Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-01-04
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

John Heber Philips, aged SO, known
| as a newspaper writer and circus
press agent. died at Denver, Colo, of
pneumonia. He was born in Chi
cago.
Louis Dalyrymple, an artist and
caricaturist, died suddenly of acute
parasis in the Long Island home in
Amityville, where he was taken a
month ago.
During a general fight near Balm
bridge, Tenn. at negro dance, Chas.
Inman and Henry Ireswell were shot
to death. Jim Redman. the murder
er, escaped.
At Chicago the board of trade has
frowned upon the trading in bids
and offers" which have been adopt
ed as substitutes for puts and calls"
since those privileges were abolish
ed.
A special from Washington says the
administration will send a squadron
and not a single ship to European
waters for use in the Russian crisis,
in case American life and property
are menaced.
Not having tasted food for five days
Mrs. Winnie Sullivan was taken from
a furnished room at 247 Adams street.
Brooklyn, suffering from starvation.
She is at the Brooklyn hospital in
critical condition.
Mail advices from Manila state that
the wanton killing of one of the white
sailors on board the battleship Wis
consin by two regroes of the crew
resulted in a race war, in which the
negroes were badly beaten and would
have been killed except for interfer.
ence of the officers.
A large and brilliant wedding at
| Washington Court House, o., was that
| of Miss Ruth Milliken, daughter of
Col B. H. Nilliken of this city. and
Hon. w. w. Vesterfield. assistant Uni
ted States district attorney at New
Orleans. The ceremony was per-
formed in Grace NJ E. church. which
was magnificently decorated with
| flowers
Secretary Shaw and the United
| States treasurer are defendants in a
suit instituted in the Federal court
| in Washington to recover from the
| government the value of twenty-five
| steamboats, alleged to have been ta-
ken from James E. Montgomery dur
ing the Civil War by men represent
ing themselves to be military officers
of the United States.
The United States supplied more
| than one-half of the petroleume pro-
| duced in the world in 1904 A state
| ment of the worlds production Of
| petroleum, prepared by the British
| board of trade, puts the petroleum
production of the world in 1904 at
| 9,1O3, 100000 gallons, of which 1876
| 900 900 gallons were produced in the
United States.
An advertisement appearing in a
| local paper in San Francisco offers
for sale Tanning and Washington is
lands in the South Pacific under in
structions of the registrar of the Brit
| ish high commissioners court for the
| Western Pacific.
The Philippine commission has en-
acted law making it crime to ex-
port silver from the islands. Passeng-
ers on ships will not be allowed to
| take with them no more than 25 pesos
in silver and 1850 pesos in gold.
Miss Alice Roosevelt will go to
| New York the latter part of January,
presumably to make final additions to
| her trousseau. She will wear her
grandmother's wedding gown, but her
bridal robe will be entirely new.
War department officials are con-
siderably interested in the criticisms
which come from the Philippines in
regard to the scouts of the islands.
| 1t has been recommended from an au-
thoritative source that the expendi-
lures on account of that branch Of
island defense shall be materially re-
| duced.
Advices from Moscow say the situa-
| ton there is graver than ever. Hos.
| tilities have spread to the neighbor-
| ing districts and the peasants are re-
| spending to appeals and arming them
| selves.
| A trolley car on the Schuylkil rail-
| road was struck by Lehigh Valley
| freight at a grade crossing at Girard-
| Vile. Pa. Two Armenian women and
Michael Wrinkle of Ashland were kill
| ed. A number of passengers were in
iured.
At Nice, France, Father Gapon.
leader of the StPetersburg work
| men, was a regular player at the gam
ing tables at Monte Carlo for several
| nights. He is credited with varying
luck. He is said to be playing his
| own money and will give his win
nings to the workingmen.
The reports from Belgrade, Seryia,
to the effect that Servia and Bulgaria
are about to establish customs union
| are regarded here as important not
only from an economic standpoint. but
as possessing far greater political sig
nificance.
| Representatives of temperance so
cieties, churches and other organ
lions opposed to the liquor trait
gathering at Albuquerque, N
a meeting to form New Me-
iona Anti-Saloon League. Tb
cation will be afiiliated
American Anti-Saloon Leas