walter Rothschild, member
of parliament for the Ailsbury division
of Bucks, speaking at Gresham on the
question of exclusion of aliens and the
number of poor Russian refugees ex-
cluded from Great Britain the last few
months said he possessed evidence
that every one of these men sent back
was shot at the Russian frontier with
out trial.
Col. knight, Major General Woods
chief of staff, has returned from a
reconnaissance of the situation in
China. He reports that there is abso-
tranquility abounds.
Secretary Bonaparte has received
the report of the court of inquiry to
investigate the general mix up of war
ships in the harbor of New York Janu.
airy 6 last. The report will not be
made public until after Secretary
Bonaparte has acted upon it. 1t is
known, however, that the court found
that the grounding and subsequent
collision were accidental and not dine
to carelessness or inefficiency on the
part of officers.
At the consular reform convention
Secretary Root spoke in favor of an
improved consular service. The con-
vention adopted resolutions fully ap-
proving the bill introduced by Senat-
or Lodge The resolutions conclude
by expressing regrets that one of the
vital provisions of that bill have been
removed from it, and ask that the
provision authorizing the president to
other in the same grade, be reincorpo.
rated in the bill.
In a signed statement made. at Shi.
lob house, in Zion City, Gladstone
Dowie, categorically denied that a
separation between his parents had
taken place or was impending. He
also issued a general denial of the re-
ports that have been current the last
two days of incidents pointing to the
speedy disintegration of Zion.
The total loss in the fifteen prov.
inces investigated by special COM
missions inquiring into the Agrarian
troubles of last year was s15,50O, 900
and not s155, 100000 as reported
Options were closed on 2,4O0 acres
of ground adjoining Indianapolis at a
cost of s650,000. Six hundred and
forty acres will be used by the New
York Central system for Central re
pair shops, to employ 5000 men.
The execution of Ivan Kulkiloff, who
attempted to assassinate General
Kourloff, was horrible affair. He
was hanged at the gate of the prison
in the presence of a gaping crowd, but
the moose was so badly adjusted that
Kulikoff suffered agony for ten min
utes.
The Moroccan situation is unchang.
ed. A complete deadlock prevails
The conference is not holding any
sessions and it is not known when the
delegates will reassemble. The inter
ruption of the discussions is due to the
lack of elasticity in the French and
German instructions.
At a meeting of the representa-.
tives OK $40 independent telephone
a quarter million corporation. to fight
the Bell Telephone COMPANY in the
itate, was started.